Call for Papers

[Carol Adlam]

Visions of the Future

A conference in January 2001

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of Russian, School of Modern Languages,
University of Exeter, invites abstracts /proposals
for the conference 'Visions of the Future'. The conference
will take place at Exeter University in January 2001, at a
date to be announced.

Proposals are invited for papers under the broad theme
'Russian Writers' Representations of the Future'. Suggested
areas of discussion include prophecy, dreams, utopia, time
travel, apocalypse, dystopia, science fiction, and
eschatology. Papers may also include issues of temporality
in literary/ critical theory. Works discussed may be from
any period.

The publication of a selection of papers from the
conference is intended.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent to the
conference organizers by 1 October 1999. All enquiries/
abstracts to:

            Dr Katharine Hodgson
            Department of Russian
            University of Exeter
            Queen's Building,
            The Queen's Drive Exeter EX4 4QH

            Telephone: (+44) 0 1392 264309
            Email: k.m.hodgson at exeter.ac.uk

       or

            Carol Adlam
            Department of Russian
            University of Exeter
            Queen's Building,
            The Queen's Drive Exeter EX4 4QH

            Telephone: (+44) 0 1392 264284
            Email: c.adlam at exeter.ac.uk

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Department of Russian
Queen's Building
The Queen's Drive
University of Exeter
Exeter EX6 6HE, UK

Tel: (+44) 0 1392 264310
Fax: (+44) 0 1392 264300
WWW: http://www.ex.ac.uk/russian