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In an era in which self-expression has undergone an exponential growth fuelled by technological innovation, most importantly, perhaps, the creation of an internet that hosts an ever-increasing number of blogs, tweets, personal webpages and other forms of audiovisual self-expression such as YouTube, it seems timely to think again  about the phenomenon of writing, filming, recording and, indeed, publishing or publicizing the self: what innovations in self inscription have recent decades witnessed, what continuities and discontinuities  can be traced, what changes in attitudes to the self and to self-revelation or exposure have been witnessed, how have developments in the channels of broadcasting altered how, what and why we engage in various, if always elusive acts of self-expression, are there now new practitioners of self-inscription because of these changes, and, finally, with so many outlets and such a market for narratives  of self, how is such material consumed?

Technologies of the Self: New Departures in Self-Inscription is an international, interdisciplinary conference that addresses new media, film, the avant-garde and new theoretical approaches to autobiography post-Lejeune.

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Key-­Note Speaker:  Patricia Ticineto Clough is professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New York. She is author of Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (2000); Feminist Thought: Desire, Power and Academic Discourse  (1994)  and The End(s) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism (1998).  She is editor of The Affective Turn:  Theorizing the Social, (2007) and, with Craig Willse, editor of  Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death (forthcoming, 2011). Clough’s work has drawn on theoretical traditions concerned with technology, affect, unconscious processes, timespace and political economy. She is currently working on Ecstatic Corona: Philosophy and Family Violence, an ethnographic historically researched experimental writing project about where she grew up in Queens New York.  

Special event: Heinz Emigholz, filmmaker, artist, writer and producer, as well as Professor of Experimental film at Universität der Künste Berlin and at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

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Conference organisers: Patrick Crowley (French, UCC), Kerstin Fest (German, UCC), Rachel MagShamhráin (German, UCC), Laura Rascaroli (Italian/Film Studies, UCC)

Conference email address: self.inscription@gmail.com

Deadline for submission of proposals: 4 April 2011

Conference language: English

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Acknowledgments:

The conference received sponsorship from:

• College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, UCC
• Goethe Institut Irland
  
• Department of French, UCC
• Department of German, UCC
• Department of Italian, UCC
• Film Studies at UCC
• School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UCC
• Cork Marketing Partnership
• Hayfield Manor Hotel

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Links:

  Call for papers 

  Registration form  Please download, fill in, and send to the conference email address

  Conference programme  Click to download the file. The programme is provisional. Last updated August 29, 2011

  Heinz Emigholz Event   

  Accommodation in the UCC area.  Inclusion in this list does not constitute a recommendation or guarantee by the conference organisers

  Restaurants in Cork   

  Weather in Cork.  Link to the BBC weather site

  Useful links.  Directions, parking, maps, places of interest

  Useful services.