[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Rediscovering and Revitalizing the Artifact (12/6/06 & 1/12/06; 3/16/07-3/18/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Spring Cleaning:
Rediscovering and Revitalizing the Artifact

University of Calgary Free Exchange Graduate Conference
16-18 March 2007

For more information, please visit Free Exchange at www.english.ucalgary.ca



History is of the essence, true, but she can also be a bully.
				-Noah Richler
				This is my Country, What's Yours?


The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his
little home¡K. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below
and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with
its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
				-Kenneth Grahame
				The Wind in the Willows.




The study of the artifact should not remain inextricably linked to
history. We are asking potential participants to search in familiar as
well as new locations for objects previously lost or forgotten. Search
in Jacques Derrida's archive or Robert Kroetsch's Canada. Items may be
found between the layers of Michel Foucault's archaeology or Peggy
Phelan's cultural memory. We can't remember where or how we left them;
they could be anywhere, doing anything. We only ask that you re-envision
these relics and breathe new life into them.

Suggested topics for panels or papers include, but are not limited to,
the following:

artifact as metaphor/metonym
the rhetoric of artifact
embodying the artifact
the absence of the artifact
object(ing) to the artifact
the digital artifact
the manuscript or text as artifact
the history or theory of artifact/the artifact as history or theory
the (en)graven artifact
variations on "artifact¡" (art(i)fact; art/fact; the art of fact)

Please send your 500 word proposals for panels or papers in electronic
format (Word documents and Rich Text Files only) to one of the
conference chairs. The deadline for panels is December 6, 2006. The
deadline for papers for the general call is January 12, 2006. A call for
papers for established panels will be forthcoming. Early submission is
encouraged.

Owen Percy						Robyn Read
PhD Student						PhD Student
Department of English				     Department oEnglish
University of Calgary			           University of Calgary
odfpercy at ucalgary.ca    			    rjread at ucalgary.ca




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