Subjectivity Conference 2008

Call for Papers - Subjectivity: International Conference in Critical Psychology, Cultural Studies and Social Theory

27–29 June 2008

School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/subjectivity

This conference explores shifting conceptualisations of subjectivity in contemporary culture, politics, social science and theory. Although subjectivity is a key analytic term in fields as diverse as critical psychology, postcolonial studies, film theory, gender studies, social theory, geography, anthropology and cultural studies, it is rarely discussed in its own right. The conference attempts to explore subjectivity as a locus of social change, to rethink possibilities for everyday social interventions, to explore how subjectivities are produced and how emerging subjectivities remake our social worlds. We are interested in proposals for papers and symposia whose scope falls within or between one of the following areas:

• Embodiment, affect, materiality
• New political subjectivities/new social movements
• Redistributing the psychological

Please send a 200 word proposal to subjectivity [at] cardiff [dot] ac [dot] uk by 31 January 2008

Notification: 1 April 2008 (please contact us if you are in need of an earlier notification)