Sites
of War
An
Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students
21
February 2015
Goldsmiths,
University of London
We
exist in a state of war.
This
call for papers invites postgraduate students from a wide range of disciplines
and with interdisciplinary perspectives to examine the relationship between
politics, economics, society, culture, art, and sites of war.
We
invite an interrogation of a wide spectrum of events and occurrences that fall
within the literal and figurative ambit of this theme. Responses to the investigation can refer, but are not limited to:
international warfare and revolutions like in Iraq, Syria and Hong Kong; acts
of terror, and political strife encompassing diplomatic and foreign affairs
engagements; economic confrontations including the fiscal and monetary; social
struggles extending to migrants, refugees and displaced peoples; tensions over
gender and sexuality; schisms of morality and ethics; religious dissension, and
scientific and medical ideological debate; and how these impact social groups
and how their responses to these events are culturally enacted; and whether
culture itself, can be said to be in a
performative state of warfare.
Sites
of War is the ninth annual postgraduate colloquium
organised by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance, Research Group (STPRG)
at Goldsmiths, University of London, under the direction of Professor Maria
Shevtsova. This colloquium follows Theatres of Catastrophe (2014), and
seeks to extend the threads of investigation that resulted from the event by
excavating and analysing how cultures respond to struggle and contestation.
We
warmly welcome submissions from postgraduate research students from UK and
international universities for individual papers that do not exceed 15 minutes.
We also invite practice-based responses to this topic. Please submit your name,
department, university, conference paper title and a 250-word abstract or
practice-based statement of intent to stpr.group@gmail.com.
Deadline
for the application is 10 December 2014.
This
colloquium is supported by The Graduate School, Goldsmiths, University of
London, Diawa Foundation, Japan, and Suntory Foundation, Japan.
Please
do contact us on stpr.group@gmail.com with any queries you may have. We look forward
to hearing from you.
Phoebe
Patey-Ferguson, Kyoko Iwaki and Geetha Creffield.
PhD
Candidates, Department of Theatre and Performance
Sociology
of Theatre and Performance Research Group
Goldsmiths,
University of London