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Intersections 2009: Crisis Intersections 2009: Crisis A crisis is potentially both a critical disruption of an existing system and a vehicle of change. Crisis can foster insight, invention, involvement, and intervention, but it can also create situations which silence, marginalize, and even endanger those who are directly and indirectly involved. Crises may help illuminate directions for necessary change, or render visible those forces that resist transformational imperatives. This conference intends to bring together scholarship that highlights dynamic and imaginative connections taking place in times of critical interruptions and crises. Intersections 2009: Crisis - Critical Disruption of Communication and Cultural Flows is calling for analytical and creative presenters to address how interruptions, disturbances and crises – whether intentional or unexpected, local or global, isolated or systematic – affect established and dominant orders. How do these disruptions alter the very conditions of social, political, economic, mechanical, psychical, physical, sexual, biological, ethical, and other modes of being and thinking? We invite theoretical and creative inquiries into the nature of crisis and what it reveals about the working of various systems, and the ways in which communication and cultural studies contribute to the generation of unique strategies for reading, coping with, and resolving crisis. We also invite considerations of methodologies that address crises of systems inherent to the interdisciplinary study of contemporary communication and culture. Intersections 2009: Crisis is the eighth annual conference held by the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture at Ryerson and York Universities. We invite graduate students from all related disciplines to submit proposals for academic, artistic, and activist presentations that explore critical disruptions, crisis and catastrophe through social theory, politics, policy, culture, media, technology, artistic practice and social activism. This year’s theme allows for discussion and engagement across the three streams of our programme, which include Media and Culture, Politics and Policy, and Technology in Practice, and we encourage proposals from all three perspectives. More specifically, within a paradigm of communication and cultural studies, presentations may cover (but are not limited to) the following:
All information provided to us will be kept confidential. All submissions are presented anonymously to the conference adjudication committee for peer review before acceptance or declination. See conference website (link below) for more detailed submission guidelines. Artists are also asked to submit a small sample of their work for adjudication, by either e-mail or post. If sending creative works by e-mail, please limit attachment size to 5mb or less. You may also direct us to a URL. Please put viewing instructions, comments and titles in your e-mail if applicable. If submitting creative works by post, please mail the proposal, a non-original copy of the work, and viewing instructions to the following address (well before the submission deadline): Intersections 2009 Conference SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: JANUARY 22, 2009 Conference Website: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference |
