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*Call for Papers: IV Autumn Conference of the Centre of Excellence in
Cultural Theory*
*THINGS IN CULTURE, CULTURE IN THINGS *
University of Tartu, Estonia
October 20--22, 2011
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Things in culture, cultures in things and lest we forget, all that stuff
in between. Objects, artefacts and matter, even sometimes the
immaterial, have been comprehensively theorised and contextualised
through a number of intriguing case studies. Since the groundbreaking
publication of /The Social Life of Things/ in 1986 to the launch of the
/Journal of Material Culture/ ten years later, the material world in its
cross-cultural, multi-temporal and interdisciplinary study could never
quite be the same again. Indeed, the very concern for the effects and
affects of the ways in which materiality changes over time is the one
that this interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Centre of
Excellence in Cultural Theory (CECT) seeks to address.
A well known adage in this field of enquiry is that things make people
as much people make things. The relationships we develop and share with
a tangible arena of artworks, buildings, infra-structures, monuments,
relics and everyday objects varies from the remote to the intimate, from
the fleeting to the durable, from immediate to mediated, from the
passive to the passionate, from the philosophised to the commonsensical.
Within the practices of creative processes and their use or non-use of
the physical world, things gain meaning and status. They become endowed
with agency, symbolism and power. Our journeys through the world of
things generate a multitude of emotions: pleasure, attachment,
belonging, angst, envy, exclusion, loathing and fear. They also feed
into the propagation of on-going myths, narratives and discourses which
oscillate between the robust and the ever shifting.
The organising committee of the conference is currently inviting
proposals to present at the CECT IV Autumn conference. Interested
participants are encouraged to think about how their work addresses any
of the following themeswithin the wider rubric of 'things in culture,
culture in things'. Papers are not necessarily restricted to any of
these categories however.**
*(i) /Dynamics/ -- Changing of meaning, practices, functions and
modality in time and space *
- displaying / collecting (museums, galleries and institutions);
- archaeological practice / how objects are made meaningful through
their use;
- naming and renaming; assembling and dismantling;
- modality, mediation, remediation; (sources of) knowledge of things;
- innovation and technologies;
- biographies of things / life stories;
- recycling, reuse, waste, entropy, heritage.
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*(ii) /Identity/ -- Ways we relate to and use things*
- identification / objectification;
- memory (memorials);
- cultural autocommunication;
- symbolic usage of things -- heritage, monuments, rituals;
- consumption, consumerism / commodification;
- naming, narrating and silencing (or censoring) things;
- embodiment and things.
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*(iii) /Methodologies/ -- How we study things*
- objects and subjects of research;
- material aspects of research / materiality of research;
- disciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologies;
- historiographical approaches;
- what things are - genres and types of things in different disciplines;
- historical epistemologies.
*Abstract submission: *proposals for individual papers and sessions
should be submitted by *June 1^st , 2011*.** Abstracts of no more than
350 words in English should be sent via email to the address listed
below. Please include your name, designation, university/institute,
e-mail, telephone number(s), postal address and a short
biographicalnote (up to 100 words) including research interests and key
publications.
The authors of the accepted abstracts will be notified by *July 1^st ,
2011.*
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*Manuscript Submission: *Once the abstracts are accepted, the full
papers for a presentation of 20 minutes must be submitted to the
conference administrator by *October 1^st , 2011. *Papers will**be
considered for publication in an edited volume.
A conference fee is not required but there will be no reimbursement for
accommodation and travel costs for conference guests (except for CECT
members). More information about accommodation choices will be provided
after acceptance.
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*_Key Dates and Deadlines:_*
*Abstracts Due:*June 1^st , 2011
*Acceptance Notification:*July 1^st , 2011
*Registration Deadline:*September 1^st , 2011
*Full Paper Submission:*October 1^st , 2011
*Conference: *October 20^th --22^nd , 2011**
*Conference committee: *Valter Lang, Mari Lõhmus (archaeology); Patrick
Laviolette, Helen Sooväli-Sepping (landscape studies); Kirsti Jõesalu,
Maarja Kaaristo, Ester Võsu (ethnology); Ene Kõresaar (cultural
communication studies); Katre Pärn (semiotics)
*Conference administrator: *Monika Tasa, [log in to unmask]
*CECT home page:* http://www.ut.ee/CECT
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