Popular Culture and World Politics IV (PCWP 4)
23-25 November 2011 at University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland
If you are interested in attending this conference please visit our
website at http://www.ulapland.fi/?deptid=20727
The deadline for abstract submissions is June 30th.
We study popular culture to understand the representational practices
through which power relations are constructed worldwide, and grasp the
aesthetic practices through which the intolerability of power
relations are given political expression, and out of which new
political subjectivities and peoples are brought into being.
Deconstructing the former is integral to the processes of struggle by
which we can contribute to the composition of the latter.
The Department of Politics and International Relations, University of
Lapland, is pleased to invite you to continue this effort at the
Popular Culture and World Politics Conference (PCWP 4) to be held in
Rovaniemi, Finland, 23-25 November 2011. The conference is the fourth
in a groundbreaking series of annual events that began in the
University of Bristol in 2008. Since then the series has developed
into an exciting annual event which attracts scholars, practitioners
and artists from throughout the world and across the disciplines and
fields to debate and discuss the world politics of popular culture.
This year, the conference will be held on the ultra-northern verges of
Europe, in Lapland, which occupies liminal space in-between popular
imaginaries of Western modernity and Arctic wilderness.
The three-day conference will attract papers and presentations from
thinkers whose work is inspiring contemporary forays into the
relations between politics and culture across the humanities, social
sciences and the arts. Confirmed keynote speakers include Michael J.
Shapiro (Hawaii, US) and Scott Wilson (Kingston, UK).
With this Call for Papers we invite participation in all possible
forms. In addition to panels and individual papers, we welcome
proposals for art exhibitions, screenings, performances or other modes
of expression. In so doing we hope to build the event into a rich
experience which involves not only talking about popular culture but
also experiencing, sensing, feeling, producing and, in most cases,
enjoying it.
Suggested themes for panels, papers and other presentations include
(but are not limited to):
- Challenging the theory/practice divide
- Aesthetics and the constitution of new subjectivities
- Decolonizing methodologies
- Popular culture and climate change
- The politics of Santa Claus
- Representation and race
- Senses, sensibilities and the redistribution of the sensible order
- Art and political activism
- Popularization of indigenous cultures
- Imaginaries of hope in contemporary politics
- Aesthetics of security
- War and media
- The politics of cinema
- Digital aesthetics
- The biopolitics of popular culture
All other themes will be entertained too.
If you are interested in attending this conference please visit our
website at http://www.ulapland.fi/?deptid=20727 and submit a brief
abstract of your paper, panel proposal (including the names and titles
of each presentation) or artistic contribution (max. 450 words). We
will inform you about the outcome of your abstract submission by the
end of August 2011.
Welcome!
Prof. Julian Reid and Dr. Laura Junka-Aikio
University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
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