CALL FOR PAPERS
Rules: Makin', Breakin', and Rearticulatin'
A Graduate Student Conference hosted by the students of the Graduate Programme
in English at York University, Toronto, Canada.
March 31st-April 1st, 2003
In their functionality, rules both enable and disable. This conference seeks to
explore the manifestations and permutations of rules, their fictions, their
solidity, and their currency. Socially and physically we are governed by
written and unwritten rules; often, one needs to know the rules in order to
break them. Not only making, but accessing the rules of the game and their
shifting realities paradoxically implies and engenders privilege. At what point
do rules facilitate freedoms and at what point do they halt discourse?
Topics and Themes
We invite papers that are related but not limited to the following general
themes:
The body: boundaries, laws, pain and trauma, morals, modifications, ethics,
desire, propriety, refracting the gaze, the economy of the classed body.
Space: regulation of the urban environment, mapping, (in)organic borders,
topologies of the self, topographies of identity, nationalism,
transnationalism, the nation-state.
Language: semantics, signification, syntax, semiotics, broken and unspoken,
appropriation of dialect, accents, inflection(s), policing, standards
Performance: queering the Law, engendering, metatheatricality, limits of the
stage, audience.
Race: fiction, passing, impostering, e(race)ing, deracing, citizenship,
authenticity, strategic essentialisms, diaspora, hybridity.
Interdisciplinarity is encouraged and panels are welcome.
Presentations should be about 20 minutes (10 typewritten double-spaced pages)
and should be no longer than 30 minutes.
Submission Format/ Deadlines
Please submit an abstract as an attachment of no more than 250 words in
Microsoft format (approx. 1 typewritten page, double spaced). Name and contact
information should not appear on this page.
Please include a separate page with the following information:
Title of paper as it appears on your abstract
Name
Affiliation (program and university)
Level and year of study (ie., Master's, 2nd year)
Phone number
E-mail Address
Mailing address
Any A/V requirements (ie. Overhead projector, computer/projector, film
projector, VCR, etc.)
Deadline: February 14, 2003
Please e-mail submissions or inquiries to rules2003@gosympatico.ca
Presented by the Graduate Programme in English at York University
Note: In the event of a surplus of submissions, priority will be given to
students of English.
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