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Metamorphoses: Transformations, Transgressions<BR>
</B>English, Media & Performing Arts Postgraduate Symposium<BR>
University of New South Wales<BR>
Friday, 10th September 2010<BR>
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<B>Call for papers<BR>
</B>This conference aims to engage with postgraduates and early career<BR>
researchers on points of convergence among the humanities and social<BR>
science disciplines to discuss the concept of ‘metamorphosis’, its mythic<BR>
echoes and its contemporary imaginings.<BR>
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>From Ovid to Hans Christian Anderson to Kafka, literal depictions of<BR>
metamorphoses dominate cultural discourse and permeate our currencies of<BR>
storytelling. Yet metamorphoses also evoke liminal spaces and becomings,<BR>
straddling one realm and others simultaneously. Presenters are invited to<BR>
investigate metamorphic incidents of rupture and explore what possibilities<BR>
might be found at these intersections of embodiment, spatiality and<BR>
temporality.<BR>
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Submissions are anticipated to look at different ways in which bodies<BR>
interface with transgression and transformation. Particularly how these<BR>
frictions, desires and intensities are expressed through shifts in our identities,<BR>
our poetics and our politics. Both theoretical and performance-based<BR>
explorations will be included in the symposium.<BR>
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<B>Topics may include</B> (but are not limited to): •constructing masculinities in<BR>
contemporary Australian media discourse •representing the past: legitimacy,<BR>
historical narratives, historiographies •feminisms and pornography:<BR>
transforming representations of sexualities •somatechnics, technologies and<BR>
body modification practices •staging the classics in contemporary Australian<BR>
theatre •affect and laughter: refiguring the carnival •apocalyptic futurities:<BR>
preoccupations in film and literature •trans identities and gender pluralism<BR>
•economies of difference: post-colonial becomings •stripping the<BR>
heterosexual matrix: queer reformulations of burlesque •Rudd as ‘Howard<BR>
lite’: transformations and constancies in the Australian political landscape<BR>
•consuming the flesh: changes in the reception of bodies and aesthetics<BR>
•textual violence: depicting sado-masochism •pathos, catharsis and<BR>
directions in contemporary theatre •Deleuzian re-imaginings and new critical<BR>
frameworks •postdramatic performance: memory, trauma and tragedy<BR>
•technological embodiments and shifts in bodily perception •non-places:<BR>
morphing spaces and architectural landscapes<BR>
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Creative practice responses such as performances, poetry and fiction<BR>
readings, and non-traditional presentations are encouraged. The conference<BR>
will involve an evening program to include these contributions. Papers and<BR>
performances will be limited to 20 minutes. Applications for panels are also<BR>
welcome. Please send 300 word abstracts and a short (100 word maximum)<BR>
biography to:<BR>
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Anna Westbrook<BR>
<a href="anna.k.westbrook@hotmail.com">anna.k.westbrook@hotmail.com</a><BR>
Charlotte Farrell<BR>
<a href="charlottefarrell@gmail.com">charlottefarrell@gmail.com</a><BR>
<B>Deadline for submissions: 23rd of July 2010.<BR>
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<B>Keynote speaker</B>: Dr Daniel Hourigan, Griffith University<BR>
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In 2009 Daniel Hourigan completed a PhD entitled "The Phantasmatic<BR>
Subject of Technology: Slavoj Žižek, Techne, and the Abyss". He has<BR>
published and presented papers on a wide variety of themes and<BR>
interdisciplinary topics from psychoanalytic philosophy, radical idealist<BR>
thought and jurisprudence, the philosophy of culture, and biotechnology. He<BR>
also teaches in a variety of areas for Griffith University including art theory<BR>
and media studies.</SPAN></FONT>
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