[ANPPOM-Lista] Call for general participation: Convergence 2014 | Bodies-In-Transit: Articulating the Americas (and Beyond)

Carlos Palombini cpalombini em gmail.com
Qui Maio 1 15:48:08 BRT 2014


October 2-5, 2014 - New York City

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.


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?

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.

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.
Requirements

1) CV and short bio (200 words)
2) abstract of research interests and topics on which you would like to
work (250-350 words)
3) any additional requests by each working group, as listed in the working
group descriptions

Please, email all materials to hemigsi em gmail.com 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.

*Deadline: May 31, 2014*
Organizers

*Leticia Robles-Moreno* (New York University)
*Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa* (Columbia University)
*Kerry Whigham* (New York University)

*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).*

​See ​
http://goo.gl/mj00tJ
​ for more​


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carlos palombini
professor de musicologia ufmg
professor colaborador ppgm-unirio
orcid.org/0000-0002-4365-7673
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