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<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Kia ora,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Please note the following call for papers. Though this event is hosted by the Centre for Lacanian Analysis, we welcome papers from a broad range of critically engaged, humanities approaches
to the crucial question of what the current, real, conflagrations of COVID, fire and other catastrophe
<i>mean</i> in terms of subjectivity, language and representation. Please see below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Please email me for further information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">Kei te kite koe kei te wera ahau?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Body"><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:Helvetica">Can</span></b><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><b><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:Helvetica">t
you see I</span></b><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><b><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>’</span></b><b><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">m
burning?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Our work in the
</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">fi</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">eld and function of psychoanalysis today demands an engagement with the divided subject at a time when the
</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">pain
of existence</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">” is
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">provoked by a specific encounter with the Real – Covid-19. As we bear witness to this devastation, which is so often met with willful blindness in the face off the gasping cries of humanity
and nature, is there not a sense that the virus adds fuel to global </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">fi</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">res already raging</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">?
These conflagrations, including soaring inequality, racism, misogyny, starvation, war, trafficking, ecological catastrophe burn with heightened intensity. In new ways the environment, living beings and speaking subjects, burn unheeded. Facing this dire predicament,
psychoanalysis can respond by letting language fulfil its true function. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">The Centre for Lacanian Analysis of Aotearoa New Zealand welcomes papers for discussion on these con</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">fl</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">agrations
from a broad array of disciplines. It will be possible to attend the conference via Zoom. Please send your abstract of 500 words via Lacan.org.nz by 1<sup>st</sup> November 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Nga mihi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Body"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Rosie
</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Rosemary Overell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Senior Lecturer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Media, Film and Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The University of Otago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dunedin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html">http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Latest Publication: </span>"More Than a Hashtag: Excitement, Anguish and the Semblant of #MeToo."
<i>Theory & Event</i>, vol. 22 no. 4, 2019, p. 792-819. <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/736563">
muse.jhu.edu/article/736563</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Latest Edited Book: (co-edited with Brett Nicholls)
</span><i><span style="color:black">Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality: New Conjunctures</span></i><span style="color:black">. London: Palgrave.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030256692<o:p></o:p></p>
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