BRITISH COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
SECOND GRADUATE CONFERENCE
[boundaries]
Goldsmiths College, University of London
6 January 2005
CALL FOR PAPERS
From their historical designation as markers of separation to their more
current determination as comparative sites of exchange and transgression,
boundaries offer a diverse and productive opportunity to explore the
points of
relation and difference between such modes of discourse as literature,
art,
philosophy, politics and religion.
This one-day graduate conference, taking place at Goldsmiths College,
University of London, seeks to provide a forum for interdisciplinary
discussion regarding the ways boundaries inflect or complicate our
understandings of subjectivity, culture and politics.
Comparative and/or interdisciplinary proposals for twenty minute papers on
any
aspect of the boundary are invited. Topics for consideration may include,
but
are not limited to:
• The individual and the social
• Gender and sexual difference
• Love
• Death
• The human and the divine
• Corporeality and spirit
• Ghosts
• Creativity and the unconscious
• Religion and science
• Postcolonialism, transnationalism, borders
• Textuality and the visual arts
• Comparative Literature and the University
The deadline for receipt of 250 word abstracts is 1 November 2004. Please
email abstracts and enquiries to the conference co-ordinators, Mekella
Broomberg and Nikolai Duffy, at: [log in to unmask] Attendance is free
of
charge; speakers, however, are asked to join the British and Comparative
Literature Association. Further information can be accessed via the BCLA
website: www.bcla.org/boundaries
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