[Discussion] CALL FOR PAPERS

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I. CALL FOR PAPERS: Deracinations: Bedouin, Gypsy, Nomadic, Immigrant and
Indigenous Spaces

INSCRIPTIONS '04: an arts and culture conference and festival
at Eastern Mediterranean University
in Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
June 3rd- 4th, 2004

Submissions are invited for a wide-ranging Panel Discussion on
the geographical and cultural implications-historical, legal, political,
social, etc.-of spaces inhabited by displaced or deracinated individuals and
populations, broadly defined. We welcome presentations dealing with specific
sites and circumstances as well as broader theoretical/philosophical
engagements.

Some possible topic areas (others are welcome):

-indigenous languages and literatures: memory and tradition
-translation and assimilation: naming, forgetting, and linguistic rights
-rights and empowerment: immigrants, refugees, labor migrants, illegals,
asylum seekers
-gender persecution, sexual orientation, and marginalization
-constructions of class, religion, race and ethnicity in displaced
populations
-nomadologies, subaltern discourses, and modes of transgression/resistance
-the economics of displacement: capital flow, social contracts, labor
regulations
-indigenous populations and issues of territory and natural/cultural
resources
-naturalization/immigration: citizenship and the construction of legal
subjects
-cultural diffusion: globalization and identity loss/construction
-problems of belonging: racism, ghettoization, stereotyping, exclusion,
assimilation
-social policy in the context of cosmopolitanism/multiculturalism/diversity
-deracinated/diasporic spaces and social welfare
-political and legal identity: representation, rights, and civic
participation
- the "outlaw": narratives of the "inside," border policies, and legal
violence
-the university, the Internet, and the social role of the
intellectual/activist
-postmodern/other subjects: autonomy, hybridity, virtuality

Prospective panelists are invited to send 250-word
abstracts/proposals for 15-20 minute presentations on any aspect of these
areas to
robert.dalonzo@emu.edu.tr
or
rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr
by 31st January, 2004.
We look forward to learning about your research, and to a provocative
discussion.

For more information about INSCRIPTIONS '04,
please visit our website at http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/index_conference.html /> Please also check out our links to "Individual Research Presentations" and
"Creative/Performance Work."

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II.CALL FOR PAPERS: Races, Ethnicities and Nationalisms

INSCRIPTIONS '04: an arts and culture conference and festival
at Eastern Mediterranean University
in Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
June 3rd- 4th, 2004.

We invite submissions for a Panel Discussion exploring how conceptions of
race, ethnicity and nationalism enter into social, cultural, economic,
political, and legal constructions/deconstructions of identity at our turn
of the century. We welcome presentations dealing with specific sites and
circumstances as well as broader theoretical/philosophical engagements.

Some possible topic areas (others are welcome):

-"imagined communities" (Anderson) and the "clash of civilizations"
(Huntington)

-irredentism, secession, and the boundaries of the nation-state

-"representative democracies" and the problems of political/legal
representation

-The Politics of Friendship (Derrida) and The Inclusion of the Other
(Habermas)

-group differences, individualism, and discourses of patriotism

-class structure, labor regulations, and race/ethnicity

-Critical Race Theory and "rights talk"

-gender, race, ethnicity and violence; the problems of the margin

-genocide, population transfer, and the international legal status of the
refugee

-Orientalism, cultural imperialism (Said), and globalization

-minority rights and the concept of political equality

-ethno-linguistic or religious nationalisms and modes of
assimilation/exclusion

-"white mythologies" (Derrida, Young) and "dissemiNations" (Bhabha)

-centered discourses, stereotyping, profiling, xenophobia

-"progress" vs. "preservation": the problems of ethnology and museumization

-citizenship, and questions of local/international power and resource
sharing

-NGOs, quangos, and national/international policy-making

-myths and symbols of race, ethnicity and nationalism

-globalization and national identity: ideologies of origin and destiny

-subaltern discourses (Spivak) and cultures of resistance

-ethnic conflict and the logic of self-determination/sovereignty

-the efficacy of military/economic sanctions, humanitarian intervention, and
peacekeeping

-international law, sanctions, and obligations: problems of enforcement and
compliance

-the role of intellectuals and/or institutions in shaping race, ethnicity,
and nationalism

Prospective panelists are invited to send 250-word
abstracts/proposals for 15-20 minute presentations on any aspect of these
areas to
robert.dalonzo@emu.edu.tr
or
rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr
by 31st January, 2004. We look forward to learning about your research, and
to a provocative discussion.

