[Discussion] UPDATE: Isms, Irritants, and Ideologies (grad) (1/15/05; 3/25/05-3/27/05)

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New deadline:

Isms, Irritants and ideologies: (In)Visible Violations of Power
March 25-27, 2005
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Keynote Address:  Sandra Gilbert
Co-Author of
The Madwoman in the Attic:  The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century
Literary Imagination

This conference welcomes one-page abstracts, session and roundtable
proposals from graduate scholars interested in exploring representations
and violations of ideologically motivated sites of power. Submissions
are invited on the following topics that are meant to motivate, but not
limit, your thinking.

Defining, Exploring and Challenging Isms ● Defining, Exploring and
Challenging Ideologie; Conflicting Ideologies; Pedagogy and Conflicting
Pedagogy; Textual Transgressions; Resistance; Violations and Violence;
Theories of the Gaze and (In)Visibilities; Breeching Boundaries,
Barriers and Borders; Sites of Power, Conflicting and Shifting;
Hegemony; Irritants; Dominant and Subversive Discourse and Rhetoric
● Privileged, De-privileged and In Between;
Identity Transgressions; Performativity;  Role-playing and Role-
resisting; Revolution and Technology; Contested Literacies; Political
Rhetorics and Power.

Twenty minute presentations might focus on a specific work regarding
representations of various isms, ideologies and sites of power in the
fields of literature, art, history, popular culture, composition and
rhetoric, gender studies, philosophy, science and technology, music and
theology. Because the theme of the conference is inclusive and
interdisciplinary, it provides focus for a dialogue while encouraging
the creative connections across several areas of graduate student
scholarship.

Along with your abstract attachment, please include home and office
numbers, complete mailing address, e-mail address, AV requirements, and
professional affiliation. E-mail submissions are encouraged and more
information is available online: http://www.asu.edu/clubs/gsea/sw/.

MAXIMUM LENGTH OF ABSTRACTS: 500 Words
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: January 15, 2005
Questions or proposals may be directed to: Johanna.Wagner@asu.edu

Johanna Wagner
Southwest Graduate English Symposium
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-0302
480-593-6009



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