{"id":14540,"date":"2013-09-20T03:15:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T03:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/Geschichte\/salon21\/?p=14540"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:11:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T16:11:23","slug":"cfp-whither-identity-positioning-the-self-and-transforming-the-social-event-giesen-012014-dl-31-10-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=14540","title":{"rendered":"CfP: W(h)ither Identity &#8211; Positioning the Self and Transforming the Social (Event, Gie\u00dfen 01\/2014); DL: 31.10.2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Justus-Liebig-Universit\u00e4t Gie\u00dfen, Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Research Area &#8222;Cultural Identities&#8220;<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/gcsc.uni-giessen.de\/wps\/pgn\/home\/GCSC_eng\/whither-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Web)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date: January 23-24, 2014<br \/>\nVenue: Gie\u00dfen<br \/>\n<strong>Deadline for Abstracts<\/strong>: October 31, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Identity, both as a whole and in relation to categories of social difference including, but not limited to, race, class, ability, sex\/gender, sexuality, indigeneity, citizenship, etc., has been an increasingly contested concept in academic criticism, aesthetic practice, and political activism over the past quarter century \u2013 longer, if we consider experimental creative texts or the poststructuralist challenge to the subject. In political contexts, identity is framed, at times, as potentially reductivist and, at others, as necessary for self-positioning within networks of oppressive power and privilege. In aesthetic and performance practices, identity is divergently approached as crucial for interpellating potentially marginalised subjects into a sense of community\/recognition and criticised as, again, reductive, insular, and\/or tied to a dated notion of  <a href=\"http:\/\/gcsc.uni-giessen.de\/wps\/pgn\/home\/GCSC_eng\/whither-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8230; read more (Web)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justus-Liebig-Universit\u00e4t Gie\u00dfen, Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Research Area &#8222;Cultural Identities&#8220; (Web) Date: January 23-24, 2014 Venue: Gie\u00dfen Deadline for Abstracts: October 31, 2013 Identity, both as a whole and in relation to categories of social difference including, but not limited to, race, class, ability, sex\/gender, sexuality, indigeneity, citizenship, etc., has been an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-for-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60321,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions\/60321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}