[Discussion] CFP: Reading Readers/Reading Cultures (3/1/05; Craft Critique Culture, 4/8/05-4/10/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Call For Papers
5th Annual CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE Conference
Reading Readers/Reading Cultures
April 8-10, 2005

CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on
the intersections between critical and creative approaches to writing
both within and outside the academy.  This year=92s conference will
examine the ways in which culture, in any of its aspects=97products,
works, forms, behaviors, institutions, etc.=97is produced, distributed,
manipulated, interpreted, and consumed. The conference encourages
inquiry from a range of disciplines throughout the humanities and social
sciences.  We invite the submission of critical, theoretical and
original creative work in a variety of media (including film, video,
music, writing, visual art, artists=92 books, etc.). This year=92s
conference highlights will include a keynote presentation by
Duke=92s Frances Fox Professor of Literature, Janice Radway.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
=95	Communities of readers
=95	Cultures as texts (and critiques thereof)
=95	Popular culture and reader revisions/rewriting (slash, fanfic, 			etc=
.)
=95	Reader response and reader practices
=95	Influence of the marketplace: censorship, editing, advertising, 		etc=
.
=95	Adaptation, transformation, & distortion
=95	Translation and cultural reproduction
=95	Text and image
=95	Cultures of collecting
=95	Authorship and publishing
=95	Fakes and frauds
=95	Libraries and museums: cultural capital, public access, politics 	of
space, preservation
=95	Digital cultures, digital texts
=95	Space, place, and geography



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