Event 2024
Flightless Conference
NAVSA, BAVS, AVSA, VI, DACH-V
Hybrid format
Event 2024 is an experiment in sustainable global conferencing, including monthly Zoom events, face-to-face hub events in September, and the asynchronous discussion of uploaded papers on COVE Conferences.
We will not be restricting talks: all talks that explore the period 1832-1910 will be considered. We encourage reflection on our theme, “event,” which can be interpreted broadly: catastrophic events (like climate change); history and temporality; chronologies and periodization; narrative; theater and spectacle; liturgy and ritual; performativity and identity; personal events (marriage, birth, death); autobiography and biography; unnarratable 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); and so on. Given the global nature of Event 2024, we would also be interested in talks that explore global issues, such as the Commonwealth, imperialism, world trade, war, and the environment.
Find out more about the conference, dates, and international hub locations here: https://www.event2024.org/
Deadline
Proposals are due by December 1, 2023
Contact
Cross-hub organizers:
Dino Franco Felluga: felluga@purdue.edu
Chris Adamson: chris.adamson@dsu.edu
Joshua King: Joshua_King@baylor.edu
International Hubs
Canada:
Montréal, QC
Europe:
Konstanz, Germany
Frankfurt, Germany
Australasia:
Melbourne, Australia
Seoul, South Korea
UK:
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Cardiff, Wales
Hawarden, Wales
Lancaster, England
Stirling, Scotland
USA:
Atlanta, GA
Boston, MA
Boulder, CO
Davis, CA
Seattle, WA
West Lafayette, IN
Waco, TX
Proposal Submission
Submit your proposal on the conference website: https://www.event2024.org/call-for-papers/