7.0547 Conferences in Edinburgh, July 1995 (1/115)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sat, 5 Mar 1994 18:24:23 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0547. Saturday, 5 Mar 1994.
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 12:45:20 GMT
From: Howard Gaskill <GERHGS@srv0.arts.edinburgh.ac.uk>
Subject: Edinburgh Conferences July 1995
Humanists might be interested in the following conferences, to be
held within a few days of each other in Edinburgh in July 1995
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BRITISH COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
First Announcement and Call for Papers
Seventh International Conference
12-15 July 1995
University of Edinburgh
`CITIES, GARDENS, WILDERNESSES'
There will be five sections; the areas listed for each section
serve as suggestions and are not meant to be exclusive.
Section 1 Labyrinths
Labyrinthine Texts. Narrative Metaphors:
Threads, Weaving, Building, Paths
Texts about Labyrinths. Mazes and Jungles
(Natural and Artificial)
Labyrinthine Minds. Psychoanalysis; Order and
Organization; Underworlds and Otherworlds
Section 2 Translation/Transplantation
Translation and Appropriation; Intertextuality
and Influence
Cultural Transfers: Meeting and Conflict,
History and Discourse
East and West/Europe and the
Americas/Ancient and Modern
Section 3 Culture and Civilization
Multitudes and Solitudes/Crowds and Individual
Consciousness.
Experience and Experiment: Ways of Seeing the
City and Problems of Urban Form
The Urban and Urbane: the Poor and the Rich
Images and Realities/Visible and Invisible
Cities
Gender and Identity in City Space
Modernism, Postmodernism and the City
Section 4 Paradises
Paradises Lost, Sought, Regained; Retreats,
Illusions, Idylls
Paradises Constructed, Imagined, Fought for
Deceptive, Hollow paradises; Subjective Edens;
Innocence and Loss of Innocence
Section 5 Travel
Travel Writing as an Exploration (in Language)
of the Meeting or Conflict of Cultures
Discovery of City, Garden or Wilderness as a
Place of Otherness
Travel from `Centre' to `Periphery', or from
`Periphery' to `Centre'
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Offers of Papers (including 300-word abstract) should be sent by the
end of June to the BCLA Secretary:
Dr Howard Gaskill, Department of German,
University of Edinburgh, David Hume Tower, George
Square, GB - Edinburgh EH8 9JX (tel. 031 650 3627;
Email H.Gaskill@ed.ac.uk)
BCLA members attending the Edinburgh Conference will receive a
discount equivalent to the cost of a year's membership.
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TENTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE
HISTORY OF RHETORIC
EDINBURGH JULY 19-22 1995
Call for papers.
The conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland,
from the morning of Wednesday July 19 1995 (with registration
beginning on the previous afternoon) until the evening of Saturday
July 22.
The principal themes are a) Rhetoric, Poetics and Literary Theory; b)
Prudence, Decorum, Taste; c) Rhetoric, National Identity and War; d)
Rhetoric in Scotland. In addition there will be a range ofpanels on
periods and other topics which may be proposed. Groups of three or
four related proposals are welcome, but the programme committee will
not feel bound to accept group proposals in their entirety.
Proposals (titles and brief abstracts) for papers not exceeding 20
minutes in duration should be sent (with the proposer's address) on
one side of a sheet of A4 or quarto paper to the following address by
15 May 1994. If you do not wish to offer a paper but would like
further information and booking forms (available Autumn 1994) please
send your name and address:
Professor Peter France (President ISHR)
Department of French
University of Edinburgh
60 George Square
EDINBURGH EH9 1RP
United Kingdom.
(Fax 031,650.6538)
e-mail (for correspondence, not proposals) p.france@ed.ac.uk.