<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi all</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Note extended deadline for this conference.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Cheers</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Tania</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Topologies of Sexual Difference</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Luce Irigaray Circle Conference, Melbourne, Australia</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Wednesday 10 December to Friday 12 December 2014<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CALL FOR PAPERS ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED: 31st May 2014</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.” </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The conference will feature the following keynote speakers:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Professor Elizabeth Grosz, Duke University, USA</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Professor Pheng Cheah, University of California, Berkeley, USA</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Further keynote speaker to be announced.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">All submissions must be received by May 31st, 2014. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submit abstracts and exhibition proposals to: <a href="mailto:irigaray14@gmail.com" target="_blank">irigaray14@gmail.com</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We welcome submissions from graduate students as well as faculty. Authors will be notified on whether or not your abstract has been accepted for the conference within two weeks of submission. If you require an earlier confirmation of acceptance for funding purposes, please contact the conference organizers.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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 31st May 2014. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Information about conference registration will be posted by 30th April 2014.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Organizing committee:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dr Rebecca Hill (RMIT)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dr Louise Burchill (VCA at the University of Melbourne)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Caroline Phillips (VCA at the University of Melbourne)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For further information please contact the conference organizers at <a href="mailto:irigaray14@gmail.com" target="_blank">irigaray14@gmail.com</a></div>
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