[Corpora-List] CFP: Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian

[Alon Lischinsky]

(With apologies for cross-posting)

Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian
An International Two-Day Conference

The ordinary and the everyday are intuitively self-evident, yet
notoriously elusive. Efforts to define “ordinary language” or
“everyday practice” have preoccupied thinkers across many disciplines:
philosophers, historians, sociologists, political theorists,
geographers and critics of literature and the visual arts. And these
subjects demand more attention from scholars working on race, class,
gender and sexuality, as well as food studies and the digital and
medical humanities. Yet existing efforts have rarely engaged in
dialogue with their counterparts in other disciplines. We call for
papers from scholars in all these fields to join in a spirited
dialogue at an international, two-day conference to be held at the
University of York, 26 and 27 September 2013.

Scholars in all disciplines are invited to to ponder, celebrate, and
critique the quotidian, ranging from the furtive pleasures of pop to
the dubious delights of junk: “Does it glow at the core with personal
heat, with signs of one’s deepest nature, clues to secret yearnings,
humiliating flaws? What habits, fetishes, addictions, inclinations?
What solitary acts, behavioral ruts?”

Confirmed events include keynote addresses by:

·         Prof. John Roberts (History of Art, Wolverhampton)
·         Dr. Jennifer Baird (Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck)
·         Dr Bryony Randall (English, Glasgow)

It will culminate in a colloquium chaired by Prof Ben Highmore
(Cultural Studies, Sussex) and featuring:

·         Prof. Michael Sheringham (French, All Souls Oxford)
·         Dr. Holger Nehring (History, Sheffield)
·         Dr. Rupert Read (Philosophy, UEA)
·         Dr. Michael White (History of Art, York)
·         Dr. Neal Alexander (English, Nottingham)

What do the terms everyday, ordinary and quotidian mean at the
beginning of the twenty-first century? This conference will confront
head-on the challenges and opportunities presented by the
interdisciplinary nature of such an enquiry.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to
oeqyork2013 at gmail.com by 16 August; general enquiries are also
welcome. You can also visit our website at:
http://www.york.ac.uk/modernstudies/conferences/oeq/

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