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NEW DEADLINE!!
The second annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks submissions for a two-day graduate student conference to be held February 23 and 24, 2007, focusing on the theme “Performing (In)Visibility.”
“Performing (In)Visibility” calls upon scholars to interrogate performance’s reliance on the visual and/or visible. Though performance is often imagined as some public spectacle, emphasizing its visibility may also call forth invisible or non-visible functions of discursive performatives. Thus, proposals might consider how one visibly performs, what it means to perform something already apparent, what goes unrecognized or gets left out of performances, and how we might understand absence as an alternative performance. We are interested in how tensions between visibility and invisibility, public and private, presence and absence, and excess and restraint inform the ways we think about performance/performativity as interdisciplinary theoretical constructs.
The conference seeks to engage such topics as:
Performance and the public/private sphere
Conceptual, performance and body art
Performance and New Media
Performance and history, authenticity, truth and/or fiction
Slam and other poetry performances
Performing war, globalism, violence, or terrorism
Excessive performances: spectacle, pageantry, carnival
Performance in sports/business environments: enhancement, anxiety, norms, testing
The performance(s) of academia: discursive and pedagogical performances
Star personas, the media, and performance and/or notably unpopular performances
Performing illness and healing
Capitalism/Materialism/Liberalism/Neoconservativism as performances
Archives and performance
Because performance and/or performativity are terms relevant to contemporary critical inquiry across disciplines, we look forward to submissions from such diverse fields as: Anthropology, Architecture, Art, Communications, Comparative Literature, Critical Race Studies, Cultural Studies, Dance, Education, English, Film, Gender Studies, Geography, History, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Medicine, Musicology, Performance Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Theater, Urban Studies, as well as other relevant fields of study.
This year’s keynote will be a performance of Michelle Matlock’s The Mammy Project. This work explores relationships between performance and identity as Matlock “traces the life and times of Nancy Green, the first woman hired to play the part of Aunt Jemima,” following the American Mammy icon through history and popular culture.
Please submit a 250-word abstract, with title, for a 15-20 minute presentation as an MS Word file attachment to: grad-conference@uwm.edu
Deadline for Submissions: October 15, 2006
For more information, visit the conference website at:
grad-conference.blogspot.com
For more information on The Mammy Project, visit the website at: www.themammyproject.com
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