{"id":2453,"date":"2011-05-23T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/scitent.com\/2011\/05\/23\/cfp-aesthetic-lives-update-and-deadline-extension-6302011-923-242011\/"},"modified":"2011-05-23T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T12:40:00","slug":"cfp-aesthetic-lives-update-and-deadline-extension-6302011-923-242011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2011\/05\/23\/cfp-aesthetic-lives-update-and-deadline-extension-6302011-923-242011\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Aesthetic Lives, update and deadline extension (6\/30\/2011; 9\/23-24\/2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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International conference: Aesthetic Lives (www.esthetismes.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/span>
Universit\u00e9 Paul-Val\u00e9ry Montpellier, FRANCE<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
23-24 September 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

Guest speakers<\/b>: Dennis Denisoff (Ryerson University, Toronto) and Ana Parejo <\/span>Vadillo (Birkbeck College, University of London)<\/span><\/p>\n

Deadline Extension: <\/b>Please email your proposal by June 30, 2011<\/b> to <\/span><\/span>catherine.delyfer@univ-montp3<\/span>.<\/span><\/wbr>fr<\/span><\/a> <\/span>AND<\/span> <\/span>bncoste@free.fr<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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<\/a>Updated CFP:<\/b><\/span>
\u2018[C]reating themselves out of themselves, and moulding themselves to <\/span>what they were, and willed to be\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

In 1873, citing Hegel\u2019s vision of the Greeks, Walter Pater wrote in The <\/i><\/span>Renaissance<\/i>: \u2018They are great and free, and have grown up on the soil of <\/span>their own individuality, creating themselves out of themselves, and moulding <\/span>themselves to what they were, and willed to be.\u2019 This Paterian celebration <\/span>of autonomy and self-fashioning was read with delight, cultivated, and <\/span>variously implemented by the members of the Aesthetic Movement. Not only did <\/span>Aestheticism create new objects, but it enabled singular lifestyles to be <\/span>born. In the last third of the nineteenth century, the facts of existence <\/span>ceased to be perceived as heteronomous. Life itself was gradually envisioned <\/span>as a work in progress for an individual at once more aware of his\/her <\/span>freedom as subject and more conscious of changing <\/span>societal constraints. New lifestyles flourished and novel representations of <\/span>life emerged. From the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (which immediately <\/span>preceded the Aesthetic Movement) to James Whistler, Oscar Wilde, William <\/span>Morris, \u2018Ouida\u2019, \u2018Michael Field\u2019, or Edward Carpenter, many were those who <\/span>devoted themselves to practicing and writing about literature and art while <\/span>evolving a lifestyle which early twentieth-century critics would later <\/span>identify with the 'men [and women] of the nineties.'<\/span><\/p>\n

Fashioning one\u2019s own life became both conceivable and technically and <\/span>politically possible as individuals gradually ceased to acquiesce in given <\/span>social configurations of power and value and started interrogating the <\/span>status quo. Such questioning was often the source of original individual <\/span>choices and collective interventions such as the creation of clubs, guilds, <\/span>presses or journals. Within given social, economic and political <\/span>structures\/strictures, of which writers and artists were highly conscious, \u2018<\/span>Aesthetic\u2019 living became an important embodiment of subjective experience <\/span>and individual experiment.<\/span><\/p>\n

After our first 2009 trans-disciplinary international conference entitled <\/span>\u2018British Aestheticisms\u2019, our 2011 conference on \u2018Aesthetic Lives\u2019 hopes to <\/span>focus on issues of Aesthetic subjectivity, on the lived experience of <\/span>Aesthetic individuality or difference, and on original trajectories in the <\/span>context of Aesthetic practices. How did writers and artists turn their <\/span>existence into an artwork? What does it mean to found a club, an artistic <\/span>community, a new journal when one is (or claims to be) an Aesthete? What <\/span>were the cultural, social, economic or political constraints which hindered <\/span>or enabled Aesthetic projects, aspirations and itineraries?<\/span><\/p>\n

Importantly, the notion of \u2018Aesthetic life\u2019 is not meant in the limited <\/span>biographical sense, but should be taken in the broad sense of a personal <\/span>negotiation and a carving of one\u2019s chosen itinerary or ethical choices in <\/span>the context of Aestheticism. What kind of ethics can arise from <\/span>Aesthetic choices? What are its daily manifestations, practically <\/span>speaking? What were <\/span>the obstacles or aporiae encountered by those who followed Pater\u2019s ideas <\/span>about self-fashioning and life as a work of art? How were these subjective <\/span>choices received? And how do they anticipate the choices made by the figures <\/span>of Modernism?<\/span><\/p>\n

We welcome papers (in French or in English) studying individual artists and <\/span>writers, specific formal or informal groups, and various arts of <\/span>Aesthetic living. Descriptive and hagiographic approaches are to be <\/span>strictly avoided.<\/span>

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Registration fee: 55 euros (includes coffee\/tea and 2 lunches). A selection <\/span>of papers will be published. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Please email your proposal by June 30, 2011<\/b> to <\/span><\/span>catherine.delyfer@univ-montp3<\/span>.<\/span><\/wbr>fr<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>AND<\/span> <\/span>bncoste@free.fr<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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International conference: Aesthetic Lives (www.esthetismes.org)Universit\u00e9 Paul-Val\u00e9ry Montpellier, FRANCE 23-24 September 2011 Guest speakers: Dennis Denisoff (Ryerson University, Toronto) and Ana Parejo Vadillo (Birkbeck College, University of London) Deadline Extension: Please email your proposal by June 30, 2011 to catherine.delyfer@univ-montp3.fr AND bncoste@free.fr Updated CFP:\u2018[C]reating themselves out of themselves, and moulding themselves to what they were, and willed to be\u2019 In 1873, citing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498],"tags":[526,506,512,527],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}