[Discussion] CFP: Perspectives (grad) (UK) (4/1/05; 5/27/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS

ManuScript, the Postgraduate Journal of English and American Studies, in
the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester,
presents

=91PERSPECTIVES=92, 27 May 2005

This year=92s annual ManuScript conference asks you to focus on the
concept of =91perspective=92 and how a point of view informs the inceptio=
n,
creation and critical interpretation of texts. Subjective conditions are
clearly fundamental to how we read our objects of inquiry, as well as
how those objects were themselves formed by a given climate. As the word
itself implies, a perspective is partial, incomplete and non-totalising,
and this is consistent with our egalitarian ethos with respect to all
areas of the humanities and individual identities. With this in mind,
openness to different outlooks will usually engender novelty, stir the
imagination and forge new connections, whilst at the same time resisting
all forms of dogmatism, leaving the question of truth in suspension -
the enigma that stimulates further debate and inquiry.

Proposals are encouraged from a diversity of fields and trans-
disciplinary viewpoints. Possible topics may include but are not limited
to:
Subject positions within culture
Modes of spectatorship
Theories of alterity/difference
Schools of criticism
Socio-historical contexts
Proximity, margins and distance
Methodologies/critical lenses
Modes of representation/media
Concepts of authorship
Forms of narration

The conference will include academic papers, multi-media presentations,
and a keynote speaker (to be announced). Papers accepted for the
conference will also be considered for publication in the next edition
of the Manuscript journal. Registration for the conference is just =A35
and includes lunch and refreshments throughout the day.

Submission deadline is 31st March 2005 for abstracts of no more than 500
words which should include details of any multimedia requirements for
your presentation and full contact details. Please e-mail to
manuscript@man.ac.uk (preferably as a Microsoft Word attachment)
entitled =91Conference Proposal=92. Alternatively, you can submit work by
sending two hard copies via snail mail to us at:

Anna Ball
ManuScript Conference
English and American Studies
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
MANCHESTER
M13 9PL
UK

For further details visit our website at
www.art.man.ac.uk/english/manuscript/ via the English and American
Studies Postgraduate link at www.manchester.ac.uk.



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