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Felicity Callard.
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Date: 29 June, 1999 18:59
Subject: [cultstud-l] CFP: Travelling Concepts: Text, Subjectivity,
Hybridity
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>Call for Papers
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>Travelling Concepts: Text, Subjectivity, Hybridity
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>The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
>University of Amsterdam
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>January 11, 12 and 13, 2000
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> Over the past year graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in
>the ASCA seminar group have discussed the concepts of text, subjectivity
>and hybridity based on the work of Mieke Bal, Stanley Fish, Clifford
>Geertz, Martin Fuchs, Mark Freeman, Michel Foucault, Evelyn Fox Keller,
>Gayatri Spivak, Mikhail Bakhtin and Homi Bhabha. More specifically, the
>seminar focused on ways in which text, subjectivity and hybridity have
>traveled as concepts between disciplines, scholars, historical periods and
>academic communities.
> From this perspective the nature of concepts is understood in a
>variety of ways. For example, it is assumed that concepts are normative and
>programmatic rather than simply descriptive. While concepts are related to
>a tradition, they are not stable and their use cannot boast simple
>continuity. Concepts are complex and are never used in precisely the same
>sense, hence the ramifications, traditions and histories which are
>conflated in their current usages need to be unpacked and evaluated. The
>validity and usage of concepts is then subject to debate which proceeds by
>referring concepts back to the traditions and schools from which they
>emerged, and forward to their relevance for cultural analysis today. And
>because concepts travel, the Amsterdam School emphasizes the methodological
>implications of the interdisciplinary study of culture.
> ASCA is now inviting submissions on how text, subjectivity and
>hybridity have traveled, as concepts, between disciplines, schools,
>historical periods and academic communities, and how these considerations
>may be brought to bear on case studies in cultural analysis. Those selected
>will be invited to present their work at a conference organized by ASCA at
>the University of Amsterdam, January 11, 12 and 13, 2000.
> Proposals should be no more than 250 words in length and reach the
>ASCA office at the address below, by Sept 15, 1999. Those chosen will be
>asked to forward their completed texts of no more than 4,000 words to ASCA,
>by November 15, 1999.
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>ASCA
>Spuistraat 210
>1012 VT Amsterdam
>The Netherlands
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>email: [log in to unmask]
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>Fax: 020-525 3052
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>_____________________________________
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>Mario A. Caro
>Visual and Cultural Studies
>424 Morey Hall
>University of Rochester
>Rochester, New York 14627
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>office: (716) 275-9249
>fax: (716) 442-1692
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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>Personal Page:
>http://www.rochester.edu/College/AAH/people/grad/caro.html
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>In[]Visible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Studies
>http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture
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Felicity Callard
83 Farleigh Rd, London N16 7TD UK
**From 24 August**
Dept of Geography & Env Engineering
313 Ames Hall, Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore MD21218
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