[Discussion] Undergraduate and Graduate Student Cultural and Literary Studies Conference

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The 1st Annual Emporia SU Undergraduate and Graduate Student Cultural and Literary Studies Conference, "On the Margins of it All"
Saturday April 24th, 2004
Suggested Panels Include:
"Cleaning Out the Closet: Theoretically Emancipating Human Sexuality," "Orientalism: Said's Legacy," "Attack of the Killer Rhizome: Cultural Lines of Flight," "Aian American Women Writers: Nameless Organic Intellectuals of the Margins," ""Hiking Through the Desert of the Real: Postmodernism and the Representation of Nature," "Killing Tradition and Individual Talent: Postmodern Poetics," "Gangsters and Cultural Studies: Understanding Popular Culture through Quentin Tarantino," "Articulating Global Identities in Popular Culture: Sports, Music and Film," "Creative Writing: Poetry, Short-Short, and Creative Nonfiction."

Suggested Areas Include:
Structuralism and Poststructuralism; Queer Theory and Body Theory; Poetics; Marxism; Feminism; Popular Culture; Whiteness Studies; Disability Studies; Minority Studies; Subcultures; Postcolonialism; Anti-Theory.

We invite proposals for other areas and panels.  Please submit them by January 16th, 2004.
Registration fee for students: $10 by February 1st or $15 at the door.
Registration fee for non students and independent scholars: $20 by February 1st or $25 at the door.
Fee includes lunch.
Proceedings will be published on CD ROM, as well as on the Internet.  An extra $5 will be charged for a copy of the proceedings.
Send a 200 word abstract to: Jack Hutchens, C/O Dept. of English, Emporia SU, Emporia, KS 66801.  Or send as an email to cult_litstudiesconference@yahoo.com, with "Cult/Lit Conference" in the subject line.  The abstract must include contact information for the author and a short biography.  All abstracts are due by February 1st. Two awards will be available for best undergraduate and graduate papers.  For more information and conference updates check the web page: www.geocities.com/cult_litstudiesconference