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Subject: CFP: Cars In/Of Culture: Mobility, Materiality, Representation
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Cars In/Of Culture: Mobility, Materiality, Representation
Call for Participation 2016
1st Global Conference
Tuesday 13th September - Thursday 15th September 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
"[A]part from our own deaths, the car crash is probably the most dramatic
event in our lives, and in many cases the two will coincide," remarked J.
G. Ballard in 1969, somehow raining on the turn-of-the-decade's consumerist
parade and exposing the uncanny potential of an all-too-familiar object:
the motor car. No longer seen exclusively as a status symbol, a suburban
commuter's necessity or an aesthetically intricate object of teenage
desires, the automobile suddenly revealed its dark side, not only that of a
life-style giver but also of a life-span taker.
Yet, with hindsight, we know today that cars are much more complex entities
than even their most sophisticated mechanics would suggest. They have
invaded our bedroom walls and our driveways, they sneak into our chats
providing stories of glory and shame, they have turned into powerful
symbols of environmental decay and of dreamt-of prosperity, they have
changed the architecture of our towns and discretely nested themselves in
our escapist dreams of hitting the open road. Once domesticated, they
become a home out of home, a familiarized workplace, a locus of highway
melancholy, traffic-jam anger and intimate conversations, they talk to us
in a language of their own.
Having marked their presence in almost every sphere of life, regardless of
one's geographical location, political views, gender, ethnic background,
sexual preferences, religion, social positioning, etc., it is perhaps
surprising that the automotive environments and the ensuing cultures of
contemporary mobility have been given a rather modest theoretical
reflection. After all, the automobile in its entirety not only invites
numerous interdisciplinary approaches, but first of all, it constitutes an
interdisciplinary object per se, a palpable prism overlooking a variety of
social, environmental, technical and even political landscapes. Landscapes,
which seem to have been either bypassed in contemporary cultural
discourses, or, at best, approached from isolated perspectives, reducing
the motor vehicle to a tool useful in demonstrating other social phenomena
but hardly ever deserving sufficient attention in itself.
And much is at stake in the realm of automobility. As silent partners of
our daily routines, cars often decide about our social positioning,
offering a variety of identity-forming choices, which inevitably classify
us along the lines of communal hierarchies. Motoring subcultures, either
challenging or solidifying neoliberal expectations, form new leisure
communities. Cinematic and TV representations of cars and car cultures fill
up a significant portion of our media horizon eventually feeding on and
inspiring our motoring dreams and fears. And somehow underneath the
globalized imagery, cars still form part of our national history and
therefore shape our sense of national identity.
Hence, bearing in mind both the need to fill up the critical gap, as well
as to explore the interdisciplinary multitude of possible contexts and
approaches towards motoring and mobility in general, we welcome
presentations, papers, reports, performances, work-in-progress and
workshops from all academic and non-academic disciplines, whose
subject-areas may include but are by no means limited to the following
topics:
• Cultures (and subcultures) of Automobility
• Cars and Neoliberal Paradigms (citizenship, consumerism,
pro-environmental awareness)
• Cinematic/Literary Representations (technophilia, technophobia,
escapism, life-style)
• Cars in Popular Media (Top Gear cultural impact, video games, car-based
TV shows, popular advertising, celebrity culture)
• Motoring Culture and National/Individual Identity
• Cars and Gender Identity/Machismo Culture
• Car Cultures and the Colonial Legacy
• Car Semiotics/Aesthetics/Art
• Accident Culture/Risk Society
• Automotive Cultures and the Urban Space
• Cars and Material Culture/New Materialism
• Car Cultures and/in Totalitarian Regimes
• Highway Culture and Redefined Landscapes
• Social Location of Car Travel
• Automobility and the Environment
The Project welcomes critical evaluations and analyses from two major
groups of prospective participants. The first one includes representatives
of almost all fields of contemporary humanities including cultural and
literary theorists, psychologist, psychotherapists, sociologist,
architects, urban studies specialists, art and media critics, historians
and political science specialists. Still, bearing in mind the Project's
multi-disciplinary dimension, the participants are by no means expected to
have an academic background. Hence, the second group may embrace
specialists, enthusiasts and practitioners of any social or technical
activity related to, informed by or connected with various embodiments of
motoring cultures and as such include architects, journalists, authors,
environmentalists, NGO members, infrastructure specialists, urban
designers, industrial designers, representatives of car industry, traffic
management specialist and members of related business environments.
