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Gambling Theory
October 13-17, 2004
We invite submissions, papers or detailed abstracts, for a major international conference to be hosted by the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, October 13-17, 2004. The conference will include more than 70 invited and selected papers by faculty and graduate students. The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2004. The overarching themes of the conference focus on contemporary and past theory as species of risk-taking.
Tentative sessions include:
- The ends of gaming
- Taking practical risks in doing theory
- The break-up of established interpretive systems
- The moment of crisis tackled head-on
- What redemption is there in risk taking?
- The dubious synchronicity of theory and its objects
- Chance by chance
- Balancing the waste-book
- Morality at the edge
- What kinds of urgency?
- Gamblers and Idiots
- Getting badlucky
- Theory gambled away
- When to stop the game?
- What prosthetic futures for such bright pasts?
- Speculation and hazard
- Theory junkies
- The theory of gambling and the gambling of theory
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