Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:54:55 -0500 (EST) From: "M. Michael Schiff" <mmichael-AT-yorku.ca> Subject: Last call for proposals/ Superstition ~ Strategies of Critique 13 / York U Social & Political Thought Please post, copy, and/or forward to listservs, distribution lists, friends, colleagues and the like. We apologize in advance for any duplications. * * * LAST CALL FOR PAPERS - PROPOSALS DUE DECEMBER 1, 1998 The Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought announces its annual graduate student conference: Strategies of Critique 13: Superstition March 26, 27, 1 999 / York University Between knowledge and belief, at the crossroads of science and myth, is born an epistemological hybrid -- 1/2 method, 1/2 ritual -- that mediates historical and political practices. What critical exorcisms, whose manifestations, and which metamorphoses haunt the site of SUPERSTITION? 13 session ideas: Political Prognostications Necromancy of the Nation Epistemological Auguries Lust for the Apocalypse The Gender of the Beast Rites of the Subject Parapraxes Semiotic Spells Conjuring Evidence Sacred Technologies Spectres and Speculations Possessions and the Dispossessed The Rational Kernel in the Mystical Shell Graduate students are invited to submit a 200-word proposal for a paper, performance, or video presentation by Tuesday, December 1st, 1998. All proposals will be blind reviewed. Presentations should be approximately 20 minutes. Send all proposals and inquiries via email, fax or mail to: STRATEGIES OF CRITIQUE 13: SUPERSTITION c/o Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought York University Room S716 Ross Building 4700 Keele Street Toronto Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 Email: Mike Palamarek, mikashy-AT-yorku.ca Fax: (416) 650-8075 http://www.yorku.ca/org/spot/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- * * * mailto:mmichael-AT-yorku.ca M. Michael Schiff York University, Toronto, Canada Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought http://www.yorku.ca/org/spot/ --- from list french-feminism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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