[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Representations of 9/11 (UK) (9/30/06; 3/17/07)

[Nazan Haydari]

CFP: Representations of 9/11 (UK) (03/17/07; 09/30/06)
Call for papers 
for a
one-day Interdisciplinary Conference hosted at
University of 
Westminster,
London, England. 

The UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies in
partnership with the
University of Hull invites proposals for papers and
panels for our
Interdisciplinary "Representations of 9/11"
Conference.

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Prof. Peter Brooker,
University of 
Nottingham

In an article in the New York Times, Michiko Katutani
wrote that of the 
emergent
artistic responses to 9/11, ‘Thus far, words alone
have proved 
curiously
inadequate as a means of testimony’.

In the aftermath of 9/11, many artists were called
upon to express 
their views
of the most appalling events that had just taken
place. It was as if, 
more than
most people, they might frame some response adequate
to the moment: as 
artists
with language, their linguistic responses might
somehow achieve an 
expressive
intensity capable of embodying or representing the
events themselves 
and the
feelings they generated. This raises the question of
artistic 
responsibility
and the role of the artist in relation to the pressure
of momentous
contemporary events.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

The problems of representation
The politics of representation
The role of the artist in relation to the momentous
contemporary events
Iain Banks
Paul Auster
Don DeLillo
Glyn Maxwell
Frederic Beigbeder
Jonathan Safran-Foer
Art Spiegelman
Ken Loach
J.G. Ballard 
11'09''01 Film anthology
Will Self
David Hare
Martin Amis
Ian McEwan
Claire Tristram

We will be actively pursuing various publishing
outputs related to the
conference. 


Send abstracts (no more than 250 words) for proposed
20 minute papers 
by
30th September 2006 to
martyn.colebrook@english.hull.ac.uk. Please mark 
the
subject of your email "Representations of 9/11
abstract". 
Alternatively, you
can post your abstracts to Martyn Colebrook,
Department of English, 
University
of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, East Yorkshire,
England HU6 7RX. 
Proposals for
comprised panels of three speakers are also welcome.

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