February, 2002

Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

Deadline: February 1, 2002

1st Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at the University of
Pittsburgh, March 16-17, 2002, Pittsburgh, PA

Keynote speaker: Richard M. Gale (University of Pittsburgh)

The 1st annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at the University of Pittsburgh will be held March 16-17, 2002 on the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Current undergraduates are encouraged to submit philosophical essays written at any time during their undergraduate careers. Papers should be approximately 3000 words (9- 2 pages). Please send two copies of paper and abstract to:

Kieran Setiya
Department of Philosophy
1001 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Electronic copies can be sent to kis23@pitt.edu

Submission deadline is February 1, 2002. Final decisions will be made by February 21, 2002.

Registration costs $30 on or before March 10, 2002 and $35 after March 10, 2002.

For further information, contact Professor Setiya at kis23@pitt.edu

Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

Deadline: February 1, 2002

April 5-7, 2002
Pacific University
Forest Grove, Oregon
Keynote speaker: Hilary Putnam (Harvard University)

The 6th annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference will be held April 5-7, 2002 on the campus of Pacific University, in Forest Grove, Oregon.  The purpose of this conference, initiated and organized by students, is to provide a forum for the presentation of philosophical work of undergraduates to their peers.  Papers are required to be of philosophical content, but there are no specific restrictions on subject matter within the arena of philosophical discussion itself.  Papers should be approximately 3000 words (10-12 pages).  Please send two copies of paper and abstract to:

   David Boersema
   Department of Philosophy
   Pacific University
   Forest Grove
   OR 97116

   Phone: 503 359 2150
   Fax:   503 359 2242

Electronic copies can be sent to:  boersema@pacificu.edu

Group papers and suggestions for panel discussions are also welcome. Submission deadline is February 1, 2002.  Final decisions will be made by February 28, 2002.

Volunteers for paper commentators and session chairs are also welcome.

Travel and lodging information can be found on the conference website:
http://www.cas.pacificu.edu/philosophy/ugradconference.htm

Registration costs: $25 on or before April 1, 2002 and $30 after April 1,
2002.  The registration fee will cover the Friday night dinner, Saturday
breakfast and lunch, and Sunday breakfast.

For further information, contact Professor Boersema boersema@pacificu.edu

Audre Lorde

Deadline: February 1, 2002

Proposals invited for conference and book: critical essays on Audre  Lorde, her poetry, prose, activism (particularly poetry).  Book intended  for general reader, so no heavy jargon please. Send proposals or  inquiries via e-mail to cwiley@carbon.cudenver.edu or snail-mail to  Catherine Wiley, Dept of English, Campus Box 175, P.O. Box 173364, Univ  of Colorado at Denver, Denver 80217 by May 1, 2002.

Proposals for conference paper by Feb 1 (Rocky Mountain MLA, October
2002, Scottsdale AZ)

Living in a Gendered World

Deadline: February 1, 2002

"Living in a Gendered World"
Friday, March 1, 2002
9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m
William Paterson University of New Jersey

Theoretical Misfits: An Interdisciplinary Conference

Deadline: February 1, 2002

The 2nd Annual EGO Conference will be held April 4-6, 2002 at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. The theme of this year's interdisciplinary conference is "Theoretical Misfits." What role does the figure of the misfit (and related concepts of grotesquerie, gothic, the Other, and the abject) play in global and local cultural studies and theory? Does the role of the misfit arise from new theories, cultural shifts, evolving technologies, and/or recent discoveries? How do recent re-thinkings of the misfit change how we think of culture and theory? Do past mis-fits help us think through the future regarding these issues?

We invite papers and/or presentations that investigate these notions from a variety of perspectives, including American and British literature and culture, Film and Media studies, History, Romance Languages, German and Slavic Languages, Anthropology, Sociology, Fine Arts, Architecture, Music, and Political Science. Abstracts connecting the theme of last year's conference topic, "Souths: Global and Local," with "Theorizing the Misfit"  are also welcome (to read last year's cfp, go to the 2001 conference website at http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/ego/conference01/

While we are especially interested in abstracts/proposals which address the following suggested topics, we encourage a diversity of approaches and  topics.

