2/23 and 2/24: Formalism and Its Discontents, An Interdisciplinary Conference

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Dear Colleagues,

 

Please join us on February 23 and 24 for Formalism and Its Discontents, An Interdisciplinary Conference, featuring keynote presentations by Caroline Levine (Cornell University) and Seth Brodsky (University of Chicago), and a roundtable discussion featuring Jeff Dolven (Princeton University), James Currie (University at Buffalo), Cara Lewis (Indiana University Northwest), and Rutgers's own Abigail Zitin, Jocelyn Rodal, and Daniel Villegas Vélez. For a full schedule of papers, visit http://cca.rutgers.edu/news-events/formalism-conference.

 

Where: Alexander Library Teleconference Lecture Hall

When: February 23, 1pm-7pm, & February 24, 9:30am-6:15pm

This interdisciplinary conference proposes to consider approaches to form that emphasize its materiality, affective dimensions, and political effectivity, as well as considerations of new directions for the humanities in which these notions of form might be central. Questions to be contemplated include: Do approaches such as affect theory and surface reading imbricate art, music, and literature with the social and political realm, or do they divide them from it? Is there a cohesive new formalism, and what distinguishes that new formalism from previous formalisms? How might attention to form shift our understanding of the relationship between materiality and abstraction? Where does an attention to surface leave the position of art vis-à-vis world?

For more information, visit the website or contact ad...@cca.rutgers.edu.

Daniel Villegas Vélez

Postdoctoral Associate | Center for Cultural Analysis
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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