CALL FOR PAPERS
For the 8th edition of the International Symposium on Staging American we invite scholars to explore and investigate the representation of loss, change, and recent historical trauma as well as ensuing mobilizations, reflections, and reconfigurations in contemporary American literature and art. The issue of how this rapid succession of crises has been staged is not limited to the performative arts. We invite specialists from different disciplines to participate, from geographers, historians, philosophers, sociologists and anthropologists, to specialists of literature, visual arts, performing arts, music, museums, and cultural studies. Suggested topics of research might be related although not limited to loss, trauma, bereavement, recovery and reconstruction but also to crisis as the agent of changes and transformations in:
-paradigms and systems (literature, history, economy, politics, religion)
-institutions (nation, government, family...)
-gender and sexuality
-migration, ethnicities, communities
-geographies and borders
-nature and environmentalism
-new scenarios: postcapitalism, posthumanity, new subjects, new social movements, new technologies.
20-minute papers should be delivered in English and, following the conference, we will invite participants to submit articles for publication.
The deadline for paper proposals is October 15 2016. Submissions should include the paper title, a 300-word abstract (in English), a short biographical note, your academic affiliation, and contact information.
Please send proposals to Ana Fernández-Caparrós Turina and/or Anna M. Brígido-Corachán at ana.fernandez-caparros@uv.es / anna.m.brigido@uv.es