Call For Papers - Adorno Conference, Sussex

The Centre for Social and Political Thought (University of Sussex) is hosting a one-day conference on the 6th August 2009 to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the death of Theodor W. Adorno.

Anyone interested in presenting at this event is invited to submit either a paper proposal or abstract (no more than 500 words) to adorno.spt@gmail.com

Please include with proposals/abstracts your full name, email address, institutional affiliation, and position within institution.

We welcome papers on any issue directly related to (or influenced by) Adorno's work - areas of interest may include aesthetics, memory, technology, ethics, politics, ideology, literature, theory/praxis, fetishism, culture and critique, as well as Adorno's legacies, influence and contemporary relevance.

The dealine for submissions is the 31st May 2009.

Decisions regarding the final programme will be made shortly after the deadline.

For any further information, please contact either Simon Mussell s.p.mussell@sussex.ac.uk or Chris O'Kane co41@sussex.ac.uk