[csaa-forum] FW: Symposium CFP - antiTHESIS

[Amanda Wise]

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"Excess: Rapture and Revolution"
An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium
Friday 11 June, 2004
Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne

"Excess: Rapture and Revolution" is a one-day symposium organised by the
editors of antiTHESIS and postgraduates in the Department of English
with Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.

The symposium will bring together postgraduate scholars and creative
writers from across Australia and overseas for a day of
interdisciplinary debate and academic exchange.

We invite papers which consider the momentum of excess, as a stimulus
for subjective transformation and political upheaval, as a spur to
rapture and revolution. Excess suggests the limits of knowledge,
experience, language, production, consumption and power, and
simultaneously the rejection and dissolution of such limits.

Scholars and creative writers are invited to direct their contribution
to one of the following themes:

    * bodies and pleasure
    * hedonism, decadence, the sublime
    * the spectacle of excess
    * censorship, discipline and regulation
    * the subjective experience of excess as creative and destructive
    * excess as a thematic and stylistic feature of literary production
    * cultural forms of excess (for example, carnival, consumerism,
fetishism, and technologies)
    * political revolutions as the scene of real or imagined excess
    * revolutions in the history of ideas (based on the concept of
excess)

Proposals of no more than 250 words are sought for twenty-minute papers
addressing the theme of "Excess: Rapture and Revolution". Please send
abstracts in the text of an email (not as an attachment) to
antithesis at adhocalypse.arts.unimelb.edu.au by 26 April 2004. All
proposals will be considered and responded to by 3 May 2004.

We are pleased to announce that a limited amount of funding will be made
available to subsidise the cost of travel for interstate participants.

"Excess: Rapture and Revolution" is the theme of volume 15 of
antiTHESIS, Australia's longest-running interdisciplinary postgraduate
journal. Presenters at the symposium will be encouraged to submit their
work for publication in the fully-refereed 2005 edition of antiTHESIS.

"Fuse" is the theme of volume 14 of antiTHESIS. The 2004 edition of
antiTHESIS will be formally launched in April. Please see
http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/antithesis for more information.

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a.woods at pgrad.unimelb.edu.au