Archive of the Future/Future of the Archive
April 6th and 7th, 2007
location and times TBA

Graduate students in the English Department and the Visual and Cultural Studies Program will be hosting an interdisciplinary conference on the theme of Archive of the Future/Future of the Archive.

For more information please see the call for proposals below, or email conference organizers at futureofthearchive@gmail.com.

Call for Presentations
Archive of the Future/Future of the Archive
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The conference will be held the weekend of April 6th and 7th at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY and will be hosted by the English Department and the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, as well as being funded by the Humanities Project. There will be multiple keynote speakers.

Previous conference proceedings have been published in (In)Visible Culture. We are seeking interdisciplinary work in various fields, given as 20 minute papers, artist presentations, or other scholarly/professional visual presentations.

Please submit 500-word abstracts, including 5-10 digital images if you are proposing an artist talk or visual presentation, to futureofthearchive@gmail.com by Wednesday, January 31, 2007.

Previous Conferences

April 8 -9, 2005 - Public Displays of Affection

April 4-5, 2003 - Casting Doubt

March 17-18, 2001 - Theory and Practice

March 26-27, 1999 - Subjects of Culture

March 27-28, 1998 - Interrogating Subcultures

April 7-8, 1995 - Mining the Field/Filling the Blanks: Cultural Studies and the New Art Histories