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Congratulations Spring/Summer 2008

Ayse Temiz received the University award for Research.

Kenneth Roon received the University award for Service.

Vern Walker received the University award for Distinguished Dissertation in the Humanities for his dissertation "Pacificism's Precarity." Only one award is given every year in the Humanities.

Markus Zisselsberger was appointed tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.

Alison Heney's paper, "Because the last room is his room': 'Bluebeard' and Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina," was nominated to be considered for the 2008 Horst Frenz prize of the ACLA. She gave this paper at the 2008 ACLA meeting. The prize includes a $250.00 gift certificate for books and a $250.00 travel grant to attend the following year's ACLA conference, as well as publication of the paper in the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature.

Jeongyun Ko was appointed Visiting Professor at the Department of English of Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at Binghamton University Organized by the Graduate Students of Comparative Literature November 7th and 8th 2008.

Desire, Praxis and the Common(s)

Praxis and Desire both necessitate a locus: be it historical, cultural, geographic, corporeal, temporal, economic, intellectual. Praxis – concieved as an activity which necessarily entails a mode of creativity with the aim of political and social innovation – has a dynamic relation to desire. Desire conceived alternately as lack, affirmation, plenitude. Praxis implicates desire; desire implicates praxis. The immediate relationality of Desire is differentially mobilized by diverse theoretical camps (psychoanalysis, Marxism, post-structuralism, queer/gender theory). We seek papers concerning the relation between praxis, desire, commons, from such fields as history, sociology, english, comparative literature, philosophy, geography, anthropology, cultural studies, art history, sexuality and gender studies, translation studies, media studies, environmental studies and any other relevant fields.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

History of the commons
Production and desire
Alterity
Alterity and the Commons
Language
Communal Desire
Tension between desire and praxis
Resource and production
Environment and human activity
Practice and poesis
Communal Praxis
Private/Public
General intellect
Intellectual Production

Send abstracts to coliconference@gmail.com by September 7, 2008

You will receive a response no later than September 15, 2008