====================== HES POSTING ===================== The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario plans a major international conference on THE HISTORIES OF THEORY, to be held from April 16th-19th, 1998. This is the third international conference hosted by the Centre. Speakers at previous Centre conferences have included Mieke Bal, Linda Hutcheon, Bill Readings, Alexander Gelley, Dominick La Capra, Christopher Norris, Michael Fried, Martin Jay, Vincent Leitch, Bruce Robbins. Proceedings of both previous conferences ("Theory Between the Disciplines" and "The Human Sciences in the Age of Theory") have now appeared in book form. We are seeking papers from a variety of (inter)disciplinary perspectives, on any aspect of the conference topic, including the following: --the histories and genealogies of particular theoretical schools: trajectories, hybridities, crossings --the rhetoric of particular theoretical discourses and the "history" (material or psychic) underlying that rhetoric --connections between contemporary theory and earlier philosophy/social theory --the histories of theory within a particular discipline --the genealogy of particular theorists' careers: hybridities, crossings, missed encounters --the genealogies of "theory" itself; the history of its constitution as an (inter)discipline; versions of interdisiplinarity in earlier periods; ways in which histories of theory have been narrativized; the possibly gendered basis of these (his)tories etc. --rewriting the history of theory: forgotten pasts, neglected histories, and missed encounters --the tyranny of history; theory in the age of historicism --modernity and postmodernity --poststructuralism after the "academic postmodern" --the end(s) of theory and theory at the fin de siecle Please send papers or detailed abstracts (750 words) by Oct. 1st, 1997 to: "The Histories of Theory" Centre for the Study of Theory & Criticism Labatt Visual Arts Centre, 200F The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 Tel: (519) 661 3442 Fax: (519) 661 2020 [log in to unmask] =============================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List [log in to unmask] Full Information at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ or write Jack Lynch: [log in to unmask] =============================================== ********************************************************************** ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]