[csaa-forum] CFP: A Symposium on Piracy (deadline extended to JUNE 8TH)

[Graham Preston]

"Rum, Sodomy and the Lash": Extended Deadline for
Submissions
An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium on Piracy.
Friday July 13th, 2007
Graduate Centre University of Melbourne


"Rum, Sodomy and the Lash" is a one-day symposium
organised by the
editors of antiTHESIS and postgraduates in the School
of Culture and
Communication at the University of Melbourne.

To mark the creation of the new School of Culture and
Communication,
which includes the areas of Cultural Studies, English
Literary
Studies, Creative Writing, Cinema Studies, Art
History, Theatre
Studies, and others, the symposium will bring together
scholars across
disciplines for a day of debate and academic exchange.

Despite its negative representation in official
histories, piracy presents a
site of contestation and alterity within an
increasingly rationalised and
globalised modernity.  Piracy brings the concepts of
ownership and territory
into question; digital piracy disrupts the opposition
between work and play,
producer and consumer (Klline, 2003).  As such, piracy
as concept and as
practice offers a way to re-think issues within and
between disciplines.
Possible themes include, but are not limited to:

- piracy and new media
- piracy and the state
- cultural representation of pirates
- copyright and intellectual property
- plagiarism, literary appropriation and allusion
- musical piracy
- terrorism and piracy
- immigration, liminality and piracy
- maps, geography and exploration
- treasure and trade
- piracy, gender and sexuality
- transdisciplinarity and shifting disciplinary
boundaries
- other related creative submissions

Please be aware that these are suggestions only – we
welcome novel
interpretations of the theme.  Proposals of no more
than 250 words are
sought for 20 minutes papers. Please send abstracts in
the text of an
email to editor.antithesis at gmail.com. The deadline for
submissions has
been extended to Friday, June 8th, 2007.

Submissions can include:

- an individual paper
- a jointly authored paper
- session proposals
- creative/media presentations

All submissions should include:

- a title
- a 250-word abstract or sample if a creative piece
- a list of three keywords relating to the proposal
- a brief biography
- details of audiovisual requirements

Presenters are encouraged to develop their papers for
submission to
volume 18 of the fully-refereed antiTHESIS,
Australia's
longest-running interdisciplinary postgraduate
journal.

For further information, contact
editor.antithesis at gmail.com.

"The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy
and the lash"
-- Anthony Montague-Brown


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