I have been asked to circulate the following Conference notice to 
members of the list

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JUDITH BUTLER, AL ALVAREZ, DANIEL BOYARIN, MICHAEL MACDONALD,
ALEXANDER MURRAY and others -
Scenographies of Suicide Conference,
Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck College, University of London

September 22nd-23rd, 2003

See (for further information and a booking form) the conference webpage
at

          http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/conferences/suicide.htm

And/or contact Dr Catharine Edwards on [log in to unmask]

Fees:   Standard £90 (2 days); £50 (1 day);
          £50 (students/unwaged, 2 days); £30 (1 day)


"Suicide has long been an uneasy yet somehow privileged site of 
attention for the humanities and social sciences. And yet in spite of 
this sense of the troubled importance of suicide, recognition of its 
relativity as a cultural practice has been restricted to what seems like 
a rather basic dichotomy separating the modern West and 'other 
societies'. What such a binarism tends to suppress is the extent to 
which acts of suicide tend to be, albeit in highly variant ways, 
performative acts or at least acts that are situated in determinate 
frames, assemblages or discourses of enactment and belief. This 
conference aims to explore the sense in which suicide is typically the 
object of such kinds of practices of enactment, framing and performance; 
to explore, that is, the sense in which there is a whole scenography of 
suicide."

Other speakers: Vikki Bell, Catharine Edwards, Rebecca Flemming, Mike 
Gane, James Laidlaw, Alexander Murray, Thomas Osborne, Charles Turner

Classics, History, Social Theory, Anthropology: an interdisciplinary 
conference. Sponsored by the British Academy, Economy and Society and 
Birkbeck College, London

Please forward this e-mail to others who may be interested.

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Catharine Edwards
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Classics and
Archaeology,
Birkbeck, University of London
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Tom Osborne
Reader in Social Theory
University of Bristol
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