* Cultural misfits: the disenfranchised.
* Intellectual misfits: public intellectuals navigating between spheres.  
* Spatial misfit: implications of geography as both location and idea within academic study.
* Architectural misfits: retro/nostalgic design, planned communities, public/private spaces in the 21st century.
* Rebels looking for a cause? Teenage misfits.
* Performativity: intentional (mis)fits.
* Hip hop, punk rock, noise: still misfits?
* Multi-media misfits: video games, hypertext, and virtual reality in academia.
* Economic misfits: capital (un)development.
* Genders and desires that cross the line(s).
* The English-only debate: language misfits?
* Revisionism in historical studies: misfit history?

Proposals for papers or presentations should be sent to:

    ego-l@clas.ufl.edu

or

    EGO c/o Department of English
    PO BOX 117310
    University of Florida
    Gainesville, FL 32611-117310

This conference is sponsored by the English Department, ACCENT, the Graduate Student Council, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Student Council, Goerings Bookstore, Custom Copies and is organized by the University of Florida English Graduate Organization.

The Holocaust

Deadline: February 1, 2002

The editors of History in Dispute: The Holocaust are seeking contributors  to a series of debates regarding the Holocaust. This volume is part of a  series published by St. James Press, an imprint of Gale Reference, in which  major historical events and subjects are confronted from conflicting sides,  thus exposing the controversies inherent in the subjects and in historical  methodologies themselves.

The Editors do not consider Holocaust denial a  viable subject for dispute. Writers will be compensated for their essays.  Interested scholars should contact editor Tandy McConnell  for a list of  available topics.  Deadline is February 1, 2002.

Tandy McConnell, PhD
Chair, Department of History
Columbia College
Columbia, SC
tmconnell@cola.coll.edu
(830) 786-3627

Survival Strategies: Life/Language/Literature

Deadline: February 8, 2002

The English Graduate Student's Association of York University invites  submissions for its annual colloquium to be held February 25-26, 2002.  This year's colloquium is organised around the theme of "Survival  Strategies: Life/Language/Literature".

We welcome papers that make use of, or critique, discourses of survival.  Topics could include, but are in no way limited to: Time/Nation/Space Gender/Sexuality/Body Culture/Ethnicity/Indigeneity

Proposals for panels or 20 minute papers should be sent by Friday,  February 8, 2002 to Kerry Doyle kdoyle@yorku.ca or Megan Hillman  mhillman@yorku.ca

EGSA Colloquium Committee
Graduate Programme in English
215 Stong College, York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON
M3J 1P3

Third Wave Feminism

Deadline: February 14, 2002

Third Wave Feminism International Conference
~ An Institute for Feminist Theory and Research Conference  ~
http://www.iftr.org.uk

July 23-25, 2002
Crossmead Conference Centre
University of Exeter, UK

The conference will address the parameters of second wave feminism, posing  the question of a third wave in feminist theory and history in order to  redirect feminist enquiry without acceding to the defeatism implicit in  postfeminism.

Possible Topics:
·       What is Feminism?
·       Feminist Politics in the Academy
·       Third Wave Femininity
·       Who's Afraid of Essentialiam?
·       Sexualities
·       Historicising the Third Wave
·       Cyberfeminism
·       (un)Popular Feminisms
·       Racial and Gendered Bodies
·       What Happened to the Sisterhood?
·       Visual Culture
·       The Maternal
·       Consciousness-Raising
·       Reproductive Technologies
·       Transgender/Genderfucking
·       Literary Feminisms
·       Interrogating the 'Waves'
·       Class and Gender
·       Reconstructing the Second Wave
·       Between Materialism and Psychoanalysis
·       The Feminist Critic


Please note - this list is not comprehensive and is intended to suggest  rather than prescribe.

Abstracts/ Panel proposals for academic papers, installations, readings,
short films or performances by February 14, 2002 to:

Dr. Stacy Gillis
School of English
University of Exeter
Exeter, Devon
EX4 4QH
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0)1392  264343 or 263712/ Fax: +44 (0)1392  264361
Email: s.j.gillis@exeter.ac.uk

Culture and Power: Phobias

Deadline: February 14, 2002

Culture & Power: Phobias
Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain
3-5 October 2002

