[csaa-forum] cfp: colloquy conference *be true to the earth*

[Colloquy]

“Be true to the earth” 
The inaugural conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (Australia-New Zealand) 
Organized by the journal Colloquy under the auspices of 
The Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies and the Schools of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and Literary, Visual and Performance Studies 
at Monash University 

Dates: March 31-April 1, 2005 
Venue: Monash University

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Louise Westling (Oregon), author of The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender and American Fiction (1996) 

The inaugural conference of ASLE-ANZ takes as its theme Friedrich Nietzsche’s injunction in Thus Spake Zarathustra to “be true to the earth.” The organizers of the conference invite papers that engage with the question of what it might mean to ‘be true’ to ‘the earth’ in relation to their own work, whether creative, critical, or reflective, as well as with regard to the particular location(s) of their work, whether in place, time or other (cultural, social, institutional) contexts. In particular, we welcome papers which address this theme in relation to: 
* literatures, philosophies and practices of place, especially in Australia and New Zealand 
* poetics, politics and practical action 
* indigenous, intercultural or cross-cultural perspectives 
* rural, urban or suburban ecologies 
* non-modern, counter-modern or postmodern perspectives 
* interspecies ethics, poetics or communication 
* reinhabitation, dislocation and social justice 
* ecocriticism and cultural studies 
* ecocriticism and religious studies 
* ecocriticism and European critical theory. 

Refereed proceedings of the conference will be published by the journal Colloquy.

Proposals (150 words max.) for twenty minute papers should be sent by January 31st 2005 by email to ASLEANZ.Conference at arts.monash.edu.au , or by post to Peter Coleman, Colloquy, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Building 11A, Monash Vic 3800, Australia. 

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Dimitris Vardoulakis 
Colloquy: text theory critique 
Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies 
PO Box 11A 
Monash University 
Clayton, Vic 3800 
Australia 

tel: +61 3 9905 9009 
fax: +61 3 9905 5593 
email: colloquy at arts.monash.edu.au 
url: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/others/colloquy 
  

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