The Department of English at the University of Calgary invites abstracts
for papers to be presented at our 2001 Graduate Free Exchange
Conference:
BEGINNING AGAIN AND AGAIN:
Writing Through the Fin-de-Siècle(s)
23-24 March 2001
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
This conference will address both the cultural representations of the
various fin-de-siècles as well as the significance of the fin-de-siècle
as an historical frame. While we welcome papers addressing our
contemporary moment, the purpose of the Free Exchange is to allow for
the participation of as many graduate students as possible; to this end,
students working in any number of fields and historical periods are
invited to submit abstracts. Cross-disciplinary papers, as well as
papers that interrogate the term fin-de-siècle (i.e. as Eurocentric,
as overly schematic), are especially welcomed. Possible topics may
include:
- revolutionary aesthetics at centurys end
- aesthetes, decadents and degenerates
- utopian or apocalyptic visions
- milleniumism and Y2K
- reading contemporary practices
- modernism as the beginning of the end
- a comparison of differing fin-de-siècles
- technological transformations and cultural practices
- determining beginnings and endings
- new perspectives, old texts
The proceedings from University of Calgary Graduate Free Exchange
conferences have traditionally been published. Please submit 250-word
abstracts by January 15, 2001 to:
Graduate Free Exchange
Department of English
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T2N 1N4
or e-mail at simpsonnat@home.com
AG (source CFP)