[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: "CONTEMPLATING THE VOID" (grad) (Australia) (9/1/06; 10/12/06-10/13/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

"CONTEMPLATING THE VOID": POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM XIII, SCHOOL OF
ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY
OF NEW SOUTH WALES, Sydney, Australia, October 12-13, 2006

What fills the gap left by the evacuation of the grand narratives? What
is the value of negative space? Silence? Incoherence?  What are the
politics and problematics of representation in a world oft marked
by political, intellectual, and spiritual chaos?  In contemporary
society, how can language function as a bridge, articulating loss and
thereby filling the void with significance?

The conveners of the School of English’s Postgraduate Symposium XIII
welcome proposals from postgraduate students and early-career
researchers that utilize a wide variety of critical and creative
approaches to this year’s theme. Works that contemplate the void enact a
crucial negotiation at the outer limits of representation and originate
from disciplines as diverse as cultural studies, creative writing,
critical theory, trauma theory, post-theory, performativity, as well as
interdisciplinary realms.

Key words that may characterize your proposal include:
Absence
Abyss
Censorship
Chaos
Death
Desert/Deserted
Discontinuities
Emptiness
Erasure
Ethnocide
Holocaust
Idleness
Incoherence
Lack
Le Différend
Loss
Meaninglessness
Nihilism
Originality
(Public) Secrets
Separation
Silence
Space
Unintelligible
Unpresentable
Void
Writer’s Block

To register your interest in presenting at this forum, email a 250-word
abstract to Heather Moritz (heather.moritz at student.unsw.edu.au) no later
than September 1, 2006. Please include a working title for your
presentation, your name, institutional affiliation, email address and
contact details. Proposals for academic papers or creative works are
welcome. All presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Notice of accepted
proposals will be conducted via email by September 8, 2006.

The Symposium provides an ideal forum for postgraduates and early-career
researchers to share their ideas and receive constructive feedback.
Registration is free and lunch, morning and afternoon tea will be provided.

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