<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML DIR=ltr><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD><BODY><DIV><FONT face='Arial' color=#000000 size=2>Dear all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please find attached a CFP for a
conference on 'Theorising Affect' to be held in the Department of
Geography, Durham University (UK). A long way to travel but hopefully
it will be of interest to some list members. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>best wishes, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ben</FONT> </DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B><I><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Theorising
Affect</SPAN></I></B></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">10/11 January 2007</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Department of Geography, Durham
University (UK)</SPAN></P>
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align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN></B> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">A two day conference organized by the
Social/Spatial Theory research cluster on</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> affect within the social sciences, cultural studies and
humanities.</SPAN></P>
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align=center><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN></B> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Call For
Papers</SPAN></U></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Over the past decade affect has emerged as a distinct
object of inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. From the
micro-political geographies of everyday life, through to the media and military
strategies deployed in the ‘war on terror’, it is increasingly recognized that
affect is a constitutive element in almost all social and cultural practices.
Emerging from a range of partially connected literatures, and resonating with a
parallel attention to emotion and feeling, the emergence of affect and
affectivity as objects of inquiry raises a series of questions about what social
and cultural theory is, about its general field of inquiry, about the
composition of its object(s) and subject(s) and about the nature and status of
its accounts and claims.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">This two day conference aims to provide a forum to think
through the problems, and questions, that animate social and cultural theory’s
entanglements with affect. Drawing into conversation a range of work and writing
on affect and affectivity, a range which could include feminism, queer theory,
Deleuze, Tomkins, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, phenomenology, literary and
performance studies, and social science engagements with bio and neuro sciences,
the conference seeks to develop and establish affect as a major cross-cutting
object for social and cultural reflection, investigation and action.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Abstracts are sought on topics such as: </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">1:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> What
<I>difference(s) </I>do theories of affect make? What does it mean to
<I>offer</I> a theory of affect(s)? What, thereafter, do such theories
<I>promise</I> for the social sciences and humanities? And what, thereafter,
could or do such theories <I>fail</I> to do?</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">2:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> What is the
relation between affect and … </SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN>a)<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Other modalities of the
more-than or less-than rational, such as mood, feeling, emotion, or
passion.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN>b)<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Modalities of the body, such
as memory, imagination, perception, sensation, language, and the senses.
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN>c)<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Different types of human and
non-human collectives and associations. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN>d)<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Non-humans e.g. artefacts,
objects, technologies, animals, complex heterogeneous systems,
natures.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">3:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> How to
develop a theoretical <I>vocabulary</I> and <I>grammar</I> specific to affect
and/or affects? What could such a vocabulary be composed of?</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN>a)<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">How could such a vocabulary
and grammar relate to the striations and differences that pattern the social and
cultural, including, for example, the classic categories of social thought,
relations between humans and non-humans, the technological and natural, or the
fictive and the factual?</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN>b)<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">How does such a vocabulary
and grammar redescribe social and cultural <I>processes</I>? i.e., the dynamics
of social and cultural change and stability, the dissemination of the new, the
historicity of forms and practices?</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; TEXT-INDENT: -14.15pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN>c)<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">How does such a vocabulary and grammar reconfigure the
nature of subject, of, for example, self-awareness, consciousness, reflexivity,
agency, habit and skill?</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">4: </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">What are the
relations between theories of affect and the political and the
ethical?<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; TEXT-INDENT: -14.15pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN>a)<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Given events such as the
enrolment of certain affects in the strategies of the new right, or the
disclosure of an intimate public sphere, how could or how should a social and
cultural theory of affect respond and engage with the contemporary political
moment? </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; TEXT-INDENT: -14.15pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN>b)<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">How to theorize the relation
between affect and the political, around, for example, rethinking conceptions of
power, resistance, the political decision, sovereignty, ideology or hegemony?
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 35.45pt; TEXT-INDENT: -14.15pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN>c)<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">How to theorize the relation
between affect and the ethical, around, for example, (in)justice, responsibility
or alterity.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The cost of the conference will be approximately £50
(exlcuding accomodation and evening meals). We welcome proposals for 20 minute
papers (to be followed by 10 minutes for discussion/questions) that address
these and any other relevant questions or problems around affect. Papers can
work through these questions/problems in multiple forms, for example through
theoretical work, through empirical work, or through performance. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">200 word abstracts to be sent to Ben Anderson (<A
href="mailto:ben.anderson@durham.ac.uk">ben.anderson@durham.ac.uk</A>) by 1st
August 2006. </SPAN></P></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On behalf of the organising
committee: </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dr Ben Anderson <A
href="/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?mode=staff%26id=985"
target=_blank>http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?mode=staff&id=985</A></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dr Paul Harrison <A
href="/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/research/researchclusters/?mode=staff%26id=341"
target=_blank>http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/research/researchclusters/?mode=staff&id=341</A></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dr Rachel Colls <A
href="/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?mode=staff%26id=2712"
target=_blank>http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?mode=staff&id=2712</A></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dave Bissell <A
href="/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.dur.ac.uk/d.j.bissell/"
target=_blank>http://www.dur.ac.uk/d.j.bissell/</A></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dan Swanton <A
href="/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/postgrad/students/?mode=staff%26id=2280"
target=_blank>http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/postgrad/students/?mode=staff&id=2280</A></SPAN></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>