Please post 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/ [log in to unmask] Notification of acceptance will be made by July 15, 2001. ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html