call for papers--conference (August 2009)

[Alexandra Smith]

CfP: REGULATED LIBERTIES IN SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET ARTS, CULTURE AND MEDIA
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School of Art Studies, University of Turku, Finland, will host an  
international conference ?Regulated Liberties: Negotiating Freedom in  
Arts, Culture and Media?, in August 2009. Please find the general CfP  
with some possible topics below.

As a part of the conference, we are planning to organise a  
workshop/workshops dedicated to the problematic of freedom and  
regulated liberties in the specific context of Soviet arts, culture  
and media. Papers discussing the recent developments in Post-Soviet  
Russia are also most warmly welcome, as well as papers on  
Soviet/Russian theories of culture, art and language.

Please send your abstract (200 - 300 words) for a twenty-minute  
presentation to Tintti Klapuri (tintti.klapuri at utu.fi) by November  
15th, 2008. Decisions of accepted papers will be sent by mid-January  
2009.


Best wishes,

Riitta Pyykkö
Professor
Department of Russian Studies
University of Turku
(riitta.pyykko at utu.fi)

Tintti Klapuri
Junior Researcher (The Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies)
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Turku
(tintti.klapuri at utu.fi)

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REGULATED LIBERTIES. NEGOTIATING FREEDOM IN ART, CULTURE AND MEDIA
1st Rethinking Art Studies (REARS) conference in Turku

August 20--22 2009
University of Turku, Finland


Freedom is a heavily charged notion with a vast conceptual width. Yet,
the question of freedom and its regulation remains inadequately  
studied in the field of art, culture and media. Research has often  
relied
conceptually on dichotomies and concentrated on revealing different
kinds of power structures and forms of oppression, which tends to
simplify the complex nature of freedom and constraint.
The conference is dedicated to rethinking cultural power in new  
inventive ways not based on a dichotomous logic of domination and  
resistance. The concept of "regulated liberties" denotes a more  
complex relationship of negotiation between the dominant and its  
subjects.

The aim of the conference is to relate art, culture and media to
questions concerning freedom, emancipation and resistance. The overall  
conference topic disperses on the theoretical fields of subjectivity,  
social structures, and representation. The conference provides a forum  
for the development of innovative and creative research concerning  
temporal/spatial dimensions, genres and identity production in art,  
culture and media.

Confirmed keynote speakers: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Angela McRobbie

The conference organising committee invites proposals for panels and
individual papers. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to)
the following:

- How have the concepts of freedom and emancipation been employed in  
the context of art, culture and media?

- In what ways do culture and art regulate conduct in (neo)liberal
regimes and vice versa?

- How do culturally sanctioned representations impose hegemonic identities?

- In what ways should genres be (re)thought in art? Are they  
regulating regimes?

- Under what circumstances does resistance take place, and is it
necessarily conscious and intentional?

- In what ways are subjects produced both as objects of regulatory  
norms and as agents capable of resisting these norms?

- How does embodiment work as a corporeal nexus for several axis of
power, as a gendered, racialised, and sexualised signifier of multiple
regulatory norms?

- How could the role of institutions and economy be conceptualised in  
new and productive ways?


The conference is organised by School of Art Studies, University of
Turku, Finland
http://www.hum.utu.fi/laitokset/taiteidentutkimus/en/




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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Reader in Russian
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JX
UK

tel. +44-(0)131-6511381
fax: +44- (0)131- 650-3604
e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk





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