IAPL

The International Association for Philosophy and Literature

The International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) is holding its 20th anniversary conference at George Mason University from May 8-11, 1996.

Plenary Speaker: ROSI BRAIDOTTI, Univ. of Utrecht, "Figurations of Nomadism"

Paper submissions are being accepted for the following sessions:

1. Agonistic Imagination: literatuer and philosophy in the postcommunist restructuring of Eastern Europe

2. Between Acts: Masculinity as Performance

3. The Claims of Culture

4. Culture as Agon, Culture as Ritual: East-West perspectives

5. The Cultural Drama of Madness: Descartes, Derrida, Foucault and the Appropriation of Mental Illness

6. The Cuture of the Theatrical/The Theatricality of culture: the early modern experience of the stage

7. Dark Horizons: recovering from Philistinism and consumerism

8. The Drama of Masochism

9. Dramatic/Traumatic Agon: poets and thinkers on Greek tragic art

10. Drastic Measures: staging law, agency, persons

11. The Echo of the Original: translation as arena for the drama of culture

12. gifts and Goods: bodies of work\

13. History and Repetition: the first time tragedy, the second time, farce

14. Jocasta, Mary, Madonna: otherdom, motherdom, eroticism

15. Media-Culture: on teh verge of the drama

16. The performance of Nationhood: citizens in their (im)proper places

17. Postcolonial perspectives on Southern Africa

18. Provisional Theaters: becoming-other at the end of the millennium

19. Transculturalism in contemporary art

If you would like to submit a paper on one of these topics or receive more information about the conference, please contact one of the conference directors:

Wayne J. Froman
wfroman@gmu.edu

John Burt Foster, Jr.
jfoster@gmu.edu