"Trajectories of the Self"

Language-Communication-Culture Conference

Évora, Portugal, Nov 27-30, 2002

Organisers: Ana Clara Birrento acbirrento

Margarida Morgado morgadofrazao

"Writing the self" has become a wide area of research from multiple
research positions. The self as object of inquiry is at the heart of many
identity projects and feminist approaches as well as of discussions of
postmodern conditions of living.
The self as ontological being and subject of experience, problems of
referentiality and identity formation are important aspects of discussion
about writing the self that we would like to see articulated with the self
as cultural and linguistic assumption and as matter of interpretation based
on cultural codes, institutional and material formations, following lines
opened by Elspeth Probyn in her Sexing the Self (1993, p. 4): "The
possibility of the self rests within a filigree of institutional, material,
discursive lines that either erase or can be used to enable spaces in which
"we" can be differently spoken".

We welcome 20-minute papers dealing with some of the questions that are
listed below:

- How do writings of the self put the self to work?

- How do narratives of the self inscribe the subject in language, in
imagination, in society?

- How do narratives of the self rethink identity, subjectivity and the body?

- What do projects of writing (or rewriting) the self include, reject,
repudiate, and why? What is brought to the surface and into visibility and
what remains hidden?

- How do autobiographies and other writings of the self dispute and
negotiate boundaries and barriers of social formations?

- How do images of the self and the self as an image comment on the
conjuncture of discourses and everyday commonplaces (Probyn)?

Deadline for 150-word abstracts: June 30, 2002

Dear Friends,

I have come to the unhappy determination that I cannot afford to keep Eco
Books open at our present rent. Eco Books will close at the end of
June. I will put the books in storage and spend the coming months looking
for less expensive space in which to relocate. I am considering relocating
in New York City or outside the city.

Between now and the end of June, I hope you will join us for one or more of
the many events we have scheduled. Our events are listed below and on our
website at www.ecobooks.com/events.htm The various groups that meet at Eco
Books will continue to meet in other locations. In a future email I will
ask you to let me know if you would like your email address to be given to
any of these groups so that you can be kept current with their future events.

Eco Books will be closed this coming weekend from Thursday, May 23 to
Monday, May 27.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Symposium on Book & Print Culture

at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of
Toronto

Tuesday May 28, 9am-5pm

Clara Benson Building, Room 307

A one-day Symposium at this year's Congress will be an occasion for scholars
working in a broad range of humanities and social science disciplines in
Canadian universities to meet on the common ground of studies of book and
print cultures. The gathering will celebrate and draw upon an impressive
body of academic activity within Canada, and at the same time, extend its
disciplinary boundaries and increase its numbers.

9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks:

Leslie Howsam (University of Windsor), General Editor, University of Toronto
Press series in Book and Print Culture

9: 30 Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University)

"Remembering Beyond 'The Great Forgetting': Women Writers, Literary History,
and Print-Culture Studies"

10:15 coffee

10:30 Jacques Michon (Université de Sherbrooke)

"Vingt ans de recherche sur le livre et l'édition"

11:15 Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Nipissing University)

"Problems in The History of the Book: The Case of Victorian Illustrated
Poetry"

12:00 lunch

1.00 Jeet Heer (York University)

"From Everyday Art to Microfilm: The Challenges of Writing the History of
Newspaper Comics"

1:45 Brian McKillop (Carleton University)

"Researching Mr. Canada: A Prospective Biographer Looks to the Sources"

2:30 coffee

2:45 George Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto)

"Landing a Voice: Locating the Early Dionne Brand"

3:30 to 4.30 Discussion of future Congress events featuring Book and Print
Culture Studies.

RADICAL ENCUENTRO Camp

May 25-27 (Memorial Day weekend)

Near Dallas, TX

For more information:

Website: www.radicalencuentro.org

Email: radical encuentro

(214) 642-6580

Don't miss this opportunity to build grassroots solidarity in Texas!
Learn about the histories of different radical struggles!
Apply lessons learned to our future action plans!



Mission: The Radical Encuentro camp is organized with the mission to build
solidarity amongst diverse grassroots communities and activist groups in
Tejas and beyond so that we complement each other and the movement in
general though our efforts towards resistance and evolution.