<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">CFP: Figurations: Persons In/Out of Data Conference</b><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">16-17 December, 2019 </font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Goldsmiths, University of London</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract deadline:<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></b><b>July 1^st, 2019</b>. <b><a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/events/figurations/figurations" target="_blank">Submit here</a>.</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Keynotes</b>: </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser University</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Professor John Frow, The University of Sydney</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Professor Susanne Kuechler, University College London</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Professor AbdouMaliq Simone, The University of Sheffield</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We’re drowning in an ocean of data, or so the saying goes. Data’s “big”: there’s not only lots of it, but its volume has allowed for the development of new, large-scale processing techniques. Our relationship with governments, medical organisations, technology companies, the education sector, and so on are increasingly informed by the data we overtly or inadvertently provide when we use particular services. The proverbial data deluge is large-scale—but it’s also personal. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Data increasingly characterises what it means to be a person in the present. Data promises to personalise services to better meet our individual needs. Data is often construed as a threat to our person(s). Not every person predicated by data is predicted the same. The intersection between data and person isn’t fixed: it has to be figured. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The aim of this conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to explore how the person—or persons, plural—are figured in/out of data. The figuration of a person might encompass any or all of processes of representation, calculation, analogisation, prediction, and conceptualisation. It cuts across multiple scales, epistemological modes, and disciplinary areas of enquiry. It tackles problems that cross into disparate disciplines. Our proposition is that the conceptual language of ‘the figure’ and its variations—figuration, figuring, to figure, and so on—can help us to apprehend what the person is and how it is processed in the present. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We invite proposals for <b>20-minute presentation<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>s<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></b>that take up or respond to the question of how the person is figured in/out of data. We are interested in presentations that address the conceptual, methodological, analytical and/or empirical challenge of figuring the person in the present. Conversely, we are also interested in papers that take up the concept of the figure—broadly construed—as an heuristic for producing knowledge about the constitution of person(s) in the present. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Our proposition is deliberately interdisciplinary. We encourage proposals from researchers working in disciplines for whom the figure is central. These might include, but are not limited to: the social sciences, art history, media studies, the medical humanities, literary studies, philosophy, science and technology studies, urban studies, or geography. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 3pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The themes that papers might address could include: </font></p><p class="m_-4322232173754029208gmail-m_-2731416744654745449gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 3pt 35.7pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span>The figuration of person or persons in/out of data;</font></p><p class="m_-4322232173754029208gmail-m_-2731416744654745449gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 3pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span>Techniques of personalisation and the figuration of the person or persons;</font></p><p class="m_-4322232173754029208gmail-m_-2731416744654745449gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 3pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">      </span>Approaches that address the interrelation of visual, numerical, statistical, metaphorical, and/or philosophical modes of figuring the person or persons in the present;</font></p><p class="m_-4322232173754029208gmail-m_-2731416744654745449gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 3pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span>Conceptual languages for apprehending persons in relation to data—e.g. the subject, identity, user, data double, individual, dividual, etc.;</font></p><p class="m_-4322232173754029208gmail-m_-2731416744654745449gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 3pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span>The relationship between collective categories and/or category production—like persons, population, distributed reproduction, homophily, etc.—and techniques of figuration;</font></p><p class="m_-4322232173754029208gmail-m_-2731416744654745449gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 3pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span>Figure as a concept for thinking gender in, e.g., science and technology studies;</font></p><p class="m_-4322232173754029208gmail-m_-2731416744654745449gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 3pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span>The art-historical/psychological/media-theoretical concept of “figure/ground” and persons/data;</font></p><p class="m_-4322232173754029208gmail-m_-2731416744654745449gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 3pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span>The relationship between visual and numerical modes of figuring and the constitution of persons;</font></p><p class="m_-4322232173754029208gmail-m_-2731416744654745449gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 3pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span>Literary/linguistic uses of figuration in e.g. metaphor, analogy, simile, the icon, etc. in relation to the person or persons and data;</font></p><p class="m_-4322232173754029208gmail-m_-2731416744654745449gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 3pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span>Figuration as a means of thinking the relationship between image/text/number or media and code; </font></p><p class="m_-4322232173754029208gmail-m_-2731416744654745449gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 3pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span>Related concepts—like the diagram or pattern—as complements to or substitutes for the figure;</font></p><p class="m_-4322232173754029208gmail-m_-2731416744654745449gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 3pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">       </span>Conceptualising figuration in relation to resemblance, similarity, seriality, difference, etc.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please submit abstracts of <b>300 words</b>, including your institutional affiliation(s) and a short biography (a line or two is fine) by following this link and filling out the online form: </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/events/figurations/figurations/" target="_blank">https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/events/figurations/figurations/</a></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">. The CFP can also be <a href="https://peoplelikeyou.ac.uk/activities/figurations/" target="_blank">found here</a>. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The deadline for abstract submissions is </span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">July 1^st, 2019</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">If you have any enquiries, please direct them to <b>Scott Wark<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></b>at <a href="mailto:S.Wark@Warwick.ac.uk" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">S.Wark@Warwick.ac.uk</a>.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><i>Figurations<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></i>is organised by the <a href="https://peoplelikeyou.ac.uk/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">People Like You: Contemporary Figures of Personalisation</a> project. People Like You is a group of scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and artists who explore how personalisation actually works. We research <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">personalisation</span> in four areas: personalised medicine and care; data science; digital cultures; and interactive arts practices. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">People Like You is funded by a Collaborative Award in the Medical Humanities and Social Sciences from The Wellcome Trust, 2018-2022. It involves researchers located at Goldsmiths College, University of London; Imperial College London; and The University of Warwick.</font></p></div></div></div></div>
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