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<CENTER><B>“Be true to the earth”</B>
<P>The inaugural conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and
the Environment (Australia-New Zealand) <BR>Organized by the journal
<EM>Colloquy</EM> under the auspices of <BR>The Centre for Comparative
Literature and Cultural Studies and the Schools of Languages, Cultures and
Linguistics and Literary, Visual and Performance Studies <BR>at Monash
University
<P>Dates: March 31-April 1, 2005 <BR>Venue: Monash University</CENTER>
<P>Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Louise Westling (Oregon), author of The Green
Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender and American Fiction (1996)
<P>The inaugural conference of ASLE-ANZ takes as its theme Friedrich Nietzsche’s
injunction in Thus Spake Zarathustra to “be true to the earth.” The organizers
of the conference invite papers that engage with the question of what it might
mean to ‘be true’ to ‘the earth’ in relation to their own work, whether
creative, critical, or reflective, as well as with regard to the particular
location(s) of their work, whether in place, time or other (cultural, social,
institutional) contexts. In particular, we welcome papers which address this
theme in relation to: <BR>* literatures, philosophies and practices of place,
especially in Australia and New Zealand <BR>* poetics, politics and practical
action <BR>* indigenous, intercultural or cross-cultural perspectives <BR>*
rural, urban or suburban ecologies <BR>* non-modern, counter-modern or
postmodern perspectives <BR>* interspecies ethics, poetics or communication
<BR>* reinhabitation, dislocation and social justice <BR>* ecocriticism and
cultural studies <BR>* ecocriticism and religious studies <BR>* ecocriticism and
European critical theory.
<P>Refereed proceedings of the conference will be published by the journal
<EM>Colloquy</EM>.
<P>Proposals (150 words max.) for twenty minute papers should be sent by January
31st 2005 by email to ASLEANZ.Conference@arts.monash.edu.au , or by post to
Peter Coleman, Colloquy, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies,
Building 11A, Monash Vic 3800, Australia.
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<P>Dimitris Vardoulakis <BR>Colloquy: text theory critique <BR>Centre for
Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies <BR>PO Box 11A <BR>Monash University
<BR>Clayton, Vic 3800 <BR>Australia
<P>tel: +61 3 9905 9009 <BR>fax: +61 3 9905 5593 <BR>email:
colloquy@arts.monash.edu.au <BR>url: <A
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