<div dir="ltr">October 2-5, 2014 - New York City<br><br>Bodies-in-transit is a concept that speaks broadly and imaginatively
about movement and corporeality. It encompasses subjects that range from
performance art to immigration to transportation within spaces that are
at once social and physical. The notion of bodies-in-transit also
evokes the image of a succession of movements that articulate
deeply-affective tendencies and patterns. These moving bodies and all of
the forces that propel them serve to merge relational fabrics from
contemporary, local, and global societies. Entwined in the multilayered
routes for embodied mobilities lie alternative spatialities and
temporalities. Transit is a process that entails actions and practices.
It acknowledges the fact that bodies are constantly in a state of
becoming.<br><p><br>Convergence 2014 is an invitation to mobilize bodies
throughout the Americas (and beyond) towards a better understanding of
our own places in current socio-political transformations. Our graduate
event will combine scholarly discourses, artivist actions, and art
processes and products in the joint project of "articulating" and
exploring the multiple bodies in motion in the global/globalized sphere.
How do these bodies affect space and time? How are they being affected
through their movements, transits, transfers, translations, and
transformations? How does the city enable and disrupt interactions,
practices and discourses on both the local and the global levels? What
specific sites activate productive or conflictive encounters between
individuals, groups, cultures, and histories? How do ability and
disability perform in urban space? And how may our work as academics,
artists, and activists function as one of the many pieces that come
together in the process of articulating a hemispheric body of knowledges
and political practices?<br><br>Throughout the Convergence, we will
explore the city of New York as as a space of symbolic encounter for
bodies circulating from different points in the Americas and beyond. New
York City is a contested site, wherein hopes and disenchantments come
into conflict. It is a place of contradictions. At once the gateway to
the “American dream,” the home of the idealized melting pot, and the
breeding ground for repressive policies like stop-and-frisk, the city
stages encounters--as well as disencounters--of bodies in transit, in
tension, and in dialogue. Moreover, it is a place of witness where the
varied and resonating histories of events like the stock market crash of
1929, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the Occupy Wall Street
movement simultaneously feed off of and resist each other. Thus, the
spatial significance of NYC is only compounded by the multiple layers of
history and temporality that intersect in its gridded streets.<br><br>The
Convergence 2014 organizers invite interested scholars, artists, and
activists to submit abstracts to participate in one of our working
groups--small groups that will meet digitally/online in the months prior
to the Convergence with the intention of exploring methods that will
collectively produce new strategies for innovating knowledges and
practices. Descriptions of our working groups are below.</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>1) CV and short bio (200 words)<br>2) abstract of research interests and topics on which you would like to work (250-350 words)<br>3) any additional requests by each working group, as listed in the working group descriptions</p>
<p>Please, email all materials to
<a href="mailto:hemigsi@gmail.com">hemigsi@gmail.com</a> IN A SINGLE
PDF DOCUMENT (no Word documents or multiple files). The subject should
read “Application: [Working Group Name].” Include in the body of the
email your institutional affiliation, what degree you are pursuing, and
your fluency level in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Note that
fluency in multiple languages is NOT required to participate.<br><br><strong>Deadline: May 31, 2014</strong></p>
<h3>Organizers</h3>
<p><strong>Leticia Robles-Moreno</strong> (New York University)<br><strong>Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa</strong> (Columbia University)<br><strong>Kerry Whigham</strong> (New York University)</p>
<p><em>The 2014 Hemi GSI Convergence is made possible by the generous
support of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (NYU);
the Canadian Consortium on Performance and Politics in the Americas,
funded in large part through Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada (SSHRC); the Department of Performance Studies (NYU);
the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (NYU); and the Department of
Iberian and Latin American Cultures (Columbia).</em></p><p><em></em></p><em></em><p></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">See </div><a href="http://goo.gl/mj00tJ">http://goo.gl/mj00tJ</a><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
for more</div><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>carlos palombini<br>professor de musicologia ufmg<br>professor colaborador ppgm-unirio<br><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4365-7673" target="_blank">orcid.org/0000-0002-4365-7673</a><br>
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