Call for papers and conference announcement

Papers are invited for Technologies of the Self: New Departures in Self-Inscription, a forthcoming interdisciplinary conference which will be held at UCC on 2-3 September 2011.

Technologies of the Self: New Departures in Self-Inscription (UCC, 2-3 September 2011) is an international, interdisciplinary conference that addresses new media, film, the avant-garde and new theoretical approaches to autobiography post-Lejeune.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Patricia Clough (CUNY), author of Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology

Deadline for submission of proposals: 4 April 2011

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