Update S/He conference
Deadline extended to May 30th, 2003
Call for Papers
S/He...Embracing/Wrestling Genders. Cultural Spaces for a Re-Definition
of the Political
Bielsko-Biala, Poland, 24-25 October 2003
"When you live between opposites, you can not escape the s/he who will
follow you, who must either be wrestled with or embraced." (Minnie Bruce
Pratt, S/HE)
Do we really have to choose between embracing and wrestling? Is the
inescapable "s/he of trouble" really a matter of the either-or-question
of the cultural/political inescapability of alternatives? In Thomas
Carlyle, for example, embracing and wrestling get conflated, and then
rendered as a masculine kind of activity of taming the tumultuous
sea/sh/e of trouble, of harnessing the haunting presence of the Other in
the service of Culture which is metaphorically seen as marine service:
"Thou shalt be a Great man. Yes, my World Soldier, thou of the World
Marine-service, - thou wilt have to be greater than this tumultuous
unmeasured World here round thee is: thou, in thy strong soul, as with
wrestler's arms, shall embrace it, harness it down; and make it bear
thee on, - to new Americas, or whither God wills!" (Thomas Carlyle in
Past and Present). The question prompted by both Pratt and Carlyle,
however discrepantly posited and implicit, is that of the alter-ity of
alternatives, of their nativity in a wrestling embrace of the political
whose power reduces the regions of difference to the tumultuous and
"unmeasured" chasms of the s/h/ea. Please send proposals of conference
papers and presentations (300-400 words) addressing the issues of
changes invited and heralded by S/HE, by S/HE's materialization in the
discourses of humanities, arts, and elsewhere to the e-mail address
below or to the postal address above (not later than May 30th 2003).
The following thematic areas are suggested: S/HE and the political; S/HE
and difference; S/HE and labour; S/HE and war; S/HE and change; S/HE and
economy; S/HE and WE.
Agnieszka Pantuchowicz
apantuchowicz@ath.bielsko.pl
Tadeusz Rachwal
trachwal@ath.bielsko.pl
University of Bielsko-Biala
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
ul. Piastowska 44
43-300 Bielsko-Biala, Poland
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