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---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: 14 November 2006 14:13 +0000 From: David Barnett <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: CFP ***** This email comes from the SCUDD list. Clicking reply will send a message to over 700 recipients. ****** A colleague at Sussex has asked me to post this call. ------------------------------------------------------ REAL THINGS: MATTER, MATERIALITY, REPRESENTATION 1880 TO THE PRESENT 5-8 July 2007 Proposals for twenty-minute presentations or panels of three to four presenters are invited for a conference entitled "Real Things: Matter, Materiality, Representation, 1880 to the present," to be held at the University of York, England and co-sponsored by the University of Sussex. Keynote speakers: Bill Brown Mary Ann Doane Hal Foster Patrick Keiller Hermione Lee Edmund White This conference proposes a re-engagement with representational realism and its objects and effects across a wide range of aesthetic, critical and theoretical practices. We seek to engage cutting-edge work that raises new questions about the status of the object of representation; representations as archives of material history; the shifts in representational practices associated with modernism and postmodernism; the changing status of real bodies and lives (as opposed to their representations) as objects of analysis in the humanities; and the politics of these transitions. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: --Realism as modernism/modernism as realism --Rethinking photographic indexicality; cinema and/as archive --Paintings, documents, realism: literary and visual representation --The turn to science --Postmodernism, realism and the real --Representation and the psychoanalytic Real --Evidence, document and representation --New philosophies of nature --Documentary film practices --Biopolitics, biopower, bodies --Forensics, indices and popular culture --Performance, theatricality and materiality --Success and/or failure of representation --Presentation vs. representation --New technologies, representation and embodiment --Anti-sublimation and resistance to metaphor Please send 250-word paper abstracts and 1000-word panel abstracts to [log in to unmask] by 1 Febraury 2007. For more information, please contact [log in to unmask] Organisers: Victoria Coulson (University of York), Jane Elliott (University of York), John David Rhodes (University of Sussex) ______________ To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit www.scudd.org.uk/list ______________ ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- ---------------------- Dr A A Piccini Research Councils Academic Fellow Drama: Theatre, Film, Television School of Arts University of Bristol Cantocks Close, Woodland Road Bristol BS8 1UP T: +44 0117 954 5449 E: [log in to unmask] Skype: aapiccini W: www.bris.ac.uk/drama/staff_research/angela_piccini/