LITERATURE BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

ACLA '96
CALL FOR PAPERS:

LITERATURE BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

American Comparative Literature Association
University of Notre Dame
April 11-13, 1996

Keynote Speakers:
Rodolphe Gasche, Elizabeth Grosz, David Lloyd
Poetry Reading
Lyn Hejinian, John Matthias

While cultural studies and continental philosophy/poststructuralism might be regarded as two mutually exclusive paradigms, this conference will explore how the intersections between them can open new productive possibilities for literary and comparative studies. Toward this end we propose to interrogate the following set of issues:

Rethinking Modernity: Literature/Philosophy/Culture * Cultural Significance of Poststructuralist Theory: Derrida, Irigaray, Lyotard * Feminism: Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies * Sexualities, "Racial" Identities, and Queer Theory * Cultural and Ethical Figures of Otherness * Post Enlightenment Philosophies, Pre-Enlightenment Literatures * National Identities/Comparative Literatures/Postcolonial Studies * History/Event/Practice: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault * Models of Culture in Cultural Studies and Deconstruction * Cultural Studies: Without Philosophy? * Psychoanalysis, Film, and Contemporary Philosophy * Philosophers Reading Poets/Poets Reading Philosophers *

Papers and panels on other topics related to the theme of the conference are welcome. Papers should be no longer than 3000 words; paper proposals approximately 250 words. Panel proposals must include: title, chairperson, the proposal of 250 words for the panel and a complete set of papers or proposals.

Deadline for submissions: October 15, 1995.

Address submissions and inquiries to:

Krzysztof Ziarek
Department of English
356 O'Shaughnessy Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5639
tel (219) 631-5637
fax (219) 631-8209
or by email to: english.acla.96@nd.edu

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