[Bilimsel Haber] Konu: UPDATE: Waste and Abundance: Critical Readings of Modern Wastelands (UK) (1/31/07; 4/17/07-4/18/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Keynote speakers announced:

"Waste and Abundance: Critical Readings of Modern Wastelands"
The School of English, Queen's University Belfast
17th and 18th April 2007
Second call for papers
Papers from all perspectives across the Humanities are welcome

Confirmed keynote speakers: Dr Peter Boxall (University of Sussex),
Professor Thomas Docherty (University of Warwick), Professor Paul
Seawright (University of Ulster), Dr Moynagh Sullivan (NUI Maynooth)

"Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish": Samuel
Beckett's representation of the human condition as regulated by waste
in Breath, a playlet of 1969, now reads as a striking anticipation of
our present race against ecological catastrophe. However, if there is
now a pressing need for us to re-think our attitudes towards
consumption, this change should also extend to certain aspects of our
approaches to literature, film, and critical theory. This two-day
conference entitled "Waste and Abundance: Critical Readings of Modern
Wastelands" seeks to outline contexts for conceptualising abundance
and waste. It invites proposals that argue for the existence of
specific perspectives on abundance and waste in strands of modernist
and postmodernist literature as well as film. Suggested topics might
include but are not limited to:

The body as cultural wasteland
Anorexic spaces (of discourse and/or in performance)
Corporeality, exhaustion, and waste
The hunger artist/ the art of hunger
Influence as recycling
Literature, critical theory, and consumption
Gender politics, abundance, and waste
Labour and deprivation
Consumption and war
Comfort and waste
Ignorance and abundance
Waste and the collectivity
The spatial economics of waste
Waste and abundance in the metropolis
Waste, abundance, and exoticism
Abundance and primitivism
The use of litter in representations of material scarcity
Waste, abundance, and the politics of the avant-garde
Time-wasting and modernity
Time, acceleration, and consumption
Globalisation and consumer angst/complacency
Abundance and Marxist theory
Shame, waste, and postcolonial theory
Negotiating abundance and waste in contemporary Ireland
Redefining the contours of ecocriticism

Please send abstracts of 250-300 words plus brief biographical details
to Susan Cahill, Emma Hegarty, and Emilie Morin at
wasteandabundance at qub.ac.uk by Wednesday 31th January 2007.
Deadline for conference registration, whether presenting a paper or
attending, is Thursday 15th February 2007. Fee: £25/£20. The
conference programme includes a reading and a performance of
electro-acoustic music on the themes of the conference.
See http://www.qub.ac.uk/abundance/ for further information and
registration forms.
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