We’re pleased to announce that the full programme for the 2015 conference is now available. Please note that this programme is provisional and subject to change:
Short Programme 2015 V2 [UPDATED 2015-06-23]
Full Programme 2015 (UPDATED 2015-06-23)
LCCT 2015 will take place on 26-27 June 2015 at UCL.
UCL Anthropology
University College London
14 Taviton Street
London WC1H 0BW
You can register for LCCT 2015 through Eventbrite.
Call for papers 2015 │ Read more about how the conference works
DEADLINE: MONDAY 16 MARCH 2015
The fourth annual London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT) will offer a space for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas for scholars who work with critical traditions and concerns. It aims to provide opportunities for those who frequently find themselves at the margins of their department or discipline to engage with other scholars who share theoretical approaches and interests.
Central to the vision of the conference is an inter-institutional, non-hierarchal, and accessible event that makes a particular effort to embrace emergent thought and the participation of emerging academics, fostering new avenues for critically-oriented scholarship and collaboration.
The conference is divided into thematic streams, each coordinated by different researchers and with separate calls for papers, included in this document. We welcome paper proposals that respond to the particular streams below. In addition, papers may be proposed as part of a general stream, i.e. with no specific stream in mind. Spanning a range of broad themes, these streams provide the impetus for new points of dialogue.
Please send proposals for 20 minute papers or presentations, with the relevant stream indicated in the subject line, to paper-subs@londoncritical.org. Submissions should be no more than 250 words and should be received by the deadline of MONDAY 16 MARCH 2015.
The conference will take place on 26th and 27th June 2015. Participation is free (though registration will be required).
Call for stream proposals 2015 │ Read more about how the conference works
London Conference in Critical Thought: UCL, University of London, 26-27 June 2015
Call for Stream Proposals
The call for streams is now open for the 4th annual London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT). The conference is a space for those who share theoretical approaches and interests, but who frequently find themselves at the margins of their department or discipline. LCCT is an inter-institutional, non-hierarchical, and accessible event which makes a particular effort to embrace emergent thought and foster new avenues for critically orientated scholarship and collaboration.
There is no pre-determined theme for the conference. Instead, we encourage people to apply to organise thematic streams which attract responses from across disciplines. Stream proposals form the basis of our call for papers, and as such, are at the heart of the academic tone and content of each year’s conference.
We welcome submissions that seek to stimulate a range of cross-disciplinary responses. Our definition of critical thought is not prescriptive and the conference as a whole should reflect the state of contemporary critical thought. Previous streams have been on diverse topics such as: New Materialisms; The Soul at Work and in Debt; Feedback Loops of Feminist Theory and Practice; On Representation/Non Representation; Dissenting Methods; Transdisciplinary Law and Culture; and Sociocultural Criticism After Lehman Brothers. A full list of past streams can be found on our website.
Those whose proposals are accepted will be expected to take an active role as stream coordinators working in the LCCT organising collective. Further guidance, including what it means to be a stream organiser, how streams and papers are selected, examples of successful proposals, and more information on the ethos and organising structure of LCCT can be found here. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch at inquiries@londoncritical.org.
LCCT 2015 is hosted by the UCL department of Anthropology and supported by the UCL Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies, the UCL department of Geography and the London Contemporary Dance School.
The deadline for submissions is the 12th January 2015. Proposals should not exceed 500 words and should be sent to stream-subs@londoncritical.org.
The London Conference in Critical Thought is finished for another year. Thanks to all who participated, attended and joined the conversations – and to the collective (especially but not limited to Anna, Vic, Sam W, Ed, Matt, Tiffany, Eva, Ruth, Sam B, Linnette, Henry, Nathan, Toby, Chrysi).
We’ll be following up with announcements about LCCT 2015, but if you’re interested in getting involved, or if you’d like to know more about LCCT in general, please get in touch – our contact details are in the sidebar.
If you made any recordings of LCCT 2014, we’d be very interested in hosting them on this site. Please get in touch with Matt if you’ve got some that you’d like to share.
Thanks again,
The LCCT collective.