Memory & Perception 

3rd Nov 2016 9:30am-6:00pm 

                        CALL FOR PAPERS

 

TECHNE AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership

Annual Conference 2016

 

 

Date: 3 November 2016

Venue: Rich Mix, London

Deadline for Proposals: 1 September 2016

Notification of Acceptance: 22 September 2016

Call for Papers

Following on from the success of last year’s Kinesis & Stasis event at the Barbican Centre, the organising committee of this year’s annual conference of the TECHNE AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTC) are delighted to invite submissions for this year’s event. The theme of this year’s conference is Memory & Perception and – in keeping with the inter-disciplinary nature of TECHNE – we are happy to consider proposals for short films/multimedia performances (20 minutes) as well as for papers (20 minutes), panels (3 x 15 minutes) and research posters.

Issues of Memory & Perception are integral to everything we do as researchers in the arts and humanities. At some level all of us – whether artists, historians, musicians or philosophers – must decide how to interpret the work of others, whilst simultaneously considering potential interpretations of our own output. Similarly, our research is intrinsically connected to what has gone before, and our personal relationship with the past undoubtedly has a formative influence on the shape of our own work and our conception of the world around us. We therefore hope that the theme of Memory & Perception will allow us to draw links between our diverse array of research interests and between our research and the wider questions engendered by these fundamental issues.

 Potential topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:

·         Discourses of memory and change

·         Issues of agency, consciousness and philosophy of mind

·         Methodological issues relating to memory and perception

·         Narrative and its impact on how we perceive the world

·         Questions of subjectivity and objectivity

·         Real and alternative past(s), present(s) and future(s)

·         The relationship between memory and art

·         Technology and its implications for memory culture and contemporary perception

Please email proposals (consisting of a 300 word maximum abstract and a 50 word maximum biography) or queries to techneconference2016@gmail.com.

Event Information

This year’s event will take place at the fantastic Rich Mix, one of London’s most respected independent arts venues, on 3 November 2016. Registration for attendance will open nearer the date. For more information please visit our conference website at memoryandperception.com