[Discussion] CFP: Face(s) of the Other (grad) (12/20/05; 4/6/06-4/8/06)

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From: Neli Koleva <nellie_koleva@yahoo.com>

Call for Papers:

Face(s) of the Other
Humanities Graduate Conference
April 6-8, 2006
Rice University
Houston, TX

Keynote Address by Reda Bensmaia, Brown University

We invite papers or panels to the first Humanities Graduate Student conference
at Rice University. The conference topic will be &#65533;Face(s) of the
Other&#65533;. As a
much discussed, used, overused, and criticized term, the Other continues to
pervade a wide range of Humanities disciplines as a critical tool and a
structuring trope. How has the Other shaped the scholarship and the debates in
various disciplines? In what ways have scholars complicated, questioned or
reorganized the defining binaries that form around the concept of the Other? We
invite papers that will explore the Other, Otherness, and alterity in ways
that will foster dialogue between different disciplines.

Some possible ideas for papers include, but are not limited to:

· The Other in current postcolonial studies, globalization theory, and
immigration studies.
· National and ethnic identities, the Other in global/local contexts.
· Theories of the Other and othering: Alterité / Differance, Said, Fanon, Lacan,
Derrida etc.
· Gendered Others, Other Genders: feminist approaches to othering, the Other in
Gay and Lesbian Studies.
· Linguistic Otherness: social linguistics, linguistic communities, border
communities and languages.
· The Other in Philosophy of Religion.
· Representations of the Other in cinema and/or visual culture.
· Pathologized Others: representations of madness, deviation, and excess.
· Ideological Others: Communism, Nazism, Fascism
· Rejection / Acceptance discourses: imprisonment, xenophobia, normalization,
affirmative action
· The Other through time: period-specific notions of Otherness.

Papers should not exceed 15 minutes. Please send 300-word proposals by email to
Basak Demirhan (basak@rice.edu)
or
Neli Koleva (nellie_koleva@yahoo.com)
by December 20th 2005.


"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
                                                                 -- John Lennon

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