UPDATE: Perspectives (grad) (UK) (4/4/05; 5/27/05)

The call for papers for the ManuScript conference has
been extended until midday on Monday, 4th April 2005.
NO PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THIS DEADLINE.
Original CFP is reproduced below.

The keynote speaker has now been confirmed as
Professor Derek Attridge of York University, an expert
on aspects of theory, who has also worked
significantly on Joyce and recently edited a
collection on J.M. Coetzee. See his homepage at the
link below.

http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/engl/staff/academic/attridge.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS

ManuScript, the Postgraduate Journal of English and
American Studies, in the School of Arts, Histories and
Cultures, University of Manchester, presents

‘PERSPECTIVES’, 27 May 2005
This year’s annual ManuScript conference asks you to
focus on the concept of "perspective" and how a point
of view informs the inception, creation and critical
interpretation of texts. Subjective conditions are
clearly fundamental to how we read our objects of
inquiry, as well as how those objects were themselves
formed by a given climate. As the word itself implies,
a perspective is partial, incomplete and
non-totalising, and this is consistent with our
egalitarian ethos with respect to all areas of the
humanities and individual identities. With this in
mind, openness to different outlooks will usually
engender novelty, stir the imagination and forge new
connections, whilst at the same time resisting all
forms of dogmatism, leaving the question of truth in
suspension - the enigma that stimulates further debate
and inquiry.

Proposals are encouraged from a diversity of fields
and trans-disciplinary viewpoints. Possible topics may
include but are not limited to:

Subject positions within culture
Modes of spectatorship
Theories of alterity/difference
Schools of criticism
Socio-historical contexts
Proximity, margins and distance
Methodologies/critical lenses
Modes of representation/media
Concepts of authorship
Forms of narration

The conference will include academic papers,
multi-media presentations, and a keynote speaker (to
be announced). Papers accepted for the conference will
also be considered for publication in the next edition
of the Manuscript journal. Registration for the
conference is just £5 and includes lunch and
refreshments throughout the day.

Submission deadline is 31st March 2005 for abstracts
of no more than 500 words which should include details
of any multimedia requirements for your presentation
and full contact details. Please e-mail to
manuscript_at_man.ac.uk (preferably as a Microsoft Word
attachment) entitled "Conference Proposal".

Alternatively, you can submit work by sending two hard
copies via snail mail to us at: Anna Ball, ManuScript
Conference, English and American Studies, School of
Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of
Manchester, Oxford Road, MANCHESTER M13 9PL.

For further details visit our website at
www.art.man.ac.uk/english/manuscript/ via the English
and American Studies Postgraduate link at
www.manchester.ac.uk.

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