Craft Critique Culture Conference (Web)

Time: 04.-06.04.2019
Veneu: University of Iowa
Proposals by January 11, 2019

Craft Critique Culture is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the intersections of critical and creative approaches to writing both within and beyond the academy. This year’s conference will explore what happens when we are “Speaking of Violence…”

Via his character Salvor Hardin, Isaac Asimov articulates this famous maxim: “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” To Asimov, violence is the epitome of ignorance in action, an act that, regardless of motivation, is one of desperation and ineptitude. To Frantz Fanon, “Violence is man re-creating himself,” an almost necessary evil in the fight against the vicious hand of colonialism on the journey to re-establish subjectivity and personhood. And these perhaps contradictory statements are but two of many perspectives that attest to the expansive nature of violence.

This year’s theme is intentionally broad in order to elicit a range of responses that move from the micro- to the macro-scopic. For example, topics might range from studies on PTSD to literature inspired by WWII, or a discussion on how and when contemporary protests are categorized as riots. Through this approach,  … read more (Web).