The 8th International  "Culture & Power" Conference will be hosted by the Department of English & German Philology of Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain. The organisers seek proposals for 20-minute presentations related to the area of Cultural Studies. The proposed topic for the conference is "Phobias", though all proposals will be considered. The events that shook the world last September and their immediate repercussions at a domestic and an international level have triggered a multiplicity of reactions in no way independent from the previous cultural status quo both in and outside the English-speaking world. Likewise, the unforseen and dramatic start of the new millennium has reasserted or brought back to life individual fears and uncertainties that postmodernism had persistently - though vaguely - sketched.We are particularly interested in the conflictive relationships between the private and public spheres, in the intersection between freedom and security, and in the hypothetical way those relationships might be reformulated. Proposals are welcome on (but not restricted to) the following areas:

· Cultural, linguistic and religious phobias
· Race and gender phobias
· Security, privacy and freedom
· The cultural construction of public enemies
· Advertising phobias
· East-West/North-South: the geography of mistrust
· I, me, myself, mine
· Technophobia
· Utopias and dystopias
· Millenarism and end of the world

Conference Title: 8th International Culture & Power Conference Organising Institution:  Department of English & German Philology Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain. Conference Dates: 3-5 October 2002 Deadline to submit title and 300-word abstract:
· 14 February 2002
· e-mail abstracts as body text (sorry, no attachments)
Deadline to submit article: 1 June 2002
Contactpersons: Dr. Cristina Andreu  (caj@fll.urv.es), Dr. Pere Gallardo
(pgt@fll.urv.es)

Shrewish Women in Literature

Deadline: February 15, 2002

CFP for a proposed panel on shrewish or unruly women in history and/or literatue, to be held at (Dis)Junctions: the Ninth Annual Humanities Conference of the Unviersity of California, Riverside.  The conference will be held at UCRiverside on the fifth and sixth of April.  Papers for this panel mayconsider topics such as, domestic power relations, proper/improper codes of female behavior, amazons, the implications of a female monarch, or women in other positions of power in a patriarchal society, common stereotypes, the education of women, conduct literature, and witchcraft as a means of female deviance or power, or other pertinent topics.

Abstracts of one page may be e-mailed with the text in the body of the message to disjunctions@hotmail.com, or sent to the following address: (Dis)Junctions:UCR's Ninth Annual Humanities Conference Department of Riverside UCRiverside Riversice, CA 92521-0323

All abstracts should be recieved by Feb. 15th.  For
more information, please visit http://www.geocities.com/disjunctions

African-American Literature

Deadline: February 15, 2002

CFP: African-American Literature (grad) (2/15; 04/05/02 - 04/06/02) "(Dis)junctions: The Center Does Not Hold" is the ninth annual humanities  graduate student conference at the University of California, Riverside  located in Southern California to be held April 5-6, 2002. We are currently accepting abstracts for papers focusing on African-American  literature. Possible topics may include but are not limited to: African   American masculinity, motherhood,music, homosexuality, mapping racialized  bodies, black utopias, "passing," and resistance. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, though not necessary.

Minorities in Photography

Deadline: February 15, 2002

"(Dis)junctions: The Center Does Not Hold" is the Ninth Annual Humanities  Graduate Student Conference at the University of California, Riverside.  It  is a two day event, April 5-6, 2002, located on the Southern California campus in Riverside.

We are currently accepting abstracts on Minorities in Photography.  The  papers can address either minority photographers or potraits of minorities.   Some possible topics include, but are not limited to: how do minorities and colonized peoples redefine the gaze through their  photographs?; how is photography connected to the America's categorization of racial others?; photography and Poe, or how is photography used to inspect the other?; Interdisciplinary approaches to these topics are encouraged, though not  necessary.

Individual abstracts and abstracts for pre-formed panels of three should be  sent to disjunctions@hotmail.com by February 15, 2002. The submissions  should be no longer than 250 words for individual submissions and 750 for  panel submissions.  Applications sent via snail mail must arrive no later  than February 15, 2002 and should be sent to: Disjunctions, UCR's Ninth Annual Humanities Conference Department of English UC Riverside Riverside, CA 92521-0323

For more information about the conference, please visit
http://www.geocities.com/disjunctions

Globalizing Race

Deadline: February 15, 2002

The University of Chicago
Minority Graduate Students Association
"Globalizing Race"
Ninth Annual "Eyes on the Mosaic" Student Conference
Ida Noyes Hall
March 30, 2002

The Minority Graduate Student Association at the University of Chicago is requesting abstracts for graduate student papers to be presented at the annual Eyes on the Mosaic Minority Graduate Student Conference held at the University of Chicago. The aim of the conference is to bring graduate students from across the country, irrespective of ethnicity, to present their current research on topics related to issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and politics. This year's conference will focus on global processes connected to modern/postmodern constructions and constitutions of race. By situating the question of race within an international framework, the conference intends to compare and contrast racial formations in various geo-political contexts around the globe (i.e., Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa).

