Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 08:26:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrew Libby <alibby-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Call for Papers: Reading the Future




***CALL FOR PAPERS***

The Graduate Colloquium in Comparative Literature and Italian Studies
presents:

**Reading the Future**

November 5-6, 1999

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Send proposals for papers or sessions for panels of three speakers.

Topics which may be addressed include but are not limited to:

	* Representations of the Future in Visual Art, Literature and 
		Philosophy

	* Modes and Methods of Reading in the Future

	* Future-Media-Discourses

	* Fins de Siecle

	* Utopia and Dystopia

	* Cultural Conceptions of Time

	* Avant-Gardes: Historicity and/vs Obsolescence

	* Disciplining the Future: The Future (of) Disciplines

Please submit proposals of approximately 250 words by August 31, 1999.

Those who wish to submit panels should include the title, chair of the
panel, brief summary topics, and participants.

Electronic submissions are encouraged. Submit proposals via email to:

	Brad Masoni, Chairperson, Colloquium Committee

	email: emble-AT-worldnet.att.net

Or by regular post to:

	Rob Cowan

	Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature

	Baruch College

	17 Lexington Avenue

	New York, NY 10010

Please feel free to forward to other appropriate lists.

Excuse cross-postings.




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