Refiguring History: between the psyche and the polis
May 14-15 1999, Department of English Literary and Linguistic Studies
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Guest Speakers: Cathy Caruth, Emory University
John Frow, University of Queensland
Simon Jarvis, University of Cambridge
This conference aims to debate current thinking about the
representation of the past in contemporary literary and cultural
studies. Notions of "history" have recently been challenged or
disrupted and new definitions of "the event" offered in the fields of
psychoanalysis, gender studies, and trauma theory. Equally forceful
of late has been the rethinking of historicism and those historicist
approaches to conceptualizing the past and its presence.
Suggested topics include:
historical materialism;
historicisms;
memory;
trauma theory;
critical engagement with ideas of the past and the future in the work
of such figures as Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Foucault;
the representation of such events and crises as revolution and
genocide.
It is anticipated that the main focus of the conference will be
within Romantic and Modern Studies, but proposals from those engaged
with ideas or thinkers from other areas of literary and cultural
studies are also warmly encouraged, as are proposals on the visual
(e.g. film, video and photography).
Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be submitted by February
26th 1999, either by e-mail or post, to
Rachel Woolley / Refiguring History Conference
Dept. of English Literary and Linguistic Studies
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
For further details, please consult the conference website:
http://nrefhist.ncl.ac.uk
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