tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post111461078484837942..comments2024-03-18T16:55:31.971+00:00Comments on This Space: Paratexts and the inexpressible nothingStephen Mitchelmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-19488956131584375502007-02-27T16:41:00.000+00:002007-02-27T16:41:00.000+00:00Reading: Images, Texts, Artefacts 28 and 29 June 2...Reading: Images, Texts, Artefacts <BR/>28 and 29 June 2007<BR/>Title, aims and objectives<BR/>The principal aim of this conference is to encourage doctoral researchers from across the humanities to consider how the concept of reading may come to bear on their own subjects of research. "Reading" here is intended to be interpreted in a wide sense, to include the reading of, e.g. images, buildings, inscriptions, theatre or dance performances or other creative productions as well as books and manuscripts. This approach both allows participation by students from many humanities disciplines and topics, and also provides a framework for interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation. Beyond this tangible ‘cross-fertilisation’ a secondary aim will be to foster skills and confidence in presentation and communication among postgraduates. <BR/><BR/>Description<BR/>The conference will attract doctoral students — both as speakers and delegates - from a variety of disciplines including Architecture, Cultural Studies, English, History, Journalism, Modern Languages, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Religious Studies and Welsh. We invite doctoral students in departments and institutions across Wales and the UK and overseas in order to foster institutional links between students. Examples of themes to be explored include reading paintings or buildings, or reading urban fabric/landscapes.<BR/><BR/>Call for Papers<BR/>Proposals for panels and papers are invited from PhD students across Wales, the UK and overseas. The deadline for proposals is 16 March 2007 and current panels include:<BR/><BR/>Representations of Empire <BR/>Readerships - the impact of audience <BR/>Clothing and the Body <BR/>Reading the Land - urban/rural environments and archaeology <BR/>Reading the Media <BR/>Reading the Past - history and new historicism in literature <BR/>Reading Performance <BR/>Listening & the Oral Tradition - Music and the spoken word <BR/>Lost in Translation? <BR/>Off the Page - including inscriptions and embroidery <BR/>Between the Lines - for eg. reading paratexts, reading against critical/theoretical grain<BR/>Reading the Hand - manuscripts <BR/>Reading Gender<BR/>To convene a panel or submit a paper, please send a 300-word abstract of the paper’s contribution to the conference theme (with the panel title in the subject line) to Readingconference@cardiff.ac.uk. Papers should be 20 minutes maximum and proposals should include contact details and a brief biographical note.<BR/><BR/><BR/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1115588305757446962005-05-08T22:38:00.000+01:002005-05-08T22:38:00.000+01:00Yes, I'm sorry for implying that your work is naus...Yes, I'm sorry for implying that your work is nauseating. I meant the sense of the scholarly apparatus pushing its way into the soft flesh of art. <BR/><BR/>It was careless of me. Ironically, carelessness is something that blog writing tends toward because, unlike PhD theses, one is barely aware of an audience.Stephen Mitchelmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1115586881971794222005-05-08T22:14:00.000+01:002005-05-08T22:14:00.000+01:00actually, on reflection, it was more that i had to...actually, on reflection, it was more that i had to write my thesis in a way that didn't please me. the subject i wrote on was and remains interesting to me, but the process, which is what you are commenting on, is unpleasant. it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1115385884772620512005-05-06T14:24:00.000+01:002005-05-06T14:24:00.000+01:00Just to let you know, the author of your nausea-in...Just to let you know, the author of your nausea-inducing example was also terribly nauseous while writing all that stuff, and also gave up her PhD studies for many of the same reasons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com