THE EVERYDAY: LIVED REALITIES AND OTHER FICTIONS
A One-Day Graduate Conference at McGill University - April 23rd, 2010
- Montreal, QC.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill
University is pleased to announce this year’s graduate conference, The
Everyday: Lived Realities and Other Fictions. The conference will be
held at the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at
McGill University on Friday, April 23rd, 2010. Graduate students at
the M.A. or Ph.D. level from all disciplines are invited to submit
abstracts for presentations of twenty minutes. Participation in the
conference provides a great opportunity to present scholarly research,
meet graduate students from a variety of different fields, and benefit
from engaged discussions as well as valuable responses to papers.
Exceptional papers may also be selected for publication.

This year’s symposium will explore the various moments that make up
our everyday. We wish to engage with the tensions that emerge between
the real (concrete) and the perceived (represented) that manifest
themselves within everyday practices that occur in specific moments in
time within particular places - whether lived or imagined. The
everyday, through its lived realities and other fictions, can become
more than just our requisite critical context, it has the potential to
become a, or perhaps the, common site of collective mediation.

As an interdisciplinary conference we invite papers from various
fields, possible presentations could pertain to: film, music, art,
literature, architecture, communication, media, archives, gender and
corporeality, and the city, amongst others.

Papers in both English and French are welcome.

Keynote Speaker: TBA

Abstracts for submission should be no more than 300 words, accompanied
by a short biography or CV.

Submissions are due by Friday, January 15th, 2010 and should be
submitted via e-mail to the conference committee at:
ahcs_conferencecommitteegooglegroups.com
.

Successful participants will be notified by February 15th, 2010.
Please send any other inquiries to: ahcs_conferencecommitteegooglegroups.com
.

AHCS Conference Organizing Committee:
Samantha Burton (Art History)
Nadia Kurd (Art History)
Paulina Mickiewicz (Communication Studies)
Cheryl Thompson (Communication Studies)