[csaa-forum] CFP: Rethinking the Past: Experimental Histories in the Arts

[Tara Forrest]

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Rethinking the Past: Experimental Histories in the Arts

The international conference Rethinking the Past: Experimental Histories in
the Arts will take place at the University of Technology, Sydney between
July 28-29, 2006. 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Laura U. Marks
Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and Culture Studies, Simon Fraser
University, Canada 

Andrew Benjamin
Professor of Critical Theory in Architecture and Design, University of
Technology Sydney 

Ross Gibson
Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Technology, Sydney

Klaus Neumann
Senior Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology

Conference Theme: 

Drawing together scholars from a broad range of fields, the aim of the
conference is to rethink the task of historiography via an exploration of
experimental representations of ­ and or engagements with ­ the past in
fields as diverse as film, literature, art, architecture, photography,
theatre, music, fictocritical writing, dance, video and new media. Questions
addressed by the conference will include:

*    How have writers, filmmakers, artists etc. sought to explore and redeem
aspects of the past which have fallen outside of what has been
monumentalised as historically significant?

*    What role have the arts played in destabilising historicist accounts of
history as a form of evolutionary progress?

*    What possibilities have been attributed to artists, writers, new media
practitioners etc. in theoretical accounts of the task of an experimental
historiography?

*    How have people working in the arts sought to cleave open a space
within official accounts of the relationship between the past and the
present within which the possibilities of the past (and the future) can be
re-imagined and re-explored?


Call for Papers:

Proposals are invited for 30 minute papers on, or related to, the conference
theme. Please send a 200-300 word abstract and your contact details, via
email, to the conference convenor Tara Forrest before February 20, 2006.
Should you have any questions about the conference prior to this date,
please feel free to email the convenor.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in March. Should you, however,
require confirmation at an earlier date, please inform the convenor of this
in your proposal. More information about the conference is available at
http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/rethinking/

Dr. Tara Forrest
Writing and Cultural Studies
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Technology Sydney
PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007
Australia

Email: Tara.Forrest at uts.edu.au
Phone: + 61 2 9514 2182
        
 







       
 

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