From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 10:09:53 EST
See below and note 28 Feb deadline for abstracts. In solidarity, Jerry ======================================================================= Dear Colleague, I am writing to you on behalf of the Conference Organising Committee to inform you of the next round in the call for papers for the: FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia, 3-6 July 2006 http://www.HumanitiesConference.com The conference will continue in its endeavours to develop an interdisciplinary agenda for the humanities. Main Speakers at the conference will include: * Tariq Ali, novelist, historian and commentator. Amongst his recent publications are 'The Clash of Fundamentalisms' and 'Rough Music: Blair/ Bombs/ London/ Baghdad/ Terror'. * Joan Copjec, Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, and Director, Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, The State University of New York, Buffalo. She writes in the areas of feminism, psychoanalysis, art, architecture, film, and film theory. Amongst her recent publications is the book 'Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation'. * Bassam Tibi, Professor of International Relations in Goettingen, Germany, and also A.D. White Professor at Large in Cornell. Recent books include 'The Challenge of Fundamentalism' and 'Islam Between Culture and Politics'. * Kate Soper, Professor of Philosophy, Institute for the Study of European Transformations, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, is the author of 'What is Nature?' and 'To Relish the Sublime? Culture and Self-Realisation in Postmodern Times'. The conference will also include numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations. I would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call for papers and presentations. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication before or after the conference in the refereed International Journal of the Humanities. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for review and possible publication in the journal, and provide subscriber access to the electronic version of the journal, including all current and back volumes. The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 28 February 2006. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online call for presentations form, are to be found at the conference website - http://www.HumanitiesConference.com. We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Tunis in July 2006. Yours Sincerely, Prof. Tom Nairn The Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia ***
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