[oberlist] AT* cfp: Conference of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts, 5-8 Sept. 2012, Vienna

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Subject: [transversal] Conference of the Research Network Sociology of the
Arts, 5-8 Sept. 2012, Vienna
From:    "Tasos Zembylas" <Zembylas at mdw.ac.at>
Date:    Thu, November 3, 2011 6:22 pm
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Dear colleagues

I would hereby like to inform you about the next conference of the
European Research Network Sociology of the Arts, which will take place
from 5 to 8 September 2012 at the University of Music and Performing
Arts in Vienna.
The Call for Papers – see below – is thematically broad and it includes
various topics of arts sociology. Researchers from other disciplines who
are interested in interdisciplinary dialogue, as well as PhD students,
are explicitly welcome to participate in this conference.
Further, I would kindly ask you to disseminate this announcement to any
of your colleagues who might be interested in these topics. For more
information you can also visit the homepage of the conference:
http://www.mdw.ac.at/ESA-Arts-2012/

With best regards
Tasos Zembylas


7th Conference of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts
5–8 September 2012, Vienna, Austria

CALL FOR PAPERS
Sociology of the Arts – Artistic Practices

The Research Network Sociology of the Arts hereby announces its 7th
conference which will take place in Vienna from September 5th to the
8th, 2012. The organisation of the conference will be undertaken by the
Institute for Music Sociology at the University of Music and Performing
Arts Vienna.

The focus of the key conference lectures will be on artistic practices.
The concept of practice differs from the classical concept of action.
Concrete practices are located in communities of practice and therefore
should be analysed on the basis of their embedding in social structures
and cultural dynamics. This theoretical conception also transforms our
understanding of other concepts such as knowledge, intention, meaning,
institution, rule, structure, and power.
Artistic practices, as arrays of specific activities (including, in a
narrow sense, the area of conï¾­ception and production and in a broader
sense the promotion, distribution, displaying and conï¾­veying of arts
understanding) assume theoretical knowledge as well as know-how. They
assume connoisseurship but also practical abilities and skills. Artistic
practices are developed practically and collectively in collaborative
networks. They are pre-structured by conventions, institutions, regimes
of competence, forms or alignments of power as well as technological and
financial means, although practices themselves instigate the formation
of these various structural parameï¾­ters. Another seminal characteristic
of practices is their partly tacit dimension, which is due to the
inherent limits of language, of practical consciousness as well as to
the habituation that takes place after familiarisation and implicit
learning.
The invited four key speakers are: Karlheinz Essl (composer), Nathalie
Heinich (sociologist), Theodore Schatzki (philosopher), Laurent Thévenot
(sociologist).

The Call for Papers of this conference is also open for presentations
to all core areas of arts socioï¾­logy. We invite experienced and young
scholars from various disciplines sensitive to social inï¾­quiries into
the arts to participate in the conference. Presentations can be related
to following areas:
1.      Sociology focussed on particular domains in arts including
architecture, urban planning, applied arts, arts within the domain of
popular culture (e.g. film, television, and popular music) as well as
traditional 'high' arts (e.g. music, visual arts, literature, theatre,
etc.).
2.      The process of production, distribution, promotion and
commercialisation of works of art incluï¾­ding the impact of technology,
new means of production, forms of collaboration, the formation of art
theory, the development of arts markets, process of valuation etc.
3.      The process of presentation and mediation of arts including art
criticism and publicity in all domains of the arts, museums, theatres,
concerts, audience studies, attitudes towards the audience, educational
programs, etc.
4.      Professional development including amateurs and semi-amateurs,
vocational education, art schools, professional differentiation,
artistic income, artistic reputation, relation to arts management, etc.
5.      Arts organisations (not only houses such as museums, theatres
but also festivals and artists’ unions) – investigation of historical
development, power relations, effects, program selection, processes
within the organisations such as gate-keeping, leadership, etc.
6.      Arts policy (especially the sociological aspects thereof)
including legal issues, public and private funding, public discourse and
debates (e.g. classification of art, arts and religious symbols, arts
and sexuality, arts and racism), censorship, analysis of the impact of
arts, sustainability, lobbying associations, cultural ministries or
other government bodies.
7.      Social and cognitive effects of the arts including:  arts and
identity formation, arts and bodies, aesthetic experience, arts and
ethics, coding and decoding, gender related practices, ethnographic
aspects, art for social transformation, arts in communities and arts as
a part of urban culture.
8.      Arts from a macrosociological perspective including:
(de-)institutionalisation, economisation, globalisation vs. localism,
digitalisation, mediamorphosis, arts and social cohesion, arts and
ethics, arts and hegemony and arts and power.
9.      Theoretical development in arts sociology such as the
production of culture approach, (post-) structuralism, field theory,
system theory, praxeology as well as methodological issues.

Please note that there will be a conference fee to cover all catering
services (lunch, drinks, etc.)

Instructions
·         The abstracts must be written in English, be approximately
400 words, and include 3-5 keywords. Please submit your abstract and
full contact details as an electronic file not later than the 31st of
January 2012. Send the abstract to Tasos Zembylas (zembylas at mdw.ac.at)
with cc. to Claudia Borovnjak (borovnjak at mdw.ac.at)
·         The deadline for notification of acceptance of abstracts is
31st of March 2012.
·         Further information and guidelines will be on the conference
website:  http://www.mdw.ac.at/ESA-Arts-2012

For further details on the conference please contact us at email
zembylas at mdw.ac.at or
Tel. +43-1-71155-3617.




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Univ.Prof.Mag.Dr. Tasos Zembylas
Chair of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts - European
Sociological Association
Institut für Musiksoziologie / Institute for Music Sociology
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien / University of Music
and Performing Arts Vienna
Bayerngasse 3/6, 1030 Vienna, Austria
Tel: ++43 - 1 - 71155-3617, Fax:++43 - 1 - 71155-3699
http://personal.mdw.ac.at/zembylas
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