The Fourth English Literature Conference at Eastern Mediterranean
University
Literature and the Poetics/Politics of Space
May 10 - 11, 2001
CALL FOR PAPERS
On May 10 - 11, 2001 the Department of English Literature and Humanities
at Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus will host its fourth
annual conference on "Literature and the Poetics/Politics of Space".
In his essay, "Of Other Spaces", Michel Foucault claims that: "The
present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space. We are in
the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the
epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed". With
this in mind, we invite papers from various disciplines which will
address the multifaceted, as well as contested, aspects of space in
literary and cultural representations. Suggested panel topics may
revolve around the following:
*the privileging of time over space
*spatial metaphors and postcolonial theory
*the politics/poetics of 'forgotten' spaces
*monumental space and the space of the monument
*the location of memory and longing
*architecture and social action
*space as the catalyst of history
*psychoanalysis; Imaginary, Symbolic and Real space
*film and constructions of mise-en-scene
*subaltern spaces
*performance and theatrical spaces: dance, drama, music
*literature in cyberspace
*is space straight?
*the modern metropolis and myth
*philosophy as a spatial proposition
*cultural topographies
*gendered spaces
*art and the spatial subject
Interested participants should submit an abstract of no more than 250
words by 31 December, 2000. You will be notified by mid-January, 2001.
Paper presentations should not exceed twenty minutes. Proposals for
full panels will be considered. Performance artists are also warmly
invited. Participants should bring copies of their papers to the
conference in both hard-copy and diskette form (Microsoft Word).
Selected proceedings will be published.
We look forward to your participation.
Address: Dr. Lorraina Pinnell
Department of English Literature & Humanities
Eastern Mediterranean University
Gazimagusa, T.R.N.C.
(via Mersin 10) Turkey
Fax: 00 90 392 365 1640
Tel: 00 90 392 630 1312=20
E-mail: lorraina.pinnell@emu.edu.tr
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