#CFP: 4th Derrida Today Conference, NYC May 2014
The conference will be broadly interdisciplinary and invites contributions from a range of academic, disciplinary and cultural contexts. We will accept papers and panel proposals on any aspect of Derrida’s work, or deconstruction, in relation to various topics and contemporary issues, such as: philosophy, phenomenology and other theoretical/philosophical thinkers, literature, psychoanalysis, architecture and design, law, film and visual studies, haptic technologies, photography, art, music, dance, embodiment, feminism, race and whiteness studies, disability studies, politics, ethics, sociology, cultural studies, queer theory, sexuality, education, science (physics, biology, medicine, chemistry), IT and multimedia, technology, etc. We also accept papers that engage in the spirit of deconstructive thought (if not on Derrida or deconstruction itself).
Venue: Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, New York City, USA.
Date: 4pm 28th May – 6pm 31st May, 2014
Keynotes: Karen Barad (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA), Elizabeth Grosz (Duke University, USA), Martin Hägglund (Yale University, USA), Michael Naas (De Paul University, USA)
Conference Directors and Organisers: Samir Haddad (Fordham University, NY) and Nicole Anderson (Macquarie University, Sydney).
Due dates for Abstracts and Panel Proposals: 1st October 2013 (notification of acceptance of abstracts will be at the end of Oct 2013)
* INSTRUCTIONS *
Individual Participants: submit a 300 word abstract for a 20 minute paper. Please include a personal bio (no more than 200 words), your affiliation and contact details (mailing address, email address, and phone).
Panel Proposals: Panels will consist of 3 papers of 20 minutes delivery and 10 minutes discussion time each. Panel organizers should submit an overall panel proposal of 300 words, plus individual abstracts of no more than 200 words for each paper, along with personal bios and contact details (email, address and phone), and university affiliation of each member, including the organiser of the panel.
Due Date for Abstracts and Panel Proposals: 1st October 2013
Individual Abstracts & Panel Proposals should be sent as an attachment to: derridatodayconference@gmail.com. All enquiries about the conference ONLY, to this email address.
The conference is based on the journal Derrida Today (Chief Editors: Nicole Anderson & Nick Mansfield. The journal is published by Edinburgh University Press, ISSN: 1754-8500). EUP Journal Website:http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/drt
Information about past Conferences and the Journal can be found at the Derrida Today Website: http://derridatoday.mq.edu.au
Samir Haddad
Fordham University
Nicole Anderson
Macquarie University
Email: derridatodayconference@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://derridatoday.mq.edu.au
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