[Discussion] CFP: Boundaries (grad) (UK) (11/1/04; BCLA, 1/6/05)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

BRITISH COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
SECOND GRADUATE CONFERENCE

[boundaries]

Goldsmiths College, University of London
     6 January 2005


>From their historical designation as markers of separation to their more=
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current determination as comparative sites of exchange and
transgression, boundaries offer a diverse and productive opportunity to
explore the points of relation and difference between such modes of
discourse as literature, art, philosophy, politics and religion.

This one-day graduate conference, taking place at Goldsmiths College,
University of London, seeks to provide a forum for interdisciplinary
discussion regarding the ways boundaries inflect or complicate our
understandings of subjectivity, culture and politics.

Comparative and/or interdisciplinary proposals for twenty minute papers
on any aspect of the boundary are invited. Topics for consideration may
include, but are not limited to:


=95	The individual and the social
=95	Gender and sexual difference
=95	Love
=95	Death
=95	The human and the divine
=95	Corporeality and spirit
=95	Ghosts
=95	Creativity and the unconscious
=95	Religion and science
=95	Postcolonialism, transnationalism, borders
=95	Textuality and the visual arts
=95	Comparative Literature and the University


The deadline for receipt of 250 word abstracts is 1 November 2004.
Please email abstracts and enquiries to the conference co-ordinators,
Mekella Broomberg and Nikolai Duffy, at: boundaries@gold.ac.uk.
Attendance is free of charge; speakers, however, are asked to join the
British and Comparative Literature Association. Further information can
be accessed via the BCLA website: www.bcla.org/boundaries



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