THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE:
ECLIPSES AND RE-EMERGENCES
UTA Conference on the Suppressions
and Reassertions of The Female Principle
in Human Cultures.
KEYNOTES:
Martha Nussbaum, March 30
Drucilla Cornell, March 31
Eva Keuls, April 1
Nancy Tuana, April 1
University of Texas at Arlington,
March 30-April 1, 2000.
This interdisciplinary conference recognizes
the suppression of femaleness as a primary
meaning of Western and other cultures over a
long period. It seeks to identify, document,
account for, and interpret this suppression
via the forms it takes--many still concealed,
clandestine, underexplored--and their
counterforms, from early periods to the
present, and to identify and describe newly
developing practices that counter it.
Exposures, descriptions, and theorizations
of this suppression are essential to
projecting a future for femaleness in human
societies.
We invite proposals from all fields of the
humanities and the social and behavioral
sciences. Papers may deal exclusively with
the forms of suppression (including
concealments of suppression),with the
figures or contents suppressed, with
examples of femaleness that elude suppression
or otherwise counter it, or with re-emergences,
or combinations of these, and may draw on the
following as a possible framework:
Bearing a positive social value in an
advanced Asian society as late as the seventh
century, the female principle sinks into
general anathema in the West by the time of
classical civilization, and into near
oblivion by the time of the early church.
There it remains, under powerful forms of
social repression, into the twentieth century.
Then, via numerous separate discourses,
pluralist thought creates a climate of
opinion in which femaleness can re-emerge
in literary, philosophical, religious,
and other languages under a positive sign.
Papers may be descriptive, and/or interpretive
or theoretical accounts of specific forms of
suppressions, such as the sexual; of forms
taken by coverups of suppression; of cultural
contexts mandating suppression; and of
examples that suppression overlooks--all these
in discourses and social practices worldwide.
Cross-disciplinary and new theoretical
approaches are encouraged.
Submission Information:
Please send statement of intent to
LFrank@uta.edu. For information on
proposals, please see website:
http://www.uta.edu/english/hermann/2000/
Or write:
Conference on the Female Principle
Department of English 19035
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas 760l9
Or call:(817) 478-7794 or (817) 272-2692
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The Female Principle: Eclipses and Re-Emergences
University of Texas at Arlington, March 30- April 1, 2000
Proposal Deadline: November 20,1999.
Length of Presentations: 20 minutes for each paper (individual or within
a panel).
Single Submission per Person Only, Please:
Please Submit:
For individual papers
A cover page that includes paper title, speaker's name, academic
affiliation, mail address(es), e-mail address, phone number, fax,
technical needs, and a 25-word description of presentation. Four copies
of a one-page proposal identified by paper title only.
For panels
A cover page that includes panel title, panel chair, a 25-word
description of panel topic, and, for each panel member: paper title,
speaker's name, academic affiliation, mail address(es), e-mail address,
phone number, fax, technical needs, and a 25-word description of
presentation. Four copies of panel proposal identified by panel title
only and including a 50-word description of panel, and all paper
titles. Four copies of a one-page proposal for each paper identified by
panel title and paper title only.
Please mail to:
The Female Principle
Department of English 19035
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019
Registration:
General Registration
$90.00 postmarked by Feb.15, 2000
$105.00 after Feb. 15, 2000
Student Registration
$45.00 postmarked by Feb. 15, 2000
$55.00 after Feb. 15, 2000
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