FYI--a conference announcement I'm forwarding from C-Opera, thanks to Barry Drogin who so kindly posted it there.
I'd love to attend, but doubt I'll have the opportunity.
Best regards,
Mary Jane Ruhl Alexandria, VA
>Call for papers: > >> > >>NO SENSE OF DISCIPLINE: > >>An International Conference on Interdisciplinarity > >> > >>The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia > >> > >>Monday and Tuesday, 11 and 12 June, 2001 > >> > >>Registration and accommodation details, and a mailing list for updates, > >have now been added to our website: > >http://english.uq.edu.au/conferences/interdis > >> > >>250 word abstracts must reach us by January 30. > >> > >>Confirmed plenary speakers: > >> > >>Professor Sander Gilman, University of Chicago > >>Professor Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto > >>Professor Michael Hutcheon, University of Toronto > >>Professor Helen Tiffin, University of Queensland. > >> > >>This is the first of a series of biennial conferences to alternate between > >the University of Queensland and the University of Toronto. > >> > >>Our focus is the testing of the borders between LITERATURE and/or MEDICINE > >and/or MUSIC, but we are equally interested in papers that consider ways in > >which any of these disciplines intersects with and illuminates a further > >discipline--architecture, art history, classical studies, cultural studies, > >environmental studies, geography, history, law, media studies, philosophy, > >psychology, or urban studies, for example. We encourage the crossing of > >period as well as disciplinary boundaries. > >> > >>Participants are invited to address their own particular and current > >interdisciplinary interest/s, or to critique methodologies and theories of > >interdisciplinarity. > >> > >>There will be three plenary meetings, accompanied by a number of panels > >that will consist of three papers of twenty minutes each, with fifteen > >minutes' question time. > >> > >>We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers, or for panels of three > >papers. Abstracts of 250 words should reach us by email or mail on or > >before January 30, 2001. > >> > >>For further information, please contact > >> > >>Dr Judith Seaboyer and Dr Jo Robertson > >>Department of English > >>University of Queensland > >>St Lucia, Brisbane > >>Queensland 4072 > >>Australia > >> > >>interdis@e... > >> > >>Ph. 61 7 3365 2135 or 61 7 3365 2976 > >> > >>FAX: 61 7 3365 2799 > >> > >>http://english.uq.edu.au/conferences/interdis/ > >>
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