Dear SWIPpers and FEASTers,

Please see below. I'm the stream organizer for S16, "Philosophical
Genealogies of Affect," though many of the streams are potentially of
interest. (I will not be making final decisions about abstracts).

Best,
Emma

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AFFECT THEORY: WORLDINGS/TENSIONS/FUTURES – CALL FOR PAPERS
October 14-17, 2015  Millersville University’s Ware Center, Lancaster PA
(USA)
Website: www.affecttheorymu.com     Twitter: @affectWTF

Confirmed plenary speakers: Ben Anderson, Brian Massumi, Erin Manning,
Heather Love, Jasbir Puar, Jason Read, Jeremy Gilbert, Katie Stewart,
Lauren Berlant, Lawrence Grossberg, Lisa Blackman, Melissa Gregg,
Natasha Dow Schüll, Patricia Clough, Shaka McGlotten, Steven Shaviro,
Tavia Nyong’o, and Zizi Papacharissi.

Over the course of the last decade especially, it is safe to say that
affect, studies of affect, and theories of affect have steadily risen to
prominence within and across a variety of academic disciplines, artistic
practices, and research approaches. Not without some amount of
controversy and pushback, the relatively rapid movement of affect toward
the forefront of critical attention has been opening new paths of
intellectual inquiry, reshuffling longstanding debates and conceptual
formations, and inspiring imaginative cross-fertilizations of
disciplinary and aesthetic genres. Now seems a perfect time to pause and
take stock. So, let’s do that.

Gathering together many of the leading and emerging voices that have
helped give contour and texture to the contemporary discourses of
affect, this three-day conference – with a lively mix of plenaries,
selected panel-streams, PhD workshops, and other events – will be
devoted to addressing affect from a broad spectrum of vantage points. 

Located in and around Millersville University’s downtown Ware Center in
Lancaster Pennsylvania, this setting will provide a truly intimate and
distinctive opportunity to engage in-depth and at length in discussions
about the past, present and future state(s) of affect study. Duke
University Press will publish work drawn from this conference in a
follow-up volume to the Affect Theory Reader (Gregg & Seigworth, 2010).

CONFERENCE STREAM PROPOSALS have now been solicited and accepted. You
will find the nineteen PANEL STREAMS below. For full details and further
description, look under ‘submissions/CFP’ at the conference website.


Affect Theory Streams (Stream# in no particular order):

S1 – Psychoanalysis, Affect, Time
S2 -  Black Affect and Minor Feelings
S3 – Affective Capitalism
S4 – Affect & Practices of Power and Resistance in Latin America & the
Global South
S5 -  Media / Mediation / Affect
S6 -  Posthuman Affects in 21st Century Feminist Production
S7 – Affect and Its Queer Intersections: Race, Trans*, and Biopolitics
S8 – Affect Theory and Arts-Based Research: The Event of Poiesis
S9 – Affect, Identity, and Resistance within the Neoliberal Academy
S10 – Reading Human Rights & Literature Through Affect: a decolonizing
approach
S11 – Ordinary Affect and Everyday Life
S12 – Listening as Worlding: Sound Knowledge and its Translation
S13 – Engaging Religious and Secular Affect
S14 – Art and ‘Urban Textures: The City and Affective Experimentation
S15 – Practising Affect: Exercises, Techniques, Methodologies
S16 – Philosophical Genealogies of Affect
S17 – Affective Ecologies and Everyday Outdoor Encounters
S18 – Feeling Mobilities / Mobile Feelings
S19 – FTW (For the Wayward), or, Islands in the Streams


TWO WAYS TO SUBMIT TO BE A PRESENTER AT THIS CONFERENCE:

A) CALL FOR PAPERS TO STREAMS: 

1)      250-word PAPER ABSTRACTS – oriented to the accepted stream
proposals –can now be submitted. ALL PAPERS MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH
THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE at [log in to unmask] The final
deadline for submissions is MONDAY, MAY 18. To aid with proper routing,
PLEASE INCLUDE THE STREAM # and/or NAME OF THE STREAM in the
subject-line of your emailed paper submission. The email attachment of
your abstract should be in Word or pdf. Abstracts can be single-authored
or co-authored.

B) WRECK THE FORMAT: 
 	For those who pursue affect in ways that might be somewhat less formally academic and more aesthetic/performative/poetic/evocative, we welcome the submission of proposals for performances, art installations, musical pieces, film and video showings, and similarly provocative interventions. Please submit a detailed description of no more than 500 words regarding any such activity – including special requirements for space and some sense of the time-range – to [log in to unmask] by no later than MONDAY, MAY 18. Make sure to put the words ‘WRECK THE FORMAT’ in your email subject-line if your proposal is intended for this type of presentation. Initial inquiries about the possible inclusion of such work at this conference is encouraged well before the May 18 deadline however. 


FINAL PROGRAM: The conference’s program, including any
performance-related ‘wreck-the-format’ works and PhD workshops, will be
posted to this website by late June or early July. Conference
registration for the conference will open at the same time.  




	

















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  Emanuela Bianchi

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