The next meeting of the UKNSWP Policy Group will be held on Friday 19th February 2010. The meeting will be hosted Manchester Action on Street Health MASH in Manchester. Coffee will be at 10.30, meeting commencement at 11 and end at 3.30. Watch the UKNSWP website and further member alerts for the venue details.
The Policy Group is open to all UKNSWP members. If you will be attending or wish to send apologies please email Rosie at rosiecamp1@aol.com. Lunch will be provided so we do need to know if you are attending for catering purposes. If you have any items for the agenda please email them to Rosie by Wednesday 10th February.
Minutes from previous meetings, including the last meeting in Cardiff December 2009 can be found on the Policy Group Forum area of the UKNSWP website.
Monday 25 January 2010
Thursday 21 January 2010
Writings of Intimacy in the 20th & 21st Centuries, 10th – 12th September 2010
Held at the Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University, UK
Keynote speakers: Adam Phillips (UK), Leo Bersani (USA), Lauren Berlant (tbc) (USA).
A special performance of intimate poetry is also scheduled, including readings from Andrea Brady and Jonty Tiplady.
This conference seeks to explore the significance of intimacy in and for the writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Our most intimate relationships are those which can powerfully define and nurture us, hurt and grieve us. Yet intimacy is not necessarily confined to those we know well: it is possible between strangers and is not always conditional upon a personal relationship existing between the subjects involved. There are, indeed, intimate ways of behaving towards others which involve acts of violence, such as torture and rape.
Over the course of the twentieth century there was a marked rise in the explicitness with which intimacy was represented in literary texts. In part this was linked to challenges to, and the subsequent relaxation of, censorship laws. Literary writers have used intimacy in various ways to disrupt genre boundaries, to question the definitions of taste, and to experiment with literary forms and narrative voices, as well as to present their readers with a more visceral engagement with the body, its acts, and our desires. There are intimate forms of writing, such as love poetry, autobiography, eulogies and personal letters, which are an essential part of our literary heritage. Critical theory, too, has become increasingly interested in defining and discussing intimacy and its impact upon our lives, and this engagement is much indebted to the discourses of psychoanalysis.
Writings of Intimacy wishes to investigate the way in which intimacy has been written: its representation and theorisation. Topics for consideration may include, although do not have to be defined by:
Representations of intimacy, e.g. sex, love, death, violence, nursing
Intimate roles, e.g. lover, mother, analyst, carer
Intimate forms of writing, e.g. life writing, love poetry, works of mourning
The poetics of intimacy
The politics of intimacy
Intimate scenes and experimentalism
The intimate and the impersonal
Narrative voice and intimacy
Philosophies of intimacy
Psychoanalysis and intimacy
Intimacy and the avant-garde
Self-intimacy
The unconscious and dreams and intimacy
Intimacy and censorship
Intimacy and knowledge
Intimacy and space/location
Individual abstracts and proposals for panels are welcomed. Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to Jennifer Cooke at writingsofintimacy@lboro.ac.uk by 31st March 2010
Go to website here
Keynote speakers: Adam Phillips (UK), Leo Bersani (USA), Lauren Berlant (tbc) (USA).
A special performance of intimate poetry is also scheduled, including readings from Andrea Brady and Jonty Tiplady.
This conference seeks to explore the significance of intimacy in and for the writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Our most intimate relationships are those which can powerfully define and nurture us, hurt and grieve us. Yet intimacy is not necessarily confined to those we know well: it is possible between strangers and is not always conditional upon a personal relationship existing between the subjects involved. There are, indeed, intimate ways of behaving towards others which involve acts of violence, such as torture and rape.
Over the course of the twentieth century there was a marked rise in the explicitness with which intimacy was represented in literary texts. In part this was linked to challenges to, and the subsequent relaxation of, censorship laws. Literary writers have used intimacy in various ways to disrupt genre boundaries, to question the definitions of taste, and to experiment with literary forms and narrative voices, as well as to present their readers with a more visceral engagement with the body, its acts, and our desires. There are intimate forms of writing, such as love poetry, autobiography, eulogies and personal letters, which are an essential part of our literary heritage. Critical theory, too, has become increasingly interested in defining and discussing intimacy and its impact upon our lives, and this engagement is much indebted to the discourses of psychoanalysis.
