call for papers

[Kochman/Beattie]

Call for Papers
Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Future
"Remember the future. Imagine the past."  -Allen Ginsberg
May 6 to 8, 1999

MA in Humanities: Interpretation and Values, Laurentian University,
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
http://www.laurentian.ca/www/mahumanities/index.html

Scholarship tends to centre on the past. The purpose of this conference
is to look to the future with equal concern, acknowledging the integral
relationship between future and past. Why is it important to be aware of

the relationship? In what ways can the Humanities address the future?
The conference will respond to such questions from interdisciplinary
perspectives.

Proposals (in either English or French) are invited for papers or
panels. Themes could include the following: Politics and the Future,
Reading and the Future, Morality and the Future, Culture and the Future,

The Past as the Future, The Soul and the Future, Gender and the Future,
Performance and the Future, Science/Technology and the Future.

Following the conference, selected papers will be published in
Laurentian University's interdisciplinary Humanities journal, Arachne
(http://www.laurentian.ca/www/engl/arachne/index.html).
Submit proposals by January 15, 1999 to the Chair of the Colloquium
Committee, MA in Interpretation and Values, Laurentian University,
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6