Dear Colleague,
The Annual Conference of the Social Theory Forum is shaping up to be
an exciting one.
The deadline for proposals is coming up in two weeks ? February 9,
2010 ? so there is still the opportunity for you to propose a paper.
We welcome submissions from anthropologists, from scholars and
graduate students in humanities and social scientists, as well as from
scholars in allied disciplines.
A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THE MEETING APPEARS BELOW. I hope you will
participate in this meeting by submitting a ONE-PAGE ABSTRACT as an
email attachment to the Chair of the Organizing Committee, Professor
Siamak Movahedi at SocialTheoryAbstracts@libraryofsocialscience.com no
later than February 9, 2010.
The Social Theory Forum (STF) is an annual conference organized by the
University of Massachusetts, Boston in order to creatively explore,
promote and publish cross-disciplinary social theory?and to develop
new, integrative theoretical structures and practices.
The 2010 meeting welcomes submissions in psychoanalytic theory,
feminist theory, queer theory, literary criticism, social linguistics,
conversational analysis, philosophy of mind, etc. that critically
engage and interrogate Freud or Lacan.
PLEASE SEND YOUR ONE-PAGE ABSTRACT AS AN ATTACHMENT AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE AND NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 9, 2010 to Professor Movahedi at
SocialTheoryAbstracts@libraryofsocialscience.com
Best regards,
Richard Koenigsberg
rakoenigsberg@libraryofsocialscience.com
cfp
Sigmund Freud Foundation Museum & Library,
Vienna
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy
Rome
Clark University Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures
Worcester
City University of New York Department of Sociology,
New York
Boston College Department of Sociology & Psychoanalytic Studies
Chestnut Hill
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis & The Institute for the Study
of Psychoanalysis and Culture
Brunel University School of Social Sciences
London
Organizing Committee
Siamak Movahedi, Ph.D. (Committee Chair) Professor of Sociology,
University of Massachusetts Boston; Professor of Psychoanalysis and
the director of the Institute for the Study of Psychoanalysis and
Culture, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.
Samuel Binkley, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Emerson College
Neal Bruss, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English, University of
Massachusetts Boston
Patricia Clough, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology and Women Studies, CUNY
Graduate Center
Jorge Capetillo, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology, University of
Massachusetts Boston
Lewis Kirshner, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School;
Faculty Boston Psychoanalytic Institute
Glenn Jacobs, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology, University of
Massachusetts Boston
Murray Schwartz, Ph.D. Professor of Psychoanalysis and Literature,
Emerson College; Scholar Member, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute
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This year?s conference in April 7th & 8th of 2010 at the University of
Massachusetts Boston will explore the relationship between
psychoanalysis and critical social theory. From its very beginning
Sigmund Freud?s psychoanalysis has walked the border as a kind of
fugitive discipline in academia yet one multifarious in its influence
on the mainstream. Surely the welter of hostile and critical responses
accompanying its trajectory in the history of ideas bears a kind of
testimony to its rich intellectual underpinning. In sociology it has
had a creative influence on critical theorists such as Herbert
Marcuse, Eric Fromm, and others of the Frankfurt School, and now has
engaged feminist theorists, post-structuralists and other sociologists
interested in the way in which unconscious processes figure in the
construction of hierarchical social relations. Jacque Lacan?s French
reading of Freud comes particularly close to the sociological
imagination. His theory of the symbolic order and the linguistic
precursors of the unconscious have added additional dimensions to the
discourse of social theory. His notion of the decentered and alienated
self rooted in the intellectual culture of Emile Durkheim, Ferdinand
de Saussure, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Michel Foucault find its
corollaries in the writings of sociologists and philosophers such as
George Herbert Mead, Charles Horton Cooley, and Erving Goffman. This
year?s Social Theory Forum provides an opportunity for a
re-examination and discussion of these fertile intellectual domains
for a new cross-disciplinary pursuit of scholarship in social theory.
The conference organizers seek papers that employ rigorous analyses
and interpretations of the past and present of these intellectual
engagements that form the foundation of modern social theory.
Papers in psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, queer theory,
literary criticism, social linguistics, conversational analysis,
philosophy of mind, etc. that engage and interrogate Freud or Lacan
are all welcomed.
The conference will feature both invited and submitted papers and
presentations. We welcome submissions from psychoanalysts and
psychoanalytic scholars, from scholars and graduate students in
humanities and social scientists, as well as from scholars in allied
disciplines. We ask that authors submit a one-page abstract as email
attachment (MS Word Format) to
SocialTheoryAbstracts@libraryofsocialscience.com no later than
February 9, 2010. Upon selection and notification of approval by the
organizing committee, submitters must send completed presentation
paper manuscripts (around 12-15 pages, preferably double-spaced in
Times 12 typeface) by March 15, 2010. We are in the process of
securing a publishing venue for selected papers. As in prior years,
the papers will be peer-reviewed by anonymous referees for possible
publication. Details will be announced before the conference.
About the Social Theory Forum
Department of Sociology
University of Massachusetts Boston
The Social Theory Forum (STF) is an annual conference organized
jointly by the sociology, other departments, institutions, interested
faculty and students at University of Massachusetts Boston in order to
creatively explore, develop, promote, and publish cross-disciplinary
social theory in a critical framework. STF offers faculty and students
of UMass Boston and other area colleges and universities an
interactive medium to discuss various aspects of the way in which
particular theoretical traditions can be relevant to present everyday
issues, as well as to the current state and the future of social theory.
STF?s goals are:
* To critically engage with and evaluate classical and contemporary
social theories in a cross-disciplinary and comparative cross-cultural
framework in order to develop new integrative theoretical structures
and practices;
* To foster individual and collective self-reflexivity in exploring
social theories in global and world-historical contexts to aid people
effectively address social problems;
* To foster an interactive and dialogical learning experience and
research in theory within and across faculty, students, and community
divides on and off campus; and
* To foster exchange of ideas open to constructive and integrative
exploration of diverse and conflicting viewpoints, modes of thinking,
and world-views.
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Correspondence address
Attn.: Social Theory Forum
Department of Sociology
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
www.umb.edu
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