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 [Spoon-Announcements is a moderated list for distributing info of wide enough interest without cross-posting. To unsub, send the message "unsubscribe spoon-announcements" to majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu] From: Erin <plastico-AT-servtech.com> PLEASE POST AND DISTRIBUTE 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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