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A one-day graduate conference at the University of Leeds (UK)
27 September 2008, this conference invites papers that speak to art’s politicisation, neutralisation, instrumentalisation, and its relationship(s) to power more generally. Our objective is to establish a dialogue that takes up the various intersections between art and power in contemporary “globalised”, “capitalist”, “postmodern”, and “post”-colonial societies. “Art and Power” is an interdisciplinary conference, and thus topics for papers are not restricted to literature.
The keynote speaker will be Prof. Derek Attridge (University of York). The conference will moreover include a session designed to advise young scholars on publishing their academic work. Prof. Shirley Chew (University of Leeds, general editor of Moving Worlds) and Dr. Mark Taylor-Batty (University of Leeds, European editor of The Pinter Review and co-editor of Performing Ethos) will give a talk on various aspects of academic publication.
Presentation topics for the conference may include but are not limited to the following:
Art and totalitarianism
Utopian/Dystopian visions in contemporary literature
Paranoia and conspiracy theories
The fluidity/rhetorical constructedness/abuses of the concept “democracy” and its ideological derivatives
The role of the artist and the academic under capitalism
Globalisation, cultural imperialism and forms of cultural resistance
Models of inclusion and exclusion in democracy and multiculturalism
Expressions of dissent
The instrumentalisation of art and journalism in “democratic” societies
Politics and aesthetics
Art and religion, art and atheism
Issues of epistemological “access” and perceptions and discursive constructions of “non-democratic” cultures and political crises through western art and the media
Creating feminist art within patriarchal societies
Abstracts for twenty minute presentations should not exceed 300 words and should be accompanied by a short CV. Please direct your submission to Basil Chiasson and Natalie Diebschlag at: artandpower2008@googlemail.com by 1 May 2008. Please visit the conference website at: artandpower2008.wordpress.com
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