<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"><!-- P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --></style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols;" dir="ltr">
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a reminder that abstracts for the Quite Frankly conference, commemorating the bicentenary of the publication of
<i>Frankenstein, </i>are due at the end of this month.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please note that an arts festival, Unhallowed Arts, featuring an exciting range of events and performances, will be held alongside the conference. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This
is not to be missed!</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For further information on these activities, and to submit abstracts, see below.</span></p>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<div lang="EN-AU" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">
<div class="x_WordSection1">
<h3 style="margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:7.3pt; margin-left:0cm; background:#EEEEEE; vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:19.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#0864A5">Quite Frankly: It's a Monster Conference<br>
University Club of Western Australia<br>
18-19 October 2018</span></h3>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="outline:0px; orphans:2; text-align:start; widows:2; word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.conferenceonline.com/abstract/alogin/?clear=1&warehouse_id=1423" id="LPlnk461606" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></a></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="outline:0px; orphans:2; text-align:start; widows:2; word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">2018 marks 200 years since the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley’s “Creature” is usually conceived as a human creation, the stitched-together, tragic victim of scientific and technological
experimentation. We rupture these stitches, revealing that the Creature is more than the sum of its parts. SymbioticA and Somatechnics join forces to present Quite Frankly: It’s a Monster Conference.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="outline:0px; orphans:2; text-align:start; widows:2; word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="outline:0px; orphans:2; text-align:start; widows:2; word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">We invite you to explore the dynamic ecosystems evolving within and from the gaps between the Creature’s fragments. Life has become a raw material for re-assembling organisms, tools and consumer products. We are firmly entrenched
in a “[bio]informatics of efficiency,” where both biology and technology are subjected to control, optimisation, computation and surveillance at ever decreasing and increasing scales. In light of current ecological and bio-political devastation, we induce
extinction. Keep calm and contaminate. There is hope, there is resistance; the Creature offers the potential to escape control and fight back.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="outline:0px; orphans:2; text-align:start; widows:2; word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="outline:0px; orphans:2; text-align:start; widows:2; word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Quite Frankly invites explorations that (re)form kinships and provide niches of refuge and asylum for explorations at the limits of precarity. We encourage liberations of Frankenstein’s Creature from its anthropocentric singularity
to an intra-active entanglement; from the living-dead to the compost-able. We revel in re-craftings of biotechnical industrialisations and commodifications and managerial aesthetics. As Karen Barad reminds us, “the political potential does not stop with regeneration,
for there are other wild dimensions within and without that rage with possibilities.” Join us to unpick the Creature’s stitches and liberate its companion species.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="outline:0px; orphans:2; text-align:start; widows:2; word-spacing:0px">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="outline:0px; orphans:2; text-align:start; widows:2; word-spacing:0px">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Keynote speakers:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Karen Barad </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ambelin Kwaymullina</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kira O’Reilly</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Fiona Wood</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><br>
</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><br>
</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; background: black;">
<span style="font-size: 19.5pt; color: white;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
Unhallowed Arts is a collection of art events—a monstrosity—occurring in Perth, Western Australia throughout September and October 2018. Unhallowed Arts is timed to celebrate the bicentenary of Mary (Godwin) Shelley’s <em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Frankenstein </span></em>and
feature exhibitions that explore the book’s influence on contemporary life and culture.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background: black;">
<span style="font-size: 19.5pt; color: white;">This event is presented by SymbioticA, The Centre for Excellence in Biological Arts, at the University of Western Australia. <a href="https://unhallowedarts.org/" id="LPlnk737256" previewremoved="true">https://unhallowedarts.org/</a></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">For more information, see:</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/events/unhallowed-arts" id="LPlnk305373" previewremoved="true">http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/events/unhallowed-arts</a></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px;"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"></font></font></span></p>
<font face="Arial"><font size="2">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">
Elizabeth Stephens<br>
ARC Future Fellow/Associate Professor of Cultural Studies </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">
University of Queensland Australia 4072</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">
<span lang="FR">Webpage: </span><span lang="FR" style="color: blue;"><a href="https://exchange.uq.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=c9c1382619904792917762425ca21fe4&URL=http%3a%2f%2fuq.academia.edu%2fElizabethStephens" id="LPNoLP"><span style="color: blue;">http://uq.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">New book: <i>Normality: A Critical Genealogy</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo26955753.html" id="LPNoLP">http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo26955753.html</a></span></p>
<div><br>
</div>
</font></font><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px;"></span>
<p style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px;"></p>
<br>
<p></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>