[csaa-forum] CFP - Missing Persons Conference

[Reena Dobson]

The Writing and Society Research Group

at the University of Western Sydney

presents

 

Missing Persons 




An inter-disciplinary conference for postgraduates 

to be held on the Bankstown campus of 

the University of Western Sydney

on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 July 2008

 

Call for papers:


Missing Persons seeks to examine and explore issues arising from loss
and displacement, memory and forgetting, disappearance, erasures and
caesuras, death and dying in artistic and creative production. 

 

In particular the conference will assess the artistic, cinematic,
literary, moral, social, familial, (geo)political, philosophical,
psychological and religious significance of these issues, both
individually and together.

 

Submissions are invited on any of the following themes:


* writing memory - memory and desire, memory and affect;

* memory loss, dementia and the return to childhood; 
* disappearances, erasure, secrets and control; 

* ghosts, haunted writing and vampiric production;
* literary representations of space and "the space between";
* the narrative underground - marginalised narratives and volcanic
texts;

* myths and legends of actual missing persons; 
* narratives of death and dying;
* true crime.

 

Submissions can include papers, performance, art works, installations,
works-in-progress and workshops. The conference steering committee also
welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. 

 

250-word abstracts should be submitted by 31 March 2008. If an abstract
is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted
by 31 May 2008.

 

Abstracts (including bios) should be submitted to Tessa Needham at
<writing at uws.edu.au>

 

A small number of bursaries will be made available to assist post grad
students travelling to the conference from interstate.

 

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