[sudo-discuss] writers group - is anyone into this theory stuff?

[Romy Ilano]

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.

https://www.facebook.com/events/326355650829180/

Hip Hop and Punk Feminisms: Genealogy, Theory, Performance
December 5-6, 2013
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Proposals due: Friday, 23 August 2013

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.

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.

We invite presentations, papers, performances, work-in-progress, new media,
workshops, panels, related to (or building on) the following themes/issues:

• 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)
• Inter-genre corporeal practices and body aesthetics
• Theories of aesthetics and value that emerge from hip hop and/or punk
cultures
• Critical conversations on hip hop and/or punk organizing and
disorganization
• New media, web series, blogs, zines, and ciphers
• Critiques and political polemics that imagine futurity or negativity (and
the uses and challenges to them from women of color feminisms)
• 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?)
• 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)
• Art and music inspired by hip hop and punk collaborations
• Experimental hip hop/punk methodologies and pedagogies

What to send:

For individual proposals: Please send a 350-word (maximum) abstract of your
conference contribution. All submissions will be reviewed by the conference
co-organizers.

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.

All proposals must also include the following information:

1. Author(s) name, affiliation(s), and brief bio
2. Email address or preferred contact
3. Title of presentation
4. Key words

Send proposals to HipHopAndPunkFeminisms at gmail.com with the following
subject heading: abstract submission.

Conference Co-organizers:
Ruth Nicole Brown
Karen Flynn
Fiona I.B. Ngô
Mimi Thi Nguyen

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.
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