[ecrea] CALL FOR PAPERS - CHANGING THE CLIMATE: UTOPIA, DYSTOPIA AND CATASTROPHE

>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>CHANGING THE CLIMATE: UTOPIA, DYSTOPIA AND CATASTROPHE
>The Fourth Australian Conference on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction
>
>30th August ­ 1st September 2010
>
>Monash University Conference Centre
>30 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
>
>A conference organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature and
>Cultural Studies at Monash University
>
>WEBSITE: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/cclcs/conferences/utopias/4/index.php
>
>In December 2001 the University of Tasmania hosted a successful
>conference around the theme of Antipodean Utopias. In December 2005,
>Monash University hosted a second conference, around that of Imagining
>the Future, to mark the long-awaited publication of Fredric Jamesons
>book Archaeologies of the Future. A third conference, Demanding the
>Impossible, followed in December 2007, again at Monash. Despite the
>apparent optimism of all three conference themes, dystopia remained a
>recurrent preoccupation in their discussions. This fourth conference
>will directly address the questions of dystopia and catastrophe with
>special reference to a problem that increasingly haunts our imaginings
>of the future, that of actual or possible environmental catastrophe. As
>Jameson himself wrote in The Seeds of Time: It seems & easier for us
>today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of
>nature than the breakdown of late capitalism; perhaps that is due to
>some weakness in our imaginations.Hopefully, this conference will play
>some small part in changing that particular climate of opinion.
>
>The conference invites papers from scholars, writers and others
>interested in the interplay between ecology and ecocriticism, utopia,
>dystopia and science fiction.
>
>OPENING ADDRESS
>
>The opening address will be given by Kate Rigby, Founding President of
>the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment,
>Australia-New Zealand, and author of Topographies of the Sacred: The
>Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (2004).
>
>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
>
>Kim Stanley Robinson
>Distinguished science fiction writer, winner of two Hugo Awards and
>author of the Orange Country Trilogy, the Mars Trilogy, Antarctica, The
>Years of Rice and Salt, the Science in the Capital Trilogy and Galileo's
>Dream.
>
>John Clute
>Science fiction writer, Director of the Department of Story Future in
>the Centre for the Future at Slavonice and co-author of The Encyclopedia
>of Science Fiction (1993) and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997).
>
>Tom Moylan
>Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the Ralahine Center for
>Utopian Studies, University of Limerick, author of Demand the Impossible
>(1986) and Scraps of the Untainted Sky (2000) and co-editor of Dark
>Horizons (2003).
>
>Deborah Bird Rose
>Professor of Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, author of Dingo
>Makes Us Human (2000), Reports from a Wild Country (2004) and Wild Dog
>Dreaming: Love and Extinction (in press).
>
>Linda Williams
>Associate Professor in Art History at RMIT University, curator of The
>Idea of the Animal exhibition (2004) and the HEAT: Art and Climate
>Change exhibition (2008).
>
>The conference invites papers from scholars, writers and others
>interested in the interplay between ecology and ecocriticism, utopia,
>dystopia and science fiction.
>
>CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
>
>Abstracts (approx. 100-150 words) should be sent by 30 June 2010 by
>e-mail to:
>
>        <(Utopias /at/ arts.monash.edu.au)>
>
>or by post to:
>
>        Utopias4 Conference
>        Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
>        School of English, Communications and Performasnce Studies
>        Clayton campus
>        Monash University
>        Victoria 3800
>        Australia
>
>REGISTRATION
>
>The conference will take place over three days.
>
>Full registration for the three days costs $A280, with a concessional
>price for students and the non-employed of $A140.
>
>Registration for one day only costs $A110, with a concessional price of
>$A55. All prices are GST inclusive.
>
>Registration is due by 31 July 2010.
>
>
>
>
>--
>
>    Professor Andrew Milner
>    Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
>    School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
>    Monash University
>    Melbourne
>    Victoria 3800
>    AUSTRALIA
>
>    Phone: (61) (3) 9905 2979
>    Fax: (61) (3) 9905 5593
>    Email: (Andrew.Milner /at/ arts.monash.edu.au)
>    Homepage:
>      http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/people/andrew-milner/
>
>

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