<div dir="ltr">i was hesitating before sending this but then, maybe this will appeal to people. i'll not send stuff like this if it produces a strong negative reaction. it's a nice change of pace after all these kickstarters and porn discussions.<br>
<div><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/326355650829180/">https://www.facebook.com/events/326355650829180/</a><br><br><span><span class="">Hip Hop and Punk Feminisms: Genealogy, Theory, Performance<br> December 5-6, 2013<br>
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<br><span class=""> <br> Proposals due: Friday, 23 August 2013<br> <br>
This conference will bring together artists, activists and academics to
stage new conversations about women of color and women of color
feminisms across cultural forms too often perceived to be wholly
distinct – hip hop and punk. Both hip hop and punk have received
significant scholarly attention since the 1970s, but despite their
near-simultaneous emergence in global cities wrought anew through
multiple, devastating wars and global economic restructuring, rarely are
the two brought into conversation with each the other. <br> <br> With
this conference, we hope to disrupt status quo narratives and present
wholly new analytic and aesthetic investigations about race, sex, and
the creation of categories of deviance; race, gender, and sexuality in
cultural studies and the politics of aesthetics; queer of color critique
and women of color feminist epistemologies; social movements, activism,
and art; norms of respectability, morality, and propriety and their
politics of value; and, systems and structures of violence and human
value. Perceiving a need for a greater nuanced comparative analyses and
collaborations across disciplines or fields of inquiry, itself a topic
of ongoing scholarship, this conference aims to break ground on what
that looks, feels, and sounds like. <br> <br> We invite presentations,
papers, performances, work-in-progress, new media, workshops, panels,
related to (or building on) the following themes/issues: <br> <br> •
Genealogies and as well multiple origin stories for hip hop and/or punk
across diasporas and the globe (against a wholly distinct and discrete
genealogy, or singular origin story, for each)<br> • Inter-genre corporeal practices and body aesthetics <br> • Theories of aesthetics and value that emerge from hip hop and/or punk cultures <br> • Critical conversations on hip hop and/or punk organizing and disorganization<br>
• New media, web series, blogs, zines, and ciphers <br>
• Critiques and political polemics that imagine futurity or negativity
(and the uses and challenges to them from women of color feminisms)<br> •
Disruptive youth cultures and oppositional activism, or their lack
(e.g., can we necessarily presume disruption or opposition? what
conditions are required? through what measures do we recognize these?)<br>
• The ephemeral and haptic qualities of hip hop and punk performances
(including the events, actions, and encounters between bodies that shape
social and cultural formations within hip hop and punk cultures)<br> • Art and music inspired by hip hop and punk collaborations<br> • Experimental hip hop/punk methodologies and pedagogies<br> <br> What to send:<br> <br>
For individual proposals: Please send a 350-word (maximum) abstract of
your conference contribution. All submissions will be reviewed by the
conference co-organizers. <br> <br> For collective/panel proposals:
Please send a 300-word (maximum) description of the overall goal,
vision, and content for the collective contribution. In addition, please
provide no more than a 250-word abstract of each individual’s
contribution. All submissions will be reviewed by the conference
co-organizers.<br> <br> All proposals must also include the following information: <br> <br> 1. Author(s) name, affiliation(s), and brief bio<br> 2. Email address or preferred contact<br> 3. Title of presentation<br> 4. Key words<br>
<br><span> Send proposals to HipHopAndPunkFeminisms@gma</span><span class=""></span><a href="http://il.com">il.com</a> with the following subject heading: abstract submission.<br> <br> Conference Co-organizers:<br> Ruth Nicole Brown<br>
Karen Flynn<br> Fiona I.B. Ngô<br> Mimi Thi Nguyen<br> <br>
All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference will be
considered for publication in a collection Hip Hop and Punk Feminisms:
Genealogy, Theory, Performance.</span></span></span><br></div></div>