The Department of English at the University of Calgary invites
abstracts for papers to be presented at the 2003 Free Exchange graduate
conference:
trans/actions
March 7-8, 2003
University of Calgary
The aim of this year's conference is to investigate the stakes and the
politics involved in various types of movements across, acts of
exchange, and forms of resistance. As such, you are invited to parse
our title however you wish and enter this discussion by focusing on
trans-, transactions, or actions.
These are some of the questions we're asking:
What movements and changes occur across segments of space and time?
How is our relationship to spatio/temporal borders affected by
globalization, free trade, and the (potentially) instant transmission
of information and capital? by the rhetoric of equality?
accessibility? justice and just war? Who gains when these borders are
crossed? How can we engage in kinds of time travel that seek to do
other than merely co-opt the past? or usurp the future?
What is gained and lost in our exchanges with each other
(interpersonal, economic, textual, etc.)? Is there such a thing as
"free exchange"? Who places value in such transactions? What happens
to heterogeneity and hybridity in the context of a universal token of
currency? Is there still room for a surplus? Does it become merely a
"token minority"? What happens to power in the act of exchange? to
representation? to meaning?
What (actions) can our bodies speak? How can such discourse interrupt
the continuities of power structures? What changes are produced by
these interruptions? What kinds of agency function in not acting as
well as in acting? in mimicking? in ventriloquizing? in repeating?
How is the body implicated in cognition and language?
Possible themes include, but are not limited to:
cultural exchange,
globalization,
travel narratives,
technology,
embodied cognition,
history,
politics of identity,
innovative poetics,
foreign policy,
prospective fiction,
futurity,
hybridity,
post-humanism,
the subject-in-process,
performativity.
We encourage critical, creative and interdisciplinary responses in the
form of 20-minute presentations. Please send 250-word abstracts to:
free_exchange@yahoo.com
Deadline for submissions is January 6, 2003.
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