[Discussion] CFP: Passionate Intensities: The Construction of Postmodern Fundamentalisms (8/26/05; 11/4/05)

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From: Elizabeth Abele <eabele88@gmail.com>
Subject: CFP: Passionate Intensities: The Construction of Postmodern
Fundamentalisms (8/26/05; 11/4/05)

Passionate Intensities: The Construction of Postmodern Fundamentalisms

Nassau Community College is renewing its Annual Multidisciplinary Conference
with a timely, albeit distressing, topic of global concern. NCC is 
soliciting
proposals for twenty-minute presentations for its one-day conference on 
Friday,
November 4, 2005.

Many of us had envisioned a postmodern world in which diverse 
communities and
beliefs coexisted in peace. Instead, we are faced with a post 9/11 world in
which political, cultural, ethnic, and religious beliefs have developed into
fundamentalist constructions at war with each other--and all to often 
the war is
real and bloody.

We invite you to take diverse, multidisciplinary approached to the topic.
"Passionate intensities" suggests that there is little middle ground and few
compromises between parties. The players may be cultural, such as Christian
and Muslim, but you may find yourself thinking of other antagonisms:
scientific research versus global expansion, postmodern artists versus
coservative endowments, civil rights versus security limitations, personal
rights versus the wishes of the community.

Send copies of your papers by *August 26, 2005* to:
Prof. Joan Sevick
Dept. of English
Nassau Community College
1Education Drive
Garden City, NY 11530

For questions: jsevick@aol.com



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