Writings of Intimacy wishes to investigate the way in which intimacy has been written: its representation and theorisation. Topics for consideration may include, although do not have to be defined by:
Representations of intimacy, e.g. sex, love, death, violence, nursing
Intimate roles, e.g. lover, mother, analyst, carer
Intimate forms of writing, e.g. life writing, love poetry, works of mourning
The poetics of intimacy
The politics of intimacy
Intimate scenes and experimentalism
The intimate and the impersonal
Narrative voice and intimacy
Philosophies of intimacy
Psychoanalysis and intimacy
Intimacy and the avant-garde
Self-intimacy
The unconscious and dreams and intimacy
Intimacy and censorship
Intimacy and knowledge
Intimacy and space/location
Individual abstracts and proposals for panels are welcomed. Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to Jennifer Cooke at writingsofintimacy@lboro.ac.uk by 31st March 2010
Go to website here
Desiring Just Economies / Just Economies of Desire Location: Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-01-20
International Conference, 24-26 June 2010, at ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Confirmed Speakers: Lisa Duggan, Kevin Floyd, Josephine Ho, Ratna Kapur, Desiree Lewis, Anne McClintock, Donald Morton
The conference seeks to explore how desire not only sustains current economies, but also carries the potential for inciting new forms of understanding and doing economy. We propose to focus on the notion of desire as a tool to explore economy’s sexual dimension as much as the economic dimension of sexuality. Drawing on Queer Theory we understand desire as historically structured by heterosexual norms, while simultaneously functioning as a structuring force itself – thus inscribing reproductive heteronormativity to subjectivity and society. Presuming that desire can be envisioned beyond heteronormative restrictions and that this bears on the idea of justice, the question arises whether the pursuit of economic and sexual justice can be made to coincide when economy is queered by desire. Rather than a realisable universal norm, the term justice is employed as a contestable term, offering possibility for debate and political practice. The conference's twin interest lies in unpacking how sexuality is implicit in economic processes and in unfolding how economy is linked to sexuality. How do current global economic processes (including production, reproduction, consumption, circulation, speculation) constitute specific sexual identities and practices that collaborate in relations of exploitation, domination, and subjectivation? Conversely, how do ways of organizing sexuality influence economic processes?
In addition to exploring the reciprocal relation between sexuality and economy, the conference inquires into how a queer reconceptualization of desire may emerge as a destabilizing and transformative force in economic relations. One of the aims of the conference is to fashion space for imagining “other” economies or imagining economy “otherwise”, as well as for the deployment of the concept of desire in ways that allow for a reworking of social relationships and economic practices. The presumption here is that global capitalism is not a monolith; rather, there exist diverse capitalisms and diverse economies. For instance, economic practices in the fields of migration and diasporas, subcultural economies, gift and barter economies and cooperative economies do not all conform to the capitalist logics.
“Desiring Just Economies / Just Economies of Desire” is an international, transdisciplinary conference that welcomes a wide range of presentations, from academic papers to experimental writing, lecture performances, and visual presentations. We invite scholars, activists and artists inspired by queer and postcolonial theory to submit abstracts that relate to the questions raised in the full CFP available at: http://www.desiring-just-economies.de
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20 January 2010
Organizers: Nikita Dhawan (Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies [FRCPS], Excellence Cluster “Formation of Normative Orders” Goethe-University Frankfurt), Antke Engel (Institute for Queer Theory, Berlin/Hamburg), Christoph Holzhey (ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry), Volker Woltersdorff (SFB “Cultures of the Performative”, FU Berlin)
Christoph Holzhey
ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Christinenstr. 18/19
10119 Berlin
Germany
Email: cfp@desiring-just-economies.de
Visit the website here
Confirmed Speakers: Lisa Duggan, Kevin Floyd, Josephine Ho, Ratna Kapur, Desiree Lewis, Anne McClintock, Donald Morton
The conference seeks to explore how desire not only sustains current economies, but also carries the potential for inciting new forms of understanding and doing economy. We propose to focus on the notion of desire as a tool to explore economy’s sexual dimension as much as the economic dimension of sexuality. Drawing on Queer Theory we understand desire as historically structured by heterosexual norms, while simultaneously functioning as a structuring force itself – thus inscribing reproductive heteronormativity to subjectivity and society. Presuming that desire can be envisioned beyond heteronormative restrictions and that this bears on the idea of justice, the question arises whether the pursuit of economic and sexual justice can be made to coincide when economy is queered by desire. Rather than a realisable universal norm, the term justice is employed as a contestable term, offering possibility for debate and political practice. The conference's twin interest lies in unpacking how sexuality is implicit in economic processes and in unfolding how economy is linked to sexuality. How do current global economic processes (including production, reproduction, consumption, circulation, speculation) constitute specific sexual identities and practices that collaborate in relations of exploitation, domination, and subjectivation? Conversely, how do ways of organizing sexuality influence economic processes?
In addition to exploring the reciprocal relation between sexuality and economy, the conference inquires into how a queer reconceptualization of desire may emerge as a destabilizing and transformative force in economic relations. One of the aims of the conference is to fashion space for imagining “other” economies or imagining economy “otherwise”, as well as for the deployment of the concept of desire in ways that allow for a reworking of social relationships and economic practices. The presumption here is that global capitalism is not a monolith; rather, there exist diverse capitalisms and diverse economies. For instance, economic practices in the fields of migration and diasporas, subcultural economies, gift and barter economies and cooperative economies do not all conform to the capitalist logics.
“Desiring Just Economies / Just Economies of Desire” is an international, transdisciplinary conference that welcomes a wide range of presentations, from academic papers to experimental writing, lecture performances, and visual presentations. We invite scholars, activists and artists inspired by queer and postcolonial theory to submit abstracts that relate to the questions raised in the full CFP available at: http://www.desiring-just-economies.de
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20 January 2010
Organizers: Nikita Dhawan (Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies [FRCPS], Excellence Cluster “Formation of Normative Orders” Goethe-University Frankfurt), Antke Engel (Institute for Queer Theory, Berlin/Hamburg), Christoph Holzhey (ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry), Volker Woltersdorff (SFB “Cultures of the Performative”, FU Berlin)
Christoph Holzhey
ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Christinenstr. 18/19
10119 Berlin
Germany
Email: cfp@desiring-just-economies.de
Visit the website here
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