[Discussion] UPDATE: Circulations: The Ins, Outs, and Abouts of Exchange (grad) (2/15/05; 3/14/05-3/16/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

UPDATE: Submission deadline extended to 15 February 2005.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Annual Graduate Colloquium
Department of English
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
14-16 March 2005


Circulations: The Ins, Outs, and Abouts of Exchange

Principles of circulation underwrite a variety of literal and figurative
modes of exchange that pertain to discursive, epistemological,
ontological, and political negotiations and formations. Our colloquium
aims to query the many incarnations and mechanisms of circulation, and
encourage creative ways of thinking about economies and exchanges in
their broadest sense. To this end, what might it mean to be in or out of
circulation? How might circulation function to reinscribe and/or subvert
social and literary conventions? How does circulation operate to
partition and/or disseminate? What might an ethics of circulation entail?

As an interdisciplinary colloquium, we welcome submissions from a
diversity of academic fields. Possible themes might include, but are not
limited to:

* Economies and Markets
* Representations of Capital and Currency
* Power/Knowledge and Discourse
* Bodies and Diseases
* Blood and =91Race=92
* Borders and Diaspora
* Publishing and Reading
* The Internet and New Technologies of Literature
* Dia-lectics, -lects, -logics, and -logues
* Rhetoric, Ideology, and Propaganda
* The Gaze
* Memory
* The Gift and the Promise
* Logos, Topos, and Tropos

Additionally, this year=92s colloquium will include a panel devoted to th=
e
late Jacques Derrida. We invite any submissions that relate any aspect
of Derrida=92s remarkable lifework to the principles of circulation.

We are also pleased to announce that our Plenary Speaker this year will
be Dennis Denisoff, who teaches in the department of English at Ryerson
University.  His research focuses primarily on visual culture, popular
culture, and sexuality and gender studies. His academic publications
include _Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film, 1850-1950_ (2004) and
_Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940_ (2001).  He has also
published two novels, _The Winter Gardeners_ (2003) and _Dog Years_
(1991), and a book of poetry, _Tender Agencies_ (1995). He has been
short-listed for the QSPELL Award and the Norma Epstein Award in
literature. His current research, for which he holds a Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant, studies the correlation
between nineteenth-century popular fiction and sexual identity formation.

Abstracts for 20 minute presentations should be roughly 250 words in
length. They can be sent as .doc attachments, along with any further
inquiries, to <pivot@yorku.ca>. The extended deadline for submissions is
15 February 2005.



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