We'd appreciate it if you could please post the following CFP, for a
seminar entitled "Set Apart" to be held as part of the ACLA 2001
conference, "Topos/Chronos,' to be held in Boulder, CO in April.
Many thanks.
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Set Apart: The Culture and Politics of Confinement
In 1787 the First Fleet transported petty criminals and social outcasts
alike to exile in Van Diemen's Land. In the 1800s, Robben Island held
lepers, the insane, the chronically ill, and tribal leaders. In the 1900s,
it held Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners. During the Boer War,
the first concentration camp was established in Ceylon. In the 1980s,
people testing positive for HIV were forcibly committed to sanitoriums in
Cuba.
For this seminar, we invite papers that address various cultural or
literary manifestations of confinement. In an attempt to better understand
the social, political, and economic investments in geographical and social
isolation, we will ask: How are such investments implemented through
policy, program, or law? How are they reinforced in daily life through
cultural (literature), social (family, church, school), or scientific
(medicine) practices? What fears and anxieties do they draw on? What
renders them effective? What happens when categories such as dissidence,
illness, and criminality overlap? Is any recourse, resistance, or escape
possible?
Proposed topics include: real and imaginary islands, penitentiaries, the
panopticon, concentration camps, quarantine, solitary confinement,
contamination, relapses and repeat offenders.
Please send 1 page abstracts
either by regular mail to:
Guillermina De Ferrari
Border and Transnational Studies Research Circle
U. of Wisconsin-Madison
1002 Hise Hall
1220 Linden Dr
Madison, WI 53706
or by email to:
Helen Kapstein
Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
hk122@columbia.edu
by Oct 1, 2000
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