[Discussion] Culture, Context and Connections

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Acacia Group’s 2004 Conference

Theme: Culture, Context and Connections

Pop Culture panel
The Acacia Group is looking for papers for a Pop Culture panel.  Topics may
include Romantic influences in Pop Culture, intertextuality and influence of
pop culture on literature, science fiction/fantasy, television and music,
the evolution of sex and sexuality.  Other topics that apply to pop culture
and our conference theme of “Culture, Context and Connections” will be
considered.

Conference date: Saturday March 13 2004
Submission Deadline: December 22nd 2003
Acacia Group of California State University Fullerton is seeking papers for
our 2004 conference.  Please note submissions are open to Current California
State University Students and California State University Alumni.
The conference is open to Graduate and Undergraduate students.  Graduate
Students maybe submit papers of 15-20 pages (20 minute presentation length).
  Undergraduates may submit papers of 5-8 pages (10 minute presentation
length)

Papers maybe submitted electronically to: susanmariejohnson@hotmail.com
(word format please).  Or mailed to: Acacia Group PO Box 5853, Fullerton CA
92838
The deadline is December 22, 2003
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Canon debate panel
The Acacia group seeks for papers for a canon debate panel: inclusion and
exclusion.  Topics may include: science fiction/fantasy as literature, canon
hierarchy (ie labels: amateur poet, professional poet, poet laureate) does
this hierarchy exist? Is it necessary? Does it hinder studies of specific
authors?, recent additions to the canon (“re-discovered” authors) –
overlooked authors, authors added to expand ethnic/gender/or other view
point.  Other topics that apply to literature and film and our conference
theme of “Culture, Context and Connections” will be considered.

Conference date: Saturday March 13 2004
Submission Deadline: December 22nd 2003
Acacia Group of California State University Fullerton is seeking papers for
our 2004 conference.  Please note submissions are open to Current California
State University Students and California State University Alumni.
The conference is open to Graduate and Undergraduate students.  Graduate
Students maybe submit papers of 15-20 pages (20 minute presentation length).
  Undergraduates may submit papers of 5-8 pages (10 minute presentation
length)

Papers maybe submitted electronically to: susanmariejohnson@hotmail.com
(word format please).  Or mailed to: Acacia Group PO Box 5853, Fullerton CA
92838
The deadline is December 22, 2003
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Identity and subjectivity panel
The Acacia group seeks for papers for a Identity and subjectivity panel
This panel is open to papers that discuss anything from Shakespeare to
Thomas Pynchon, while questioning concepts of identity formation and
subjectivity.  Paper may examine such concepts of Lacan’s theory of the
“self”, incorporating other schools of thoughts such as, queer/gender
theory, deconstruction, and others to analyze how identity is formed,
transformed or removed. Drawing connections from theory to fiction detail
how literature illustrates the various facets of identity formation.  Other
topics that apply to identity and subjectivity and our conference theme of
“Culture, Context and Connections” will be considered.


Conference date: Saturday March 13 2004
Submission Deadline: December 22nd 2003
Acacia Group of California State University Fullerton is seeking papers for
our 2004 conference.  Please note submissions are open to Current California
State University Students and California State University Alumni.
The conference is open to Graduate and Undergraduate students.  Graduate
Students maybe submit papers of 15-20 pages (20 minute presentation length).
  Undergraduates may submit papers of 5-8 pages (10 minute presentation
length)

Papers maybe submitted electronically to: susanmariejohnson@hotmail.com
(word format please).  Or mailed to: Acacia Group PO Box 5853, Fullerton CA
92838
The deadline is December 22, 2003


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panel on “The Body”
The Acacia group seeks for papers for a panel on “The Body.”
Topics for this panel should analyze the body its various form, such as the
body of a text, body of speech and the physical body. Making connections
with a single or multiple work(s), examine how the body functions for or
within a text. Papers may want to address such topics as: silences within
bodies of speech acts; the body as a marker of identity; the body and power.
  Other topics that apply to “the body” and our conference theme of
“Culture, Context and Connections” will be considered.

Conference date: Saturday March 13 2004
Submission Deadline: December 22nd 2003
Acacia Group of California State University Fullerton is seeking papers for
our 2004 conference.  Please note submissions are open to Current California
State University Students and California State University Alumni.
The conference is open to Graduate and Undergraduate students.  Graduate
Students maybe submit papers of 15-20 pages (20 minute presentation length).
  Undergraduates may submit papers of 5-8 pages (10 minute presentation
length)

Papers maybe submitted electronically to: susanmariejohnson@hotmail.com
(word format please).  Or mailed to: Acacia Group PO Box 5853, Fullerton CA
92838
The deadline is December 22, 2003
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Multiculturalism panel
The Acacia group seeks for papers for a Multiculturalism panel.
Papers for this panel may analyze multicultural texts/authors.  Topics may
include: how is multiculturalism expressed in a work(s), how do
borders/countries effect perceptions/presentations of multiculturalism, do
multicultural texts promote cultural diversity, does an authors
identity/ethnicity make a work multicultural?  Other topics that apply to
multiculturalism and our conference theme of “Culture, Context and
Connections” will be considered.

Conference date: Saturday March 13 2004
Submission Deadline: December 22nd 2003
Acacia Group of California State University Fullerton is seeking papers for
our 2004 conference.  Please note submissions are open to Current California
State University Students and California State University Alumni.
The conference is open to Graduate and Undergraduate students.  Graduate
Students maybe submit papers of 15-20 pages (20 minute presentation length).
  Undergraduates may submit papers of 5-8 pages (10 minute presentation
length)

Papers maybe submitted electronically to: susanmariejohnson@hotmail.com
(word format please).  Or mailed to: Acacia Group PO Box 5853, Fullerton CA
92838
The deadline is December 22, 2003

Thank you
Susan Johnson