[xmca] Fwd: Call for Papers: Savage Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude Levi-Strauss

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

This looks very interesting and may provide a good venue for some xmca
folks.
mike

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From: Matt Stahl <mstahl@uwo.ca>
Date: Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Subject: Fwd: Call for Papers: Savage Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity and the
Challenge of Claude Levi-Strauss




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*From: *Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas <iplai@mcgill.ca>
*Date: *December 14, 2009 1:42:21 PM GMT-05:00
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Savage Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude
Lévi-Strauss

Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas
McGill University, Montréal
17-19 September 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Claude Lévi-Strauss was one of the great interdisciplinary writers of the
twentieth century whose influence has been felt far beyond his home
discipline of anthropology.  His inquiry illuminated the border lands
between primitive and non-primitive, self and other, myth and history, human
and animal, art and nature, and the dichotomies that give structure to
culture. At the same time his method troubled those borders and dichotomies,
through the bricolage he adopted that illuminated connections amongst
literature, art, psychology, music, religion, and law.

Our call for ‘savage thoughts’ seeks out new work influenced by this inquiry
and these methods, and reflections on Levi-Strauss’ legacy across the whole
range of the humanities and beyond, including—

1) Recent interdisciplinary research in the reception, critique, and
development, of Lévi-Strauss’ work. How have these inquiries been
transformed in recent years?  Are the children of Lévi-Strauss as savage as
he?

2) Consideration of Lévi-Strauss’ larger intellectual influence, explicit or
otherwise, right across the humanities. Perhaps there is something savage at
the heart of interdisciplinary thought itself—refusing to be tamed by the
intellectual borders of a discipline, it forages at will. Where has
Lévi-Strauss’ method spawned such wildness and hybridity?

3) Looking beyond the academy to consider how Lévi-Strauss’ ideas have
embedded themselves in the culture, values, social organization, and
framework of modern society. What is the public life and impact of these
ideas? In what ways has our world been altered by his mode of apprehending
it?

Conference organizers invite papers that address the borderlands between a
wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to Anthropology,
Architecture, Art History, Communications, History, Law, Linguistics,
Literature, Human Geography, Musicology, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious
Studies, Semiotics, and Sociology.  Proposals for single papers in English
or French as well as for complete panels are welcome. In either instance,
abstracts for 15-20 minute papers should be c.200 words, and accompanied by
a brief (2-page) CV. Proposals for complete panels should also include a
short explanation of the panel theme. Please send proposals as electronic
files (in .doc, .docx, or pdf format) to savage.thoughts@mcgill.ca no later
than 15 March 2010.

Conference website: www.mcgill.ca/iplai/savagethoughts/
Conference registration will open 15 April 2010. Registration details,
including fees information are on the website.

The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas at McGill University is
committed to understanding how the arts (literature, painting, film,
theatre, music, industrial and artistic design, architecture) and new ideas
come into being in a range of settings (schools, the law courts, markets,
the Web, the book trade, state institutions) and in relation to social,
cultural, and institutional practices. It also strives to understand how art
and ideas are able to transform the private world of the individual, the
greater world of public matters, and the interactivity between the two.
http://www.mcgill.ca/iplai/



Matt Stahl, PhD

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies

University of Western Ontario
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