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The sixth annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks submissions for “Ambivalence,” a graduate student conference to be held February 25-26, 2011. We aim to engage in a multi-day, interdisciplinary exploration of persistent tensions and ramifications within the concept of ambivalence as well as in its obverse—certainty, decisiveness, and security.
Submissions that explore “Ambivalence” from a diverse range of fields and disciplines are encouraged.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Definitions and representations of ambivalence across disciplines
Disciplinary/institutional ambivalence regarding the structure of the public, democratic university
Psychoanalytic constructions of ambivalence
Interdisciplinarity as a form of ambivalence
Ambivalence as elaborated by and used as a critique of queer or trans scholarship
Ambivalence and modernity
The role of ambivalence in activism, political behavior or public opinion
Ambivalence as a position, process, role, affect, an intellectual state
Navigating “ethical ambivalence”
Quantifying ambivalent behavior in scientific studies
Theories of ambivalence as represented as that which is “strange” or unfamiliar in society
The experience of simultaneous emotions (ie promise and disillusionment, hope and despair)
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