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Montreal, 28-31 de mayo de 2010
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El masculino gramatical se aplica a ambos sexos
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Spectatorship and Topophilia It may be stated that the image in early modernity achieves epistemological and ontological legitimacy as a strategy for anchoring or slowing down the increasing relativism and chaos emanating from the breakdown of allegorical, hierarchical orderings of the world, meaning, and being. As Walter Benjamin observes, the emergent dominance of the desiring eye almost immediately leads to the commodification and fetishization of the image, art, even subjectivity, as the image calls to a gaze, a posture, an interpretive matrix, a spectator spot. Recent work in the human sciences, in fields such as anthropology, cultural and human geography, as well as more humanistic approaches to Cultural Studies, has both critiqued and enriched the study of visual culture by adding and or opposing differing notions of visual and spatial literacies and landscapes to the traditional focus on the culture of spectacle. In such studies, visual culture is often understood as commensurate with hegemonic social, cultural, and aesthetic structures in that it often obfuscates or lures the desiring eye away from a more critical look at conflict-ridden geopolitical, economic and social realities. These new approaches posit that a more historically and materially framed consideration of the socio-political spaces in which visual cultures are constructed and disseminated leads to a better understanding of what Henri Lefebvre has called the "space of social reproduction." The goal of this session is to bring together a number of presentations on the visual and spatial in the field of Hispanic literary and culture studies in order to reflect on:
in Early Modern and Postmodern Contexts
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Espectáculo y topofilia en contextos
de la temprana modernidad y de la posmodernidad
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- 1. how the visual and the spatial work with and against each other in the construction of Hispanic cultural and social identities, both past and present; and
- 2. the potential of this new interdisciplinary paradigm for enriching political and social analysis at the heart of Cultural Studies. We are especially interested in examining early modern and postmodern constructions of spectatorship and topophilia.
Send_your abstract,_before February 10, to Brad Nelson (bnelson@alcor.concordia.ca).
- Forms (only in Spanish; your proposal can be entirely in English):
- Propuesta de ponencia_(Word,_PDF)._Fecha límite: 10 de febrero de 2010.
- Propuesta de sesión completa_(una vez completa)_(Word,_PDF)._Fecha límite: 15 de febrero de 2010.
- Solicitud de equipo audiovisual_(Word,_PDF)._Envíela adjunta a su propuesta de ponencia a los organizadores de las sesiones; éstos, a su vez, se la remitirán a los organizadores generales del congreso cuando envíen su propuesta de sesión completa.
- Solicitud de ayuda financiera_(Word,_PDF)._Fecha límite: 20 de junio de 2010. Pueden solicitarla los estudiantes y miembros a tiempo parcial/desempleados que sean canadienses o residentes en Canadá; se entregará, con los justificantes correspondientes, al tesorero durante el congreso o inmediatamente después de éste.
Se recuerda a los participantes que deben_inscribirse al Congreso de la Federación Canadiense de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales_y tener su_cuota de membresía a la ACH_al día.
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_- Inscripción al congreso, fase a fase
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_el 1 de enero de 2010
Jerzy Kowal_y_José Antonio Giménez Micó
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