"On Things Atomic"

The organizers of the Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference at the University of Western Ontario invite proposals, in English, Spanish or French, for 20-minute presentations on literature, literary theory, science, philosophy, visual arts, cinema, music, etc. The conference, to be held February 12-14, 2004, is sponsored by the programs in Comparative Literature, Theory and Criticism, and Spanish at the University of Western Ontario. This year's conference is entitled "On Things Atomic."

Possible points of departure include:

• The bricks of matter
• Monadic metaphysics
• Uni-forms of complexity
• Enrico Fermi: gay?
• Neutre Dame
• Bit by Bit
• Atomic metaphors
• Epide(r)mic signifiers
• Atomitis & cellulitis
• Atomic time
• Isotopy of utopy
• Atomic Aquinas
• Aesthetic of the atomized experience
• Law and the biological panopticon
• From the "void" to field theory
• Atomic common-ground zero

Guest Speakers:
Rebecca Comay
Philosophy
U. of Toronto

Walid Hamarneh
Comparative Literature
U. of Western Ontario

Proposals in English, Spanish or French (250-500 words) should be accompanied by a short CV and address, and submitted by December 15, 2003