CfP: Aesthetics and Poetics in the History of Political Thought
13 June 2018, Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History
The uneasy distinctions between poetics, aesthetics and politics raise many important issues for historians of political thought. Can we sharply distinguish political and aesthetic concerns throughout history? Are political theories always determined by the languages and conventions in which they are uttered? What relationship does material culture have to the history of political thought? Aiming to explore these and related questions, the organisers of the 11th Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History, scheduled for Wednesday, June 13, 2018, invite submissions for presentations on the theme ‘Aesthetics and Poetics in the History of Political Thought.’
Topics can include, but are not limited to:
- the politics of language
- theories and nature of representation
- histories of metaphor
- gender, aesthetics and the political
- the politics of art and architecture
- conceptions of imagination and judgment
- rhetorical strategies in the history of political thought
- political thought and literature
- material culture and political thought
- the politics of cultural practice and exchange
- national aesthetics
- collecting and collections
- authorial self-representation
- histories of the book
- illustrations, figures and the aesthetics of textuality
Interested graduate students are asked to send an abstract (max. 500 words) for a 20-minute presentation and a short CV (max. 2 pages) to ptihconf@hermes.cam.ac.uk.
The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2018.
For additional information, please visit the conference website.
