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Call for Papers

Women’s and Gender Studies Programs

University of Texas at Austin

Proposals due June 15, 2001

Conference on Friday and Saturday, November 2-3, 2001



FANTASY



. . . is a conference that evokes at the same moment the erotic and the 

pathological in order to derange productively the normative in social 

scientific/humanist explanation by offering FANTASTIC exploration of 

POWERpoint keywords for our times:  play, peril, politics.

·         How do we locate fantasies of power in the PLAY of fantasy?

·         How do we understand the POLITICally fantastic?

·         What are the PERILS of fantasy?

·         How do we understand fantasy as both a site of transgression, and 

as a series of nodes for reproducing the social order?

·         How do we plot the mundaneness, the everydayness, of fantasy life 

alongside its specular use of the foreign and exotic?

·         How does fantasy figure into utopic and dystopic thinking?  What 

is its functions in creative engagements with material innovations in 

buildings, pharmaceuticals, social spaces, body designs, environments, 

information and pleasure storage and retrieval systems, conceptions of 

health and wellness, commodities and style, political systems and policies, 

notions of justice, sketches of space and time and being?

·         How does the private become a pleasured site of communal longing; 

how might fantastic theory or ethnography re-imagine the lived space 

between self and other;  in short, how is the “fan” of the fantastic produced?



The Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin 

invites proposals of about 500 words for a twenty-minute paper that 

addresses any and all (or none) of these themes.   We will give preferences 

to papers that treat these questions in terms of genders or sexualities and 

are cross-disciplinary.  While we will invite several guest speakers and 

will present papers ourselves, we seek outside presenters who might be 

interested in exploring these matters over two days with the UT Women’s and 

Gender Studies faculty and students.



Both UT and non-UT scholars should send their proposals by June 15, 2001, to:

         Janet Staiger, Center for Women’s Studies

405 West 25th Street (Walter Webb Hall), Suite 401

Campus Mail A4900

University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX 78705

512-471-5765; fax 512-475-8146

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/wstudies/

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Notification of acceptance will be made by July 15, 2001.

         



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