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ASAP/2 in Trier, Germany!

   
ASAP/2:
"CONFIGURING THE PRESENT ACROSS ARTS AND MEDIA"
Trier, Germany
October 28-30 2010
ASAP/2, a symposium focusing on innovation in contemporary arts and their dialogue with the past, will be hosted by Trier University and organized by Hilary Dannenberg, Professor of English Literature.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The arts of the present define and shape themselves by being different from the past - but in the very act of othering the past, contemporary arts also enter into dialogue with the past. The arts of the present transform or hybridise media and genre conventions, often responding to the emergence of new issues and themes in contemporary societies. The symposium will aim to address in more detail a key aspect of ASAP's Mission Statement - the priority, but also the difficulty, of grasping a Present that is currently unfolding around us - by focusing on how the arts of the present transform existing conventions and tackle contemporary issues through both a radical distancing from and a dialogue with the past.

Abstracts are invited which focus on contemporary issues, formal innovation or innovative reworkings of the past in the fields of print, film and performance narrative as well as visual and electronic media. Principle topics include:

The arts and key contemporary global issues:

  • The post-Cold War world
  • The post-9/11 world
  • The effects of migration and global mobility on cultural identities

Formal aspects:

  • Innovation and adaptation across arts and media: in print and film narrative; in visual and performance arts
  • Computer-generated worlds and/or contemporary game arts

Innovative dialogue with the past:

  • The representation and renegotiation of the past in contemporary film, drama and documentary texts
  • New directions in literary adaptation
  • Neo-Victorianism across the arts

Submission formats:

Abstracts of 300 words are invited for single papers, accompanied by a brief bio-bibliographical statement.
Abstracts of 700 words for panels of three or four participants are also invited, accompanied by brief bio-bibliographical statements for each panelist. Panel formats are strongly encouraged which offer a dialogue by panel members around a key aspect or issue as opposed to single successive papers; the planned format of the panel should be made clear in the submission.

Please send all submissions to: asap@uni-trier.de
Submissions deadline: 25 April, 2010