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Race and the Literary Imagination; Race and Sexuality; Multivalent Identities; Bilingualism; Migration Patterns; Slavery; Reparations; Domestic Racism; Race and Gender; Race and Law; Citizenship; Race and International Relations; Global Poverty;  "Third World" Debt; Race and Religious Conflict; Politics of Identity and Difference; Nationalism, the Global Village, and the Diaspora

Submission Guidelines:

If you are interested in participating in this event, please submit an abstract with your contact information (including e-mail address), and your institutional affiliation by February 15, 2002 Submit abstracts of 250 words (max) for 20-minute paper presentations.

Please e-mail abstracts and/or questions to the following address:

MGSA2000@hotmail.com

The Many Faces of Evil in Literature, Art, Culture and Film

Deadline: February 15, 2002

PAL 2001 Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
March 23, 2002

The Philological Association of Louisiana (PAL) invites papers of all topics to be presented at the 2001 Conference to be hosted by Dillard University in New Orleans. Our major theme this year is:  The Many Faces of Evil: Its Representations in Literature, Art, Culture, Film

Other categories include, but are not limited to:

Women's studies, feminism, psychoanalytic theory
Race, class and/or gender studies
Louisiana, Southern, or American literature
British literature
World literature
Creative writing

Please mail (or email) a one-page typed, double-spaced (not to exceed
250 words) abstract to:

Deborah Lewis, Assistant Professor
English Department, Dillard University
2601 Gentilly Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70122
504/816-4858
email: dlewis0@netzero.net
(that's dlewis-numeral zero-@netzero.net)

and indicate under what area or areas you'd like your presentation to be
considered

DEADLINE FEBRUARY 15th 2002

Registration fee of $42 will include all-day presentations on Saturday, March 23 and a reception that evening with hors d'oeurves and a cash bar, all to be held at the Queen and Crescent Hotel on the edge of the French Quarter (same location as last year). Rooms there will be available at the group rate of $129 single or double for the night of 3/22 and $139 for the night of 3/23.

The Importance of Being Arthur: Representations of Masculinity 1954-1963

Deadline: February 15, 2002

An interdisciplinary conference being held over a Saturday Night and Sunday Morning at Froebel College, Roehampton University of Surrey  13 - 14 July 2002

New modes of cultural production and distribution in the 1950s have meant there was no shortage of male icons to emerge in the decade.  In British writing of the period masculinity itself seems to perform an iconic role in embodying and challenging the beliefs and shibboleths of an older culture perceived as increasingly redundant.

The conference takes as its focus English neo-realist fiction of the period including such novelists as Sillitoe, Braine, Storey, Barstow, Amis and Wilson.  Their insistent concern with an assertive but beleagured male identity (mentored by both Lawrence and Orwell) seems to call into question nearly all the assumptions about class and many of the assumptions about sexuality that underpinned writing earlier in the century (Woolf, Waugh, Huxley et al).  Frequently acclaimed at the time as culturally and politically radical much of this writing has, in turn, come to be seen as clumsy, sexist and of dubious value.  At the same time its sympathetic engagement with popular culture and life has contributed significantly to contemporary perspectives and practices in literature, film and television.

We want to take a closer look at both the writing and the contexts, including the radical transformation of the material life and the political and economic expectations of British society after World War Two, in an attempt to understand better the often ambiguous nature of its male protagonists in both the social and literary spheres.

We are inviting papers of twenty minutes on all relevant aspects of British life and culture of the period (as well as its antecedents and aftermaths). Topics and approaches might include:

Working-class life: image and reality
Popular culture and American models
The music business
Fashion and design
Gender studies and Queer Theory
Censorship, the law and the Wolfenden Report
End of Empire: Suez and its aftermath
Industrial and technological change
Immigration and HMS Windrush
Medical, psychological and scientific discourses
Film and television
National service
The rise of the celebrity
The position of sport
Orwell, Hoggart and the Uses of Sociology

Abstracts should be accompanied by a brief CV and submitted to the address below by 15TH February 2002.

