Thank you!

We hope everyone of you had a save journey home and that you are starting to enjoy a weekend full of thoughts inspired by the Assembling Identities conference. We would like to thank again everybody who came along as speaker and delegate to make this conference such a lively, thought-provoking and fun event. After we had a little breather we aim to upload podcasts featuring our keynote speakers’ talks so that you can listen to them again. We also plan to decorate the website with some photographs taken of the conference. So, we still have something to look forward to. Finally, we hope to see many of you again at the College of Arts Conference 2014.

Haجar and the Anجel – a Soundscape and Visual Installation at the Hunterian Art Gallery

We highly recommend you check out this exciting installation at the Hunterian Art Gallery while you are in Glasgow:

Haجar and the Anجel – a Soundscape and Visual Installation.

For more details please click here: Hagar_Angel_Soundscape

And if you are around tomorrow night, why not catch the launch of Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour’s book on North African poetry at the CCA. For more information on this, click here:  DiwanGlasgowBrochure

Programme is now available

The provisional conference programme is now available to download, under the ‘Conference Programme’ tab.

Under that tab, you will also find a document which contains all of the panel paper abstracts.

Registration now open!

We are pleased to inform that the registration for the Assembling Identities conference (University of Glasgow, 23rd-24th May) is now open. The registration form (download here) should be returned to arts-assemblingidentities2013@glasgow.ac.uk by the 5th of May 2013.

There is no fee for this conference. If you are attending the conference dinner on the 23rd May, however, we kindly ask you to post a cheque for £21 payable to ‘Assembling Identities‘ to ‘Agnes Marszalek, English Language, University of Glasgow, 12 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK’, also by the 5th of May. Please see the registration form for alternative arrangements.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Glasgow!

Only 4 days until submission!

This is a reminder that the deadline for submission of abstracts is this Friday - 1st March.  We can’t wait to read your proposals!

Only 8 days to go!

This is a reminder that the deadline for submission of abstracts is fast approaching – 1st March.  We look forward to reading your proposals!

Call for Papers

‘Assembling Identities’: Postgraduate/Early-Career Researcher Conference

23rd-24th May 2013, University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow’s Graduate School of the College of Arts is delighted to announce ‘Assembling Identities’, an international and cross-disciplinary conference focusing on how we understand identity and the process of identity formation.

Keynote Speakers: Professor Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter); Professor Pierre Joris (SUNY at Albany); Ruth Washbrook (Scottish Screen Archive/NLS)

In light of recent and potential reconsiderations of national, disabled and religious identities, the conference will investigate some of the various ways in which identities, both established and marginal, can be – and have been – assembled and disassembled throughout the world.

The conference committee welcomes and encourages proposals for papers and other research-led contributions from postgraduate and early careers researchers that challenge or bridge the gap between the visual and performing arts, literature, history and other traditional and disciplinary boundaries.

Possible interpretations and conceptions of identity may include, but are not restricted, to:

- Political – Technological/Digital – National – Territorial- (Dis)Abled – Genre –  Gender/Sexuality – Environmental

- Temporal – Cinematic – Race – Objective/Subjective

- Occupational – Performance – Class – (Mis)Remembered

- Critical identities – Created

- Religious/Moral – Ideological

We invite abstracts of no more than 200 words and a short bio (100 words) to be sent to the conference committee at

arts-assemblingidentities2013@glasgow.ac.uk by Friday 1st March 2013.

Please specify the format of your proposed contribution:

• Research paper

• Practice as research presentation, including performance

• Poster presentation

• Audio-visual installation, including screenings

• Pecha Kucha presentation (6 minutes, 40 seconds: http://www.pechakucha.org/)

We intend to publish a selection of papers from the conference proceedings.

Any queries should be addressed to arts-assemblingidentities2013@glasgow.ac.uk.

There is no registration fee for this conference.