We encourage creative and critical responses to the idea of boundaries, which may include, but are not limited to, the following interpretations:
Geographical boundaries; Sudden boundaries: Wartime shifts in geographical borders; Cultural boundaries; Boundaries of translation between different languages; Sense/Nonsense; Reason/Unreason; Life, Death and the Afterlife; Exceeding human boundaries: ESP, telepathy, mediumship; Interzones: automata, robots and science fiction; Critical/Creative boundaries; Historical events/fictional depiction; Writing creatively about other cultures; Moral responsibility/creative licence; The literary canon; Literary boundaries: genre; The boundary of the stage in theatre; Transgression of legal boundaries: criminality; Social boundaries: criminals, prostitutes, poets; Class boundaries; The Living space and its boundaries: home, cell, ward; Fluid boundaries: bodies in the world; Gender boundaries; Bodies, starvation and the self; Sexual boundaries; Loving and loathing: emotional boundaries; Indulgent boundaries: the politics of pleasure

250-300 word proposals for 20 minute papers and a brief biographical note should be sent (in Microsoft Word format) by February 15th 2006

The conference will be organized around a number of panels, each featuring three twenty-minute papers, scheduled across the day. We hope that the day will be as much about discussion as presentation, so postgraduates who do not wish to present a paper are also strongly encouraged to attend.