2nd AYA Workshop: “Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory”
2nd Annual Austria’s Young Americanists Workshop
Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory
September 26-28, 2008, Graz
Call for Papers
The objective of this year’s workshop is to provide an international forum for graduate students and experts to explore and discuss key concepts as applied in postmodern theory
and/or literary criticism. The specific key concepts covered can include, but are not limited to, the following: Baudrillard’s “Simulacra,” Derrida’s “Deconstruction,” Kristeva’s “Abjection,” Deleuze and Guattari’s “Rhizome,” Spivak’s “Subaltern,” Lyotard’s “Metanarratives,” Bhabha’s “Third Space,” Bakhtin’s “Dialogism,” Lacan’s “Mirror Stage,” Harvey’s “Time-Space Compression,” etc.
Program
Friday, September 26, 2008
| 19.00-21.00 | Welcoming Dinner |
Saturday, September 27, 2008
| 09.00-12.00 | Michael Rozendal (San Francisco): “Introduction” Cornelia Klecker (Innsbruck): “Fredric Jameson’s ‘Postmodernism and Consumer Society'” Andrea Hoffmannova (Olomouc): “Michel Foucault’s ‘The Carceral'” |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch |
| 14.00-18.00 | Michael Phillips (Graz): “Derrida’s ‘Structure, Sign, and Play’ and J. Hillis Miller’s ‘Heart of Darkness Revisited'” Michael Fuchs (Graz): “Baudrillard’s ‘The Precession of Simulacra’ and ‘Simulacra and Science Fiction'” Petra Eckhard (Graz): “Bakhtin’s ‘Aesthetic Visualizing of Time/Space: The Chronotope’ and Smethurst’s ‘The Postmodern Chronotope'” |
| 19.00-21.00 | Dinner |
Sunday, September 28, 2008
| 09.00-12.00 | Vida Bicman (Graz): “Bhabha’s ‘How Newness Enters the World'” Gundo Rial Y Costas (Berlin): “Spivak’s ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?'” |
| 12.00-13.30 | Farewell Lunch |
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