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Host: Eastern Mediterranean University
Organizers: Dr. Lorraina Pinnell
Description:
In his essay, "Of Other Spaces", Michel Foucault claims that: "The
present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space. We are in
the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the
epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed". With
this in mind, we invite papers from various disciplines which will
address the multifaceted, as well as contested, aspects of space in
literary and cultural representations. Suggested panel topics may
revolve around the following:
*the privileging of time over space *spatial metaphors and postcolonial theory *the politics/poetics of 'forgotten' spaces *monumental space and the space of the monument *the location of memory and longing *architecture and social action *space as the catalyst of history *psychoanalysis; Imaginary, Symbolic and Real space *film and constructions of mise-en-scene *subaltern spaces *performance and theatrical spaces: dance, drama, music *literature in cyberspace *is space straight? *the modern metropolis and myth *philosophy as a spatial proposition *cultural topographies *gendered spaces *art and the spatial subject
Date received: November 21, 2000, revised November 17, 2005
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