Lisa Hall
Conference Administrator
School of English and Modern Languages, Roehampton University of Surrey
Roehampton Lane, London SW15 5PH
Tel: 020 8392 3362    Fax: 020 8392 3146
Email: lisasam@hallco.freeserve.co.uk
Website: http://www.hallco.freeserve.co.uk/arthurhome.html

Social Theory: (in)civilities

Deadline: February 15, 2002

disClosure, a journal of social theory , invites submissions for

Issue #12:  (in)civilities

visit the web site version of this call at:
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/SocTheo/DisClosure/cfp12.htm

This issue of disclosure is devoted to the concept of civility and its  various manifestations.  We seek submissions that explore the theoretical  and practical dimensions of civilities and incivilities (broadly defined).  Contributions from an array of theoretical perspectives are welcome, including, but not limited to: poststructuralism, critical theory, Marxism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, gender theory, and postcolonialism. We invite  work that addresses any aspect of the issue theme.  Possible topics might  include:

citizenship, community, identity, the state,  democracy, civil society, grass roots movements, anarchy, patriotism, fear, hate, freedom, rights, nationalism, social body, power,  exploitation, isolationism, radical democracy, civilization, imperialism,  colonialism, globalization, terrorism, genocide, oppression, militarism, domination, compassion, activism, hegemony, resistance, justice, censorship, violence,  non-violence,  fascism, desire

submission deadline: February 15, 2002

About disClosure: a journal of social theory-
disClosure is a blind refereed journal produced in conjunction with the  Committee on Social Theory at the University of Kentucky. The journal  welcomes submissions from all theoretical perspectives and genres (essay,  interview, review, short fiction, poetry, artwork) and from authors and  artists (academically affiliated or not) concerned with social theory.  Editorial decisions are based solely on quality and originality.   

Articles in past issues of disClosure have broadly engaged material of  interest to readers in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. In the  past, editorial collective members have interviewed:  David Roediger, Linda  Alcoff, Alexander Cockburn, Jane Flax, David Harvey, Chantal Mouffe, Gloria  Anzaldua, Paul Taylor, Cindi Katz, bell hooks and others. Art and poetry  submissions from international and more local contributors have also  appeared in disClosure as important expressions relating to the themes  considered.

Submission information:
Papers: Include three copies of text submissions, double spaced and no  more than 10,000 words.  Manuscripts, notes, and bibliographies should  follow MLA format. Art and other graphic material may be submitted as  transparencies, prints, or electronic files (with hard copy provided for  proofing).  Please do not submit material that has been half-toned for  publication (e.g., pictures in books or catalogues).
Art/Poetry:  Artists should submit digital or camera-ready material.   Electronic submissions should be accompanied by hard copy.  Art cannot be returned, so do not send originals.  Include one copy of poetry submissions.
N.B.: Authors are responsible for securing copyright and fair-use notices  and must submit them prior to disClosure publication. All material accepted  by disClosure for publication becomes property of the journal. disClosure is  not responsible for loss or damage resulting from submission.

Mail to: disClosure
c/o Department of Philosophy
1415 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY, USA 40506-0027

e-mail inquiries for this issue to: DC-EDITOR@LSV.UKY.EDU

Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy

Deadline: February 15, 2001

2002 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Toronto and Ryerson Polytechnic University 28-29 May 2002

We invite proposals for papers, in English or French, on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (SF).  We are interested in papers on a broad range of topics and from a variety of approaches.  Papers could be historical, biographical, theoretical, or pedagogical, and can explore works in any medium: literature, film, graphic novels and comic books, and poetry.

Possible topics could include:

. Definitions of SF: international and regional influences
. Is there a distinctly 'Canadian' SF?
. Relationships between English-Canadian and French Canadian/Québecois SF
. Is there a Canadian SF canon?
. The city in Canadian SF
. Ethnic/minority discourse in Canadian SF
. Comparisons between Canadian SF texts and texts from other        
national traditions (particularly American and British)
. Queer readings of Canadian SF
. Sex and Canadian SF
. Gender and Canadian SF
. Canadian SF and the postcolonial
. Canadian SF and popular culture
. Canadian SF and globalization
. Canadian SF and Canadian Literature; Canadian SF and academia
. Canada in non-Canadian SF

Proposals should be 250-500 words.  The deadline is 15 February 2002.
Please send proposals, preferably by email, to: accsff@hotmail.com.
Or, proposals can be sent by surface mail to:

Dr. Nancy Johnston
The Writing Centre
University of New Brunswick Saint John
Saint John NB E2L 4L5
fax: (506) 648-5681

or

Dr. Douglas Ivison
Department of English
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's NF  A1C 5S7
fax: (709) 737-4528

Is Michel Foucault a Philosopher?

