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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">An upcoming conference in Melbourne...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Cheers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Tania</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Topologies of Sexual Difference</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Luce Irigaray Circle Conference, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Melbourne, Australia</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">The Communication, Politics and Culture Research Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, with the support of the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, will host an interdisciplinary conference inspired by Luce Irigaray and her thinking of sexual difference. This will be the seventh meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle. The overall theme for the conference will be “Topologies of Sexual Difference.”</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">In order to think and to experience sexual difference, Irigaray suggests that the Western tradition's conception of space and time could be reconsidered. There are at least three senses of topologies we seek to address: as the places in which bodies are and become, as ideal spaces of conceptualization, and as the designation of specific contexts. These contexts include, but are not limited to sexuality, “race”/ethnicity, gender, class, posthumanism and the animal, new materialisms, and sovereignty.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">We welcome engagements with topologies after Irigaray in fields such as politics, philosophy, aesthetics, visual culture, linguistics, literature, media and cultural studies, psychoanalysis, religious studies, music, sound studies, architecture, education and legal studies.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">The conference will feature the following keynote speakers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Professor Elizabeth Grosz, Duke University, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Professor Pheng Cheah, University of California, Berkeley, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Further keynote speaker to be confirmed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">In addition to the plenary sessions, the conference will organize parallel sessions and an exhibition of visual art. Abstracts (200 words max.) are sought for papers proposed for the parallel sessions (20 minute paper/10 minute discussion). Please send the abstract of the paper as an email attachment (“doc”). Proposals for the exhibition must include visual support material, submitted via jpegs (low res) and/or urls. Please provide an accompanying abstract (200 words max) and short description of support material.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Abstracts and exhibition materials should be formatted for anonymous review. The author’s contact details should be provided in the body of the email. Please indicate “Irigaray Circle 2014 Submission” in the heading of the email message.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">All submissions must be received by February 15th, 2014.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Submit abstracts and exhibition proposals to: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:irigaray14@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">irigaray14@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">We welcome submissions from graduate students as well as faculty. Responses from the organizing committee as to whether or not the paper or exhibition proposal has been accepted will be given by March 30th, 2014. If you require earlier confirmation of acceptance for funding purposes, please contact the conference organizers.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">In addition, the Irigaray Circle will sponsor the 6th annual Karen Burke Memorial Prize, awarded to the best paper submitted by a graduate student or recent PhD. The winner of the competition will give the Karen Burke Memorial Prize Lecture at a plenary session of the 2014 conference. Complete papers should be submitted to <a href="mailto:irigaray06@gmail.com" target="_blank">irigaray06@gmail.com</a> by 15th February 2014. Authors will be notified of the committee’s decision by March 30th 2014.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Information about conference registration will be posted by 30<sup>th</sup> April 2014.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Organizing committee:</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Dr Louise Burchill (VCA at the University of Melbourne)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Caroline Phillips (VCA at the University of Melbourne)</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">For further information please contact the conference organizers at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:irigaray14@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">irigaray14@gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.rmit.com/events/all-events/topologies-of-sexual-difference-/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">http://www.rmit.com/events/all-events/topologies-of-sexual-difference-/</span></a></span></p>
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