INSCRIPTIONS '05 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
CLICK FOR INSCRIPTIONS '05 ABSTRACTS
|
For Travel and Hotel Information click here or email - inscriptions@minasturizm.com In June 2003 Inscriptions in the Sand made its debut as the subtitle for the Sixth Annual English Literature and Humanities Conference at Eastern Mediterranean University. Expanding on the scope and scale of previous ELH conferences, we attempted to provide a truly unique conference and performance event by curating simultaneous symposia, art exhibitions, multi-media performances and musical recitals. It proved to be a resounding success for over 100 participants who travelled from sixteen different countries, and this despite the invasion of Iraq and concomitant official warnings to avoid the Middle East. Last June, Inscriptions '04 also proved a resounding success with a similar, intimate number of participants enjoying a two day conference and performance that equalled the quality of the inaugural Inscriptions. This year, Inscriptions ‘05 will take place on the 12th and 13th of May, 2005. It would do a disservice to recent participants to suggest that we might surpass Inscriptions '03 & '04 in terms of quality, so this year our ambition is to reproduce the quality, freshness and vitality of these past events while continuing to experiment with the extant parameters that generally govern academic events. In this regard, previous Inscriptions featured a variety of presentations and performances which challenged the idea of what a conference paper should involve. Although rigorously academic, objective and scholarly in thought, all presentations were simultaneously innovative and engaging in both form and presentation. It is precisely this type of paper/presentation that we wish to promote once more at Inscriptions ‘05. INSCRIPTIONS '05 will embrace music, film, literature, dramatic and performance art, performance events, exhibitions and creative presentations, as well as critical analyses and interpretations of literary, philosophical, and other kinds of texts. In this way, we intend to provide an academic environment and atmosphere charged with the energy of creative experience. We welcome in particular panel discussions, presentations, creative work or performances which problematize, question, challenge, and expose the shifting, littoral ground on which traditional social, disciplinary and ideological structures or boundaries are inscribed in such diverse fields as literature/theory, the visual and performing arts, architecture, music, historiography, science, law, politics, and communications media. |