Further details and information can be found on the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/cars-inof-culture/call-for-presentations/
Details about our Review Policy can be found here:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/cars-inof-culture/call-for-presentations/details-and-information/
Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Cars In/Of Culture project will be meeting at the same time as a
project on Sport and another project on Roots and Legacies. We welcome
submissions which cross the divide between both project areas. If you would
like to be considered for a cross project session, please mark your
submission "Crossover Submission".
What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be
submitted by Friday 1st April 2016.
All submissions be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind)
conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Team and
the Advisory Board. In practice our procedures usually entail that by the
time a proposal is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple
reviewed.
You will be notified of the panel's decision by Friday 15th April 2016.
If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your
contribution should be submitted by Friday 5th August 2016.
Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad formats with the following
information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme,
c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10
keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Cars In/Of Culture Abstract Submission
Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs:
Organising Chairs:
Marcin Mazurek: marcinmazurek@interia.pl <mailto:marcinmazurek@interia.pl>
Rob Fisher: cars1@inter-disciplinary.net
<mailto:cars1@inter-disciplinary.net>
This event is an inclusive interdisciplinary research and publishing
project. It aims to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are
innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English
and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may
be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All
publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from
interested delegates from the conference.
Ethos
Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and
professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend
for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this
commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. Please note:
Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
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-- From: "cars1@inter-disciplinary.net" <cars1@inter-disciplinary.net>
Date: Feb 10, 2016 10:17 PM
Subject: CFP: Cars In/Of Culture: Mobility, Materiality, Representation
To: <honey.honour@gmail.com>
Cc:
Cars In/Of Culture: Mobility, Materiality, Representation
Call for Participation 2016
1st Global Conference
Tuesday 13th September - Thursday 15th September 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
"[A]part from our own deaths, the car crash is probably the most dramatic
event in our lives, and in many cases the two will coincide," remarked J.
G. Ballard in 1969, somehow raining on the turn-of-the-decade's consumerist
parade and exposing the uncanny potential of an all-too-familiar object:
the motor car. No longer seen exclusively as a status symbol, a suburban
commuter's necessity or an aesthetically intricate object of teenage
desires, the automobile suddenly revealed its dark side, not only that of a
life-style giver but also of a life-span taker.
Yet, with hindsight, we know today that cars are much more complex entities
than even their most sophisticated mechanics would suggest. They have
invaded our bedroom walls and our driveways, they sneak into our chats
providing stories of glory and shame, they have turned into powerful
symbols of environmental decay and of dreamt-of prosperity, they have
changed the architecture of our towns and discretely nested themselves in
our escapist dreams of hitting the open road. Once domesticated, they
become a home out of home, a familiarized workplace, a locus of highway
melancholy, traffic-jam anger and intimate conversations, they talk to us
in a language of their own.
Having marked their presence in almost every sphere of life, regardless of
one's geographical location, political views, gender, ethnic background,
sexual preferences, religion, social positioning, etc., it is perhaps
surprising that the automotive environments and the ensuing cultures of
contemporary mobility have been given a rather modest theoretical
reflection. After all, the automobile in its entirety not only invites
numerous interdisciplinary approaches, but first of all, it constitutes an
interdisciplinary object per se, a palpable prism overlooking a variety of
social, environmental, technical and even political landscapes. Landscapes,
which seem to have been either bypassed in contemporary cultural
discourses, or, at best, approached from isolated perspectives, reducing
the motor vehicle to a tool useful in demonstrating other social phenomena
but hardly ever deserving sufficient attention in itself.
