Calls for papers 1. CFP: Cultural Hegemonies in Spaces of Diversity - due Dec 15 Call for Papers - Cultural Hegemonies in Spaces of Diversity Regensburg, Germany; May 7 - 9, 2015 Deadline for submitting abstracts: December 15, 2014 More than eighty years ago, Antonio Gramsci developed the concept of cultural hegemony in his Prison Notebooks. For him, cultural hegemony was a way to understand the relationship between culture and power under capitalism and, in particular, to reveal and deconstruct the production of consent by the dominant fundamental group. The concept of cultural hegemony has become hugely influential, aiding scholars to understand how legitimacy is not only produced but also undermined by anti-hegemonic practices. Eastern and Southeastern Europe as a region is characterized by substantial ruptures in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is an area of large scale political, economic and cultural experimentation as well as a site of frequent regime change. It has a long history of both dictatorship and revolution. Nowhere else in Europe have so many new states emerged, and existing ones disappeared, in the 20th century. At the same time, the region is a space of great cultural, linguistic, confessional, socio-political, and regional diversity; this situation creates particular challenges for those who strive to achieve cultural hegemony. Keynote speakers: Johanna Bockman (George Mason University), et al. This conference is interested in the production and erosion of cultural hegemony. Conference contributions shall discuss the relationship between cultural hegemony, social organization, institutional order, and political practice. What strategies and practices can be identified that serve to establish or maintain cultural hegemony but also to subvert and ultimately replace it? One of the major goals of the conference is to elucidate the relationship between cultural hegemony and political change in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. This includes the discussion of transnational transfers of dominant ideologies and of their local implementation and appropriation. Cultural hegemony also has important implications for language use: it attributes specific rights and prestige to particular languages (or dialects), while marginalizing others. Comparative dimensions shall be addressed as well. Submitted papers shall address different levels of analysis - from the macro to the micro; we are interested both in dominant and subaltern groups and movements. The conference is conceived as an interdisciplinary one. We invite papers from all disciplines that can make a contribution to understanding the dynamics of cultural hegemony. This includes discussions of political ideologies and social values, cultural and language policies, literary and visual representations, architectural and monumental culture, educational and cultural institutions, the political economy of culture, legal aspects, and other pertinent topics. We encourage also theoretical and conceptual contributions. Paper proposals should include an abstract (max. 300 words) and brief academic CV including your institutional affiliation and contact details. Please send your paper proposals to [email protected] as a MS-Word format document (.doc or .docx). Deadline for paper applications: December 15, 2014. Applicants will be notified about the acceptance of their papers by mid-January 2015. The conference language is English. The Graduate School will cover travel and accommodation costs of presenters. Heidrun Hamersky e-mail: [email protected] ios-regensburg.de/en.html 2. Third Midwest Historians of East Central Europe Workshop CALL FOR PAPERS/WORKS IN PROGRESS THIRD MIDWEST HISTORIANS OF EAST CENTRAL EUROPE WORKSHOP University of Illinois at Chicago February 27-28, 2015 Polish Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago is pleased to announce its sponsorship of the Third Workshop for Historians of East Central Europe to be held in downtown Chicago on February 27-28, 2015. The workshop is open to faculty and graduate students in history and related disciplines. It will be based on pre-circulated papers, chapters, article drafts, etc. Participants are welcome to attend either as paper presenters or as members of the active audience. The main purpose of the workshop is to introduce scholars working in related areas to one another, to showcase work in progress, and generally to facilitate a sense of community among historians of East Central Europe with easy access to Chicago. Registration for the workshop is free. The Hejna Endowment at the University of Illinois will support the cost of accommodations for a limited number of graduate student and faculty presenters. This year we are also able to assist with some travel expenses for participants coming from more distant locations. Doctoral students seeking assistance should provide a brief letter of reference from their dissertation advisors. Please contact Anna Szawara ([email protected]) if you are interested in attending the workshop. Indicate in your e-mail if you would like to circulate a paper for discussion (and a short synopsis of its content) or simply wish to attend as an audience member. If you will be a presenter, let us know if you are interested in University sponsored accommodations. The deadline for proposing a paper topic is January 5. Pre-circulated papers should be limited to 25 pages in length and must be submitted electronically by February 14. They will be made available on-line to all registered participants. Keely Stauter-Halsted Professor and Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in the History of Poland Department of History 913 University Hall (MC 198) 601 S. Morgan St.Chicago, IL 60607-7109 [email protected] 3. CFP: The Human Reimagined We invite contributions to a peer-reviewed volume under the title The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia, which is under contract with Academic Studies Press. The enmeshment of the human body with various forms of technology is a phenomenon that characterizes lived and imagined experiences in Russian arts of the modernist and postmodernist eras. In contrast to the post-revolutionary fixation on mechanical engineering, industrial progress, and the body as a machine, the postmodern, post-industrial period probes the meaning of being human not only from a physical, bodily perspective, but also from the philosophical perspectives of subjectivity and consciousness. Galactic advances in cybernetic technologies have prompted humans to reconsider the definition of humanity’s ontological essence. The Human Reimagined examines the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the body, selfhood, subjectivity, and consciousness illuminate late-Soviet, post-Soviet and postcolonial ideas about the changing relationships among, the individual, technology, and society. Building upon the dreams of the early avant-garde and Bolshevik era, artists and writers of the late- and post-Soviet periods imagined ways of enhancing, transforming, and overcoming the body via cybernetic, computational and other technologies. In response to the crisis of humanism, artists and writers envisioned alternate realities and probed the boundaries of what it means to be human. The questions we propose to explore are: § what constitutes humanity and how are boundaries between human and animal established and blurred; § what does it mean to be human as technological instruments and prostheses enhance the body, enabling it to transcend its physiological limits; § how does artificially created sentience perform subjectivity and consciousness; § to what extent do ideological and political particularities of the Soviet imperial experiment and its demise influenced posthuman fantasies; § do postcolonial ideas about hybridity productively illuminate alternate forms of humanity; § are postmodern narratives essential for constituting the posthuman or can the posthuman be described and represented in various discourses. Please send a 250-word abstract and CV to [email protected] and [email protected] by January 15, 2015. The deadline for finished articles is Friday, April 3. All submissions will be peer reviewed and you will be notified of acceptance by June 1. Julia Vaingurt and Colleen McQuillen
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