I’ve submitted three abstracts in the past week, each for an exciting event and each, should I be accepted, allowing me to work out what might become important ideas for my dissertation.
- “Natural History and ‘The Question of the Organism'” for the Comparative Literature Graduate Conference at UC Irvine: Abstraction (March 11-12, 2016).
- “A Geology of Borders: Time and Movement in Juan Rulfo’s El llano en llamas“ for the XXII Annual Juan Bruce-Nova Mexican Studies Conference at UC Irvine: Mobility, Movements, Mobilizations (May 5-7, 2016).
- “Freud’s Homology: The Psychic Apparatus and the Organism” for an International Conference at Emory University: New Materialisms and Economies of Excess (September 29-October 21, 2016).
So far, I’ve been very lucky in terms of the conferences I’ve participated in and the amount of help they’ve provided in developing ideas. The ideas in each of these abstracts will have to be worked out sooner or later but I really prefer to do that work in collaboration.
In addition, I’m confirmed to present an excerpt from my “Uncanny Meat” essay:
- “‘The bear was all cut open, it was full of people’: The Creaturely and the Meaty in Herzog’s Grizzly Man“ for an International Symposium at the Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France: Companion Species in North American Cultural Productions (June 17, 2016).
The organizers for this event are editing a special issue of Caliban, a French Journal of American Studies, titled “Planète en partage/Sharing the Planet” and so I’m hoping to put the finishing touches on the essay and, finally, publishing it.
A Geology of Borders 