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Call for Papers

Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Future

"Remember the future.  Imagine the past."  --Allen Ginsberg

May 6 to 8, 1999

Keynote Speaker: Marjorie Garber

MA in Humanities: Interpretation and Values
Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

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 (200-300 words, in either English or French) are invited for
twenty-minute papers, or for panels.  Themes could include the
following:

Politics and the Future                 The Soul and the Future
Reading and the Future                  Gender and the Future
Morality and the Future                 Performance and the Future
Culture and the Future                  The Past as the Future
Science/Technology and the Future

Following the conference, selected papers will be published in
Laurentian University's interdisciplinary Humanities journal, _Arachne_.
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.