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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Papers on drama/theatre/performance
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<DIV>CALL FOR PAPERS *"From Ignorance to Knowledge": Recognition
from<BR>Antiquity to the Postmodern and Beyond*<BR><BR>The Centre for
Comparative Literature at The University of Toronto is<BR>inviting proposals for
its 19th Annual Graduate Conference, to be held<BR>from April 3rd-5^th , 2008.
This conference will explore the central<BR>theme of recognition in a wide range
of historical periods, regional<BR>locations, and literary traditions. Panels
will be structured around<BR>historical periods, tracing the theme of
recognition in Antiquity, the<BR>Middle Ages, and everything from Early Modern,
Modern, to Postmodern and<BR>beyond. The Conference Committee is welcoming
proposals from diverse<BR>academic disciplines that examine a wide range of
genres and media.<BR><BR>In his /Poetics/, Aristotle defines /anagnorisis/
("recognition" or<BR>"discovery") as "a change from ignorance to knowledge,
leading either to<BR>friendship or to hostility on the part of those persons who
are marked<BR>for good fortune or bad" (1452a). However, Terence Cave's
/Recognitions/<BR>points out that "twentieth-century uses of the term draw
perceptibly on<BR>philosophical and psychoanalytic interpretations of
literature<BR>(especially tragedy) which fall outside the domain of
Aristotelian<BR>poetics proper" (6). The term therefore shifts from "the classic
set of<BR>family recognitions (recognition of persons, as in /Oedipus/ and
the<BR>/Odyssey/) into a wider set of plots structured explicitly in terms
of<BR>the loss and recovery of knowledge" (9). Other examples of
recognition<BR>include Joyce's concept of the epiphany and Christina
Tarnopolsky's<BR>understanding of "[t]he /moment of recognition/ within the
occurrent<BR>experience of shame..." (476).<BR><BR>In Hegelian philosophy,
however, the term recognition "underlies<BR>self-consciousness itself, since we
only understand ourselves for who we<BR>are by incorporating our understandings
of how we are regarded by<BR>others" (Blackburn). For Hegel, "the master-slave
relationship is the<BR>result of an uncompleted fight to the death for
'recognition' or<BR>status..." (Solomon). This metaphor of the master-slave
struggle for<BR>recognition has influenced the writings of Søren Kierkegaard,
Karl Marx,<BR>and Friedrich Nietzsche. Furthermore, Hegel's conceptualization
of<BR>recognition has also been developed in the writings of a wide variety
of<BR>thinkers from different disciplines: Alexandre Kojève, Georges
Bataille,<BR>Jacques Lacan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Lévinas, Frantz
Fanon,<BR>Drucilla Cornell, and Francis Fukuyama. In her review of Paul
Ricoeur's<BR>last work, /The Course of Recognition/, Julie Connolly indicates
that<BR>"since the publication of Charles Taylor's 1992 essay on recognition
in<BR>multicultural societies, the term has occurred in academic
publications<BR>with increasing frequency. Moreover, recognition has been the
central<BR>term in a recent cross-Atlantic debate, between Nancy Fraser and
Axel<BR>Honneth, about the direction of critical theory and the meaning
of<BR>justice in today's increasingly globalized world" (133).<BR><BR>The
committee therefore invites proposals from graduate students and
all<BR>researchers on any topic within the broad scope of this
conference's<BR>central theme. Please send a 500-word abstract as a Microsoft
Word<BR>attachment no later than October 1st, 2007, to <A
href="">recognition2008@gmail.com</A><BR><<A
href="">mailto:recognition2008@gmail.com</A>> . Include any requests for
technical<BR>support and your CV stating your affiliations and listing your
degrees,<BR>publications, and recent positions if applicable.<BR><BR>*Possible
topics include but are not limited to*:<BR><BR>-Scenes of recognition in epic,
drama, poetry, dialogue, novel, short<BR>story, film, narrative paintings,
pictorial poetry and prose, and<BR>operatic encounters<BR><BR>-Recognition in
sacred texts, such as in the Hebrew Bible, the New<BR>Testament, the Qu'ran, the
Bhagavad Gita, etc.<BR><BR>-Recognition in folk story, storytelling, and the
role of recognition in<BR>the oral tradition<BR><BR>-Recognition in politics and
contemporary social theory<BR><BR>-Recognition and /Bildungsroman/<BR><BR>-
Other literary concepts where a recognition takes place (and may lead<BR>to a
revelation), such as Aquinas' /quidditas-claritas, /James Joyce's<BR>notion of
'epiphany'; T.S. Eliot's concept of the 'objective<BR>correlative'; William
Wordsworth's 'spots of time'; Ernest Hemingway's<BR>'moment of truth'; W.B.
