Medieval History
CFP: Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting (SEMA)
October 15-17, 2009
Submissions due: June 11, 2009
*Monstrous Binaries: Monster Theories in/at Play*
?It is conventional to call ?monster? any blending of dissonant
elements. I call ?monster? every original inexhaustible
beauty.??Alfred Jarry, ?Les Monstres?
Whether or not it is beautiful, the monster is certainly
inexhaustible. The BABEL Working Group invites submissions that
explore the inexhaustibility of literary monsters as they both demand
and defy binary characterizations. How might binary models explain,
occlude, or displace other monstrous possibilities? The invitation is
purposefully open and might include approaches that range from
postcolonial theory to Russian Formalism, from queer theory to
ecocriticism (and all points in between/beyond).
The panel will be a part of the 2009 SEMA conference, and its goal is
to bring together disparate readings of monsters, letting them
commingle, coexist, and (perhaps) coalesce for a few minutes.
Abstracts should be for papers fifteen minutes in length. They may
offer focused examinations of primary texts or more abstract,
theoretical discussions, but all submissions should make explicit
their theoretical genealogy.
A *partial* list of approaches might include: Kristeva, Foucault,
Girard, Plumwood, Derrida, Bakhtin, Lacan, Cohen, Levi-Strauss,
Deleuze and Guattari, Propp, Zizek, Canguilhem, Butler, and/or Freud.
Deadline for Submission: 11 June 2009
Send Abstracts (150-250 words) to:
Timothy Asay ([email protected]) or
Marcus Hensel ([email protected])
BABEL Working Group: http://www.siue.edu/babel/Babel-Home.htm
SEMA 2009 Conference: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/gShQhq/sema2009
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Medieval History
CFP
CFP: Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting (SEMA)
October 15-17, 2009
Submissions due: June 11, 2009
*Monstrous Binaries: Monster Theories in/at Play*
?It is conventional to call ?monster? any blending of dissonant
elements. I call ?monster? every original inexhaustible
beauty.??Alfred Jarry, ?Les Monstres?
Whether or not it is beautiful, the monster is certainly
inexhaustible. The BABEL Working Group invites submissions that
explore the inexhaustibility of literary monsters as they both demand
and defy binary characterizations. How might binary models explain,
occlude, or displace other monstrous possibilities? The invitation is
purposefully open and might include approaches that range from
postcolonial theory to Russian Formalism, from queer theory to
ecocriticism (and all points in between/beyond).
The panel will be a part of the 2009 SEMA conference, and its goal is
to bring together disparate readings of monsters, letting them
commingle, coexist, and (perhaps) coalesce for a few minutes.
Abstracts should be for papers fifteen minutes in length. They may
offer focused examinations of primary texts or more abstract,
theoretical discussions, but all submissions should make explicit
their theoretical genealogy.
A *partial* list of approaches might include: Kristeva, Foucault,
Girard, Plumwood, Derrida, Bakhtin, Lacan, Cohen, Levi-Strauss,
Deleuze and Guattari, Propp, Zizek, Canguilhem, Butler, and/or Freud.
Deadline for Submission: 11 June 2009
Send Abstracts (150-250 words) to:
Timothy Asay ([email protected]) or
Marcus Hensel ([email protected])
BABEL Working Group: http://www.siue.edu/babel/Babel-Home.htm
SEMA 2009 Conference: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/gShQhq/sema2009
- Mearcstapa Cfp
I'm re-sending this CFP, as the deadline for submissions is fast approaching. Please circulate widely and feel free to email me with any questions. *Call for Papers: * *45th International Congress on Medieval Studies* *May 13?16, 2010*** *Western...
- Sema Reminder
This is a reminder that abstracts for the 2009 Southeastern Medieval Conference, which will be held at Vanderbilt University the weekend of October 15-17, are due on July 1st (two days from now). Please submit your abstracts using the conference website:...
- Cfp: Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting
CFP: Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting Vanderbilt University October 15-17, 2009 /Knowing and Unknowing/ What did medieval peoples know about their world? What do we know about the Middle Ages? We welcome papers on all aspects of the Middle...
- Sema 2009
Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to host the 2009 SEMA conference at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, October 15-17. Our conference theme will be "Knowing and Unknowing," and our plenary speakers are Sarah Kay (French, Princeton) and John Tolan...
- Some News From Babel
FIRST, the special issue of "Journal of Narrative Theory" [v. 37, no. 2], "Premodern to Modern Humanisms: The BABEL Project" is now available for viewing and downloading at Project Muse: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_narrative_theory/toc/jnt37.2.html...