22nd October 2019, Palermo University (Italy)
The University of Palermo together with the joint Ph.D. program Studi
Culturali Europei/ Europäische Kulturstudien organizes the interdisciplinary
graduate conference “In / Visible: Representation, Discourse, Practices, Dispositifs” (University of Palermo, 22 October 2019). The international
conference will focus on the different aspects of in/visibility from a
cultural, philosophical, literary and artistic, historical and sociological
perspective. The chosen working languages are Italian and English.
From their position at the crossroads among the humanities, cultural
studies testify to the coexistence of heterogeneous objects, techniques, and
forms of knowledge that are heterogeneous. From this perspective, in /
visibility constitutes one of the aspects each discipline – from literary
criticism to psychoanalysis, from history to gender studies- can somehow shed
light on. The road that leads to the investigation of the representation of the
in/visible is not univocal, but inherently plural and intrinsically
interdisciplinary.
From this perspective, In / Visible: Representation, Discourse, Practices, Dispositifs is designed as a moment of dialogue between different
methodological perspectives that, looking at the in / visible from different
points of view, also differ in the omissions and concealments that the choice
of each point of view brings.
The international graduate conference also takes part in an academic
tradition – that of Palermo and Düsseldorf, precisely – which commits to carry
out research on in / visibility across disciplines.
How is the materiality of the visible world inscribed in its cultural
representations? What are the more or less visible actors and mechanisms in the
genesis of a cultural artifact? Should the visible/invisible binomial be
considered as an anthropological constant or as the effect of a certain
epistemological constellation? To what extent does visibility coincide with
power and, therefore, how should one represent the in/visible? These are just
some of the questions that cultural studies, in their innate
interdisciplinarity and methodological heterogeneity can formulate with respect
to the issue.
The international conference, organized by the graduate students in
European Cultural Studies (XXXIII cycle) at the Universities of Palermo and
Düsseldorf, is addressed to young scholars (graduate and postgraduate students)
from the humanities, with the aim of favoring moments of confrontation,
exchange, opening and learning. Participants are invited to present their own
considerations on the possible materializations of the visible, according to
the interests and methods of their own research and / or discipline, to offer
food for thought to a consciously heterogeneous audience.
Topics:
The international conference will focus on the different aspects of
in/visibility from a cultural, philosophical, literary and artistic, historical
and sociological perspective. Abstracts written in Italian and English must not
exceed 250 words. Please attach a short bio and a short CV. Please send your
abstract to: invisibile2019palermo@gmail.com. Young scholars (graduate and
post-graduate students) wishing to participate are invited to send abstracts
that focus primarily – but not exclusively – on the following topics:
1. In/visible and the arts:
- Masks of the in/visible
- In / visible and myth
- Visual and sound representations of the in / visible
- Symbolism and in / visibility
- In/visible in literary theory
- Magic, manticism and in/visibility
2. In / visible and human action:
- Sociology and in / visibility
- Mediology of the in/visible
- In / visible languages
- Visible / invisible and expected / unexpected;
3. In / visibility policies and schemes:
- In / visible and identity
- Minorities and in / visibility
- In/visibility and incommunicability
- Visibility / invisibility and legitimacy / illegitimacy.
Submission instructions and deadlines:
Graduate and postgraduate students are invited to submit a proposal.
Abstracts written in Italian and English must not exceed 250 words. Please
attach a short bio. Please send your abstract to:
invisibile2019palermo@gmail.com. Please write “Proposal graduate conference
in/visible 2019”
The deadline for submission of abstracts is set for July 7, 2019.
Acceptance or rejection of the proposals will be notified per e-mail to the
interested parties by July 20, 2019.
Maximum presentation time: 20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A.
Essays submitted after the conference will be considered for
publication.
Further information and the final programme will be published on the
official webpage of the conference invisibile2019palermo.wordpress.com and on
our Facebook page. For any enquire feel free to contact us:
invisibile2019palermo@gmail.com.
No fee is to be paid to participate. Unfortunately, no bursary for
travel and accommodation expenses can be provided.
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