Faculty Workshops
The Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 3:
Legitimacy and Legibility
Garden Room, Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara
November 3-5, 2007
Questions of representation and recognition have been fundamental to discussions of subalternity and popular culture. They are intimately tied to legitimate expressions of the political. We are struggling to find a vocabulary to describe new formations of power and resistance, to read the historical archive with a new awareness of language and lexicon, and to communicate across disciplines, theoretical formations, and historical experiences. In continuation of last year’s conversation, this year’s workshop has two objectives. First, to use the “keywords” exercise, proposed at last year’s workshop, to think through the problems of language, legibility, and legitimacy. This will require unlearning some concepts and redefining/extending others. In addition, we plan to address the problem of legitimacy and legibility – political, social, cultural – by focusing on the concepts of aesthetics, space, agency, (il)legality.
Format of conversation: plenaries as structured discussions and paper presentations. Papers need to be sent to George Flaherty (gflaherty@umail.ucsb.edu) for the website no later than Oct 15. Time for paper presentation: 20 min + 40 min discussion time for each paper.
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