Catastrophe!
Living and Thinking Through the End Times
Indiana University Bloomington | March 30-31, 2018
Keynote
Speaker
Seo-Young
Chu
Associate
Professor, Department of English, Queens College, CUNY
We are issuing a Call for Proposals for scholarly
and creative submissions for the 16th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference entitled “Catastrophe!
Living and Thinking Through the End Times” hosted by the English Department at
Indiana University Bloomington, March 30-31, 2018.
This conference aims to interrogate politics,
rhetoric, and representations of catastrophe, disaster, apocalypse, and trauma.
We aim to address not only these terms individually, but also their
entanglements across historical moments and geographical locations.
How do we define and delimit catastrophe or
disaster? What are the differences and similarities between trauma and
disaster? What is the temporality of catastrophe and how do we imagine it? How
does one teach through catastrophe or teach disaster? How is catastrophe
coopted for political ends? How can we describe the catastrophic relationship
between humans and the environment? How is apocalypse and cataclysm represented
in art and literature? How do we think about beginnings in the end times? What
kinds of historical representations surround or engage cataclysm and
apocalypse? How do we categorize or frame the genres of apocalyptic and
prophetic writings? What are the differences between personal, public, or
global trauma? How does catastrophe encourage us to think interdisciplinarily?
We
invite submissions from all disciplines addressing, but not limited to, the
following topics:
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Rhetoric of
catastrophe, rhetoric of trauma
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Holocaust
studies, genocide studies
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Ecocriticism,
environmental studies, slow violence
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Prophetic representations, Theology, Eschatology,
Rapture
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Colonialism,
Post-colonialism, Anthropocene
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Late Capitalism,
Modernity, Post-modernity
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Virtual
disasters, Technology and Hacking
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Posthumanism,
cyborgs, alien invasion, and mutation
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Reproductive rights, gender and sexuality studies
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Science Studies,
Plague and Disease, Nuclearity, Biopolitics
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Dystopia,
post-apocalyptic, science fiction studies
●
Aesthetics and
affects of disaster and trauma
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Psychoanalysis,
trauma studies
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Women and gender
studies
●
Queer potentials
of cataclysms
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Theater, drama,
Late Style, Eventness
●
Childhood studies
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Political movements,
media, fascism, BLM, Antifa
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Survivalism,
Dooms-Day Preppers
●
Pedagogy,
analysis as survival
We invite proposals for individual scholarly
papers, creative works, and panels organized by topic. Please submit (both as
an attachment and in the body of the email) an abstract of no more than 250
words along with the following personal details: name, institutional
affiliation, degree level, email, and phone number.
This conference is generously supported by the Department
of English, Department of Anthropology, Department of American Studies, Department
of History, and the Cultural Studies Program.
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