Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:56:42 -0500 (EST)
From: markasberg-AT-yahoo.ca
Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: Gambling Theory (10/13/04-10/17/04)


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CALL FOR PAPERS

Gambling Theory
October 13-17, 2004

This major international conference will be hosted by the
Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the
University of Western Ontario, October 13-17, 2004,
and will include more than 70 invited and selected papers
by faculty and graduate students.

The overarching themes of the conference focus on contemporary
and past theory as species of risk-taking.

Tentative sessions include:

The ends of gaming
Taking practical risks in doing theory
The break-up of established interpretive systems
The moment of crisis tackled head-on
What redemption is there in risk taking?
The dubious synchronicity of theory and its objects
Chance by chance
Balancing the waste-book
Morality at the edge
What kinds of urgency?
Gamblers and Idiots
Getting badlucky
Theory gambled away
When to stop the game?
What prosthetic futures for such bright pasts?
Speculation and hazard
Theory junkies
The theory of gambling and the gambling of theory

The deadline for submission is April 1, 2004.

Please send papers or detailed abstracts (750 words) electronically
to masberg-AT-uwo.ca.

or by post or fax to:

Gambling Theory
The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
The University of Western Ontario
Room 200f, John Labatt Visual Arts Centre
London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada

Fax: (519) 661 2020

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For further information, contact masberg-AT-uwo.ca.

This call can also be viewed at :
http://publish.uwo.ca/~masberg/gambling/