[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Rubbish, Waste, Litter (Poland) (9/30/06; 11/17/06-11/18/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference:
Rubbish, Waste, and Litter; Culture and Its Refuse/als.
Warsaw School of Social Psychology
Warsaw, Poland, 17 - 18 November 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS

Wasted time, wasted space, wasted life. Almost everything seems to be
endowed with the possibility of being turned into rubbish. We take for
granted the idea that there always has been waste, rubbish, and litter.

Waste is what is both refused and dumped, repudiated and thrown away.
The conference intends to explore the mechanisms and rhetoric of
"wasting" from interdisciplinary perspectives, also trying to think
about the ways in which waste is "managed", how and where refused things
and ideas are placed away. The location of this "away" seems to be
equally worth thinking about as the location of culture "itself".
Scholars and students from such disciplines as literature, political
science, economics, cultural and media studies, art and architecture,
anthropology, history, comparative literature, philosophy, critical
theory and area studies ... are encouraged to send abstracts (200 words)
of papers and presentations addressing the theme of the conference to:


   Prof. Tadeusz Rachwa
trachwal at swps.edu.pl
Warsaw School of Social Psychology
Department of English
Ul. Chodakowska 19/31
03-815, Warsaw, Poland


Deadline for the submission of abstracts is September 30, 2006





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