Papers should be comparative and/or interdisciplinary. The following potential subject areas are suggested:
- alchemy and magic ecology and nature medicine and literature poetry and science hypertexts technology and fiction popular science writing
- early science fiction
Proposals (title and 200-word abstract) should be sent to reach the conference co-ordinator by 29 FEBRUARY 2004:
Dr Jean Boase-Beier
"Invention" Conference
School of Language, Linguistics and Translation Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1603 593360
Fax: +44 (0)1603 250599
E-mail: j.boase-beier@uea.ac.uk
Selected conference papers will be published in the new BCLA journal Comparative Critical Studies.