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The Control Conference - Cardiff University - Deadline: April 8, 2009

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The Control Conference - Call for Papers
Postgraduate interdisciplinary conference
Organised by doctoral students for doctoral students

Researcher and Graduate School in Humanities, Cardiff University
Thursday 25th and Friday 26th June 2009

The principal aim of the 'Control' conference is to encourage postgraduate researchers from across the humanities to consider how the concept of 'Control' may come to bear on their own subjects of research.  'Control' can be approached from at least two perspectives: on the one hand the controller, and on the other the controlled.  This dual approach will allow participation by researchers from many humanities disciplines and topics, and provide a framework for interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation.  Beyond this tangible 'cross-fertilisation' a second aim is to foster skills and confidence in presentation and communication.  

Following the success of last year's conference on 'The Body', this conference will represent a variety of humanities disciplines including Politics, History, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Literary and Language Studies (including Welsh), Religious Studies, Archaeology, Music and Architectural History.

Proposals for panels and papers are invited from postgraduate researchers across Wales, the UK and overseas.  Current panels include:
 

  •         Ideological Control (political control)
  •         Self Control (moral codes, philosophical, addiction)
  •         Art of Control (arts, sounds, system and process)
  •         Border Control (immigration, cultural identity, border conflicts)
  •         Religious Control (devotion, cults, dogma)
  •         Social Policy and Control (control by stealth)
  •         Corporate Control (consumer monitoring, advertising, monopolisation)
  •         Censorship and Propaganda in the Arts
  •         Controlling Narratives (history, countries)
  •         Remote Control (media, tv, technology, history, surveillance)
  •         Control of Movement (movement through space, across landscapes, one way systems, tourism)
  •         Master of Puppets (controlling what's in/out; nation building, uniform, fashion, trend setting)
  •         Taking Control (power structures, hierarchies, revolution)
  •         Control Freak (obsession, compulsion, order)
  •         Mind Control (hypnotism, advertising, meditation)
  •         Out of Control (crisis control, environmental control, madness)

Please note that suggestions are welcome for additional panel titles.

The deadline for proposals is 5pm, Wednesday 8th April 2009.    To submit a paper, please send a 200-word abstract of the paper's contribution to the conference theme stating which panel you wish to present in, along with a completed abstract submission form (attached to this email and available to down load from www.cardiff.ac.uk/gsh) to Control@cf.ac.uk  Papers should not exceed 20 minutes and proposals should include contact details and a brief biographical note.

The Control conference student committee will consider all abstracts received and you will be informed via e-mail approximately two weeks after the deadline as to whether or not your abstract has been accepted.  

For further information please go to www.cardiff.ac.uk/gsh and click on the link under 'Latest News' or contact Rebecca Green at Control@cf.ac.uk  

Kind regards

Rebecca Green
Graduate Schools Office
Cardiff University
60 Park Place
Cardiff, CF10 3AT
Email: Control@cf.ac.uk
Tel: 02920 987406
 

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