[Frameworks] MIGC 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS & CREATIVE WORK

[Ben Balcom]

Hello Frameworkers,

The 2014 Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, hosted by
UW-Milwaukee, has an call for papers and creative submissions.  The call is
only open to current graduate students.  Please submit your work and/or
your writing!

The topic of this year's conference is ANIMACY.  The deadline for
submissions is November 20th.

Call for papers:
http://themigc.com/cfp

Call for creative submissions:
http://themigc.com/creative-cfp

Derived from linguistics, “animacy” is the condition of being alive or
animate, and serves in grammar as a way to classify or rank words on this
basis (*OED*). Yet the rich and overlapping senses of “animacy”, *e.g*.
animate, animation, animus, and animal, reveal the term to more broadly
encompass notions of agency, expressivity, sentience, cognizance, and
mobility. These notions are often categorized hierarchically, and are
saturated with social, cultural, and political implications. Animacy is
being increasingly invoked in contemporary discourses of posthumanist and
nonhumanist theory, critical ethnic studies, affect theory, object-oriented
ontology, queer theory, disability studies, animal studies, eco-criticism,
etc. Animacy is a way of troubling the binary of animate vs. inanimate, and
instead suggests a more complex system of inter-relatedness between things.
As theorist and keynote Mel Y. Chen’s book asks, how does matter that is
considered immobile, insensate, or deathly, animate our cultural lives?

Best wishes,
Ben


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Ben Balcom
benbalcom at gmail.com
847.691.6636
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