Keynote Speakers:
Ernesto Laclau
Paula Biglieri (University of Buenos Aires)
Oliver Marchart (Universität Luzern)
Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Jelica Šumič Riha (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
Deadline for the receipt of abstracts: 31 January 2014
The politics of remembering and forgetting are important social and cultural issues. The authority, power and resources with which to create hegemonic versions of the past – to give authoritative accounts that are available in the public domain – are largely the property of institutions. Questions of power, voice, representation and identity are central to Cultural and Collective Memory.
Conference Keynote: Lisa Blackman, Professor in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths
Supported by the Centre for Feminist Research, Department of Media and Communications, and the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths.
Proposals are due by Friday 14 February 2014
Narratives are present in all societies. They are present in myths, legends, news, rumors, in historical and artistic texts, in politics, in everyday conversation. Stories are able to construct reality. As Roland Barthes suggested (1966) the most important issue is to describe the code by which the narrator and the reader are signified in a narrative. In this sense, an author is not the one who invents a narrative but the one who possesses best the code used by the participants.
Institution: Humber College / International Festival of Authors, Location: Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
Judaism's long religious and cultural tradition has been subject to many and manifold transformations. Understanding the reasons behind and the dynamics of these transformations requires a theoretical approach to the nature and function of traditions in general and a methodological approach suitable to analyze specific shifts in the continuous development of traditions.
Keynote speakers: Jacques Guilhaumou (ENS Lyon); Gianni Silei (University of Siena); Ruth Wodak (University of Lancaster).
The category of visibility constitutes a key dimension of the public sphere, up to the extent that the public sphere can be characterized as constituted in/by struggles over visibility. At the threshold of visibility, one often encounters power struggles over what aspects of social and cultural practices deserve a public stage, and what aspects should be relegated to the private sphere (or made invisible altogether).
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to contribute to the following panel we will be organising for the IPA Conference in Grenoble. The deadline is 31st of January. Please send your papers to the panel organisers. The details of the IPA 2010 conference can be found in http://www.ipa2010-grenoble.fr
Best wishes,
Aysem Mert & Katja Freistein
The fantasmatic logic as inertia and force: Myths, legends and utopias in policy making