[Discussion] infectious diseases as cultural metaphors

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*UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES* SCHOOL OF ENGLISH POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
XI 8th OCTOBER

This year's School of English SYMPOSIUM invites paper proposals from
postgraduate students on *"Contaminations"*. Approaches to this theme
may include, but are not limited to:

# Exchange, contact and transmission.
# Osmosis of literary and artistic forms.
# Adulteration and infectious diseases as cultural metaphors.
# Place and environmental contamination.
# Hybridity and heterogeneity in cultural production.
# Multimedia metamorphosis.

Abstracts should be approximately 250 words in length and should include
a working title, a short biographical note, affiliation and e-mail
address. Papers should be limited to 20 minutes and an additional 10
minutes question time will follow.

The Symposium will be held in the Morven Brown building of UNSW and
attendance is open to postgraduates, staff and students from all
universities. The day will offer an opportunity for exchanging ideas in
a friendly environment, with lunch provided for all attendants.

*Abstract deadline: 20th August, 2004.*

	Katherine Russo,
123 Morven Brown Buiding,
School of English,
University of New South Wales,
Phone:+61-2-93851413
Email: ke_russo@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:ke_russo@yahoo.co.uk>