[AMS-announce] CFP: Engaging Objects, ASCA International Workshop, Amsterdam, March 26-28, 2008

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Engaging Objects
ASCA International Workshop, Amsterdam, March 26-28, 2008

Engaging Objects is an interdisciplinary conference addressing general methodological (and epistemological) issues in the humanities. Things in the world, objects of art and of everyday use, have functioned as core referents in contemporary cultural theory. Since the “linguistic turn”, technological devices and philosophical texts, dirty windows, typewriter-erasers, and cyber-space, have been proposed and contested as possible sites for re-encountering material reality. The 2008 ASCA International Workshop is a space open to reflect on the methodological nuances, theoretical consequences and political implications of engaging objects within the humanities.

These issues will be discussed in four panels:
Engaging theory, which positions theory as an object of study.
Sensory disruptions, which explores the possibilities and implications of encountering objects through different senses and their interrelations.
Bodily interventions, which deals with the body as an object of study, and a site for alternative modes of knowledge production.
Comparison engagée, which invites an engaged reflection on the practices and politics of comparison.

Deadline for abstracts (300 words): October 31, 2007; deadline for papers (3000 words): January 31, 2008.

We are also looking for performances to be presented during the workshop that are relevant to the workshop theme of “engaging objects”.

For more information and a detailed description of the panels go to: http://www.hum.uva.nl/asca/news.cfm/639C0A1A-1321-B0BE-685810D648666A62

Organizers: Paulina Aroch Fugellie, Tereza Havelkova, Jules Sturm, Astrid Van Weyenberg 
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