And much is at stake in the realm of automobility. As silent partners of
our daily routines, cars often decide about our social positioning,
offering a variety of identity-forming choices, which inevitably classify
us along the lines of communal hierarchies. Motoring subcultures, either
challenging or solidifying neoliberal expectations, form new leisure
communities. Cinematic and TV representations of cars and car cultures fill
up a significant portion of our media horizon eventually feeding on and
inspiring our motoring dreams and fears. And somehow underneath the
globalized imagery, cars still form part of our national history and
therefore shape our sense of national identity.
Hence, bearing in mind both the need to fill up the critical gap, as well
as to explore the interdisciplinary multitude of possible contexts and
approaches towards motoring and mobility in general, we welcome
presentations, papers, reports, performances, work-in-progress and
workshops from all academic and non-academic disciplines, whose
subject-areas may include but are by no means limited to the following
topics:
• Cultures (and subcultures) of Automobility
• Cars and Neoliberal Paradigms (citizenship, consumerism,
pro-environmental awareness)
• Cinematic/Literary Representations (technophilia, technophobia,
escapism, life-style)
• Cars in Popular Media (Top Gear cultural impact, video games, car-based
TV shows, popular advertising, celebrity culture)
• Motoring Culture and National/Individual Identity
• Cars and Gender Identity/Machismo Culture
• Car Cultures and the Colonial Legacy
• Car Semiotics/Aesthetics/Art
• Accident Culture/Risk Society
• Automotive Cultures and the Urban Space
• Cars and Material Culture/New Materialism
• Car Cultures and/in Totalitarian Regimes
• Highway Culture and Redefined Landscapes
• Social Location of Car Travel
• Automobility and the Environment
The Project welcomes critical evaluations and analyses from two major
groups of prospective participants. The first one includes representatives
of almost all fields of contemporary humanities including cultural and
literary theorists, psychologist, psychotherapists, sociologist,
architects, urban studies specialists, art and media critics, historians
and political science specialists. Still, bearing in mind the Project's
multi-disciplinary dimension, the participants are by no means expected to
have an academic background. Hence, the second group may embrace
specialists, enthusiasts and practitioners of any social or technical
activity related to, informed by or connected with various embodiments of
motoring cultures and as such include architects, journalists, authors,
environmentalists, NGO members, infrastructure specialists, urban
designers, industrial designers, representatives of car industry, traffic
management specialist and members of related business environments.
Further details and information can be found on the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/cars-inof-culture/call-for-presentations/
Details about our Review Policy can be found here:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/cars-inof-culture/call-for-presentations/details-and-information/
Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Cars In/Of Culture project will be meeting at the same time as a
project on Sport and another project on Roots and Legacies. We welcome
submissions which cross the divide between both project areas. If you would
like to be considered for a cross project session, please mark your
submission "Crossover Submission".
What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be
submitted by Friday 1st April 2016.
All submissions be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind)
conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Team and
the Advisory Board. In practice our procedures usually entail that by the
time a proposal is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple
reviewed.
You will be notified of the panel's decision by Friday 15th April 2016.
If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your
contribution should be submitted by Friday 5th August 2016.
Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad formats with the following
information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme,
c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10
keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Cars In/Of Culture Abstract Submission
Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs:
Organising Chairs:
Marcin Mazurek: marcinmazurek@interia.pl <mailto:marcinmazurek@interia.pl>
Rob Fisher: cars1@inter-disciplinary.net
<mailto:cars1@inter-disciplinary.net>
This event is an inclusive interdisciplinary research and publishing
project. It aims to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are
innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English
and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may
be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All
publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from
interested delegates from the conference.
Ethos
Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and
professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend
for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this
commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. Please note:
Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
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inter-disciplinary.net
Inter-Disciplinary.Net is accredited by the British Accreditation Council
for Independent Further and Higher Education as a Short Course Provider
Registered in England No: 05494488
Harvestway House, 28 High Street
Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6RA
Tel: 01993 882087
Please note: The inter-disciplinary.net office is open from 9.30am to
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