For more information about INSCRIPTIONS '04,
please visit our website at http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/index_conference.html /> Please also check out our links to "Individual Research Presentations" and "Creative/Performance Work." 


III.  CALL FOR PAPERS: Revisionist Histories: Memory and Forgetting

INSCRIPTIONS '04: an arts and culture conference and festival
at Eastern Mediterranean University
in Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
June 3rd- 4th, 2004

"Reading. is a belated and all-but-impossible act, and if strong is always a
misreading. [.] The strong reader, whose readings will matter to others as
well as to himself, is thus placed in the dilemmas of the revisionist, who
wishes to
find his own original relation to truth, whether in texts or in reality
(which he treats
as texts anyway), but also wishes to open received texts to his own
sufferings, or
what he wants to call the sufferings of history"
(Harold Bloom, A Map of Misreading [Oxford, 1975], pp. 3-4).

"All history. must more or less blindly encounter the problem of a
transferential relation to the past whereby the processes at work in the
object of study
acquire their displaced analogues in the historian's account"
(Dominick LaCapra, History & Criticism [Cornell, 1985], p. 11).

Representations of history are so unstable that to maintain
their mimetic force, their (experienced or constructed) links with land and
people, with the real, they must constantly be reinforced by political
decisions enforcing closure and limiting the proliferation of meanings.
Fear, acknowledged or not, of the wantonness of language-of the play of
words, of the potential loss of the real-underlies every national history
textbook and every state education system, and to maintain the presence of
the real, this fear is inscribed, either explicitly or implicitly, on the
memories and memorials of every nation: I will not forget!
Submissions exploring the relation between the real and its
representations are invited for a Panel Discussion on the
textual-historiographical processes by which the presence of "lived
experience" is maintained as such or reconfigured in literature/texts/acts
by historical agents and historians. (While it is not the specific focus of
this panel, we also welcome presentations of this nature regarding the
island of Cyprus, the venue of our discussion-a critical, generative space
where the criteria and parameters of "truth" and historical representation
have always been politically and emotionally charged; and where the
inscription of a question mark may have the force of a critical
interpolation.)
Some possible topic areas (others are welcome):

-cultural amnesia and creations of fictionalized identity

-history as narrative/literature: White, de Certeau, Rancière

-hermeneutic ripples: reconstruction/construction/deconstruction

-theological models of history: between Löwith and Blumenberg

-universalism, particularism and problems of relation in history

-trauma, repression and transference in history (LaCapra)

-redemption/eschatology/teleology: the end of history (Fukuyama, Niethammer)

-periodization and problems of origin and destiny

-Feyerabend, Bachelard, Kuhn, Popper, and paradigms of scientific progress

-history and/as system, progress, reason, freedom, anarchy

-historical intentionality: Barthes, Foucault, Derrida

-race, class, gender, nation, and narration

-the conception of history in Jena Romanticism

-modern historical time: the Annales historians

-history and the public sphere: Arendt, Habermas, Cottereau

-"New Historicism": intersections between history and literature

-Lyotard's "postmodern condition" and historical "grand narratives"

-microhistories: Alltagsgeschichte (Medick) and microstoria (Ginzburg, Poni)

-rethinking social categories and organizations: Kocka, Wehler, Grendi, Levi

-Walter Benjamin, history, and aesthetics

-politics and intellectual history: Pocock, Skinner, Koselleck

-history and symbols: Hunt, Furet, Ozouf, Agulhon, Sewell

-epistemological/prescriptive validity and truth: history as
propaganda/ideology

-history, culture, system: Geertz, Weber, Bourdieu, Passeron, Cerutti,
Luhmann

-new technologies and the recording/framing of history

-the persistence of memory: the work of Pierre Nora and Henry Rousso

-historiographical forensics: evidence and exemplarity

Prospective panelists are invited to send 250-word abstracts/proposals for
15-20 minute presentations on any aspect of these areas to
robert.dalonzo@emu.edu.tr
or
rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr
by 31st January, 2004. We look forward to learning about your research, and
to a provocative discussion.

For more information about INSCRIPTIONS '04,
please visit our website at http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/index_conference.html /> Please also check out our links to "Individual Research Presentations" and "Creative/Performance Work." 

