[Air-l] CFP--Arresting the Flow: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, April 14-15 2006 (fwd)

[Barry Wellman]

fyi.
go to the flow I always say.
 Barry
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:33:09 -0500
From: Julia Ng <j-ng at northwestern.edu>
To: gomobility at lists.Stanford.EDU
Subject: CFP--Arresting the Flow: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference,
     April 14-15 2006


THE PROGRAM IN COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

<http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/complit_arrestflow/>ARRESTING THE FLOW
April 14-15, 2006

with keynote addresses by:
Bernhard Siegert
(Professor of History and Theory of Cultural Technologies,
  Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Jules Law
(Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies,
Northwestern University)
and response from:
Peter Fenves
(Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature,
Northwestern University)

call for papers:

"Arresting the Flow", the first annual graduate
conference organized by Northwestern University's
Program in Comparative Literary Studies, seeks to
provide a platform for the formulation of a
cohesive understanding of flow. The terms flow,
flux, and fluid are ubiquitous in the history of
Western thought-and its polemics. From Heraclitus
to Plotinus, Augustine to Leibniz and Kant,
Hölderlin to Heidegger, Benjamin to Deleuze and
Derrida, flow has been variously defined: "fluid"
have been the borders between self and other,
"fluctuating" the "influences" of the
uncontrollable and uncreated on organized space
and time, "flowing" the conditions-and
metaphors-of exchange and transmission, knowledge
and self-consciousness, circulation and
infection. One thing, though, has remained
constant: that flow incorporates a concern for
the overflowing of certain limits of being and
experience, whether those be placed between man
and God, mind and body, self and world,
neurotransmitter and memory, eye and screen,
place and journey. And yet, "flow" seems to
demand its own, conceptual arrest.

Fields as diverse as psychoanalysis, film and
media studies, philosophy, theatre, religion, the
history of science, geography, urban studies,
law, political science, economics, literary
studies, architecture and art history, among
others, continue to be marked by the effects of
flow.

themes:

Papers are invited to address, but are not limited to, topics such as:
The ebb and flow of thought
Flow and interruption
Flow at the source of permanence
Flow as negativity
Flow and the concepts of home and shelter
Rivers and bends, streams and eddies
Autoimmunity, law and politics
Volition, flow, resistance
Circulation(s)
Currents
Modeling flow and the impact on design
"Flow" as a paradigm of social theory
The metaphor of flow
Rethinking "influence": local, national, global, cross-disciplinary
Fluencies
Temporal flow and perception
Wandering, migration, and the production of space
Liquid space
Political states and states of flux
"Uneven flow" and the transgression of borders
"Total flow", streaming, and the subject of media
Landscape, fluidity and viscosity
Body fluids at the crossroads of the histories of
medicine, religion, literature
Fluidity of identity and concept: race/gender/ethnicity, genre/form/structure

submission guidelines:

The primary language of the conference is
English. Presentations should last roughly 20
minutes. Please send an abstract of 250-300 words
as a Word attachment to Julia Ng
(j-ng at northwestern.edu). On a separate cover page
please list the proposed title, author's name,
affiliation, brief biographical statement
focusing on academic work (approx. 100 words) and
contact information. Please indicate if you will
require technological support (overhead, slide
projector, etc.). **Deadline for submissions is
December 1, 2005.

for more information:

Please visit http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/complit_arrestflow/
for continually updated information on the conference.

organized by:
Joel Morris, Julia Ng, Dan Nolan and Paul North

--
Julia Ng
Department of German Literature and Critical Thought
Program in Comparative Literary Studies
Northwestern University * 2-375 Kresge * 1880
Campus Drive * Evanston, IL 60208 USA

::: 847-467-7067
::: j-ng at northwestern.edu