I am looking for a third panelist for the panel I would like to propose to the US
Cultural Studies Association conference to be held in Portland Oregon on April 19-21,
2007. The CFP is pasted below. Please contact me immediately if you're interested, as
the deadline is today (Oct 16th, 2006).
Thanks!
Derya Ozkan
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Call for Papers
Panel Title: Urban Space, Practices of Everyday Life, Politics
Panel description: This panel aims to discuss the indeterminate political role played
by everyday life practices in the social
production of urban space. Papers elaborating on the questions of space and
authorship, everyday life and politics, discursive representations of programmed
urban spaces and unprogrammed practices of everyday life, and the politics of
everyday transgressions are welcome. The main theoretical goal of the panel is to
register the often unregistered significance of lived experience as a critical
concept in rethinking the social space of the city.
Are the inhabitants of the city merely consumers of urban space? Or do they have a
constitutive role in molding the shape of the city? To what extent are transgressive
everyday practices acts of emancipation; to what extent are they to be regarded as
attempts to reconciliation? What is the significance of everyday life practices with
regard to the realms of the social, the spatial, and the political in the metropolis?
Please e-mail abstracts (250 words), accompanied by a short bio to the panel
organizer.
Panel Organizer:
Derya Ozkan
Ph.D. Candidate
Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
University of Rochester
Rochester NY 14627
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