Culture and the State: Past, Present, and Future
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
May 2-5, 2003
Most plenary speakers are now confirmed for this conference, including Len
Findlay, Isobel Findlay, Rahim Jaffer MLA, Norman Nawrocki, Raj Pannu MLA,
and Jerry Zaslove, among others. Deadlines for individual themes vary, but
general submission under the conference's overall CFP are accepted until
February 1, 2003 (see link above for this general CFP).
THEME:
Psychoanalysis, Culture and the State
(DEADLINE 15 December 2002)
Paper proposals are invited for panels pertaining to this theme.
Theories and exercises of psychoanalysis have recently undergone renovation,
in large part due to Derrida's critique of "resistance" and "analysis" as
opposing forces. In this sense, the discursive operation of psychoanalysis
shares with the modern state disavowals of force that proceed as the norm.
We invite proposals that examine the impact that psychoanalytic ideas and
classifications have had on culture and the state as well as critical
dissections of the discursive formations of psychoanalysis, culture and the
state and their prohibitions. Also welcome are psychoanalytic approaches to
the state itself and/or cultural products.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* analyses of psychoanalytic discipline, practice, and ideas of analysis and
interpretation
* postcolonial critiques of (western) psychoanalysis and/or the state
* feminist interpretations of Freudian and Lacanian "complexes"
* psychoanalytic readings of state juridical resistances
* readings of prohibitions
Please send an abstract of one page by 15 December 2002 for a proposed paper
of 20 minutes, to be given in English or French, to the theme coordinator,
Tram Nguyen.
Theme Coordinator:
Tram Nguyen
Department of English
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada, T6G 2E5
tramn@ualberta.ca
The conference is funded by the Canada Research Chairs programme.
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