Encounters: memory, community, futurity 2023 Glasgow UK
Glasgow
Organization: University of Glasgow
A transdisciplinary PG-led research conference at Glasgow University, 12-13th June 2023
?An encounter is perhaps the same thing as a becoming [...] You encounter people [...] movements, ideas, events, entities [...] It designates an effect, a zigzag, something which passes or happens between two as though under a potential difference [...] a single becoming which is not common to the two [...] but which is between the two, which has its own direction, a bloc of becoming, an a-parallel evolution.?
Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues II: 6
An encounter can be an action of embracing, where borders are dispelled and diversity emerges, and where the lines between disciplines blur. By bringing together difference, the encounter becomes a potential space for dialogue, exchange, interaction, and conflict. Encounters are an everyday occurrence: in our experience of the past and in our imagined futures, in our understanding of ourselves and towards others. As a concept, the encounter raises many questions: What happens when different identities and ideologies encounter? What
would an ethical relation between self and other look like? How can the encounter form an opening, rather than a capturing or a fixing of otherness? What are the traces left behind in oppositional encounters?
We warmly welcome proposals for presentations from postgraduate scholars across all disciplines on the theme of ‘encounters’ for our hybrid 2023 conference. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
• Communities and their futures, commemoration and memory
• Ways of knowing and meaning, embracing change and transition
• Clash of identities, cultures, and genders
• Posthuman and future humanities, virtuality and reality
• Borders, abolition and utopias
Types of work accepted:
• 15-minute presentations (creative formats encouraged)
• 5-minute presentations (designed to explore a particular concept and/or for first-year PGs)
• Poster presentations
• Pre-arranged panels
Submissions:
• For individual papers, please send a proposed title with a 200-word abstract and 100-word personal bio;
• For pre-arranged panels, please send a proposed title and a 600-word proposal (each panel should have between 3-4 papers ready).
Please send your submissions to arts-pgconference@glasgow.ac.uk by Monday, 1st May 2023 BST.
Email: arts-pgconference@glasgow.ac.uk
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Arts PG Conference Committee