Call for Papers
The Department of English at the University of Calgary invites abstracts for
papers to be presented at the 2002 Graduate Free Exchange Conference:
imPOSTures
March 8-10, 2002
University of Calgary
Post is so ingrained as a prefix in the cultural exchange of information that it
risks being divested of significance by its very pervasiveness. Post announces
the death of totality and yet it has recently emerged victorious as cultural and
intellectual hegemony, engaging several disciplines as a dominating prefix. So
what does post signify? Has it become meaningless? How does it continue to
be useful? And what survives past post?
The title of this conference is intended to suggest a wide range of postures, non-
postures & impostures, as well as critical performances, related to the idea of
post-ism. We welcome both papers that make use of post-isms and those that
criticize them. Interdisciplinary papers are more than welcome. Possible themes
could include, but are not limited to:
• specific post-isms such as post-modernism, post-colonialism, post-
feminism, post-humanism…
• trans- and neo- identities and -isms
• transgressions and border crossings
• emerging identities
• postscripts that challenge the authority of grand narratives or that become
newly authoritative narratives in their own right
• post-ism as an empty signifier
• the body, cyborgs, technology and simulation / simulacra
• post as a means of creating art (post-isms, postcards, internet postings…)
• post as identity: what does it mean to come after?
Proceedings from the University of Calgary Free Exchange Conference may be
published. Please submit a 250-word abstract by January 8, 2002, to:
Graduate Free Exchange Committee
Department of English
University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. N.W.
Calgary, AB
T2N 1N4
or by e-mail to: free_exchange@yahoo.com
The submissions will be vetted blind, so please include your name on the
covering letter only.
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