[Discussion] UPDATE: The Endangered Planet in Literature (Turkey) (6/1/05; 11/16/05-11/18/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Revised deadline for proposals and corrected submission information.
(If you responded to the first call, please resubmit.)

IV. International Conference of Literatures in English

The Endangered Planet in Literature

November 16-18, 2005
Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey

An international conference jointly organized by The World Association
for Studies in Literatures in English (New Delhi) and The Department of
English Language and Literature, Dogus University, Istanbul.

Opening Session:
Professor Talat Halman and Yildiz Kenter, "Shakespeare in Turkey: The
Global and the Local."

Keynote Address:
Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Planetary Reading."

We invite papers on topics linking literature to the following topics:

The Natural, the Local and the Global
Technology and Nature
Colonialisms Old and New
Self and the Other
Constructing Gender in the Matrix of Ecology
Nature Threatened, Nature as a Threat
The Imaginary of the Future

Proposals should be sent by email as an attached document (in Word
format) to Conferenceofliteratures@dogus.edu.tr (completed papers are to
be submitted on the first day of the Conference).

See the website at: http://www3.dogus.edu.tr/Conferenceofliteratures/

Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is June 1, 2005.
Deadline for registration is September 30, 2005.
The registration fee is $50 USD or 70 YTL.



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