[1] From: DARWIN@iris.uncg.edu (78)
Subject: CFP: Conference on time and literary criticism (fwd)
[2] From: Michael Scordilis <m.scordilis@wcl.ee.upatras.gr> (279)
Subject: EUROSPEECH'97 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 02:03:54 -0500 (EST)
From: DARWIN@iris.uncg.edu
Subject: CFP: Conference on time and literary criticism (fwd)
THE CRITICISM OF THE FUTURE
JULY 11-12, 1997, UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY
An international conference seeks participants to debate the
temporalities of criticism.
Confirmed Speakers:
Professor Geoffrey Bennington (University of Sussex)
Professor Thomas Docherty (University of Kent at Canterbury)
'Every conception of history is invariably accompanied by a certain
experience of time which is implicit in it, conditions it, and thereby
has to be elucidated. Similarly, every culture is first and foremost a
particular experience of time, and no new culture is possible without
an alteration in this experience. The original task of a genuine
revolution, therefore, is never merely to "change the world", but also -
and above all - to "change time". (Giorgio Agamben)
'Time is everything, man is nothing; he is at most the carcass of time.'
(Karl Marx)
In an essay entitled "Time Today", Jean-Frangois Lyotard argues that
modernity is in part predicated on a conception of time in which the
"future" is always already given. The subject of modernity operates in
the manner of the Leibnizian God, the "consummate archivist" who
"conserves in complete retention the totality of information
constituting the world". The future, for this subject, is already known,
already mapped according to a narrative of progress and a project of
emancipation. What is lost in this project, argues Lyotard, is precisely
time itself, the openness to an *event* which has not already been
anticipated and recorded in the "archive" which constitutes, for this
kind of thought, the only possible future (that is, no future at all).
For theory in its institutionalized forms, time is essentially an empty
and homogeneous continuum which proceeds toward a future which, given
the static, "archival" conception of temporality with which it operates
is already a knowable and quantifiable datum. In this sense, modern
criticism is "the criticism of the future", a criticism which posits and
appeals to a future conceived as the final term in the static continuum:
past-present-future.
Time, for Western philosophical thinking, is persistently the object of
a certain conserving and stockpiling impulse; it is that which must be
saved or gained in the name of a posited emancipatory future. This
conception of temporality informs the modern theoretical project, in
terms of an impulse toward *speed*. Speed is the defining
characteristic of those discourses which we have come to call
theoretical, and of the criticism to which they give rise.
This conference seeks to address the question of how we might begin to
rethink our conceptions of theory in the light of an altered
understanding of the temporality of thought and criticism, to *slow
down* the critical process precisely in order that we might open
ourselves to the "criticism of the future" (in the other sense of the
genitive).
Possible topics include:
The Time of Criticism
The Criticism of Time
Time and History
Time and Narrative
Criticism and Tradition
Criticism as Avant-Garde
The Speed of Criticism
Paul Virilio
The Futures of Criticism
Criticism and the Contemporary
Critical Moments, Critical Events
Allegory
The Sublime
Cinematic Time
Criticism and Apocalypse
Now
Then
Send abstracts (300-350 words) by Friday 11 April 1997, to:
Brian Dillon,
School of English,
Rutherford College,
University of Kent at Canterbury,
Canterbury,
Kent CT2 7NX,
UK.
E-mail: bgd1@ukc.ac.uk
Dialling code for Canterbury: 01227 (UK) or +44 1227 (international)
Tel: 764000 switchboard
Fax: 827001
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 11:48:57 -0500
From: Michael Scordilis <m.scordilis@wcl.ee.upatras.gr>
Subject: EUROSPEECH'97 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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EUROSPEECH'97
5th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
ON SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY
RHODES, GREECE
22-25 SEPTEMBER 1997
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
AIMS
The Fifth biennial European Conference on Speech Communication and
Technology, EUROSPEECH'97, of the European Speech Communication
Association (ESCA), will be held on the island of Rhodes, Greece,
organized by the University of Patras, Wire Communications
Laboratory. Rhodes is situated in the southern Aegean Sea, in the
Mediterranean and it is famous for its natural beauty, its archeological
treasures and its highly developed tourism. ESCA is the European
organization that promotes research, development and applications in
SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY. Host cities of the previous
conferences were Paris (1989), Genova (1991), Berlin (1993) and Madrid
(1995). The upcoming conference will include the latest developments in
this field of major international importance, presented in oral and
poster sessions . Furthermore it will include several keynote addresses
by distinguished scientists. All presentations and printed material will
be in English, which is the official language of the conference. In addition
to the technical program, an exhibition of products, services and
prototypes related to Speech and Language Communication and Technology
will be held during the conference. Prospective authors are invited to
propose papers in any of the listed technical areas.
TECHNICAL AREAS
A. Speech production and perception
B. Phonetics and phonology
C. Prosody
D. Neurophysiology, psychoacoustics and psycholinguistics of speech
E. Auditory modeling
F. Speech analysis and modeling
G. Neural networks for speech and language processing
H. Robust speech processing, signal enhancement and noise reduction
I. Text-to-speech synthesis
J. Speech and audio coding and transmission
K. Speech recognition and understanding
L. Language modeling
M. Spoken dialogue systems design
N. Speaker and language recognition
O. Spoken language resources, assessment, standards and human factors
P. Multimodal speech and language processing
Q. Technology for speech and language acquisition and learning
R. Applications for speech, language and hearing disorders and aids for
the communication impaired
S. Speech and language engineering for the telecommunications
T. Systems, hardware and architectures for speech processing
U. Applications of speech technology
V. Other related areas or emerging techniques and applications
....
[For more information, write to EUROSPEECH'97
E-mail: Eurospeech97@wcl.ee.upatras.gr
WEB-SITE
The Call for Papers, Call for Exhibitors and Sponsors, all necessary
forms, and continuously updated information about the Conference, as well
as about Greece and Rhodes, can be found at our web site at:
http://www.cti.gr/~ee-www/]