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CALL FOR PAPERS: III AUTUMN CONFERENCE OF THE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN
CULTURAL THEORY
Time in Culture: Mediation and Representation
Tartu, Estonia
October 28-30, 2010
This year the international autumn conference of the Centre of Excellence
in Cultural Theory (CECT) focuses on the topic of time as a category
which, in every respect, touches upon human agency and entity. Issues of
past, present, future and the culture of history (time) are symptomatic to
our era. This topic also enables us to intertwine the viewpoints of the
different disciplines of cultural research.
The autumn conference aims at critical and reflexive discussions on the
tendencies of how time functions within culture. An additional starting
point would be the ways different media construct time within the
framework of private, institutional, group specific, etc., interests.
The points of departure for discussion would be the following
interconnected aspects of the construction and representation of
time/temporality:
The mediality and intertextuality of time; specific genres of mediating
time, their socio-cultural, technical, etc., development;
Agency, private and public aspects in the production and reception of
temporality; empowerment and domination in the construction of
temporality;
Institutional (museum, archive, school, church, etc.) and group specific
usage of time and its means of mediation;
The domain of the category of time in social and culture studies; the
concept and discussion of time in different disciplines and approaches;
how we use concepts based on time to define our objects of study, how the
times on object- and meta-levels are related.
The keynote speakers are Eviatar Zerubavel (Rutgers University, USA),
Gunther Kress (University of London, UK) and Carmen Leccardi (University
of Milan-Bicocca, Italy).
The aim of the conference is to dislocate the established topography of
the academic landscape and; focusing on the consciousness of time in
culture; encourage research that leads to presentations employing the
possibilities of several disciplines. Joint presentations by researchers
from different research fields are preferred.
Please send the abstract of your presentation (200-500 words) by June 15,
2010, to [log in to unmask] You will be notified of the acceptance of your
contribution and sent the preliminary programme in early July 2010.
A conference fee is not required but there will be no reimbursement for
accommodation and travel costs for conference guests. More information
about accommodation choices will be provided in July 2010. Selected papers
based on conference presentations will be published in the CECT
compendium.
Please kindly forward this CfP to whom it may concern.
Additional information: Monika Tasa, [log in to unmask]
CECT home page: http://www.ut.ee/CECT
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