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12/31/04 (Fri) 
 CALL FOR PAPERS


CALL FOR PAPERS
  Comparative Literature Graduate Student Colloquium 2005
  University of Washington
  April 21-22 
  HEROIC RHETORIC

  "We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great
  Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how
  they have shaped themselves in the world's history, what
  ideas men formed of them, what work they did; -on Heroes,
  namely, and on their reception and performance; what I call
  Hero-worship and the Heroic in human affairs." -Thomas Carlyle

  "Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any
  given case the available means of persuasion." -Aristotle

  From antiquity to modernity, in the humanities and the
  sciences, the unrivaled power of language to shape thought
  remains inseparably linked to those individuals who exercise
  it. However, it is often the case that this most human of
  forces, as a means of influence, achieves unforeseen ends.
  The profound import of such a truth begs further inquiry
  into its nature. With this in mind, the graduate students
  from the Department of Comparative Literature at the
  University of Washington welcome papers on "Heroic Rhetoric"
  from all disciplines. Suggested topics include but are not
  limited to:

  - Ethics and Ideologies
  - Movements/Periods
  - Gender, Race, Class
  - Self/Other
  - Leaders, Heroes, Anti-heroes
  - Community/The State
  - Genres and Mediums
  - Emotions and Response

  INVITED SPEAKERS

  ARNOLD WEINSTEIN
  Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor
  Department of Comparative Literature
  Brown University

  PAOLO VALESIO
  Professor of Italian and Chair
  Italian Department
  Columbia University

  Papers should be 20 minutes (8-10 pages MLA), and abstracts
  (250 words) with full name, paper title, and institution
  should be sent (using the word Colloquium in the subject
  line) by February 2nd, 2005 to: uwclit at u.washington.edu 

  For more information regarding the conference and our
  speakers, please visit our website at: 
  http://depts.washington.edu/uwclit/colloquium.htm

  Any questions may be sent to Travis Landry: tcl at u.washington.edu
 -- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok at humnet.ucla.edu)
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1/11/05 (Tues) 
 Identity Politics: A Defense
 4:30PM until 6:30PM 
 In: 306 Royce Hall

THE UC TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSCOLONIAL STUDIES MULTICAMPUS 
  RESEARCH GROUP

  Presents

  LINDA ALCOFF

  The debate over identity politics continues to engage 
  political theorists, especially those who are liberal or 
  left-wing. In this paper Professor Alcoff boils down the 
  standing criticisms of identity politics to three issues, 
  concerning separatism, the reification of identities, and 
  the limiting of rationality. She then unpacks the 
  assumptions behind these concerns, and considers whether 
  they meet a test of empirical confirmation or theoretical 
  coherence. She argues they do not.

  Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy and Women's 
  Studies at Syracuse University. She received her Ph.D. at 
  Brown University in 1987. She works primarily in 
  continental philosophy, epistemology, feminist theory, and 
  philosophy of race. Her books include Feminist 
  Epistemologies, co-edited with Elizabeth Potter 
  (Routledge, 1993); Real Knowing: New Versions of the 
  Coherence Theory of Knowledge (Cornell, 1996); 
  Epistemology: The Big Questions (Blackwell: 1998); 
  Thinking From the Underside of History (Rowman and 
  Littlefield, 2000) co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta; 
  Identities (Blackwell 2003) co-edited with Eduardo 
  Mendieta; Singing in the Fire: Stories of Women in 
  Philosophy (Rowman and Littlefield), and is currently co-
  editing with Eva Kittay the Blackwell Guide to Feminist 
  Philosophy. Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self 
  is forthcoming with Oxford Press. She is also editing the 
  first series of coursebooks in feminist philosophy with 
  Routledge, with several already under contract. She has 
  written over forty articles on topics concerning Foucault, 
  sexual violence, the politics of knowledge, and gender and 
  race identity.

  This program is free and open to the public. Limited 
  seating is available, but no reservations are required. 
  
 -- submitted by Thi Dao (thidao at humnet.ucla.edu)
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