CFP: War/Terror Papers (Australia) (6/17/05; 9/2/05)

Critical and Cultural Studies
Macquarie University
Research seminar series, Semester 2, 2005

Call for Proposals
The Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, invites seminar papers on the theme of 'War / Terror', for its Semester 2 research seminar series program, 2005.
The CCS research seminars highlight the interdisciplinarity of critical and cultural studies and provide a showcase for research on topics of current interest.

War / Terror
We seek 150 word proposals for 50-minute papers that address the following issues (papers on topics unrelated to the theme are also welcome for inclusion in the semester-long seminar series):

* Rhetorics of war and terrorism
* 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States
* 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'
* 'Operation Enduring Freedom'
* Life under occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan
* Torture memos and Abu Ghraib
* Pre-emptive strike policies
* Technologies of racial profiling
* Era of intelligence and counter-terrorism
* Cinema and war/terror
* Television and war/terror
* Writing and war/terror
* Psychoanalysis and war/terror
* Performance studies and war/terror

Please send your abstract to Dr Deborah Staines for consideration
by 17th June 2005
E: deborah.staines_at_mq.edu.au

For further information about appearing in the CCS research seminar series, please contact:

Dr. Deborah Staines
Department of Critical and Cultural Studies
Macquarie University
North Ryde, NSW 2109
AUSTRALIA
E: Deborah.Staines_at_scmp.mq.edu.au
P: +61 2 9850 8980
W: http://www.ccs.mq.edu.au/staff_dstaines.html

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