[Discussion] UPDATE: Theory/Anti-Theory/After Theory (grad) (12/1/04; 3/4/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

City University of New York Graduate Center
English Student Association Conference
Conference Date: March 4, 2005.
Please submit abstracts of 250-500 words to esaconference@yahoogroups.com by

December 1st. Please include your institutional affiliation in the email.

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS

O w n i n g  I t : Theory/Anti-Theory/After Theory

"Owning It: Theory/ Anti-Theory/ After Theory" is an all day conference
organized and sponsored by the English Student Association at CUNY
Graduate Center. This conference seeks to bring together graduate
students from different methodological perspectives to reassess and
reassert the scope, style, and usability of the literary theoretical
enterprise. "Owning it" is a call to "own" ourselves as practitioners of
theory, and to understand theory not as an external, static edifice but
rather as a shifting ground constituted by our collective, everyday
theoretical practices.

This conference invites papers that explore those practices; that
examine the role of graduate students as producers and consumers of
theory; that initiate dialogue between different orientations toward
theory; that imagine new directions for literary theory, and that ask
what it means to practice theory in what has been labeled a
"post-theoretical" academic landscape. It is also a chance to
investigate the political ramifications of theoretical work, including
inviting speculations on the causes and consequences of the ongoing
backlash to theory. We encourage submissions that take strong positions
on these issues, as well as papers that comment on methodological
practice in a more reflective mode.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Literary Theory and the Social Sciences
Politicization/ Depolitization and Theory
Theory and the Culture Wars
Future Theory / Emergent Theory
Hostility to Theory
Theory and Undergraduate Education
Paradigm Shifts in Theory
Theory and the Classroom
Theory and Popular Culture
Theory and Postmodernism
Theory and the Para-Literary
Class/Race/Gender/Sexuality and Theory
Theory and Advertising
Theory and Visual Culture
Feminism and Theory
Women as Producers of Theory
Theory and Justice
Relativism
The Uses of History in Literary Theory
Theory and Deconstruction
Forgotten Theories
Theory and Class Revolution
Theory and the Canon
Theory and Materiality
Theory and/of the Body
Theoretical Language / Jargon
The Aesthetics of Theory
Composition/ Rhetoric and Theory



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