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looks interesting... jo ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Call For Papers c o n s u m i n g a l t e r i t y an international postgraduate conference 15-17 October 1999 The Australian National University Alterity seems to have become the most frenetically produced, contested, negotiated and consumed cultural position in contemporary knowledge-productions. A vertiginous proliferation of discourses regarding postcoloniality, subalternity, and feminism is available for the consumption of the metropolitan academic. The issues of race, gender, class, subjectivity and positionality are all intimately linked with various negotiations of alterity. Some of the important issues that the conference would like to address are listed below: * Does the proliferation of alterity discourses trivialise the issues at stake? * Is it possible to maintain alterity and still participate in negotiations of power? * Does one have to speak from a position of abjectness to represent alterity? * How does one's location within certain institutions influence one's knowledge-production? * Is there any room for identitarian politics after the demise of the unified subject? In order to challenge the traditional structures of hierarchisation and canonicity within academia, the conference will not have keynote speakers. The conference aims to encourage cutting-edge theoretical debates with an inter-discliplinary focus: the more contentious your ideas, the better. Proposals for papers dealing with the theme of the conference are sought from postgraduates working in the humanities and the social sciences. Please send in your abstracts (250-300 words) and a brief biographical sketch by the 15th of May, 1999. Email for sending abstracts: [log in to unmask] convenors: saeed ur-rehman email: [log in to unmask] english and theatre studies, the australian national university, canberra, australia -0200 daniel silkstone email: [log in to unmask] english and theatre studies, the australian national university, canberra, australia -0200 conference regular mail address. consuming alterity: an international postgraduate conference department of english and theatre studies a.d. hope building the australian national university canberra australia -0200 phone number: 61-2-62492703 fax: 61-2-62493244 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%