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From:  "M.J. Ruhl" <mjruhl@s...>
"M.J. Ruhl" <mjruhl@s...>
Date:  Thu Dec 28, 2000  2:58 am
Subject:  Literature, Medicine, and Music!


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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