[csaa-forum] CFP: Feeling Photography (Toronto, October 2009)

[Jean Burgess]

Dear colleagues,

Forwarded by request, see below and attached.

Best
Jean

Call for Papers 

Feeling Photography
October 16-17th 2009
University of Toronto
Toronto Ontario Canada

In the 25 years since the publication of Victor Burgin¹s critically
important collection Thinking Photography, scholars in both the
humanities and social sciences have turned their attention to
questions of affect, emotion, and feelings. Whether emphasizing
specific affects (melancholy, for example), the circulation of
emotions between bodies, or the significance of feelings in
public life, this rich scholarship offers new approaches to
thinking through the relationship between bodies, images, and
publics. ³feeling Photography² will bring together scholars
working in a range of interpretive and theoretical approaches to
interrogate the relationship between the affect, emotion, and/or
feeling and the photograph.
 
All methodological and theoretical approaches are welcomed.
Possible paper topics include, but are certainly not limited to:
intimacy, empire, and Odomestic¹ photography; visuality and the
haptic; the expression of emotion and photographic representation;
affective economies; postcolonial feeling; loss, trauma, and
representation; history, photography, and emotion; performativity
and the public space of photography; moral spectatorship;
structures of feeling; visuality and queer counterpublics; diasporic
longing; photography and the commodification of feeling;
documentary, feeling, and everyday utopias; racial melancholia;
affect and the image; sentiment and representation; technologies
of affect; empathy/rapture/longing; meditations on specific states,
such as shame/anger/hate/suspicion/fear/envy/anxiety. successful
proposals will tie affect, emotion, and/or feeling to photography
in some specific way.

Confirmed plenary speakers include: Geoffrey Batchen,
lisa Cartwright, ann Cvetkovich, David eng, Marianne Hirsch,
shawn Michelle smith, and Diana Taylor.

Instructions for submission of paper abstracts: please
send a 250-word proposal and one page c.v. to
feelingphoto at torontophotoseminar.org no later than
January 15, 2009. Notifications will take place by
february 23, 2009. 

Website: http://www.torontophotoseminar.org/

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