[J. Daniel Jenkins]

This CFP from the AMS Music and Philosophy Study Group may be of interest!

Archives and archival work hold a contested position within music studies, especially given recent attempts to redress the forms of exclusion that have traditionally structured the field’s intellectual commitments. As much as they have functioned as the guarantors of scholarly legitimacy and objectivity, archives present a fruitful site to reflect on the larger historiographic, epistemological, and political aporias that accompany their existence. To this end, a growing body of literature has theorized “the archive” to better account for the ways that minoritized lives and practices have been obscured, rendered unruly, or simply forgotten within hegemonic narratives. Scholars such as Saidiya Hartman, Diana Taylor, Ann Laura Stoler, Ann Cvetkovich, and Robin Gray have thus articulated new critical perspectives on and from within the archive that productively sit alongside previous accounts from the likes of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida.

The Music and Philosophy Study Group seeks to continue these efforts and invites proposals for projects that conceptualize, critique, or generally reflect on archives or archival theory. Given the multiple “archival turns” that have been staged across the humanities, we encourage submissions from any critical tradition and welcome contributions that engage both the theory and praxis involved in archival work. We ask that proposals be no more than 250 words and indicate the intended form of the presentation, as we are amenable to projects outside of the standard 15-minute paper.

Possible Topics include:

-Acts of reclamation, rematriation, repatriation
-Critical fabulation and speculative approaches
-Materialist perspectives and theories of conservation
-Archives related to theory and philosophy
-Colonial, corporate, and/or institutional archives
-Politics and/or economics of archival labor
-Archives as community engagement
-Psychoanalytic approaches to loss, damage, and impermanence
-Historical conceptions of archives
-Philosophy of memory
-Digitization and its ethics

Submission details: Proposals (of less that 250 words) are due by 10 March 2023, 11:59pm PST. Please upload proposals through our submission form which is accessible through the following link (https://forms.gle/ybgX9g9UCXUnxKR67) or the Study Group website (https://musicandphilosophy.tumblr.com).

Any and all further inquiries can be sent to mpsgsubmissions -at- gmail.com.

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