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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-AU><FONT face="Times New Roman">The inaugural
conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
(Australia-New Zealand)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-AU><FONT face="Times New Roman">Organized by the
journal <I>Colloquy</I> under the auspices of</FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN lang=EN-AU><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Centre for
Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies and the Schools of Languages,
Cultures and Linguistics and Literary, Visual and Performance
Studies</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN lang=EN-AU><FONT face="Times New Roman">at Monash
University</FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN
lang=EN-AU>Dates</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-AU>: March 31-April 1,
2005</SPAN></FONT></P>
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align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN
lang=EN-AU>Venue</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-AU>: Monash
University</SPAN></FONT></P>
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align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN
lang=EN-AU>Registration</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-AU>: $80/$50
(Students)</SPAN></FONT></P>
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align=center><B><SPAN lang=EN-AU><FONT face="Times New Roman"><A
href="http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/conferences/earth/">http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/lcl/conferences/earth/</A>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN lang=EN-AU>Keynote Speakers</SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-AU>: Louise Westling (U Oregon), past Pres. ASLE-US, Richard Kerridge
(Bath Spa University College), past Pres. ASLE-UK, and David Abram, acclaimed
author of <I>The Spell of the Sensuous</I>.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-AU><FONT face="Times New Roman">The inaugural conference of ASLE-ANZ, to
be held at Monash University in April 2005, takes as its theme Friedrich
Nietzsche’s injunction in <I>Thus Spake Zarathustra</I> 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: literatures, philosophies and practices
of place, especially in Australia and New Zealand; poetics, politics and
practical action; indigenous, intercultural or cross-cultural perspectives;
rural, urban or suburban ecologies; non-modern, counter-modern or postmodern
perspectives; interspecies ethics, poetics or communication; reinhabitation,
dislocation and social justice;<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>ecocriticism and cultural studies; ecocriticism and religious studies;
ecocriticism and European critical theory. Conference proceedings will be
published in <I>Colloquy</I>.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-AU><FONT face="Times New Roman">The trans-Tasman branch of the
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (</FONT><A
href="http://www.asle-anz.asn.au/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">http://www.asle-anz.asn.au/</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman">) was founded in 2004, with the aim of promoting the
exchange of ideas and information about literature and other cultural
representations that are concerned with human relationships with the natural
world in Australia and New Zealand. In addition to encouraging new
environmentally oriented, nature-literate, and place-sensitive writing in this
region, ASLE-ANZ seeks to foster both traditional and innovative approaches to
environmental literature, ecocritical approaches to all cultural representations
of nature, and interdisciplinary environmental research, including discussions
among literary scholars and environmental historians, philosophers, linguists,
psychologists, art historians, architects, scholars of religion, critical
theorists, economists and scientists. </FONT></SPAN></P><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE">Proposals
(150 words max.) for twenty minute papers should be sent by February 18th 2005
by email to <A
href="mailto:ASLEANZ.Conference@arts.monash.edu.au">ASLEANZ.Conference@arts.monash.edu.au</A>
, or by post to Peter Coleman, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural
Studies, School of LCL, Building 11A, Wellington Rd., Monash Vic 3800,
Australia.</SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>