ACCUTE Conference 2011
Call for Papers: General, Member-Organized, and Joint Sessions
Before submitting to any call listed below, please consult the Policies Governing the Submissions of Proposals to the ACCUTE Conference.
General Call
Member-Organized Sessions
Joint Sessions
Christianity and Literature Study Group
General Call for Papers
ACCUTE invites submissions on a wide variety of themes, topics, and theoretical inclinations for its "general" sessions at the 2011 conference. The only restrictions are that submissions should fall within the mandate of the organization and be of potential interest to our conference audience. In addition to consulting the ACCUTE website for specific information on how to submit a paper to the general CFP, you might also find it helpful to consult the 2009 conference program for examples of past papers.
While all manner of topics pertaining to the study of English literatures are welcome, we especially solicit papers and proposals that deal with under-represented areas and earlier time periods.
Following the instructions on this website for the general CFP, send your 700 word proposal (or 8-10 page double-spaced paper), a 100 word abstract, a 50 word bio-graphical statement, and the submitter information form to accute@accute.ca by November 15th.
Member-Organized Sessions
If you are submitting a paper or proposal for a member-organized session, remember to check the the guidelines to ensure that your proposal/paper satisfies the criteria for inclusion, and that you have provided the necessary information.
The deadline for submission to all member-organized sessions is NOVEMBER 15.
All submitters must be members in good standing of ACCUTE.
Science Imagined | Literature Realized: Truth and Fiction in Canada
Organizer: Marc André Fortin (Queen’s University)
From the botanical studies of Catharine Parr Trail, and the faith-related empiricism
of Christophe Regnault, to the literary imaginings of evolution, meteorology,
palaeontology, chemistry, and biology of contemporary writers such as Christian
Bök, Nino Ricci, Rivka Galchen, Nicole Brossard, and Tim Bowling, the connections between science and fiction have become enmeshed in the literatures of Canada through the historical questioning of faith, reason, epistemology, and the subjective
experience. Moving away from the non-pragmatic “Two Cultures” model of disciplinary
research, there has been a focused theoretical shift towards the problems of
literary representations of scientific thought in international literatures. Yet scientific representation, discourse, and imaginings in Canada have been mostly taken up by historians of scientific paradigms and institutional pedagogies, and there remains
a gap in the understanding of Canadian literature as a process of inquisitive and
reflective inventions about the material, natural, and metaphysical world. This panel will
investigate the relations between both the historical unfolding of scientific thought, and the political, social and aesthetic aspects of scientific representation in the literatures of Canada.
Following the instructions on this website for member-organized sessions, send your 700 word proposal (or 8-10 page double-spaced paper), a 100 word abstract, a 50 word biographical statement, and the submitter information form, to marc.fortin@queensu.ca by November 15th.
Note: You must be a current ACCUTE member to submit to this session.
Sexology and Literature
Organizer: Terry Goldie (York University)
Since Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex won the Pulitzer prize there has been a growing awareness of the relationship between sexual science and literature. Thus this session examines any literary genres from any period in the context of sexology. Its concern is both broader and more specific than the cognate categories, such as gay studies or feminist studies. Just as one example, The Well of Loneliness is often seen as a foundation text for lesbian studies but recent scholars have given it a similar role in transgender studies. In the novel, Radclyffe Hall makes numerous references to contemporary sexology, such as theories from Havelock Ellis and Krafft-Ebing. Thus this session might consider Well as invested in the history of sexual science, or perhaps through discussing whether terms such as “transman” can be used transhistorically. Much of gay studies and feminist studies look at literature as reflections of social relations but this session will instead see literature as evocations of scientific understanding, in this case of sexual diversities.
Following the instructions on this website for member-organized sessions, send your 700 word proposal (or 8-10 page double-spaced paper), a 100 word abstract, a 50 word biographical statement, and the submitter information form, to tgoldie@yorku.ca by November 15th.
Note: You must be a current ACCUTE member to submit to this session.
Žižek’s The Ticklish Subject: Subjectivization and its Vicissitudes
Organizers: Dr. Richard J. Lane & Dr. Daniel Burgoyne (The Literary Theory Research Group &
Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Vancouver Island
University)
Slavoj Žižek’s spirited defence of the Cartesian subject in his book The Ticklish Subject:
The Absent Centre of Political Ontology involves an engagement with some of the key
thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, thinkers who are also foundational for
contemporary literary theory and criticism. Žižek thus reads, through a Lacanian lens,
Heidegger, Kant, Hegel, Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere, and Butler, among many others. At
times Žižek is highly playful and controversial in his attacks upon what he regards as
political correctness and the new orthodoxies of postmodernism and postcolonialism; yet Žižek also productively contributes to contemporary debates concerning politics, power, new subjectivities, and gender. Žižek’s trajectory also involves a re-assessment
of Lacanian (and Freudian) psychoanalysis and he argues for the necessity of re-engaging with Lacan’s counter-intuitive highly creative approach to major theoretical questions.
At this ACCUTE panel we invite speakers to critically examine Žižek’s arguments as
they pertain to contemporary literary theory, criticism and/or popular culture. Speakers may wish to engage in a particular debate, such as Žižek’s reading of Alain Badiou or Judith Butler, or, speakers may wish to discuss a topic or theme within the book, such as
the sublime, the “truth-event,” Oedipus, or desire.
Following the instructions on this website for member-organized sessions, send your 700 word proposal (or 8-10 page double-spaced paper), a 100 word abstract, a 50 word biographical statement, and the submitter information form, to Daniel.Burgoyne@viu.ca or Richard.Lane@viu.ca by November 15th.
Note: You must be a current ACCUTE member to submit to this session.
Joint Sessions
If you are submitting a paper or proposal for a joint-organized session, remember to check the the guidelines to ensure that your proposal/paper satisfies the criteria for inclusion, and that you have provided the necessary information.
The deadline for submission to all joint-organized sessions is NOVEMBER 15.
All submitters must be members in good standing either of the co-sponsoring organization, or of ACCUTE.
Christianity and Literature Study Group
Topics: Various
Organizers: David Kent (Centennial) and Margo Swiss (York)
The Christianity and Literature Study Group (an Allied Association now in its 24rd year) invites proposals or papers on any aspect of religion and literature, including pedagogy and critical theory, for its annual Conference at the 2011 Congress. We also welcome suggestions for member-organized sessions.
Note: While the Christianity and Literature Group has an annual CFP, please be aware that (because this is a “study group,” and because the submissions are not sent for external assessment) presenters at these sessions are not eligible for the ACCUTE conference travel funds provided by SSHRC.
Following the instructions on this website for joint association sessions, send your 700 word proposal (or 8-10 page double-spaced paper), a 100 word abstract, a 50 word biographical statement, and the submitter information form, to dkent@centennialcollege.ca and/or mswiss@yorku.ca by November 15th.