UPDATE: Pounce! Predators, Parasites and Critics (grad) (5/31/05; 10/7/05-10/8/05)

Pounce!
Predators, Parasites and Critics: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Living Off of
Others

UPDATE: Announcing Keynote Speaker Dr. Avital Ronell, Professor of Germanic
Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at New York University and
author of Stupidity, Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania, and The Telephone
Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: May 31st 2005 at 5:00 pm

The University of Texas Program in Comparative Literature and the Graduate
Association for Comparative Literature Students (GRACLS) invites papers to be
presented at The Second Annual Conference for Graduate Students For Comparative
Literature and Literary Studies to be held October 7th and 8th, 2005. This
year’s conference seeks papers that address various aspects of predation and
predatory behaviors as they may be interpreted through art, literature,
politics, theory and other interdisciplinary approaches. We envision a wide
variety of possible panel topics that may include but are not limited to:

Theories of consumerism, cultural capital, and capitalism
Postcolonial theories, texts and the processes of usurping power
The predatory and/or parasitic role of the critic in art and literature
The predatory and/or parasitic role of theory in art and literature
The dangers of “new” and “interdisciplinary” approaches
Creativity crises: Rewriting and remaking in film and other genres (i.e.: the
“Disneyfication” of fairytales and myths)
Predatory literary (fictional or authorial) figures
The avant-garde or experimentation/new approaches in theater, film, art,
literature, etc.
The purpose or predatory role of “the Canon”
Crime and Predation: both in an abstract or literal sense (i.e. pirating,
thievery,
        cyber culture crime, the process of committing a crime)
Environmental issues
The aesthetics of cannibalism, colonization, or intentional appropriation of
culture
Images of consumption in Decadent, Gothic or otherwise monstrous prose, poetry,
film, drama, art etc.
Perspectives on predation from the viewpoint of gender studies (involving
feminist theories, queer theories)
Protecting or Undoing traditions, culture, language
Predation as creative necessity
The sovereign, sovereignty and the subject
Plagiarism
Other…

Presentations should be 15-20 minutes. Please submit 200-300 word abstracts and
contact information to Jenny Philips by email or by mail at the following
addresses. Abstracts must be received by 5pm on May 31st.

by email:
jennyphilips_at_mail.utexas.edu
or by mail:
c/o Jenny Philips
Program in Comparative Literature
1 University Station B5003
Austin, TX 78712-0196

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