CALL FOR PAPERS RAYMOND WILLIAMS: AFTER 2000 A one day conference on politics and culture organised by "Overland", the quarterly literary magazine founded in 1954 by Stephen Murray-Smith (Temper democratic, bias Australian). 9.00 am - 5.00 pm, Saturday 10 June 2000 Melbourne Trades Hall 54 Victoria Street Carlton South, VIC 3053 Raymond Williams was one of the important figures in late twentieth century radical intellectual culture: a critic whose work redrew the map of English literary studies; a key figure in the New Left intelligentsia from the 1950s to the 1980s; a widely acknowledged "founding father", of Cultural Studies; a theorist, whose "cultural materialism", remains influential throughout contemporary literary and cultural studies; a creative writer whose work ranged from the realist novel to science fiction and television drama. Williams's "The Long Revolution" is widely recognised as one of the key works of English-language socialist scholarship from the 1960s. In the 1980s he reworked this analysis as "Towards 2000", in the attempt to identify new "resources of hope", for the journey beyond economic rationalism. Seventeen years later, and twelve after Williams's death, it seems timely to assess the continuing relevance of his intellectual and political legacy. "Overland" was the first periodical to publish Williams's work in Australia. So it seems particularly appropriate for it to sponsor an appreciation of a body of work whose character could so easily be defined as "Temper democratic, bias Welsh". We hope to organise something more than simply another academic conference. Rather, we intend to facilitate as wide-ranging a debate as possible around issues of Left cultural politics in the twenty-first century. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Verity Burgmann (Reader in Politics, University of Melbourne); Carole Ferrier (Editor of `Hecate'); Stuart Macintyre (Dean of Arts, University of Melbourne); John McLaren (Humanities, Victoria University); Andrew Milner (Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University); Dan O'Neill (English, University of Queensland); Ian Syson (Editor of "Overland"); Iain Wright (Professor of English, ANU). REGISTRATION Registration Fees $ 30 (employed people) $ 15 (unwaged) CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited on issues arising from the above themes. A 200 word proposal should be sent, faxed or emailed by April 1st to: Nathan Hollier, "After 2000", Conference, Overland, PO Box 14146 MCMC, Melbourne VIC 8001 Fax: (61) (3) 9688 4883 email: Nathan Hollier [EMAIL PROTECTED]> For Further information please contact the conference website: http://dingo.vu.edu.au/~arts/cals/overland/conf.html LL.VF -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
