CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP): ALTERED STATES
The Annual Colloquium on Language, Literature, and Theory,
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
April 7, 2001
For its Annual Colloquium, the Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures at the Catholic University of America is seeking abstracts,
papers, and suggestions for panels on the topic of ALTERED STATES.
Suggested areas of inquiry include:
I. Altered States of Mind/Body:
Mystic and Trance States
Revelation and Epiphany
Rapture and Rhapsody
Dream States
Hypnosis
Conversion Narratives
Near-Death Experiences
Demonic Possession
The Fantastic
Insanity
Zombies
Voodoo
Transcendentalism
II. Altered States/Alternative Communities:
Exile
Retreats
Colonial Appropriations
Global Communities
Créolité
Missionary Narratives
Imagined Communities
Cults
Dispossessions
Displaced Peoples
III. Authors
Jeannes des Anges, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Cyrano de Bergerac,
Hildegard von Bingen, William Blake, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Coleridge,
Raphaël Confiant, Julio Cortázar, Saint François de Sales, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Sigmund Freud, William Gibson, J. K. Huysmans, San Juan de la Cruz,
Franz Kafka, Ken Kesey, Joan of Arc, Theodore Kaczynski, Thomas More, Thomas
De Quincey, François Rabelais, the Marquis de Sade, Sta. Teresa de Avila.
Proposals and abstracts (for 20-minute papers) must be postmarked by January
20th, 2001.
Department of Modern Languages
McMahon Hall 208
ATTN: COLLOQUIUM
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064
Proposals or inquiries may also be made via email or fax:
cua-colloquium@cua.edu
(202)319-6077
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