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Presumed Autonomy:Literature and Art in Theory and Practice10–13 May 2016Department of English, Stockholm University, Sweden&#160;Ever since the emergence of the modern marketplace for cultural goods, literary texts and art works have, on occasion, defied the expectations of its readers and audience, affronted their moral ethos, or flaunted a disregard for their sensibilities and norms. The potential power of art to disrupt the perceptions of its audience was foregrounded in the critical discourse of the modernists and the historical avant-garde and this possibility continues to animate critical debates, particularly those organized around some understanding of autonomy. With the all but complete commodification of every artistic and literary practice, it is more urgent than ever to pose the question whether we can still presume autonomy.The four-day conference seeks to bring together researchers from a range of disciplines to assess, from the perspective of the present, the historical trajectory of autonomy as it has been conceptualized, recognized, assumed, deployed, and questioned by critics and practitioners of art, and to explore artistic, philosophical, cultural, and institutional negotiations of art as embedded in and entangled with the multiple heteronomies of market, state, religion, education… (a list that cannot be complete). As there are important intersections between various definitions of autonomy as well as artistic practices, several methodological and thematic strands will be brought together in four streams :–Autonomy and the Avant-garde–Theories of aesthetic autonomy–Fields, markets, capitals, commodities and autonomy–Autonomy and the bodyThe conference organizers invite contributions that address the issues indicated in the rubrics above. You can choose either to earmark your abstract for one of the streams, or send it in for general consideration. The list below can be taken to indicate the scope of those particular and general concerns, while not necessarily restricting the possibilities. Proposals for presentations should address the problematics of autonomy in relation to one or several of the following thematic headings :aesthetic codings of the modern: myths, styles, temporalities, and techniquesaffectthe architecture of thoughtbiopower and controlcapitalismthe commoditycontemporary critical efforts to re-theorize formthe debate between activist and normative formalismsearly twentieth-century theorizations of literature and modern artecologiesfields of cultural productioneducation, the university: formation, reproduction and defense of autonomyforms of capitalglobal modernismsthe historical avant-gardeinaestheticsinstitutionsliving materialitiesnational, transnational, and postnational frameworksobject-oriented vs. becoming-oriented paradigmspoliticsthe (post)human bodyspaces, territories, placethe state as the source of autonomy or heteronomy“world literature,” the postcolonial condition, and economic globalization&#160;For more information about the conference, please visit our website: presumedautonomy.seConfirmed Keynotes: Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway, University of London), Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins University), Nicholas Brown (University of Illinois, Chicago), Anne A. Cheng (Princeton University), Peter Kalliney (University of Kentucky), Gisèle Sapiro (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, EHESS, Paris), and Lisa Siraganian (Southern Methodist University).&#160;Please submit your paper abstract (about 500 words) and a brief biographical note either by email to autonomy@english.su.se, or by using the ‘Proposal Submission’ tab on the conference’s website page “Call for Papers” for online submission. The deadline for submissions is on 15 December, 2015.&#160;Conference organizers:Gül Bilge HanBo G. EkelundMarina LudwigsCharlotta Palmstierna EinarssonIrina Rasmussen GoloubevaResponsable :Bo G Ekelund et al, Department of English, Stockholm Universityurl de référencehttp://www.presumedautonomy.seadresseStockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden