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CALL FOR PAPERS for Brock University's annual Two Days of Canada
Conference, a multidisciplinary event to be held 3-4 November 1999.
The conference theme for this year is:
** LOCALITIES **
Taking the plural construction "localities" as a multidisciplinary and
invitingly open-ended point of departure, critics and scholars from a
broad range of intellectual and disciplinary backgrounds are invited to
explore the various literal, practical, and theoretical implications of
"the local" within Canada. As this century nears its end, questions of
the potential/limitations of localities continue to fascinate and
frustrate the Canadian imagination. At times deployed with an almost
benign innocence, the local more often appears within Canadian culture as
a densely coded construction that illuminates the tensions (regionalism),
anxieties (dis-location), and aspirations (renewal) that circulate never
far below the surface of Canadian society.
Aspects or angles of enquiry that might be explored include,
but are by no means limited to:
* the ongoing debate over the perceived limits of the local, as
distinct from the universal, in the imaginative arts (literary,
dramatic, visual, music)
* consideration of the historical, theoretical, or aesthetic
implications of "folk" as it applies to the development of regional/
national culture or artistic movements
* the methodologies, practicalities, or anxieties of exploring
local histories or historical geographies
* explorations of environmental or ecological issues in terms of
their local complexities and implications
* questions/reassessments generated by the persistent dispersion
of federal governmental powers/responsibilities to local governments
* labour history and the local implications in the study of work
* the business (and beyond) of local theatre, publishing ventures,
independent recording, or film
Offers of individual or group papers/presentations on these or any
other aspect of "localities" are invited by 1 July 1999, with two (2)
copies of your 300-500 word proposal for a 20-minute paper, an abstract
(250 words maximum), and a brief bio-bibliographical sketch to be
submitted to:
Professors Klay Dyer and Marilyn Rose
Department of English Language and Literature
St. Catharines, Ontario
Canada L2S 3A1
Electronic mail: kdyer@spartan.ac.brocku.ca or
mrose@spartan.ac.brocku.ca
Facsimile: (905) 934-3301
* Hard copy, electronic (within body of e-mail, please), or facsimile
submissions are welcome. Any requests for audiovisual equipment should be
noted in the proposal package.
This Call, plus information updates as the programme progresses, will be
posted on the Conference web page, linked through Canadian Studies at:
http://www.brocku.ca
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