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Dear all, 


On behalf of the graduate program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester, I'm pleased to circulate the attached CFP (also pasted below) for our biennial graduate conference, “A Matter of Time: Temporalities of Material Culture,” to be held April 5-7, 2013. 




Best, 
Joel 


Joel Neville Anderson 
Graduate Student, Visual and Cultural Studies 
University of Rochester 
424 Morey Hall 
Rochester, NY 14627 


978.394.3292 
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Portfolio www.joelnevilleanderson.com 
VCS www.rochester.edu/college/aah/VCS 


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CALL FOR PROPOSALS 


“A Matter of Time: Temporalities of Material Culture” 9th Visual and Cultural Studies Graduate Conference 
University of Rochester 
April 5-7, 2013 


As cultural critics have noted over the past thirty years, we seem to be living in an age of dematerialization. Increased information transfer speed, the disintegration of boundaries between private and public, and the commercialization of image networks have provoked anxiety regarding the control of objects and images. Yet, taking a critical stance toward the temporal thrust of this thinking—its teleology, its faith in progress—we seek to historicize this anxiety as merely another renegotiation in a continually evolving relation of time and matter. Has our relationship to material objects ever been fixed? 


While indebted to the work of material culture studies, we invite papers from a wider range of topics of relevance and disciplines that address questions of materiality and temporality. We understand the relationship between material and time to develop in at least three distinct ways: material in our time, material that generates temporalities, and material that endures. Possible topics might include, but are by no means limited to: 


· The relationship between technological and historical change 
· Trends in preservation and the time of the archive 
· The development of global heritage and the phenomenon of immaterial culture 
· Historical phenomenology 
· The materiality of language 
· The conditions of materiality in the digital age 
· The legacies of historical materialism 
· The durability of digital objects 
· The historical conditions of contemporary visual culture 
· Historical monuments and collective memory 


Deadline: Graduate students are invited to submit a 250-word abstract for 20 minute paper presentations and CV via [log in to unmask] by no later than January 15, 2013. 


Select presenters will be invited to revise presentations into journal articles for a special issue of InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal of Visual Culture. http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu 


About the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester: http:// www.rochester.edu/college/aah/vcs

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