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<i>Contact: borders, limits, and thresholds<br>
</i>Annual Postgraduate Symposium<br>
School of English, Media & Performing Arts<br>
University of New South Wales<br>
</b><i>Friday, 9 September 2011<br>
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The EMPA Annual Postgraduate Symposium is on again at UNSW. The conference is aimed at postgraduate and early career researchers across multiple fields and disciplines. This year, the School of English, Media and Performing Arts invites proposals that engage with the broad themes of 'contact', 'borders', 'limits', and/or 'thresholds', from researchers across the humanities and beyond. Proposals may be critical or creative, theoretical or performance based.<br>
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Topics may address (but are not limited to): The manifestations of ‘contact’ in literature, film, theatre, film, music and popular culture; Imaginings and reimaginations of Kristeva and/or <b>ˇ</b>i<b>˛</b>ek; Contact between bodies; Contact between cultures; Space; Nationality/ Nationalism; Cosmopolitanism; Crisis; Exile/ Escapism; Modernity; Multimedia/ New Media; Body modification/cybernetics; pervasive technologies; colonialism; postcolonialism; Speculation and imagination; Time, temporality, duration and/or spontaneity; Subalternaity; sound, noise and delay; Pleasure, pain and/or corporality; Deleuze, assemblange, deterritorialisation.<br>
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Contact: conveners Chris Oakey, Naomi Riddle and Amy Parish at <font color="#183DFA"><a href="unsw.symposium@gmail.com">unsw.symposium@gmail.com</a> <br>
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CFP closes 15 July 2011.<br>
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<b>The full call for papers is available as a PDF file at the following URL: <a href="http://empa.arts.unsw.edu.au/pgs/">http://empa.arts.unsw.edu.au/pgs/</a><br>
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Please distribute widely.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Michelle Langford<br>
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