IV. CALL FOR PAPERS: Gender agendas, including transvestites, transsexuals, the transgendered and queering

INSCRIPTIONS '04: an arts and culture conference and festival
at Eastern Mediterranean University
in Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
June 3rd- 4th, 2004

The seventh annual Literature and Humanities Conference will be held
at Eastern Mediterranean University as part of Inscriptions '04, an Arts and
Culture festival taking place at the university and environs between June
3rd - 4th, 2004. In conjunction with a wide selection of music, performance
and film events, discussion- friendly papers are being solicited for our
symposium. Although we will be publishing selected presentations from
Inscriptions '04, we encourage participants to move away from the standard
prewritten, "finished paper" format, towards a more open-ended presentation,
which will provoke and contribute to a genuine exchange of research and
ideas during the panel sessions. Our aim is to create a forum and publishing
venue for inspiring work in progress, where the exchange of ideas with
fellow academics participating in the conference will contribute to the
final form of participants' work.

With this in mind, we invite papers and/or presentations that examine
the current status of critical thinking on gender agendas, including
transvestites, transsexuals, the transgendered and queering. Of particular
interest are presentations which consider these agendas as culturally
political sites for interrogating hegemonic discourses. Possible topics
might include but are not limited to:

- faith and healing in queer literature
- transgendered television characters
- queer cultures in cyberspace
- equations between gender and technologies
- pleasure, play and pain: the poetics of sado-masochism
- trans-feminism
- medical ethics and transsexuals
- the sex industry and the future of the female image
- "Barbie" and Teletubbies
- class, race and sex
- issues of gender, sexuality, and The Jerry Springer Show
- drag queens/drag kings in the desert
- queer theory: subversive or canonical?
- queering psychoanalysis
- the legacy of Jean Genet
- gendered gazes: Laura Mulvey, Norman Bryson, Judith Butler.
- gender and legal theory
- gendering religion
- nature/nurture and societal norms
- military machismo and the female soldier
- Anglo-American vs. French feminisms
- Bowie, music and androgyny
- Michel Foucault's archaeologies of sexuality


Please send 250 word abstracts by 31st January, 2004 to:
rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr
or
robert.dalonzo@emu.edu.tr
and please visit http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/index_conference.html for more
information.


V. CONF./CFP- Australasian Soc. for Inner Asian Studies, Macquarie Univ, Australia

Ancient History Documentary Research Centre
Department of Ancient History

Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies Conference

Expressions of Interest and Call for Papers

Art, Architecture & Religion on the Silk Road and Across Inner-Asian History

Macquarie University Saturday 27 - Sunday 28 November 2004

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings from the Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies. We write 
in reference to the forthcoming A.S.I.A.S. Conference to be held at 
Macquarie University on the weekend of November 27-28, 2004. We are in the 
initial stages of planning, and wish to invite you to either offer a paper 
or express your interest in attending. If possible, we would be grateful if 
you could let us have your response and themes for papers by mid-February 
2004 to facilitate programming.

The conference has grown considerably since its inception at Macquarie in 
1994 and is now receiving international recognition. 2004 marks the 10th 
anniversary of our gatherings and provides an ideal opportunity to celebrate 
a decade of Australasian scholarly research in our fields.

As you will be aware, Silk Road and Inner-Asian Studies continue to attract 
world-wide attention. The focus of our forthcoming conference on material 
culture as well as the history and the development of religions across the 
region is intended to encourage further inter-disciplinary approaches. Our 
previous conferences have barely touched upon the areas of Art, Architecture 
and Religion and the significant relations and interaction between them. 
Next year's gathering will provide a unique opportunity for historians and 
the wider-community to exchange ideas on these themes.

At this stage we anticipate the Vice Chancellor, Professor Di Yerbury, will 
officially open the conference on Friday evening November 26. The program 
includes a 9.00am Saturday Registration and Welcoming, with papers scheduled 
from 10.00-4.30 and Sunday papers from 9.30-3.30, concluding with drinks. 
Morning and afternoon teas as well as lunch on both days are included in the 
fee.

The Conference fee is $150.00, Full-time students $100.00 However, if you 
register early - by the end of March 2004 - the cost will be $120.00. Daily 
Registration is set at $60. All fees include GST.

Please confirm your attendance so that we may send you a Registration Form/ 
Tax Invoice. Payment can be made either by Credit Card or Cheque. (Please 
make Cheques payable to Macquarie University.)

For further information, please contact either:

Co-ordinator:

Beth Lewis
Tel: (61 2) 9850 7560
E-mail: blewis@hmn.mq.edu.au
Fax: (61 2) 9850 9001

Convenor:

Dr Ken Parry
Tel: (61 2) 6294 1021
E-mail: kendee@bigpond.com

Thank you, we look forward to welcoming you in November 2004.

Yours sincerely,

Professor Samuel Lieu and Dr Ken Parry