{"id":9678,"date":"2018-05-25T08:23:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T13:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=9678"},"modified":"2018-05-25T08:23:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T13:23:20","slug":"welcome-to-the-feverish-world-cfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2018\/05\/25\/welcome-to-the-feverish-world-cfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Feverish World (CFP)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please circulate widely…<\/p>\n

FEVERISH WORLD <\/em><\/strong><\/span>2018-2068:<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>ARTS & SCIENCES OF COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Symposium and Convergence in Burlington, Vermont, October 20-22, 2018<\/p>\n

Fifty years after the widespread international protests of 1968 challenged institutional norms, and some sixty years after C. P. Snow lamented the gap between academia\u2019s \u201ctwo cultures,\u201d those of the arts and the sciences, it is time to ask whether educational institutions have changed in ways that help us address the world\u2019s intensifying crises.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What are the cultural divides that fracture our world today — both in academia and in the world at large? How can we build “cosmopolitical” bridges between “coastal elites,” the populist movements of “flyover country,” and the growing global precariat of refugees, climate victims, Indigenous Peoples, and others? How do we prepare for the feverish world of the\u00a0next <\/em>50 years?<\/p>\n

More specifically, how can we draw on the creative imagination of the arts, the wisdom and critical insight of the humanities, and the know-how and know-what of science and technology to develop practices for collective coexistence and even flourishing in the climate-destabilized world of our likely future?<\/p>\n

This 3-day symposium and art event will explore these questions through panels and roundtables, talks and presentations by invited speakers, art and performances by local and invited artists, and open forums including a “Tent City Commons” at the University of Vermont campus and at other area locations. Invited speakers include anthropologist and philosopher of science Bruno Latour, visual artist Torkwase Dyson, artist\/engineer Natalie Jeremijenko, musician and eco-philosopher David Rothenberg, and eco-art theorist and educator Linda Weintraub (others are pending confirmation).<\/p>\n

The Symposium is seeking two forms of submissions<\/strong>\u00a0from contributors including but not limited to artists, scholars, scientists, designers, engineers, and activists.<\/p>\n

(1) \u00a0TEXTWORKS: Propositions for a Feverish World \u2013 <\/strong>We seek written contributions that report on (or propose) practical or scholarly efforts to bridge between the arts and humanities and the sciences, technology, engineering, and\/or design in response to issues of public concern (such as climate change and the refugee crisis). Accepted proposals must be followed by a written contribution of no more than 3000 words, to be shared electronically with registered participants by October 12. Participants will then have five minutes to summarize their written contribution at a two-hour roundtable on Monday morning, October 22, 2018. Half of the roundtable duration will consist of moderated discussion. TextWorks proposals are due by June 20, 2018<\/strong>. Proposals should include the following information:<\/p>\n