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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear Colleagues, Please find below information regarding a large, interdisciplinary conference that I am co-organising. The conference will be held 5-8 July 2007 at the University of York. I hope it will stimulate interest among members of the Italian studies community. 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 February 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) Dr. John David Rhodes Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture Department of English University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html