15th Annual
Tufts University English Graduate Conference
Friday, October 17, 2003
THE INFLUENCE OF ANXIETY
The nervous system has an intimate association with
the phenomena of mind because it represents an
interface between the material and psychic realms.
"Anxiety" is not a term that merely belongs to the
locus of clinical psychology; it is a condition that
opens up critical and imaginative possibilities while
rupturing the borders of the rational and conscious,
and the binary structures of mind and body. Moreover,
it is a concept, an affliction, a motivation that
preoccupies discourses of literary theory, literatures
in English, and literary and cultural criticism.
What happens when that anxious body tells its story?
How does the influence of anxiety give rise to the
narrative voice? Could the influence of anxiety serve
as a locus for social criticism? Is the physiology of
experience the cultural language
through which critiques can operate? Can language be
anything other than anxious?
Since "The Influence of Anxiety" is an
interdisciplinary concept — linguistic, psychological,
tropological, somatic, sexual, cultural, discursive,
etc. — we encourage abstracts that explore and
problematize the phrase from a wide range of
interests.
Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
Hysterical/obsessive/traumatized bodies
Visual Anxieties in Film and Art
Anxiogenic Language
Eroticized Anxiety
Terror and Anxiety: the discourse of Terrorism
Paranoid Imperialism
Instabilities in Racial Location
Writers on the Verge
Unconscious/Hyperconscious Desires
Technological/Cyber Anxieties
Please send a 1-2 page, double-spaced abstract by July
1, 2003 outlining your paper or presentation.
Abstracts, including your name and email address,
should be sent to:
2003 Graduate Conference: "The Influence of Anxiety"
Tufts English Graduate Organization
East Hall, Department of English
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
Phone: (617) 627-3459
Fax: (617) 627-3603
http://ase.tufts.edu/tego
For further information, please contact:
Melissa A. Kaplan (makaplan6@yahoo.com)
Kristina Aikens (kristinanaikens@yahoo.com)
Sponsored by:
Tufts English Graduate Organization
Tufts University English Department
Tufts Graduate Student Council &
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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