From: jsuarez [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 17:14 To: Lauer, A Robert Subject: Fwd: Call For Papers for the International Conference "The NeoBaroque Revisited" - October 13-16 at the University of Western Ontario, London ON Estimado Roberto: ¿Podrías hacer circular este CFP? Muchas gracias, Juan Luis Dear All, Please, find below the Call For Papers for the International Conference "The NeoBaroque Revisited" An International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the Baroqueto take place at the University of Western Ontario, October 13-16, 2011. See Poster attached. The International Conference "The NeoBaroque Revisited" proposes a total engagement with the problem of the Baroque. This total engagement comprises all disciplines, media, arts, forms of organization and phenomena, from the historic Baroque to all manifestations of the Baroque in the contemporary world. It will cover theoretical, historical, and practical issues regarding the birth, expansion, adaptation, subversion, metamorphosis, animation, virtualization, effects and defects of the Baroque paradigm, from 16th through 21st centuries. In the moment of complexity and uncertainty the world is living, we revisit the Baroque and Neobaroque paradigms to search for their efficiencies (or lack thereof) in different cultural and political settings as well as for the reasons of their re-emergences under different circumstances. Is the Baroque the super-cultural response of the human being to moments of extreme stress and complexity? What does connect Baroque and complexity? Is the origin of the Baroque purely artistic? Is the Baroque equally adaptable in Europe, America, Japan or New Zealand? Do the Baroque and the Neobaroque travel through media and genres, from painting to sculpture, from literature to film, from video games to Robert Lepage's productions? What is the role of the Baroque in education, the legal system, politics, and entertainment? Is a Neobaroque of the virtual emerging through collective online experiences? Do we need a more baroque organization of our political structures? What is the role of imagination in inventing new possible worlds? The Conference "The (Neo)Baroque Revisited" will take place October 13-16 at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. The Conference will coincide with the opening of the "Barroco Nova. Neo-Naroque Moves in Contemporary Art" http://www.barroconova.ca/ The exhibition presents a vast range of projects by 19 Canadian and international contemporary artists whose approaches rely on intensified appeals to our senses to produce an engaged address to our cultural moment: visions that arguably take up Liebnitzian notions of the fold and possible worlds. The Conference is organized by the MCRI international research project "This Hispanic Baroque: Complexity in the First Atlantic Culture" (www.hispanicbaroque.ca<http://www.hispanicbaroque.ca/> <http://www.hispanicbaroque.ca<http://www.hispanicbaroque.ca/>> ). Please, submit your title, name and affiliation, and a 300-word abstract to https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGJ4TzdHN1Y2R2JjVjRWeXpUYWZqWHc6MQ before May 30, 2011. Presentations should not exceed 20'. Papers can be read in English, Spanish, or French. Registration fee: CAD$100 Thanks for circulating this as widely as possible. Maria Martinez Jaraba The Hispanic Baroque Management ________________________________ Prof. A. Robert Lauer The University of Oklahoma Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics 780 Van Vleet Oval, Kaufman Hall, Room 206 Norman, Oklahoma 73019-2032, USA E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Tel.: 405-325-5845 (office); 405-325-6181 (dept.); Fax: 405-325-0103 (dept.) Vision: Harmonious collaboration in an international world. Mission: "Visualize clearly and communicate promptly" Vita<http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/A-Robert.R.Lauer-1/vita.html> / Ibérica<http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vSiteName=SearchSeriesResult.cfm&vLang=D&iHerausgeber=&iTitel=I&iStichwort=&iISSN=&vSeriesID=IBERICA> / BCom<http://www.comediantes.org/> / ACal<http://www.unav.es/griso/docs/publicaciones/Acal/principal.html> / Anagnórisis<http://www.anagnorisis.es/> / AsocCervantistas<http://hispanismo.cervantes.es/asociaciones_ficha.asp?DOCN=4> <http://hispanismo.cervantes.es/asociaciones_ficha.asp?DOCN=4> / ColCervantes<http://www.ou.edu/cervantes/coloquiocervantes.html> / ColTeatro<http://www.ou.edu/teatro/coloquioteatro.html> / Intute<http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091112-13174791> /