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CALL FOR PAPERS Transversalities: crossing disciplines, cultures and identities Departments of Film, Theatre & Television and Fine Art, University of Reading. Keynote speaker Phillip Auslander (author of Liveness) ‘rather than the diagonal, one should have to speak of the transversal: everything that takes the subject – in all the sense of the word – from an odd angle, and traverses it. Instead of interdisciplinarity, I would speak of transdisciplinarity, placing the accent on the trans- - or better yet, on transit, on translation, or even on trance, but not on transcendence’ (Hubert Damisch) Transversality describes the key impulse in recent artistic practice in which dance, film, music, theatre, painting, sculpture, performance, television, text, theatre, video have all contested the boundaries of their disciplines and their relations with each other in playful and controversial ways. Transversality across cultural and academic contexts enables creative and productive dynamic exchanges. Fine Art and Film, Theatre & Television at Reading are co-hosting a three- day conference and inviting contributions from across the humanities to ask four key questions: What are the histories of transversality in the arts? How does political agency figure in transversal work? How might identity formations be deconstructed by transversing disciplines, cultures and artistic practices? What are the effects of transversing the actual and the virtual? We welcome 300 word abstracts for papers and performances in one of the following formats: 20 minute plenary papers to be presented in chaired panel sessions Demonstrations, performances, screenings or installations which can be presented as part of the conference proceedings. 2 hour workshops in which a limited number of participants (maximum 15) will work with the practitioner proposing the workshop. Seminar sessions where pre-circulated academic papers will be debated. Proposals for seminars should address one of the following topics: camp as cultural strategy; action and image, image and text; cross cultural performativity. Conference date: 16-18 September 2005. Venue: Bulmershe Court, University of Reading. Submission Deadline: Friday 29 April, 2005. Email abstracts and queries to: Lib Taylor, [log in to unmask] (Film, Theatre & Television) or Roger Cook, [log in to unmask] (Fine Art).