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> >From: <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: CFP: Pleasure and Responsibility: >What's at Stake? (12/1/06; 2/9/07-2/10/07) > >CFP: "Pleasure and Responsibility: Whatís at Stake?" 12/1/06; 2/9-2/10/07 > >11th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) >Conference: > >February 9-10, University of Michigan > >CLIFF is pleased to announce a conference devoted to an examination of >the role of aesthetics in what appears to be an increasingly >politicized academic world. How do you define intellectual pleasure >and political responsibility? Do aesthetics still have a role in >politics and ethics or has it become an obsolete concept that cannot be >salvaged? We want to probe the definition of such terms as aesthetics, >pleasure, responsibility, ethics, politics, intellectual--considered on >their own, as well as in various combinations and relationships to >each other; and to explore what is at stake when such definitions are >so elusive. > >What role, if any, do style and aesthetics play in literary criticism? >What role do style and aesthetics play in your own literary criticism. > Are there aesthetic criteria according to which we can judge works >of art? Or would such criteria merely be the meretricious playthings >of ideologies? > >The CLIFF conference will address the question of ends. What is the >ultimate purpose of your work? In your writing, teaching and >research, do you hope to pursue aesthetic, political, or ethical ends, >or some combination of these? Why and in what way? If you aim to make >a political and/or ethical intervention, why do you choose to do so >through the arts (and not, for example, direct political involvement)? > What is the relationship between aesthetics and citizenship in a >democracy? Might aesthetic judgment itself strengthen democratic >participation? > >The primary goal of this conference is to share our work and ideas with >each other while sparking debate centered on the topics of aesthetic >pleasure and political responsibility. The conference hopes to >provide participants with a forum in which to present their current >research while explaining how their research contributes to political >and/or aesthetic ends. > >Possible subtopics include: > >Revolution and aesthetics >History of aesthetics >History and aesthetics >Ethics and aesthetics of translation >Aesthetics, citizenship and democracy >The aesthetics and ethics of reading >Technology and aesthetics >Anti-aesthetics >Aesthetics of war > > >Please submit abstracts of 250 words maximum to [log in to unmask] by >December 1, 2006. >Direct any questions to the organizing committee at [log in to unmask] ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Megan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html