CALL FOR PAPERS
Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups--a network of psychoanalytically oriented
students, study groups, work groups, and reading groups--announces its first-
ever conference, "On Feminine Sexuality," to be held at Boston College in
Boston, Massachusetts, on Saturday and Sunday, 15 and 16 May 1999.
We seek papers by graduate students, ABDs, and recent post-docs on any aspect
of feminine sexuality approached from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Papers should be conference length, approximately twenty minutes, and should
be submitted as a Microsoft Word document on a 3.5" floppy. Please send a hard
copy of your paper as well.
Submit papers to Dan Collins, 79 Greenhill Terrace, West Seneca, NY 14224. For
further information, contact Dan Collins by e-mail at DanGerCol@aol.com, or
Annie Pulis at c623827@showme.missouri.edu.
Deadline for submissions is 30 March 1999.
DESCRIPTION OF THE CONFERENCE AND APW
The conference is open to the public and free of charge. All panels will be
presented to the conference as a whole and will be followed by moderated
discussions. Judith Feher-Gurewich, Frances Restuccia, Kalpana Seshadri-
Crooks, and Charles Shepherdson will deliver keynote addresses.
CHARLES SHEPHERDSON is a Member in the School of Social Science at the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is also on the faculty of the
Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University, where he teaches in
the Psychoanalytic Studies Program, and the Program in Comparative Literature.
He has published widely in continental philosophy, and is currently completing
a book entitled "Insinuations: Encounters between Philosophy and
Psychoanalysis."
KALPANA SESHADRI-CROOKS is a professor in the English Department at Boston
College where she teaches courses in the critical philosophy of postcolonial
studies, political and cultural theories of nationalism, and Anglophone
literatures of India and Africa. She has just finished a book, "Desiring
Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Racial Visibility," which will be published
by Routledge as part of the Opening Out series edited by Teresa Brennan. She
has also co-edited a collection of essays, "The Pre-Occupation of Post-
Colonial Studies," forthcoming from Duke, and published articles on the
intersection of psychoanalysis and race and postcolonial theory in journals
such as Cultural Critique, Ariel, and Discourse. She is the founding chair of
the Postcolonial Studies seminar at Harvard's CLCS and on the graduate faculty
at Radcliffe's Women's Studies Consortium.
FRANCES RESTUCCIA is an associate professor of Contemporary Literary and
Cultural Theory in the English department at Boston College. Her book, "James
Joyce and the Law of the Father," was published in 1989, by Yale UP. She has
written numerous articles published in journals such as Raritan, Contemporary
Literature, Genre, American Imago, Genders, Gender and Psychoanalysis, and the
JPCS. She has written extensively on women's melancholia and domestic
violence, Lacanian love, and the ethics of psychoanalysis.
JUDITH FEHER-GUREWICH is a practicing psychoanalyst in Cambridge, MA. She is
the director of the "Lacan Seminar" at the Center for Literary and Cultural
Studies at Harvard University. She is a member of "Espace Analytique,"
Association de Formation Psychanalytique et de Recherches Freudiennes, Paris.
She is also an affiliated member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and is
on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalytical Psychology.
She is also the director of the series Lacanian Clinical Field published by
The Other Press Publishers and the editor, with Michel Tort, of The Subject
and the Self: Lacan and American Psychoanalysis.
AFFILIATED PSYCHOANALYTIC WORKGROUPS is a growing network of students, study
groups, work groups, and reading groups of Freudian and Lacanian orientation.
APW is not a "group" or "organization" in any traditional sense. Its aim is to
facilitate communication among those working in the field of psychoanalytic
studies. For further information and to join the APW network, contact Dan
Collins by e-mail at DanGerCol@aol.com.
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