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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>The Writing and Society Research Group<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>at the <ns0:place w:insAuthor="Unknown"
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>presents<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;font-style:italic'>Missing Persons <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>An inter-disciplinary conference for postgraduates <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>to be held on the <ns0:City w:insAuthor="Unknown"
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w:endInsDate="2008-01-15T12:04:00Z">Bankstown</ns0:place></ns0:City> campus
of <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'>the <ns0:place w:insAuthor="Unknown"
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 July 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Call for papers:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'><br>
<i><font color=black><span style='color:black;font-style:italic'>Missing
Persons</span></font></i><font color=black><span style='color:black'> seeks to
examine and explore issues arising from loss and displacement, memory and
forgetting, disappearance, erasures and caesuras, death and dying in artistic
and creative production. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>In particular the
conference will assess the artistic, cinematic, literary, moral, social,
familial, (geo)political, philosophical, psychological and religious
significance of these issues, both individually and together.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Submissions are
invited on any of the following themes:</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><br>
* writing memory – memory and desire, memory and affect;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>* memory loss, dementia and the return to childhood; <br>
* disappearances, erasure, secrets and control; <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>* ghosts, haunted writing and vampiric production;<br>
* literary representations of space and “the space between”;<br>
* the narrative underground - marginalised narratives and volcanic texts;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>* myths and legends of actual missing persons; <br>
* narratives of death and dying;<br>
* true crime.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Submissions can
include papers, performance, art works, installations, works-in-progress and
workshops. The conference steering committee also welcomes the submission of
pre-formed panel proposals. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>250-word abstracts
should be submitted by 31 March 2008. If an abstract is accepted for the
conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by 31 May 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Abstracts (including
bios) should be submitted to </span></font><font size=2 color=black
face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Tessa Needham</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'> at
<writing@uws.edu.au><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>A small number of
bursaries will be made available to assist post grad students travelling to the
conference from interstate.</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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