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An International Conference
The University of Wales, Aberystwyth
4-7 July 1996
"The word 'ethics' seems to have replaced 'textuality' as the most
charged term in the vocabulary of contemporary literary and cultural
theory" (Steven Connor, TLS, 5 January 1996).
Plenary Speakers:
* Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, University of London)
* Simon Critchley (University of Essex)
* Geoffrey Galt Harpham (Tulane University)
* Dan Jacobson (University College London)
* Laurence Lockridge (New York University)
* Ian MacKillop (University of Sheffield)
* Christopher Norris (University of Wales, Cardiff)
* Leona Toker (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
60 other speakers, including:
Michael Beehler (Montana SU), Michael Bell (U of Warwick), Steve Brewer
(Staffordshire U), Susan Bruce (Keele U), Dan Burnstone (U of Cambridge),
Janis Caldwell (U of Washington), Eva L. Corredor (US Naval Academy),
Anne Cubilie (Georgetown U), Philip Davis (U of Liverpool), Ortwin de
Graef (Katholiecke U Leuven), Robert Eaglestone (U of Wales, Lampeter),
Richard Freadman (La Trobe U), Cynthia A. Freeland (U of Houston), Ellen
G. Friedman (Trenton SC), Andrew Gibson (Royal Holloway, U of London),
Richard Greaves (Liverpool Hope UC), Simon Haines (Australian National
U), David P. Haney (Auburn U), Rebecca Hughes (U of Nottingham), Juliet
John (U of Liverpool), Terry Keefe (Lancaster U), Alvin C. Kibel (MIT),
Colleen Lamos (Rice U), Jil Larson (W Michigan U), Susan Levin (Smith C),
Willy Maley (U of Glasgow), Riccardo Miguel-Alfonso (U Rovira i Virgili),
Kieron O'Hara (U of Nottingham), David Parker (Australian Catholic U),
Nicoletta Pireddu (UCLA), Norman Ravvin (U of Toronto), Corinne Squire
(U of E London), Ceri Sullivan (U of Wales, Bangor), Dennis Taylor
(Boston C), Valeria Wagner (U of Geneva).
Subjects include:
The uses of literature in ethical theory; the ethics of style; moral
luck; Levinas; Nussbaum; Putnam; the ethics of authorship and of
autobiography; the ethics of queer theory; sympathy and science; blame
and blameworthiness; literature and engagement; lying and ethical agency;
the ethics of postmodernism and poststructuralism; decadence; evil; the
obscene onstage; Plato; Kierkegaard; Derrida; Said; testimony as art;
care of the self or care of the other; Thackeray; Hemingway; Cheever;
Bellow; Kundera; Klima; Shalamov; Leavis and collaboration; Conrad;
Rushdie; Joyce; Beckett; intelligibility and conversation; hysterical
reading; Shakespeare; weeping texts of the 1590s; Shelley; Sartre; de
Beauvoir; Carlyle and race; philosophy as melancholy; ethical aporias
of postcoloniality; sensibility and suffering in Rhys and Nin; the
evolution of ethics in post-Darwinian fiction; the ethics of indolence;
Tarkovsky; Northern Ireland; Bosnia.
Provisional programme:
Activities start at 7.00 pm on Thursday July 4th, with a registration/
buffet/social gathering; first set of 4 parallel sessions starts at
9.00 am on Friday July 5th; further parallel and plenary sessions till
6.30 pm; Friday evening outing; plenary and parallel sessions
throughout Saturday 6th, concluding with conference banquet at 7.30 pm;
sessions throughout the morning of Sunday 7th; recreational outing,
Sunday afternoon.
Fees:
I. Registration fee (includes lunches on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,
evening meals on Thursday and Friday, and excursions on Friday and
Sunday). Students GBP 35.00 / Others GBP 55.00.
We also offer Day Registration (for participants who will only
be attending one or two days' sessions). GBP 25.00 per day.
II. Optional banquet, Belle Vue Royal Hotel, Saturday Evening, GBP 20.00.
III. Accommodation at the University (Rosser Hall): single rooms only,
en-suite bathroom, very conveniently placed for all conference
activities. GBP 21.30 per night, including breakfast. Available
for 4th/5th, 5th/6th, 6th/7th, and 7th/8th July. (If you require
accommodation of another kind, let us know: a list of hotels and
guest houses is available.)
Forms and payment must be received by
Monday 17 June
Further details, payment instructions, registration forms available
from:
Dr Dominic Rainsford
Department of English
University of Wales
ABERYSTWYTH
SY23 3DY
UNITED KINGDOM
Direct Line: +44 (0) 1970 622213
Fax: +44 (0) 1970 622530
E-mail: dcr@xxxxxxxxxx
Co-organizers: Dr Andrew Hadfield, Dr Tim Woods.
Further information about Aberystwyth, the University, and
the Department of English is available on the World-Wide
Web:
http://www.aber.ac.uk
NB: When making plans to attend the conference, please bear in mind that
travel to and from Aberystwyth may take quite a long time (e.g. five
hours by train from London). Further travel advice available on request.
*** PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO OTHER APPROPRIATE LISTS ***
P.S. We are also running a smaller conference on *Consumption* in 18th and
19th century culture on June 29th-30th 1996. Further details on request.