[eccr] 3 Calls for papers

>1. Toys and Games
>
>2. Political Correctness - Mouth Wide Shut?
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>3. Politics and Doxa
>
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>Midwest Popular Culture Association 2004 Conference
>Cleveland, October 8-10, 2004
>www3.niu.edu/mpca/
>
>Toys and Games
>
>The Toys and Games Area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association
>welcomes proposals for papers and presentations on toys and games,
>including board games, home videogames and video arcade games, card
>games
>and CCGs, RPGs and LARPs, d20, Clix games, war games and strategy games,
>traditional games like chess, gaming communities, dolls and dollhouses,
>miniatures, action figures, toy collecting, designer and urban vinyl,
>licensed film and television toys, modeling and dioramas, vintage toys,
>advertising premiums and prizes, drinking games, game shows, party
>games,
>cell phone games, and so on . . .
>
>Possible areas of inquiry or exploration include toys and games in
>literature, film, television, and other media, toys as art, the role of
>toys and games in education and socialization, videogame theory, the
>development of new media within the gaming and entertainment industries,
>toys and gender, the folklore of gaming, how toys create meaning.
>
>Deadline for Submissions: April 30, 2004
>
>Please send 150-word abstracts or proposals by e-mail or mail to:
>Mark Best
>Department of English
>CL 526
>University of Pittsburgh
>Pittsburgh, PA 15260
>(mtb6 /at/ pitt.edu)
>
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>
>Call for papers: Political Correctness - Mouth Wide Shut?
>
>
>Ustro=F1 (PL), September 17-20 2004
>
>See evil, hear evil and therefore speak no evil.
>The spectre of the Dead White Heterosexual Male is hanging over the =
>world: biased, prejudiced, discriminative ways of perceiving and
>representing reality resulted in widening the gap between the dominant
>"traditionalists" and a multiplicity of undesirable others. But enough
>is enough. The underdog has now invented a weapon to secure
>his/her/its/their rightful place in culture and the long-silenced voices
>have a chance to be heard. Thus, Political Correctness or PC seems to
>have the function of safeguarding the principle of equality, which is a
>cornerstone of democracy. The many tongues of multicultural discourse
>speak all the more loudly since the potential opponents, having been
>successfully bound and gagged, dare not express any contradictory
>opinion. As democracy's policeman, however, PC raises concerns about the
>possible limitations of radical pluralism. While ensuring (enforcing)
>compliance with basic human rights, does it not breach some of them,
>such as the right to free speech? While upholding the legacy of the
>Enlightenment with its ideals of rationality and progress, does it not
>undermine the role and position of prejudice, so powerfully vindicated
>in the 20th century? Is PC a utopian goal, or is it merely a
>historically necessitated but short-lived inconvenience? The unceasing
>dispute over PC hardly ever does justice to the theoretical concerns it
>raises, and not the least of them is its self-reflexive twist: if to
>interrogate PC is to interrogate the western idea of democracy, let us
>not flee from our own gaze in a mirror and take up the challenge before
>the academe becomes declared a reservation for realistically challenged.
>
>Please, send proposals of papers with brief abstracts (up to 200 words)
>to the organizers by May 31, 2004 to:
>
>Katarzyna Ancuta (kancuta /at/ ares.fils.us.edu.pl)
>Jacek Mydla (jacekmydla /at/ idea.net.pl)
>
>Or by post (diskette, Word 6.0/7.0 + hard copy) to:
>
>Katarzyna Ancuta / Jacek Mydla
>Institute of British and American Culture and Literature
>ul. =AFytnia 10
>41-205 Sosnowiec, Poland
>fax +48 (32)2917417
>tel. +48(32)2917322; +48(32)2691892
>
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>
>We are extending the deadline for submissions to May 15th, 2004 for our
>Fall 2004 issue.
>
>Call for papers: Politics and Doxa.
>
>Theory@buffalo is an interdisciplinary journal which invites scholars to
>submit articles for its 2004 issue (#9) on the theme of "Politics and
>Doxa."
>
>For Western philosophy doxa seems to have been the main enemy, while
>episteme is the privileged field for thought. This Platonic strain works
>its way through Kant and Hegel and all the way to the phenomenological
>tradition. This animosity towards doxa can be felt in the work of
>contemporary thinkers working beyond these traditions; from Deleuze and
>Guattari to Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, many thinkers have taken
>positions against doxa, sensus communis or opinion. Many of these
>radical anti-doxa discourses are now so familiar as to become themselves
>commonsense. But there is a new discourse on doxa, in which the old
>concept interfaces with a third element - namely politics. In the recent
>work of Ernesto Laclau, for instance, doxa can be equated with rhetoric,
>and, therefore, a new relationship between doxa and thought must be
>negotiated. This rethinking of doxa from the perspective of a theory of
>radical left politics -- and with an eye to hegemonic structures --
>completely recasts doxas relationship to the social. If doxa is
>reconsidered, what other projects become possible?
>
>We welcome submissions recasting anti-doxasticthinkers or presenting
>new theories of doxa and its relationship to politics.
>
>Possible topics might include: politics of postmodern doxa(s); opinion
>and radical democracy; capitalism and the paradise/inferno of doxa; the
>event and quotidian politics; politics and thought; good sense, common
>sense and consensus, etc.
>
>Submissions are welcome from any disciplinary field including social
>theory, literary studies, political theory, philosophy, cultural
>studies, media studies, etc. Submissions should be 10,000 words maximum.
>Please send two blind copies with a cover page, on paper or a disk to
>the address below.
>
>Or, send an e-version of the paper as an attachment in Microsoft Word to
>(srcucu /at/ buffalo.edu).
>
>Theory@buffalo also accepts book reviews. Book reviews do not have to be
>on the topic of Politics and Doxa and should be 1,200 words maximum. See
>our web site for detailed submission guidelines:
>http://wings.buffalo.edu/theory
>
>The deadline for essay and review submissions is the 15th of May 2004
>(extended deadline).
>
>Send submissions or queries by mail to:
>theory@buffalo
>638 Clemens Hall
>Department of Comparative Literature
>University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA
>
>Or email:
>Melanie Conroy ((mrconroy /at/ buffalo.edu)) Sorin Radu Cucu
>((srcucu /at/ buffalo.edu))

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