Performing Identities: Embodying Knowledge
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of French Studies at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, in collaboration with the Irish Centre for Transnational Studies, MIC, and members of the ‘Performance, Text and Context’ Research Cluster, UL, invites contributions for an interdisciplinary conference to be held at Mary Immaculate College on 20-22 June, 2014.
In his influential work on The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), Erving Goffman highlighted the importance of routine actions and social relationships in the articulation of the self through daily performance. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to analyse performative constructions of the self by interrogating the concepts of performance, identity and embodiment in their broadest sense.
Key questions for analysis include:
1. How are official and/or dominant narratives concerning identity interrogated, deconstructed and reconstructed through performative practices such as language, literature, politics, religion, art, music, dance and sport?
2. How is identity framed, formed, challenged, represented, understood, perceived through performative practices?
3. In what way are individual and collective identities mediated and influenced by performative practices, and to what extent are these practices perceived of as assets in the formation of local, national, international, transnational identities?
Topics/areas of interest include but are not confined to:
Political, historical, philosophical and literary performances
Dance and Music
Sub-cultures
Minority identities
Gender
Landscaping and mapping identities
Multilingualism and translation
Museology and architecture
Sporting events and traditions
Cultural nationalism
Emigration/immigration
Otherness and exoticism
Memory and commemorative practices
Technological advancements and virtual identities
Guest speakers include Dr. Philip Dine, National University of Ireland, Galway
and Dr. Anya Royce Peterson, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words in length should be sent to [log in to unmask] before 07 February , 2014.
We also welcome proposals for panels of up to three speakers
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