Please circulate this CFP to all potentially interested graduate scholars. Thank you and please accept apologies for cross-posting. Lauren Cruikshank Intersections 2005 Conference Chair ********************** Intersections 2005: HYBRID ENTITIES Call For Proposals A Graduate Student Creative Conference Hosted by the students of the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture York University and Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada March 18-20, 2005 We invite all interested graduate students to join us for our 4th annual Intersections event, expanded this year into a weekend Creative Conference. As scholars doing interdisciplinary work in a joint programme, we are especially interested in encountering and generating significant intersections of art, activism and academia. How can we remix resistance? What can mongrel media make possible? How does contemporary culture rework us? Which beings, theories, technologies, cultures, languages, representations and values compound into interesting hybrid entities and identities? HYBRID ENTITIES is a call for works that take up what is revealed when entities collide and the creative or transformative possibilities in interesting combinations and connections. After last year's successful conference around themes of lag, error, breaks and gaps, our focus now turns to links, networks, compositions and new creations. We are interested in submissions that explore these intersections where names have not yet been given, where identities are still being formed and where new problems and possibilities for bridging the gaps among scholarly disciplines, and between scholars, artists and activists can be found. Open to all graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference welcomes submissions that take up these themes either through a paper presentation, an artistic expression, or an activist agenda. Details on subtopics and submission procedures follow below. ******************************* SUBTOPICS AND THEMES Invited submissions include papers, artwork and activist presentations that relate to the following broad themes: Media and Culture Topics could include (but are not limited to) subjectivity, popular and visual culture, media studies, cultural consumption and production, media democracy, representations of sexualities/race/ethnicity, gender studies, portrayals of social class, depictions of ability/disability, semiotics and linguistics, cultures of cities, space and place. Technology in Practice Submissions in this category might address (but are not limited to) questions regarding technology's emergent role in theoretical and practical debates surrounding art, authenticity, and aesthetics, negotiations of accessibility and identity, race and gender, explorations in the concepts of the cyborg, the post-human, and technoculture. Politics and Policy Potential areas of focus could include (but are not limited to) strategies of resistance, questions of structure, power and agency, deliberations about the communication and culture and the public sphere, sovereignty, accessibility, cultural policy, citizenship, globalization, copyright and intellectual property, privacy and surveillance, media ownership in Canada, communication policy. SUBMISSION FORMAT/DEADLINES As an expanded event, this year HYBRID ENTITIES will include the following formats for disseminating and discussing ideas. Paper presentations - 15 min. presentation of an academic paper with time for discussion to follow Creative work with artist's talk - Artwork/media for exhibition, accompanied by artist talk during conference Poster session (with possible roundtable discussion) - Presentation of materials in a poster and/or table display with discussant. If enough interest, these displays may be followed by a roundtable discussion. Although these formats are tailored to accommodate academic papers, artwork and activist contributions respectively, all participants are encouraged to apply for whatever format is most interesting or appropriate for your submission. All interested participants are asked to submit a textual abstract or artist's statement explaining the proposed presentation in light of the conference themes, and indicate which of the above three formats the presentation would take. Abstract or statement should be no more than 250 words (approx. 1 typewritten page, double spaced) and submitted via email as an attachment in .TXT, .RTF, or Microsoft Word format. Name and contact information should not appear on this page. Please include a separate page with the following information: 1. Title of presentation as it appears on the abstract or statement 2. Name 3. Affiliation (program and university) 4. Level and year of study (ex. Master's, 2nd year) 5. Phone number 6. E-mail address 7. Mailing address 8. A/V requirements (computer/projector, film projector, VCR, stereo, turntables, etc.) 9. Other requirements (table, easel, hooks, display materials). If you have exceptional requirements for your work, please contact us to discuss feasibility. Artists are also asked to submit a small sample of their work for adjudication, by either email or post. If sending creative works by email, please submit up to 10 jpegs sized to display onscreen or a multimedia clip with cumulative attachment size of 5mb or less. You may also direct us to an URL. Please number the pieces and put viewing instructions, comments and titles in your email if applicable. If submitting creative works by post, please mail the proposal well before the deadline with a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return to: Intersections, c/o Graduate Communication and Culture, 3068 TEL Building, York University, 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3. You may send a CD, DVD, cued video or other multimedia, the duration of which does not exceed 10 minutes. Alternatively, you may send up to 10 slides or printouts of work, illustrations or diagrams. Please include a slide or media list with title, size, media, and date, and viewing instructions for your work if applicable. Please do not send original work. Deadline: MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2005. Please e-mail submissions to: intersec@ryerson.ca For inquires and info e-mail: tanner1@yorku.ca CFP available online: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference.html Presented by the Communication and Culture Graduate Students Association: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa For more information about the Joint Programme in Communication and Culture: http://www.yorku.ca/comcult/