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(in)invisibility CSRG 2015 : The Practice of (in)visibility: 4th International Critical Studies Research Group Conference, 25th and 26th June, University of Brighton

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Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12ws0J-fKDSMf5lgX07V9V6-EfRcYRchzUbfw1agEsjw/viewform
 
When Jun 25, 2015 - Jun 26, 2015
Where Brighton, UK
Abstract Registration Due Jun 2, 2015
Submission Deadline Apr 20, 2015
Categories    critical theory   philosophy   art   politics
 

Call For Papers

When politics, arts, history, ethics or philosophy are judged by their ability to disrupt what is visible and sayable, is there a danger that the potential political efficacy in remaining hidden is ignored and the possibility of intervention/action for the already unseen is inhibited? How do artistic practices reflect and engage in strategic invisibility? What are the artistic and political intersections of acting invisible? What kinds of visibility are afforded to whom? How can research approach invisibility without eliminating the invisibility it purports to study? Can there be a methodology of working around (in)visibility and if so what claims can it make to validity? What is the difference between choosing to perform a strategic invisibility and the (mis)performance of an imposed visibility? In what ways do we labour in visible resistance and invisible complicity?
We welcome proposals from a broad range of disciplines, for both research papers and non-conventional forms of presentation related to the conference theme. These might include performative papers, performances, workshops, and screenings. We also encourage transdiciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions.

The topics might concern, but are not limited to, the following:
• Aesthetics, art and performance
• The politics of the mask and ‘masking up’
• Contemporary performance practices and negotiations of space through 'blending in'
• Politics, public policy, public services and whistleblowing
• Democracy and/as visibility
• Surveillance, policing and erasure of protests
• Media, war and conflict, (in)visibility of bodies
• Anonymity, pseudonyms, identity, non-identity, impact of technology on the self
• Ghosts, witchcraft, affect, death, mourning, otherness, the incomprehensible/unintelligible
• Non-spaces, heterotopias
• Gender, race, oppression and (in)equality
• Visible and invisible history, ‘hidden transcripts’ and the history from below
• (In)visibility in research and academia, para-academia and open access publishing

Proposals should be no more than 300 words and, if relevant, can include links to online videos giving an indication of your performance practice. The deadline for proposals is the 20th April 2015. You can submit online at this link here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12ws0J-fKDSMf5lgX07V9V6-EfRcYRchzUbfw1agEsjw/viewform

Keynote Speakers:
Martin E. Jay, Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley
Martin E. Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His work spans numerous fields, including European intellectual history, critical theory, and visual culture. He has published books on a wide range of topics, including Adorno (1984), Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (1993), and, most recently, Essays from the Edge: Parerga and Paralipomena (2011).

Michael O’Rourke Faculty of Gender Studies, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje, Macedonia

Michael O’Rourke is a visiting lecturer in the Faculty of Gender Studies, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje, Macedonia, he works mostly at the intersections between queer theory and continental philosophy. He is the author of Queer Insists (2014), Queering Speculative Realism (forthcoming), Rogue Theory (forthcoming) and co-author of The Pervert’s Guide to Reading (forthcoming). He has published extensively in the areas of Queer Theory, Deconstruction, Speculative Realism, Object Oriented Ontology, Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Feminist Theory.

For further information please email A.Rajala@brighton.ac.uk or h.mcknight1@uni.brighton.ac.uk

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