Call for conference papers

Call for papers: Hearing Landscape Critically: Sense, Text, Ideology

Music Faculty, University of Oxford, 18-19 May 2012.

Papers related to this agenda – including but not limited to the topics listed below – are welcome in the formats stipulated at the bottom of this CFP.

• SITES OF POWER - occupation, reservation, institution, restitution, academy, capital, knowledge, ideology;
• QUESTIONS OF STRUCTURE - smooth, striated, complex, chaotic, fixed, dense, in flux;
• PERFORMING LANDSCAPE - theatre, narration, embodiment, language, song, immersion, everyday;
• MOBILITIES - tourism, commuting, returning, tracing, dwelling and/as wandering, stasis and acceleration;
• POLITICAL CONCERNS - subordination, exploitation, destruction, survival;
• PHILOSOPHICAL CONCERNS - human, non-human, transcendental, nature, culture, ontology, epistemology, phenomenology.

All proposals should be emailed to criticallandscapes@gmail.com (size limit = 5MB) by 31 December 2011. Please include name, affiliation (if applicable), postal address, email address and AV requirements on a separate cover sheet.

• Individual papers (20 minutes) - abstract of no more than 300 words.
• Panel sessions - describe individual papers and overarching theme in no more than 500 words.
• Alternative formats – describe your proposal (i.e. performance, round table, film discussion, or whatever it may be) in no more than 500 words.