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Great line up of speakers for this conference on utopianism.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cheers</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Tania</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><span lang="HR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><br>
</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><span lang="HR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">CFP: Utopia and political theology today</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span lang="HR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">DEADLINE EXTENDED until JUNE 15</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b><span lang="HR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Keynote speaker:</span></b><span lang="HR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"> Simon Critchley</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b><span lang="HR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Guests</span></b><span lang="HR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">: Eric Santner, Laura Mulvey, Fred Botting, Mark Devenney…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span lang="HR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">September 26-8, 2014, University of Zadar, Croatia</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span lang="HR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Please send proposals for 20-minute papers (no more than 200 words + keywords) to <a href="mailto:rhss.conference@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">rhss.conference@gmail.com</span></a> by June 15th 2014.</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Abstracts should be in Word or RTF formats and include the following:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">a) author(s) – name and surname</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">b) affiliation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">c) e-mail address</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">d) keywords</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Selected conference papers will be published.</span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">CFP: Utopia and political theology today</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">The Book of Revelations describes the Holy City, a New Jerusalem with transparent glassy streets and pearly walls – a city so heavenly that, “The nations will walk by its light” (Revelation 22.24). All nations, the poor, outcasts, all races, all human forms, will dwell forever within the Light of the Lord. In <i>The City of God</i> Saint Augustine developed this Heavenly City as an idealised polis, as an eternal haven of joy above and beyond the material world of the dying Roman Empire. “An eternal haven of joy”, a “light for all human forms” signals the emotional dimension of the utopian promise for the oppressed, the noncountable, the marginalized, the different, the singular. Today, after the catastrophic failure of the communist projects at the end of the last century and the global domination of liberal democracy, perhaps more than ever we miss this emotional side of the utopian faith. Perhaps this is the reason for the recent theological revival and the unusual upturn in interest in political theology.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">The utopian side of political theology today calls us to reexamine and rethink what it means to be a human self and what selves might be together. How are contemporary politics, art and culture contaminated by different forms of the sacred? How is dominant liberal discourse and the myth of modernity as a pure secular form of politics interiorized and maintained? How does the discourse of ‘crisis’ connect to submissions of the oppressed and production of the sense of a ‘damaged future’? Does any emancipatory project require what Simon Critchley calls both a counterfactual faith and utopian faith in radical social imagination as a performative alternative to biocapitalism?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">We invite papers that address these questions through critical examination of the ways utopian faith has been envisaged in literature, film, performance, art, politics, philosophy…. </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">We hope that the participation of scholars from different fields and disciplines of humanities and social sciences will create new avenues for critically-oriented scholarship and collaboration.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>Possible topics include (but are not limited to):</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">the political promise of the performative (political deployments of performativity in art, performances, literature, film, individual actions, movements, protests….etc.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">the survival of different forms of utopias in dystopias – e.g., in new forms of life often represented as monsters (zombies….)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">the utopian faith in images, or in the possibility to ‘liberate’ images across gender/class/race division….</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">the utopian promise of plural performativity and the politics of memoralization</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">the affects of belonging and discourses on the good life and collective well-being</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">sound and sonic utopianism</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">revisiting the “classics” of political theology (Benjamin, Schmitt, Kantorowicz, etc.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">the challenge of capital to emancipatory politics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">time and temporality of (political) change</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">the meaning of “messianic” in late capitalism</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-indent:0cm;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="HR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Etc.</span><span lang="HR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Early Bird (by July 31): 80 Euros</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Registration (by August 31): 100 Euros</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Please forward this message to your colleagues. We look forward to seeing you in Zadar in September.</span></p>
<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Associate Professor Tania Lewis, </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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