CFP: ISIM Annual Conference

[ed.: From time to time, Fragmentary Poets will post calls for papers as a service to the professional communities of papyrology and classical philology. All standard apologies for cross-posting, etc., are given.]



The 7th Annual Conference of the International Society for Interpretive Mimetics
12-29 July 2006 in Kyustendzh, Romania


Call for Papers
Submission of Abstracts

The Organizing Committee is accepting abstracts of papers and proposals for panels at the 7th Annual Conference. Abstracts and proposals must not exceed 9000 words, or 27 minutes (for presentations offered in mime or dissonant chant). The Committee must unfortunately return all submissions from persons not yet of majority age.

Abstracts and submissions should address any of the issues facing the field of interpretive mimetics today. What are we doing? What is being done? How does it compare to what could be done? What’s he doing? Can I do that, too? How can we emulate what might be done through our own self-consciousness in the act of self-mimeticism despite the marginalization of the traditional paradigm of phallogenocentric schemata in today’s society? How can we trans-/remit the performative metadiscourses of the emergent transcultural mensch through re-receiving the canon in neo-formalist mimetic response?

Abstracts and submissions that respond to our keynote speaker’s area of specialty are particularly welcome.

The Committee is proud to welcome Dr. Bruno Fabrizio, M.H. of the Università di Bologna and University College, Blarney (NUI Blarney). Dr. Fabrizio will present his recent research in papyrology in his talk titled, “(Re)digitizing the Fragmentary Poets: finger puppetry and textual criticism in the next decade of classical philology.”

Submissions should be sent to:

Mr. F. N. Lackey, M.Litt.
Faculty of Classics and Mime,
High Stone Square,
behind the sonorous goat,
NUI Blarney,
Blarney,
Co. Cork,
Ireland

Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2006