CPRACSIS International Conference
in association with the
University of Madras
February 1 & 2, 2011
Tholakappiar Campus (Main Campus), Madras University, Chepauk, Chennai, India
Contextualising the ‘Contemporary’ in Culture
‘Contemporary’ is widely perceived as a pre-given conceptual category. The paradigm shift effected by ‘contemporary’ intellectual introgressions and art practices has evinced that the notion of contemporaneity is a contested domain. The ‘Contemporary’ is formulated and perpetuated through the sedimentation of multifarious dynamics of culture, history, power, geography, movements, politics,
and epistemes.
The international conference, Contextualizing the ‘Contemporary’ in Culture inquires into the evolution and sustenance of ‘the contemporary’ in Art, Performance, Film, Music, Architecture, Media and Lifestyle. This conference attempts to explore the notion through the broad frameworks of:
1. Metro-scapes: City and Imagination
2. Peripheral Aesthetics: The rise of the suburban and the new
3. The liminal space: Small town/rural
4. The shifting pedagogies
5. Art preservation, transmission and dissemination
6. Managing ‘the contemporary’
7. Histories and the future: Defining ‘the contemporary’
8. Digital imagination
9. Virtuality of the contemporary
10. The popular versus the contemporary
C PRACSIS attempts to raise questions regarding these areas — questions not being confined to disciplinary boundaries — with an international conference to be convened at Chennai, India entitled “Contextualising the ‘Contemporary’ in Culture” On February 1 & 2, 2011 at the Tholakappiar Campus (Main Campus), Madras University, Chepauk under the auspices of the University of Madras.
The proposed international conference features keynote addresses by Arjun Appadurai (Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives & Distinguished Professorship as the John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences at The New School in New York City), Howard Caygill (Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths College, University of London), and Kancha Ilaiah (Chairman of the Political Science department at Osmania University).
The Centre for Performance Research and Cultural Studies in South Asia [C PRACSIS; /si:praksiz/] is a non-profit organization located in India, supported by an international academic community <www.cpracsis.org>. The host of the conference, the University of Madras, has an unparalleled history of 152 years in disseminating and imparting knowledge <www.unom.ac.in>. The co-ordinating department, the department of English was established in 1969.
Abstracts of the papers not exceeding 250 words along with a brief narrative bio (not exceeding 50 words) are to be sent to <[log in to unmask]> and/or <[log in to unmask]> on or before November 20, 2010.
Abstracts should be submitted with the following information and in this order: a) author(s); b) affiliation; c) email address; d) telephone numbers; e) title of abstract; f) body of abstract; g) key words.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12; single spaced) for the submission of abstracts and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting. Only one paper per author will be accepted for presentation in the conference sessions, and at least one author for each paper must be at the conference in order to present the paper. All proposals are subject to peer review. The receipt of abstracts will
be confirmed immediately and the selected paper-presenters will be notified by November 22. T
he conference fee must be remitted on or before December 15 (academics & professionals Rs.1500/US$40; research scholars Rs.800/US$20. No fee for non stipendary research students). Further details are available at <www.cpracsis.org>. The last date for the submission of final papers will be January 10, 2011.
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Dr Alice Gorman
Department of Archaeology
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001
Mobile: 0428 450 418
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/alice.gorman
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