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DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers - Potentials of Ecocriticism\n	Art History and C
 ommunication Studies Graduate Symposium\n	\n	February 8-9\, 2019 | Montréal\
 , Québec\n	\n	Braddock and Irmscher (2009) define ecocriticism as a critical
  approach that “emphasizes issues of environmental interconnectedness\, su
 stainability\, and justice” in order to inflect the existing vocabularies\
 , tropes and epistemologies of cultural interpretation.¹\n	\n	As such\, ecoc
 ritical analyses often engage with the material forms and discursive const
 ructions of media infrastructures. Parks and Starosielski (2015) note that
  media infrastructures have been and continue to be used “to claim and reo
 rganize territories and temporal relations.”² Their material dependence on
  and interconnectedness with the environment imbricate media infrastructur
 es within issues of resource development\, urban planning\, Indigenous and
  national sovereignties\, surveillance\, labour\, etc.\n	\n	How can art hist
 ory and communication studies adopt ecocriticism as an interpretative para
 digm in their respective analyses? More specifically\, in which ways can t
 hey incorporate environmental history and ecology in order to develop what
  Braddock and Irmscher (2009) describe as “a more earth-conscious mode of 
 analysis”?³\n	\n	To be held on February 8th and 9th\, 2019 in Montreal\, Que
 bec\, the AHCS Graduate Symposium will present original and insightful gra
 duate work that addresses questions related to the environmental turn in c
 ultural interpretation. Proposals can revolve around but are not limited t
 o investigations of how artists are or have been involved\, both materiall
 y and conceptually\, with the realities of resource extraction\, climate c
 hange and human displacement\; or how environmental and Indigenous activis
 ts engage media practices as forms of resistance.\n	\n	GUIDELINES\n	We invite
  text-based\, performance\, visual and filmic contributions in French and 
 English within the purview of art history\, communication studies\, and po
 litics. Presentations should be 15 to 20 minutes in length. Please submit 
 a proposal abstract\, not exceeding 300 words\, along with a 100-word pers
 onal biography to ahcs.pgss [at] mail.mcgill.ca by November 30th\, 2018. P
 lease include the material or technical support required\, if applicable.
 \n\n----------------------------------------------\n	¹ Alan C. Braddock and
  Christopher Irmscher\, A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in Americ
 an Art History\n	(Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press\, 2009)\, 2.
 \n	² - Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielsky (eds.)\, Signal Traffic: Critical
  Studies of Media Infrastructures (Urbana\,\n	Chicago and Springfield: Univ
 ersity of Illinois Press\, 2015)\, 5.1\n	³ - Braddock and Irmscher\, A Keen
 er Perception\, 3. Xyrography #14\, 2018\n\n \n\n \n
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SUMMARY:CALL FOR PAPERS - Potentials of Ecocriticism - AHCS Graduate Sympos
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URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/channels/event/call-papers-potentials-ecocri
 ticism-ahcs-graduate-symposium-291071
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