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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 02:15:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: Interrogating Subcultures 


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From: Erin <plastico-AT-servtech.com>

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Interrogating Subcultures
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY USA
March 27-28, 1998

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Will Straw, McGill University, Graduate Program in Communications

*Director, Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and
Institutions  http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/
*Co-editor, _Topia:  A Journal of Canadian and Cultural Studies_
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/topia/
*Co-editor, _Theory Rules:  Art as Theory, Theory and Art_ (1996) and
_The Cambridge Companion to Popular Music_ (forthcoming); author of
numerous essays on popular music.

The Departments of Visual and Cultural Studies and Modern Languages and
Cultures at the University of Rochester are issuing a call for papers
for an interdisciplinary conference.  "Interrogating Subcultures" will
be a forum for examining the varieties and vicissitudes of subcultures.
Work presented here will attempt to address a wide range of concerns,
including the expanding discourse around previously embattled and/or
unnamed subjectivities and theoretical positions; the position that
subcultures and their study occupy within the academy; and the practice
of negotiating the affirmative and pejorative accounts of subcultural
studies.

Innovative approaches to and interpretations of this subject are
welcome.  The interdisciplinary nature of the planning committee itself
models the contestatory practices of subcultures, as well as their
interrogation within the academy.  In order to reflect that modeling in
practice, we fully intend to include dissenting voices in the conference
itself, rather than opting for the coalition-forming approach so often
taken to countercurrent discourse.  The conference is organized as an
international forum for graduate work and will be open to the entire
community of Rochester, NY, which includes the George Eastman House and
the International Museum of Photography, as well as the Visual Studies
Workshop (publisher of _Afterimage_).

Panels will be formed based on the interests of the participants. 
Topics may include (but are by no means limited to):
	*disciplinary and academic negotiations
	*excavating histories
	*encounters with popular culture:
		-music  -theater  -performance art  -the internet
		-youth cultures  -politics of style  -film and video
		-museum practices  -zines and journals  -queer cultures
		-girls will be grrls
	*what is this "sub" in subcultures?: the subterranean metaphor
	*the margin is the center: locating subcultures

*Please send abstracts to: Conference98, Visual and Cultural Studies,
	424 Morey Hall, Rochester, NY 14627 no later than 15 Jan. 1998
*Submissions may also be sent via email to:
	conference98-AT-galileo.cc.rochester.edu



   

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