[Discussion] UPDATE: Gambling Theory

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Please note the extended submission deadline, MAY 15, for the 
conference, "Gambling Theory."

CALL FOR PAPERS
Gambling Theory
October 13-17, 2004

This major international conference will be hosted by the Centre for the 
Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, 
October 13-17, 2004, and will include more than 70 invited and selected 
papers by faculty and graduate students.  Proceedings of previous theory 
centre conferences ("Theory Between the Disciplines", "The Human 
Sciences in the Age of Theory", and "The Histories of Theory") have now 
appeared in book form.

The overarching themes of the conference focus on contemporary and past 
theory as species of risk-taking. Tentative sessions include:

The ends of gaming
Taking practical risks in doing theory
The break-up of established interpretive systems
The moment of crisis tackled head-on
What redemption is there in risk taking?
The dubious synchronicity of theory and its objects
Chance by chance
Balancing the waste-book
Morality at the edge
What kinds of urgency?
Gamblers and Idiots
Getting badlucky
Theory gambled away
When to stop the game?
What prosthetic futures for such bright pasts?
Speculation and hazard
Theory junkies
The theory of gambling and the gambling of theory

The NEW deadline for submission is May 15, 2004.

Please send papers or detailed abstracts (750 words) electronically to
masberg@uwo.ca

or by post or fax to:

Gambling Theory
The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
The University of Western Ontario
Room 200f, John Labatt Visual Arts Centre
London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
Fax: (519) 661 2020

This call can also be viewed at http://publish.uwo.ca/~masberg/gambling/.

More information on The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism can be
found at http://www.uwo.ca/theory.