From: Cathy Crane (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Nov 27 2005 - 09:32:28 PST
hi list serv,
sorry if this is a duplicate, but i didn't receive the original
so guessing no one else did.
ciao,
cathy
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Subject: 1968 symposium - a call
From: "Cathy Crane" <email suppressed>
Date: Thu, November 17, 2005 1:50 pm
To: email suppressed
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(1968)
A Symposium
April 7-9, 2006
Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College
One word on everyone’s lips in May ’68 was “contestation.” It expresses a
fundamental version of freedom: not freedom to change or to succeed, but
freedom to revolt, to call things into question.
-Julia Kristeva
I. Overview
This symposium represents an effort to look at a broad and dramatic
historical moment with an eye towards the radical sense of possibility and
inquiry that it contained. This event will bring together a dynamic range
of scholars and media-makers whose work directly engages the period’s
international breadth of activism and critique – from political protest
and social change to radical incursions in philosophical, mass-cultural
and avant-garde art practices.
While this is certainly not an attempt to conduct a narrow exercise in
hermeneutics, we have chosen the year, and the time immediately
surrounding it, because of the obvious and evocative ways in which it
encapsulates a set of events, expressions and possibilities: a bracketed
series of very public and dramatic contestations – to use Kristeva’s term
– that cut across a remarkable swath of cultures, continents, social
contexts and discourses.
In the current historical moment, when the idealist notions of individual
and group agency, radical possibility and mass common cause often seem
naďve or impossibly distant, we believe that it’s important to look
energetically and critically at a moment when the rhetorics of change and
agency, on so many levels, seemed widely potent.
In looking at a time when the progressive work of intellectuals, cultural
producers, political, labor and social activists frequently were entwined
and mutually supporting, we feel it important to bring into direct
conversation engaged critics and practitioners from a broad range of
disciplines and perspectives. Thus, the structure of this symposium
deliberately rejects medium and subject-specificity in an effort to
re-connect the separations that have been reinforced by the discrete
‘professionalization’ and cultural marginalization of intellectual,
cultural and political work.
We invite proposals for papers, panels, presentations and performances
from scholars, artists and activists. Please email a one-page abstract
or overview and a c.v. to email suppressed and (address suppressed)
Review of proposals will begin December 15th, 2005. Please direct any
questions to Cathy Crane or Nick Muellner, Department of Cinema &
Photography, Park School of Communications, Ithaca College.
-- cathy crane assistant professor dept. of cinema & photography roy h. park school of communications ithaca college ithaca, ny 14850 607-274-1035 http://www.ithaca.edu/facpages/ccrane/ -- cathy crane assistant professor dept. of cinema & photography roy h. park school of communications ithaca college ithaca, ny 14850 607-274-1035 http://www.ithaca.edu/facpages/ccrane/ __________________________________________________________________ For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.