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Call for Papers

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on =**Troubling Reality: (Re)Imagining Realms of the Real**=

Hosted by Brandeis University’s Interdisciplinary M.A. Program in Cultural Production

At Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
 * March 12-13, 2010**

**//Conference Topic://** The "real" and the realm(s) in which it exists cannot be understood as fixed entities, but rather as an imagined reality that produces the formations and functions of “reality,” a (re)presentation, which, paradoxically, makes "reality" unstable and fragmented.


 * //We invite proposals for academic papers, posters, videos, installations, multimedia works, and performance pieces, exploring the following questions://**
 * How do formations of the real and unreal help constitute social bodies, social consciousnesses, and social forms?
 * In what ways can the contentious interspace between real and real, signifier and signified, be understood as liminal or interstitial phenomena?
 * How are implicit assertions of reality embedded within taken for granted bodily, spatial, and temporal experience? W
 * hat are the roles and possibilities of human imagination in the naturalization and interrogation of the conventionally perceived textures of the real?


 * //Keynote Speaker://**
 * Kelly McGuire, Associate Professor of Literature, Film, and Media Studies at Emmanuel College**. Her recent publications have appeared in //Enculturation// as well as a special issue of //The Shakespeare Yearbook//, "The Lacanian Renaissance." Currently she is working on a book about narratives of pseudocide or faking one's own death.

Please submit an abstract of **250 words by January 15, 2010 to lennonre@brandeis.edu**. Format your abstract for blind review by a committee of graduate students in the Cultural Production program, by attaching a cover page with the author’s name, title of abstract, institution and contact information. Please include only the title of the abstract on all other pages. **Notifications of selected papers will be sent out by February 1, 2010.**

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