For more information, contact Professor Jeffrey Bell at jbell (at) selu.edu.

Deleuze Camp

Preceding the conference students and scholars interested in the work
of Gilles Deleuze are welcome to participate in Deleuze Camp 6 which
will take place on 18-22 June 2012 in New Orleans. This venue will
provide an opportunity for participants to engage with experienced
scholars from different fields in readings of Deleuze’s texts. The
Deleuze camp will also include a student forum where participants can
present their own work and ideas.  Spaces are limited.

More Information: https://conference.cbs.dk/index.php/deleuze/conf

Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts

May 4-6, 2012

King’s University College and The University of Western Ontario

London, Ontario, Canada

INVITED SPEAKERS

Constantin Boundas (Trent University)
Dorothea Olkowski (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)
Jay Lampert (University of Guelph)
More to be announced….

The Centre for Advanced Research in European Philosophy, King’s University College, along with the McIntosh Gallery at the University of Western Ontario invite proposals and submissions for a conference focusing on the intersection of the work of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and the arts. We seek to explore:

1.      Critical assessments of Deleuze and Guattari’s aesthetic theory
2.      The legacy of and contemporary engagement with key themes and concepts of the Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophical framework as they come to bear upon and are influenced by the arts, including literature, film, poetry, music, dance, aesthetic theory, visual and media arts, painting and sculpture. Art here is broadly understood.
3.       The connection between Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy and art, and how they may be used to further discussion of contemporary issues in politics, economics, environmental studies, social theory and philosophy.

We welcome proposals for papers, panels, and performance pieces.  Abstracts should be between 500-750 words.

Please send all abstracts and inquiries to:

Antonio Calcagno, PhD
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
King’s University College
266 Epworth Avenue
London, ON  N6A 2M3
CANADA

acalcagn@uwo.ca (Email preferred)

Tel: 519-433-3491 x 4533
Fax: 519-433-0353

DEADLINE: December 15, 2011

Copenhagen 27-29 June 2011

Copenhagen Business School

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture

Call for Papers

The fourth annual International Deleuze Studies Conference intends to explore current conditions for creative critiques. In the searchlight are potentialities for responding to a seemingly permanent, yet persistently mutating crisis. The conference intends to assemble ways of conceiving the current plurality of crises – financial, ecological, political, existential, aesthetic – letting their bindings show, analyzing their displacements and their disguises, exacerbating them, perhaps indeed taking us deeper into them. A micropolitics of global society is in need of articulation; this makes us desire philosophy as ever before.

The texts of Gilles Deleuze, once restricted to specialists, the French public, and tenants of radical politics, are now being put to work everywhere, and seem far from having lost their momentum. His readers – whether they be academic scholars, activists, architects, artists, designers, managers, workers or just marginalized – face a world that beckons comprehensive recompositions through inventive action.

The current situation calls for a renewed critique, but also for something more. It calls for a creativity in questioning the world, in the position and solution of its problems. The very scope of the difficulties calls for transdisciplinary awareness and attention to disparaties. The multiple lines connecting heterogeneous systems articulate as many virtual passages between (to name but the most apparent) the ecological, educational, financial and political crises which play together with the crises particular to the arts, to architecture, and to design. This is why Copenhagen Business School, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and School of Visual Arts have joined forces in searching for a recomposition of the reception and application of Deleuze’s work.

Possible topics for papers may include but are not limited to:

–           Aesthetics inside and outside art

–           Urban planning and architecture

–           Social science and organizational practice

–           Creative Philosophy

–           Capitalism and its continuous crises

–           Nomadic politics and Social Sustainability

–           Neuroscience and Culture

–           Aesthetics of Life Sciences

–           Methodological interfaces between science and the Humanities

–           Gender and becoming

Length of presentations: max. 20 minutes. We welcome panel proposals.

Please submit your abstract (max. 200 words) and a short bio at www.deleuze-copenhagen.cbs.dk before the 1^st of February, 2011.

All kinds of academics, non-academics, artists, workers, salespeople and freelancers should join up for this event, a philosophical Copenhagen Summit.

Confirmation of acceptance will be emailed before March 15^th, 2011.  Selections will take place on the basis of the number of panel presentations.

Deleuze Camp 5
Creative Critiques

Preceding the conference, students can participate in a summer school: The Deleuze Camp 5 ‘Creative Critiques’. The camp will take place from 20-24 June 2011 in Copenhagen. Places are limited.

For conference and/or camp registration and further information, please refer to our website, which also hosts a list of confirmed Plenary Speakers: www.deleuze-copenhagen.cbs.dk

In the context of  the 3^rd International Deleuze Studies Conference 2010, organized by the University of Amsterdam and the University of Utrecht, an exhibition and a debate with various researchers and artists reflected on the relationship between Deleuze’s thought and contemporary art and media practice, with a particular interest in Deleuze and Guattari’s chapter ‘The Smooth and the Striated’ from A Thousand Plateaus (See http://thesmoothandthestriated.wordpress.com). In continuation of this ongoing research and persistent interest in the meaning of ‘smooth and striated spaces’ in relation to Deleuze’s thoughts on art, we are very happy to invite scholars from various practices to contribute to a special issue of Deleuze Studies, dedicated to a variety of issues evoked by the essay and its interpretations.

In ‘The Smooth and the Striated’ a characterization of the ‘smooth’ and the ‘striated’ emerges from a look at various ‘models’ of interaction between these different kinds of space. While the nature of ‘smooth space’ is one of continuous development of form, ‘striated space’ produces an order and succession of distinct forms. ‘Smooth’ has a greater power of deterritoralization, whereas ‘striation’ for Deleuze and Guattari, seems to denote a certain tendency to measure, categorize and solidify a particular state or situation. Important, for the authors, is the continuous reciprocal and entwined relationship between the two spaces: a smooth space elicits the emergence of a striated space and vice versa.

We would like to invite scholars to send a proposal for papers on topics related to the central theme of this issue of Deleuze Studies. We encourage authors to ‘think with art’ and thus to think about Deleuze’s thought in relation to contemporary art and media practice. Topics for papers could include (but are not limited to) the following:

– How do artists reflect on the presence and representation of (historical) processes of smoothing and striation in our contemporary environment?
– What are the socio-political consequences of expanding striated spaces?
– How does memory relate to the ongoing interplay between the smooth and the striated?
– How do site specific art works integrate the smooth and the striated?
– How is art itself a way of smoothing (or striating) space?

Proposals (max. 500 words) can be send before February 15^th 2011 to Patricia Pisters (p.pisters@uva.nl) and Flora Lysen (f.c.lysen@gmail.com).Deadline for full papers June 15^th 2011.

“Due to the vulcano eruption in Iceland, Resonance(s): A Deleuze and Guattari Conference on Philosophy, Arts and Politics  is postponed to July 8-10. Proposal submission date extended until June 10th. Please see the website for details. (http://www.resonative.net)”

A Two-Day International Conference at the American University of Paris
May 27-28, 2010
Paris, France

In recent years, the work of Gilbert Simondon has received greater attention both in France and internationally following the re-publication of his work over the past decade. The importance of Simondon’s thought to the work of French philosophers including Gilles Deleuze and Bernard Stiegler has become increasingly discussed and analysed both in France and in the English-speaking world. At the same time, Simondon’s work has been taken up on its own terms, recognized for the unique contributions that he made to the philosophy of technology, phenomenology and social philosophy. Forthcoming translations of his major works into English will surely instigate a long-overdue introduction of his work within a much broader international community of scholars.
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