[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Of Mice and Men: Animals in Human Perception (Puerto Rico) (1/20/07; CEA-CC, 3/29/07-3/30/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

"Of Mice and Men: Animals in Human Perception"
Spring 2007 Conference: 29-30 March 2007
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
College English Association - Caribbean Chapter

The CEA-CC Spring Conference will address the general topic of non-human
animals in human perception. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on
cultural, historic, political and symbolic views and representations of
animals in literature, film, beast fables, bestiaries, fairy tales,
myth, folklore, religion, and societies. The specific topics to be
addressed by the conference will include but not be limited to Cultural
views of Animals; The role of animals in the Nature/Culture debate;
Animals and Liminality; Animal Rights and Speciesism; Animals and Food;
Animals and Gender; Animals and Race; Animals and the Discourse of
Science; Fantastic Animals.

Please send 200-250 word proposal to Vartan Messier and Nandita Batra at
cea_caribbeanchapter at hotmail.com by 20 January 2007.  Proposals may be
sent by email as part of a text message but not as attachments.
Presenters must be registered members of the CEA-CC at the time of the
conference.

More information available at
http://ece.uprm.edu/artssciences/ingles/cea-cc.htm



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