Deterritorialized Culture
7-8 May 2010
The third in the CEELBAS-funded series 'Situating Culture', this workshop explored cultural processes and practices in non-territorial and virtual spaces. Starting points for discussion included questions of how deterritorialized spaces are defined; and the extent to which deterritorialization expands discursive space and
opportunities for participation in cultural processes, or instead
reinforces traditional hierarchies of political power, social or
socioeconomic dominance and cultural value. Central problems of deterritorialization that were interrogated during presentations and wide-ranging discussions included questions of what the notion of 'deterritorialization' presupposes; the extent to which deterritorialized culture exists outside the English-speaking world; and the impact of deterritorialization on a wide range of cultural forms (including opera, literature and stand-up comedy) and social or sociocultural activities (such as online social networking and participation in online forums).
Programme
PANEL 1
Mischa Gabowitsch (Princeton) -- 'Antifascist youth culture in the Internet age: observations from fieldwork in provincial Russia'
Adi Kuntsman (Manchester) -- 'Framing war, diasporising hatred, digitalising affect'
PANEL 2
Paul Murray-Stringer (Fordham University, USA) -- 'Towards the re-territorialization of disadvantaged students within university and college culture'
John Tomlinson (Nottingham Trent) -- 'The World in Ystad: Slavoj Zizek, Kurt Wallander and the mystery of deterritorialization'
PANEL 3
Anna Fishzon (Williams College, USA) -- 'Opera as a Way of Life and the Fan Letter as Authenticating Act in Fin-de-Siècle Russia'
Mark Watson (novelist, stand-up comedian) -- 'Instant media and the deterritorialization of comedy'
PANEL 4
Jan Culik (Glasgow) -- 'Deterritorialized Culture: Does it Exist Outside the English-speaking World?'
Mariusz Czepczynski (Gdansk/Tuebingen) -- 'From socialist deterritorialized spaces towards deterritorializing post-socialist societies'
PANEL 5
Elisa Coati (Manchester) -- 'Time and space games on Boris Akunin's virtual pages'
Sudha Rajagopalan (Utrecht) -- 'Sartorial Citizens: the interactive web audience for Russian makeover television'
PANEL 6
Nicholas Boston (City University of New York/Cambridge) -- 'The Amorous Migrant: Interracial Desire, Relationships and Resettlement through Cyberspace'
Jan Matonoha (Institute for Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague/Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague) -- 'Re-territorializing Gender Subjectivities, De-territorializing a Text: Dispositives and Discursive Production of Silence in Czech Literature 1948-89'