MAPPS

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

Rethinking Marxism Conference

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Call for Papers

New Marxian Times will be held over four days, beginning on Thursday evening, 5 November 2009 and ending on Sunday afternoon, 8 November 2009. In addition to two plenary sessions and an art exhibition, there will be concurrent panels, workshops, and art/cultural events. We invite the submission of organized sessions that follow traditional or non-traditional formats (such as workshops, roundtables, and dialogue among and between presenters and audience) as well as individual presentations. Since Marxism covers a wide variety of fields, from literature to public health and forms of political practice, from environmental organizing to opposing global inequality and envisioning new economic and social practice, anyone engaging with Marxism in any discipline or form of activism is encouraged to submit paper and panel proposals. We encourage those working in areas that intersect with Marxism, such as critical race theory, feminism, political economy, anarchist studies, cultural and literary studies, queer theory, working-class and labor studies, postcolonial studies, geography and urban studies, psychoanalysis, social and natural sciences, philosophy, and around issues of class, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, and disability, to submit proposals. We also welcome video, poetry, performance, and all other modes of presentation and cultural expression.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Proposals for papers, films, or other formats should include:

Paper title
Presenter's name and contact information (mail, email, phone, affiliations)
Brief abstract (no more than 200 words)
Technology needs for presentation

Proposals for panels should include:

Panel title
Name, contact information, and paper title for each presenter
Brief abstract (no more than 200 words) explaining the panel's focus
Brief abstract for each paper (no more than 200 words)
Names and contact information for any discussant(s) or respondent(s)
Technology needs of presenters
Title, contact, and address for any sponsoring organization or journal

The appropriate preregistration fee must accompany all proposal submissions. Unfortunately, any proposal not accompanied by the appropriate preregistration fee cannot be considered. Proposals that are not accepted will have their preregistration fees returned in full. If you are submitting a proposal for an entire panel, please make sure you include the preregistration fee for all members of the panel.

The deadline for proposal submission is 1 August 2009.

The deadline for proposal submission is 1 August 2009.

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Mapping MAPPS

MaPPS are those drawings that represent the configuration of space, of a land, of a region of the earth. MaPPS is not a misspelled word; it reflects the Sardinian habit of putting emphasis upon consonants; it expresses the attempt of mapping, portraying the spaces of power and politics around the world that surrounds us. MaPPS’s maps recover the fundamental, basic idea that geographical maps are, firstly, political. They illustrate constellations of power and human organisation by means of borders, colours and lines. Maps are also imaginary spaces, evidence of human knowledge, constructions of different worlds, means of organisation and desires of justice. Divina Commedia’s map of heaven, Homer’s map of the hero’s world, Thomas More’s mapped highland of Utopia, Palestine’s map, i.e. diagrammatic denied existence.

“Tom Sawyer, what's a map for? Ain't it to learn you facts?" "Of course." "Well, then, how's it going to do that if it tells lies? That's what I want to know." "Shucks, you muggins! It don't tell lies." "It don't, don't it?" "No, it don't." "All right, then; if it don't, there ain't no two States the same color.” (Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad, 1894).