Craft Critique Culture is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the intersections among critical and creative approaches to writing both within and beyond the academy. This year’s conference will examine the imbrication of affect and empire and will explore the ways in which affect blurs the lines between presence, absence, past, present, future, coloniality, postcoloniality and other liminal or ephemeral textual and identity positions within the increasingly globalized experience of our present moment.
How can emotional states foster critical theory, whether it be social-scientific, cultural, literary, technological, popular, communication, queer, postcolonial, new media, transnational, diasporic, neo-Marxist, feminist or other modes of theory? How does theory further our sense of liberation, affiliation and identity?
We invite the submission of critical, theoretical and original creative work in a variety of media and across the humanities, sciences and legal disciplines. In the past, submissions have included not only traditional scholarly papers but also film, video, music, writing, visual art and artists’ books.
Please submit paper abstracts of no more than 350 words — creative presentations also accepted. Full panels (featuring three papers) may also be proposed. Each panel proposal should consist of three paper abstracts and a brief explanation of the panel’s purpose and relevance to the conference. Each panel submission not to total more than 1,000 words. Please include name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), street address, telephone number, and email address on all abstracts and proposals. Please submit all paper abstracts or panel proposals to:
Nilo Couret
E210 Adler Journalism Building
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
or by email at: nilo-couret at uiowa DOT edu.
Submission deadline is January 23, 2009.