The organizing committee of the 29th Annual Conference welcomes academic and artistic submissions (e.g. poetry, performance, visual arts) that engage with aspects of temporality. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- Representations of Time in the Arts
- “Pre-modern” Conceptions of Time
- Time and the Postcolonial
- Indigenous Temporalities
- Time, Memory, Trauma
- Ruins, Monuments, and Ethnographies
- Gender, Embodiment, Aging Bodies
- Languages through Time
- Time and the Anthropocene
- Heterotopias / Utopias / Heterochronies
- Economy and Time as Capital
- Time-Space Compression under Globalization
- Rhythm, Movement, and Acceleration
- Ethical Responsibility and the Politics of Our Time
The conference will be held at the University of Toronto on March 29th and 30th, 2019.
Proposals should be a maximum of 250–300 words. Individual talks should be 15–20 minutes in duration and altogether, panels and roundtables should not exceed 90 minutes. Please include a biographical statement of no more than 50 words and submit your abstract by e-mail to complitconference2019@gmail.com by December 1st, 2018.
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