Deadline: February 15, 2002

Bulletin of the American Society of French Philosophy
Issue #4: "Is Michel Foucault a Philosopher?"
Co-editors: Alex Galloway and Alexander Glage

Deadline for Submissions: February 15, 2002

Is Michel Foucault a philosopher? The question might seem problematic, perhaps even naive. After all, the very category of "philosopher" (or,  for that matter, the categories of "historian," "sociologist," "doctor,"etc.) is just the sort of thing that Foucault sought to historicize, and thereby to put into question. Indeed, at the heart of Foucault's work is a persistent concern, not only with the way various knowledges have constituted their respective "objects" at different moments in history, but also with the way those knowledges have existed alongside one another, shaping themselves through often tenuous and shifting relations.

Nevertheless, the question of whether Foucault is philosopher might yet be a profitable one, especially if posed within the context of his later works. In Foucault's introduction to the second volume of "The History of Sexuality," for instance, he writes that the labor which gave rise to that text was not, strictly speaking, that of an historian, but was instead a "philosophical exercise." He admits that,
         "The object was to learn to what extent the effort to think
         one's own history can free thought from what it silently thinks,
         and so enable it to think differently."
Indeed, Foucault goes so far as to say that this very effort, this "critical work that thought brings to bear on itself," this reflection that the subject performs upon itself so as to enable it to "think differently," might very well be "the living substance of philosophy." "Philosophy" in this sense would be irreducible to a purely academic distinction: it would rather name a certain way of living, an "art of existence."

The possibility that such an "art" lies at the heart of Foucault's work, and that this art is aptly named "philosophy," forms the general framework for Issue #4 of the "Bulletin of the American Society of French Philosophy."  We invite submissions having to do with the relationship between Foucault's work and philosophy, or which otherwise take up, in a way inspired by Foucault's writings, the possibility of thinking "philosophy" beyond its merely academic or disciplinary status-- that is, philosophy conceived as an "ascesis" or "art of existence."

Submissions may take the form either of full-length scholarly articles, or of shorter, more personal "testimonies" regarding the author's relationship to Foucault's life and work. Deadline for submissions is February 15, 2002. Please email submissions in Word format to alex@rhizome.org and glage@yahoo.com

Image and Imagery

Deadline: February 28, 2002

2nd Biennial Conference
Image and Imagery
Frames, Borders, Limits:
a multidisciplinary exploration of the intersection or interdependence of
the visual, textual and oral/aural modes of expression in the arts
October 16, 17, 18, 2002
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario

We welcome submissions of 200 word abstracts from the disciplines of fine arts, music, modern and classical literatures, film and communications studies, drama and philosophy.  Proposals should consider works that test or challenge the boundaries of the mode of expression in which they are cast.  Papers will be given in English.  Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 28, 2002.  Please send abstracts to the following e-mail address:image@www.brocku.ca

Conference organizers:
Prof. Corrado Federici, Prof. Leslie Boldt-Irons and Prof. Ernesto Virgulti Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Canada  L2S 3A1

Interdisciplinary Crossroads: Contact Zone

Deadline: February 28, 2002

Twelfth Annual EGAD Interdisciplinary Symposium
April 6, 2002
Texas A&M University- Commerce
Commerce, Texas
Deadline: February 28, 2002

An interdisciplinary look at all aspects of literature, creative writing, poetry and pedagogy, including, but not limited to cultural views, historical influences, feminist viewpoints, goddess imagery, political ideals, and images of citizenship.  This includes composition and rhetoric, children's literature, gender studies, popular culture, bilingual texts, historical perspectives, theory, linguistics and social constructs.  These are open topics.  For example, they can refer to poems, plays, film, novels, non-fiction, scholarly works, travel  writings, as well as imaginative political writing around issues of race, region or religion.

Papers are welcome from English, History, Political Science, and  Sociology departments.

Please provide a 250 word abstract and CV via email to Lawton@neto.com  with the subject line as EGAD prior to February 30, 2002.  Or send your  abstract and CV to Rachel Lawton, Texas A&M University-Commerce,  Literature and Languages, P. O. Box 3011, Commerce, Texas 75429.

Email submissions preferred.

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