CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS EXTENDED TO JANUARY 18, 2001
ESCAPE
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
March 16 & 17, 2001
Harvard University
Sponsored by the English Department and the Humanities Center
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Andrew Ross, New York University
"Performance Anxiety in Celebration, Florida"
Graduate students from all disciplines are invited to submit papers
exploring the concept of escape. Papers should translate into 15 minutes
of presentation time (7-8 pages). Abstracts of 200-300 words are due by
January 18, 2001, and should be sent by email to puskar@fas.harvard.edu or
sent to Jason Puskar, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center,
Dept of English, Cambridge, MA 02138. Please include your name, contact
information, institution, department and status (i.e. graduate year,
postdoc, etc.). Also indicate which of the prospective topics listed below
interest you as possible contexts for your work. This list of topics is
preliminary and subject to change.
PROSPECTIVE TOPICS
Recluses
Travel & Tourism
Expatriates
Escapism
Exile
Imprisonment
Drugs & Alcohol
Escape Artists
Fantasy
Pastoral Worlds
Runaway Slaves
Genres of Escape
Claustrophobia
Traps
Frontiers
Dilemmas
Adventure & Exploration
Evasive Language
Fugitives
Infidelity & Adultery
Deus ex machina
Loopholes & Escape Clauses
Reading as Escape
The 'ESC' button
Technological Escapes
Suicide
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