CALL FOR PAPERS
From their historical designation as markers of separation to their more current determination as comparative sites of exchange and transgression, boundaries offer a diverse and productive opportunity to explore the points of relation and difference between such modes of discourse as literature, art, philosophy, politics and religion.

This one-day graduate conference, taking place at Goldsmiths College, University of London, seeks to provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion regarding the ways boundaries inflect or complicate our understandings of subjectivity, culture and politics.

Comparative and/or interdisciplinary proposals for twenty-minute papers on any aspect of the boundary are invited. Topics for consideration may include, but are not limited to:

• The individual and the social
• Gender and sexual difference
• Love
• Death
• The human and the divine
• Corporeality and spirit
• Ghosts
• Creativity and the unconscious
• Religion and science
• Postcolonialism, transnationalism, borders
• Textuality and the visual arts
• Comparative Literature and the University

The deadline for receipt of 250-word abstracts is 1 November 2004. Please e-mail abstracts and enquiries to the conference organisers, Mekella Broomberg and Nikolai Duffy, <boundaries@gold.ac.uk>. Attendance is free of charge.