[Discussion] Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

[Gonul Pultar]

Call for Papers: BUILT Free Exchange, Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate 
Student Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary Alberta. March 5-6, 
2004. The aim of this year’s conference is to investigate things built: 
spaces, texts, ideas, histories, culture. Built as potential energy, 
building as kinetic. We hope to promote hybrid discussions on the 
trajectories of what is built, taken apart, destroyed and memorialized. 
We are interested in the built as material, body, text, memory, and 
language in continuous correspondence with the mosaics of various 
disciplines across historical periods. Indeed, we are interested in how 
disciplines and periods are built. You are invited to submit papers that 
deal with space, negative space, contrived space, textual space, the 
fetish of space, the Fascist spectacle, the rhetoric of ‘rebuilding’ vs. 
‘mass destruction,’ politics, contemporary and historical ground zeroes, 
walls, exploitation of space, dialogues of the absent, holes, tunnels, 
scabs, subterranean passages, bridges, freeways, tattoos, memorials, 
intoxication, injection sites, squatting, gentrification, public spaces, 
private spaces, mythical spaces, molds, scaffolds. The above can be 
incorporated into or find collusions with ideas on: environmental 
design, eco-criticism, landscape, architecture, geography, nature 
constructions, the city, the flaneur, books, texts, poetics, the body, 
the building of nations, history, futurity, fictions. Plenary speakers 
to be announced. Abstracts from all disciplines are encouraged. Please 
submit one page abstracts and curriculum vitae to the address below by 
January 15, 2004. Submissions may be made by email or post. Free 
Exchange c/o Kenna L. Olsen, Chair Dept. of English, University of 
Calgary Social Sciences Bldg, 11th Floor 2500 University Dr., NW 
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 email: klolsen@ucalgary.ca
-- Kenna L. Olsen Graduate Student Department of English University of 
Calgary 403.220.5485 email: klolsen@ucalgary.ca