CFP-Inside Knowledge

Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Methodologies, Imagining Alternatives

The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) invites proposals for an international workshop, INSIDE KNOWLEDGE, to be held at the University of Amsterdam on March 28-30, 2007.

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Derek Attridge (University of York)
Leo Bersani (University of California, Berkeley) Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, London) Saurabh Dube (El Colegio de Mexico) Bruce Holsinger (University of Virginia)

Scholars think of themselves as having "inside knowledge" or being "inside" knowledge. The state of being inside can be interpreted as a comfort zone or privileged position, or on the other hand, a trap excluding other ways of knowing. Is being inside knowledge a kind of all-compassing frame forming our subjectivity or are scholars active agents in this process? Do we discover or invent knowledge? While the myth of knowledge as objective and neutral appears to have been debunked, a question remains unresolved: If not objectivity, then what?

(For the complete description, see
www.insideknowledge.nl.)

Deadline: October 1, 2006