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>From: "M.H.M. Wan" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: CFP: Confrontation (grad) (UK) (1/2/07; BCLA, 3/30/07)
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>Confrontation
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>British Comparative Literature Association
>Third Graduate Student Conference
>Goldsmiths College, University of London
>30 March, 2007
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>Plenary Speaker: Professor Alexander Callinicos (King's College London)
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>The question of confrontation occupies a central position across
>disciplinary and geographical boundaries, especially in light of recent
>debates on multiculturalism and globalisation. What are the issues we need
>to address when we speak of the confrontation (or reconciliation) of
>different cultures, genders, classes, and disciplines? Indeed, what are the
>problems or blind spots inherent in the very theory and vocabulary with
>which different discourses address the question of confrontation?
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>This one-day conference, taking place at Goldsmiths College, University of
>London, seeks to provide a transnational, interdisciplinary forum for a
>reconsideration of the notion. We invite proposals of up to 250 words for
>twenty-minute papers on any aspect of 'confrontation.' Possible topics may
>include, but are not limited to:
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>-Confrontations between aesthetics/politics/ethics
>-Reconciliation
>-The dangers of binary logic
>-Uses and abuses of the rhetoric of alterity/otherness
>-Failures and fallacies of comparison
>-(Mis)Translation
>-Nature versus relativism/modernity
>-Fissures: colonialism/terrorism/globalisation/multiculturalism
>-The End of history/dialectics
>-Confrontations and transformations between genres and media
>-Third spaces, in-between spaces, and hybridity
>-Conflicts between and within gender categories
>-Disciplinary confrontations
>-The senses (visuality, aurality, etc)
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>The deadline for receipt of 250-word abstracts is 2 Jan, 2007. Please email
>abstracts and enquiries to [log in to unmask] Attendance
>is free of charge. Further information can be accessed via the BCLA
>website: www.bcla.org. The coordinators wish to thank the Department of
>English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, for their generous
>support of this conference.

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