Yeats' 'great memory'; or Giuseppe Ungaretti,<BR>and Giorgos Seferis' 'moment';
Marcel Proust's 'Petites Madeleines', etc.<BR><BR>-Recognition and critical
orientations<BR><BR>-Aristotelian /anagnorisis/ and post-Aristotelian models of
recognition<BR><BR>-Hegelian and post-Hegelian models of
recognition<BR><BR>-Recognition and Hegel's understanding of the emergence
of<BR>self-consciousness<BR><BR>-Recognition and Socratic /elenchus
/(Tarnopolsky)<BR><BR>-Recognition resulting as a moment of spiritual
manifestation or revelation<BR><BR>-Recognition and Lévinas' encounter with the
Other; his notion of epiphany<BR><BR>-Themes/tropes of self-recognition,
self-transformation, and discovery<BR><BR>-Recognition as a trope in
non-'Western' literature(s)<BR><BR>-Recognition in religion and
theology<BR><BR>-Recognition, Self, and the Other<BR><BR>-Recognition and
imagined communities<BR><BR>-Recognition in travel narratives, cross-cultural
knowledge<BR><BR>-Recognition and shame (Tarnopolsky)<BR><BR><BR>*Works
Cited*<BR><BR>Aristotle. /Poetics/. Trans. James Hutton. New York: Norton,
1982.<BR><BR>Blackburn, Simon. "Recognition" /The //Oxford// Dictionary of
Philosophy/.<BR>Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.<BR><BR>Cave, Terence.
/Recognitions: A Study in Poetics/. Oxford: Clarendon<BR>Press,
1988.<BR><BR>Connolly, Julie. "Charting a Course for Recognition: A Review
Essay."<BR>/History of the Human Sciences/ 20. 1 (2007): 133-144. /Sage
Journals<BR>Online/. 27 July 2007 <http:
//hhs.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/20/1/133>.<BR><BR>Solomon, Prof. C. "Master and
Slave" /The //Oxford// Companion to<BR>Philosophy/. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005.<BR><BR>Tarnopolsky, Christina. "Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants:
Plato and the<BR>Contemporary Politics of Shame." /Political Theory/ 32. 4.
(2004):<BR>468-494. /Sage Journals Online/. 27 July 2007 <<BR><BR><BR>For
more information about The Centre for Comparative Literature at <BR>The
University of Toronto, please visit <BR><A
href="">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/</A> and for changes and
update <BR>information concerning the conference, please visit the
colloquium <BR>webpage <A
href="">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/colloquium.html</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>Teresa
Grazia Russo<BR>Centre For Comparative Literature<BR>93 Charles St. W., 3rd.
fl,<BR>Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1K9.<BR>Tel: (416) 813-4041 Fax: (416)
813-4040<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> ________________________________________________________________________<BR>"Those
who have an orphan's sense of history love history."--Anna in Ondaatje's
Divisadero<BR>_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<BR>"La
Pocha Nostra is a virtual maquiladora [. . . ] that produces brand-new
metaphors, symbols, images, and words to explain the complexities of our times.
The Spanglish neologism Pocha Nostra translates as either 'our impurities' or
'the cartel of cultural bastards.' We love this poetic ambiguity. It reveals an
attitude toward art and society: 'Crossracial, poly-gendered, experi-mental, ¿y
qué?' " --Guilllermo
Gómez-Peña.<BR>___________________________________________________________________________________________________<BR>Denis
Salter<BR>Professor of Theatre<BR>McGill
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