NAVSA

Upcoming Conferences

2024 NAVSA • The 2024 Conference will occur online and at 17 hubs on 4 continents

2024 Conference
EVENT (Embodied and Virtual Events across Nations and Time)

Can we imagine an event that contributes to a more sustainable future while providing some advantages that are not possible at a regular annual conference? Those advantages include: increased attendance; more intimate gatherings; a less impacted schedule; reduced costs; and greater international networking and collaboration. Our idea: maintain the pleasures of a face-to-face meeting by hosting “hub” events across the world, encouraging people to attend the closest one to reduce air travel and avoid long-haul flights. Most hubs will have one panel at a time to create an intimate collective experience. Then, we will link all the papers delivered by way of COVE Conferences, a password-protected, asynchronous annotation platform available only to attendees. There, you can read papers of most interest to you at your leisure, sharing insights or queries with the authors of the papers. The face-to-face hub events will occur in September; we will lead up to those meetings with monthly Zoom events over the 2024 calendar year and conclude the conference with Zoom events linking participants once again across time zones.

We will not be restricting talks: all talks that explore the period 1832-1910 will be considered; however, we encourage reflection on our theme, “event,” which can be interpreted broadly:

°the event that is NAVSA, BAVS, AVSA
°catastrophic events (like climate change)
°history and temporality
°chronologies and periodization
°narrative
°theater and spectacle
°performativity and identity
°personal events (marriage, birth, death)
°autobiography and biography
°unnaratable events (the sublime, the visionary, the transcendent)
°the bildungsroman
°the relationship of form to change
°historical poetics and strategic formalism
°longue durée
°jetztzeit
°Foucauldian archaeologies
°alternative events (the optative, historiographic metafiction, steampunk)
°notions of singularity (systems theory, AI, climate)
°the eventuality of the digital
°Event and revolution (Badiou, Dupuy)

The deadline for proposals for individual papers and for fully-formed panels and roundtables is February 1, 2024. The submission portal is open at https://www.event2024.org/call-for-papers/. For more information on the conference, including information about publicizing panel and roundtable ideas to potential participants, please see the conference website: https://www.event2024.org

FUTURE CONFERENCES:

2025 Washington, DC, November 12-16: "Aftermaths"