September, 2002

Postcolonial Gay, Lesbian and Queer Writing

Deadline: September 15, 2002

For a Special Issue of the Journal of Commonwealth and  Postcolonial Studies on postcolonial gay, lesbian, and queer writing,  essays of between 7,000 and 10,000 words in length are requested. Deadline  for complete essays is 15 September 2002.

The Journal is devoted to and welcomes scholarly submissions on all aspects of colonial narratives and  postcolonial texts and theory: history, language, race, gender, identity,  migration and cultural exchange, among others.

While the Journal does not  presuppose or advocate a particular ideology or specific cultural  approach, it prefers that considerations of individual authors and texts  be placed in the context of literary, theoretical, sociopolitical, and  cultural paradigms.

Please send to: John C. Hawley, Dept. of English,  Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino, Santa Clara CA 95053.  jhawley@scu.edu Departmental FAX: 408 554 4837

Psychoanalysis in the New Millennium

Deadline: September 30, 2002

We invite submissions for "The Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism in the Twenty-First Century,"  the University of South Carolina's Fifth Annual Comparative Literature Conference, to be held February 13-15, 2003

The conference initiates a conversation about the relevance of psychoanalytic ideas in the twenty-first century.  Why do some of us continue to have a desire for psychoanalysis?  What is the nature of that desire?  What can psychoanalysis teach us about the social arrangements of our increasingly globalized world, and especially, about the psychic origins of our most pressing social problems (racism, sexism, homophobia, nationalistic violence, terrorism, genocide)?  Do psychoanalytic theories have anything to say about the highly "dispersed" identities of new information technologies?  Or do those theories remain too invested in embodied identities grounded in what Freud calls "the bodily ego"?   Finally, can psychoanalytic accounts of creativity and agency offer resources for cultural critique?  Can they help us resist the fashionable pessimism that sees the new global culture as inevitable?  Or is analysis in some basic way conservative, concerned with accommodating subjects to the norms of the societies in which they live?

Presentations should be broadly interdisciplinary. Please send abstracts
of 20-minute papers by 30 September 2002 to: Paul Allen Miller, Chair,
Comparative Literature Program, Humanities Building, Columbia, SC 29208.

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Paul Allen Miller
Director, Program in Comparative Literature
Assoc. Prof. Classics
Co-editor Intertexts
Department of French and Classics
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
pamiller@sc.edu
(Ph) 803-777-0473
(Fax) 803-777-7514

Greg Forter
Department of English
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC  29208
(803) 777-2332
gforter1@gwm.sc.edu

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