"Extra / Ordinary Popular Delusions: Discourse and the Social," the 1999
Biannual LEXIS Graduate Student Conference.
November 5th and 6th, 1999, University of Waterloo.
Keynote Speakers:
Charles Bernstein, SUNY Buffalo
Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, University of Toronto
In _Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds_ (1841),
Charles Mackay wrote, "Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme,
project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain,
the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation." We would
like participants to examine these ‘schemes, projects, or phantasies.' In
particular, we encourage submissions that deal with discourse, be it
conceived in literary or other terms, and its relations to the various
components that can roughly be called "the social." We would like to
foster a discussion of the ways in which specific analyses of language,
literature, and society can help inform each other. In keeping with LEXIS
conference tradition, we welcome papers that deal with any period, from any
critical view point. Possible topics could include, but are not limited
to: interdisciplinarity; nationalities; technologies (both literal and
metaphorical); ‘race' and language; gender and/or queer(ing) discourses;
canons and canon formation; pedagogies; literary and social economies; etc.
Send 250-word proposals by September 10th, 1999 to
James Allard and Jason Haslam, LEXIS Conference
Department of English
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
N2L 3G1 FAX (519) 746-5788
or, preferably, by e-mail to:
jwhaslam@watarts.uwaterloo.ca
Inquiries can also be sent to the above addresses.
The LEXIS Graduate Lecture Exchange involves several universities across
Ontario and Quebec (please note, though, that the conference is _not_
restricted to these universities). LEXIS welcomes any department which
has a graduate program that involves literary or textual criticism in
English. For more information on LEXIS, please contact Jason Haslam at on
of the above addresses.
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