[Dino] CFP: Otherness, Subjectivity and Representation

[paqvalen at mappi.helsinki.fi]

Call for papers

Conference 21-22 October 2011 at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

OTHERNESS, SUBJECTIVITY AND REPRESENTATION

Many perspectives in the humanities share a struggle with the  
ethnographic ambition to represent the subjectivity of 'the other' and  
the ethical dimension which representations of otherness always have.  
However, the practices of academic representation move beyond the  
idealized epistemological positions of on the one hand the well-known  
dichotomy between subjective and objective, and on the other, the  
emphases of critical reflection, mutuality and dialogue. Among the  
many and diverse ways in which 'the other' can be encountered,  
represented and made space for there is a grey zone embedded in the  
complexity of self-other relations where 'otherness' and 'alterity'  
prevails as a haunting and desirable shadow in our experiences of  
people, texts, noises, voices, bodies, images and spaces.

This conference has the ambition of exploring the complexity embedded  
in representations of subjectivity and otherness, the various  
positions and methods that are applied, and the possible directions  
future research can or should take.

Submitting abstracts

The conference will result in an edited volume to be published by an  
international publisher in English. The conference invites proposals  
dealing with the theoretical frameworks, recent developments and fresh  
approaches from several academic fields, such as art studies,  
literature studies, visual studies, media studies, philosophy and  
religious studies. Topics or approaches that might be addressed include:
• Aesthetics and ethics of otherness
• Modes of re-conceptualizing otherness and ethical thinking
• Otherness and the construction of new subjectivities
• Aesthetics and ethics of reparative thinking
• Re-use of traditional cultural expressions in the representation of  
otherness and ‘novel representations’

Please submit your abstract (250-300 words) to Linda Mattsson  
(linmatts at abo.fi) no later than May the 31st.  Letters of acceptance/  
rejection will be sent out no later than the 17th of June.

Confirmed key note speakers

Trinh T. Minh-ha, Professor of Rhetoric and Gender & Women's Studies,  
Berkley, University of California

Marsha Meskimmon, Professor, Loughborough University, School of the  
Arts, Leicestershire

Kalle Pihlainen, Academy of Finland Research Fellow, Department of  
Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University


The conference is organized by Prof. Martin Gustafsson, Prof. Peter  
Nynäs and MA Antony Fredriksson from Åbo Akademi university and  
Research scholar Lottamari Kähkönen from Art Studies at the University  
of Turku. The conference is part of the activities of the following  
projects and networks:

Post-Secular Culture and a Changing Religious Landscape is a Åbo  
Akademi University centre of excellence in research 2010-2014. PCCR is  
devoted to qualitative and ethnographic investigations of the changing  
religious landscape in Finland. http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/relvet/pccr/

Regulated Liberties. Negotiating Freedom in Art and Culture since the  
1960s is a multidisciplinary research project funded by the Academy of  
Finland and led by Professor Marianne Liljeström. The studies on  
“regulated liberties” concern temporal/spatial dimensions, genres and  
identity production in art, culture and media. The aim of the project  
is to investigate the complex and ambiguous relationship between  
freedom and its regulation, the shifting negotiations between norms  
and resistance in connection to the production of art and culture.

Nordic Network of Philosophical Anthropology is funded by NordForsk  
and led by Associate Professor Kevin Cahill (Bergen). It has around 60  
members, and involves research groups from Åbo Akademi University,  
Uppsala University, University of Bergen and University of Aarhus. By  
allowing a unique collaboration between philosophers and  
anthropologists, its aim is to promote a more systematic and timely  
approach to questions concerning the human being than have been  
achieved in social anthropology, analytical or continental philosophy,  
taken in isolation from one another.
http://www.philosophicalanthropology.org/


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