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Procrastination 2014 : Procrastination: Cultural Explorations

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Link: http://procrastinationoxford.org/
 
When Jul 2, 2014 - Jul 2, 2014
Where University of Oxford
Submission Deadline Apr 4, 2014
Categories    life writing   history   english   cultural studies
 

Call For Papers

Procrastination: Cultural Explorations
A One-Day Interdisciplinary Conference
at the University of Oxford
Wednesday 2nd July 2014

What do St. Augustine, Kafka, Samuel Johnson, William James, Susan Sontag, Douglas Adams, Hitler, and Hamlet all have in common? Procrastination. If it isn’t ‘the quintessential modern problem’ (New Yorker), it is certainly familiar to all who have picked up a pen, both within and outside academia.

Through papers from a variety of disciplines, we hope to chart the phenomenon of procrastination, and the fraught moral and political claims it provokes. Who procrastinates, how, and why? Is the concept a moral universal, the product of particular contexts, or unique to the Anglophone world? What ‘cures’—and what unexpected defences—have various authors proposed?

The conveners welcome 20-minute papers on topics including, but not limited to:

· Literary treatments, life histories, and ethnographies of procrastination

· Conceptions of time and time management across history

· The morality of procrastination, from the ancient world to the Eurozone, the factory to the self-help shelves

· Procrastination and creativity

· Political procrastination, from bureaucratic pathologies to ‘weapons of the weak’ and government ‘nudging’

· Procrastination’s relations: weakness of will, boredom, apathy, disgust, fear

· Office life, academic life, and communal procrastination

· Procrastination, the internet, and social media

We also welcome submissions of posters and procrastinatory artefacts for exhibition.

250-word proposals, along with a 50-word autobiography, should be sent to Danielle Yardy and Elizabeth Chatterjee at ProcrastinationOx@gmail.com by 4th April 2014. Financial support is available, especially for graduate students and early-stage researchers. Bursary applications will open on 3rd March 2014. Details will be announced at http://procrastinationoxford.org/.

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