IAPL – London (1-7 June 2009): Call for General Session Chairs

 

The International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) is having its annual conference at Brunel University, West London, England from 1-7 June 2009.  I'm on the Executive Committee and need to find chairs for the following General Sessions:

 

Re-Vamping the Human [papers on H. G. Wells, Lyotard, Deleuze and Guattari, and Descartes’ machinic cosmology]

 

Twice-Told: Postmodern Fictional Territories [papers on Pynchon, Kundera, the graphic novel, magical realism and the post(post)modern philosophical as well as fictional territories]

 

Transformative Bodies [papers on prosthetic subjectivity, Eugenio Barba’s dilated body, Merleau-Ponty’s concept of style, and body art experimenting with gravity]

 

Memory, Identity, Narrative [papers on Andree Chedid, Faulkner, Pinter, Kristeva and Arendt]

 

Affective Politics [papers on David Foster Wallace’s political art, Michel Foucault’s influence on Giorgio Agamben, Derrida’s “Rogues” and Walter Benjamin]

 

Geo(logo)graphies [papers on rhizomatic city/texts and the geographies of Eco, Borges, Burroughs, Beckett and Darren Aronofsky]

 

Shifting Territories [papers on Deleuze’s geophilosophy, Deleuze and Heidegger on regions, territories and inscriptions in Goethe’s Elective Affinities and Victorian responses to mountains]

 

Edges of Deconstruction [papers on Artaud, Beckett, De Man and Derrida]

 

The overall theme for the IAPL 2009 conference is “Double Edges: Rhetorics, Rhizomes, Regions” and the IAPL website which has a lot of information about the conference is: www.iapl.info

 

To chair a session you need to join IAPL and pay 2009 dues and registration fees for the conference. Chairs have the option of introducing the session with a 5-10 minute opening presentation, using the title of the session as the title of their talk and our hope is that this can help people secure funding to attend the conference from their host institution.

 

If anyone is interested in coming to London and chairing one of these sessions, please contact me (Maria Margaroni) at [log in to unmask] as soon as possible.

 

If you are already on an IAPL panel or have submitted an abstract, it is not possible to be on the program twice.

 

Thanks for considering this request and I hope some of you can join us in London!

 

 

 

Maria Margaroni

Associate Professor

Dept. of English Studies

University of Cyprus

 

 

 

Jane Gawthrope

Manager

English Subject Centre