Call for Papers Travelling Concepts: Meaning, Frame, Metaphor The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) University of Amsterdam 7, 8, 9 March, 2001 Over the past year, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the ASCA seminar group have discussed the concepts of meaning, frame and metaphor based on the work of Mieke Bal, Derrida, W.J.T. Mitchell, Judith Butler, de Man, Bryson, Culler, Lakoff and Johnson, and others. More specifically, the seminar focused on ways in which meaning, frame and metaphor have travelled as concepts between disciplines, scholars, historical periods and academic communities. From this perspective, the nature of concepts is understood in a variety of ways. For example, it is assumed that concepts are normative and programmatic rather than simply descriptive. While concepts are related to a tradition, they are not stable and their use cannot boast simple continuity. Concepts are complex and are never used in precisely the same sense, hence the ramifications, traditions and histories which are conflated in their current usages need to be unpacked and evaluated. The validity and usage of concepts is then subject to debate which proceeds by referring back to the traditions and schools from which these concepts emerged and forward to their relevance for cultural analysis. And because concepts travel, the Amsterdam School emphasizes the methodological implications of the interdisciplinary study of culture. ASCA is now inviting submissions on how meaning, frame and metaphor have travelled, as concepts, between disciplines, schools, historical periods and academic communities, as well as how they can be brought to bear on case studies in cultural analysis. Those selected will be invited to present their work at a conference organized by ASCA at the University of Amsterdam, 7,8,9 March, 2001. Proposals, in English, should be no more than 250 words in length. In order to be considered, submissions must reach the following address by November 15, 2000. Final papers should not exceed 4000 words and must arrive at ASCA by January 15, 2001. For more information, consult the ASCA web site at http://www.hum.uva.nl/~asca. ASCA t.a.v. Joyce Goggin Spuistraat 210 1012 VT Amsterdam The Netherlands email: [log in to unmask] Fax: 020-525 3052 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu