University of Zadar is announcing\u00a0the 5th International Rethinking Humanities\u00a0and Social Science Conference, which is to be held from September 26-28, 2014. For more information read on, or visit the conference website: http:\/\/rhss-conference.com.<\/p>\n
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The 5th International Rethinking Humanities\u00a0and Social Science Conference is to be held at the University of Zadar,\u00a0Croatia, from September 26-28, 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n Since 2010 the conference has offered an invaluable opportunity to meet,\u00a0exchange ideas and debate on current topics in humanities and social\u00a0sciences. This year’s conference focuses on questions of the possibility of\u00a0new utopian faith beyond nation, state, capital, the world market and world\u00a0citizenship based on the economy of (global) sovereignty.<\/p>\n Keynote speaker<\/strong>: Simon Critchley (The New School for Social Research, New\u00a0York)<\/p>\n Roundtable<\/strong>: Eric Santner (Department of Germanic Studies, University of\u00a0Chicago), Fred Botting (English Literature and Creative Writing,\u00a0Kingstone University), Mark Devenney (Politics and Philosophy, University\u00a0of Brighton), Laura Mulvey (Department of Film, Media and Cultural\u00a0Studies, University of London).<\/p>\n Guest artist<\/strong>: Brandon Labelle (Bergen Academy of Art)<\/p>\n CFP: Utopia and political theology today<\/strong><\/p>\n The Book of Revelations describes the Holy City, a New Jerusalem with\u00a0transparent glassy streets and pearly walls – a city so heavenly that, “The\u00a0nations will walk by its light” (Revelation 22.24). All nations, the poor,\u00a0outcasts, all races, all human forms, will dwell forever within the Light\u00a0of the Lord. In The City of God Saint Augustine developed this Heavenly\u00a0City as an idealised polis, as an eternal haven of joy above and beyond the\u00a0material world of the dying Roman Empire. “An eternal haven of joy”, a\u00a0“light for all human forms” signals the emotional dimension of the utopian\u00a0promise for the oppressed, the noncountable, the marginalized, the The utopian side of political theology today calls us to reexamine and\u00a0rethink what it means to be a human self and what selves might be together.\u00a0How are contemporary politics, art and culture contaminated by different\u00a0forms of the sacred? How is dominant liberal discourse and the myth of\u00a0modernity as a pure secular form of politics interiorized and maintained?\u00a0How does the discourse of ‘crisis’ connect to submissions of the oppressed\u00a0and production of the sense of a ‘damaged future’? Does any emancipatory\u00a0project require what Simon Critchley calls both a counterfactual faith and\u00a0utopian faith in radical social imagination as a performative alternative We invite papers that address these questions through critical examination\u00a0of the ways utopian faith has been envisaged in literature, film,\u00a0performance, art, politics, philosophy…. We hope that the participation of\u00a0scholars from different fields and disciplines of humanities and social\u00a0sciences will create new avenues for critically-oriented scholarship and\u00a0collaboration.<\/p>\n Possible topics include (but are not limited to):<\/p>\n \u00b7 the political promise of the performative (political deployments of\u00a0performativity in art, performances, literature, film, individual actions,\u00a0movements, protests….etc.) Please send proposals for 20-minute papers (no more than 200 words +\u00a0keywords) to rhss.conference@gmail.com by June 1st 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n Abstracts should be in Word or RTF formats and include the following:<\/p>\n a) author(s) – name and surname Selected conference papers will be published.<\/p>\n Conference Fees:<\/strong><\/p>\n Early Bird (by July 31): 80 Euros<\/p>\n Registration (by August 31): 100 Euros<\/p>\n Conference website: http:\/\/rhss-conference.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" University of Zadar is announcing\u00a0the 5th International Rethinking Humanities\u00a0and Social Science Conference, which is to be held from September 26-28, 2014. 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\ndifferent, the singular. Today, after the catastrophic failure of the\u00a0communist projects at the end of the last century and the global domination\u00a0of liberal democracy, perhaps more than ever we miss this emotional side of\u00a0the utopian faith. Perhaps this is the reason for the recent theological\u00a0revival and the unusual upturn in interest in political theology.<\/p>\n
\nto biocapitalism?<\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 the survival of different forms of utopias in dystopias – e.g., in\u00a0new forms of life often represented as monsters (zombies….)
\n\u00b7 the utopian faith in images, or in the possibility to ‘liberate’\u00a0images across gender\/class\/race division….
\n\u00b7 the utopian promise of plural performativity and the politics of\u00a0memoralization
\n\u00b7 the affects of belonging and discourses on the good life and\u00a0collective well-being
\n\u00b7 sound and sonic utopianism
\n\u00b7 revisiting the “classics” of political theology (Benjamin, Schmitt,\u00a0Kantorowicz, etc.)
\n\u00b7 the challenge of capital to emancipatory politics
\n\u00b7 time and temporality of (political) change
\n\u00b7 the meaning of “messianic” in late capitalism
\n\u00b7 Etc.<\/p>\n
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