[Discussion] UPDATE: Communities in Crisis: Isolation, Desecration, Transformation (11/19/05; 4/2/05-4/3/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

UPDATE: The University of South Carolina's Twentieth Century Conference,
"Communities in Crisis: Isolation, Desecration, Transformation," has
extended the deadline for Calls for Papers until November 19, 2004.
Please submit abstracts at our website
(http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/20thcenturyconference).  We encourage the
analysis and exploration of multiple types of literature such as
hypertext, film, art, and music, in addition to poetry and fiction. We
strongly encourage cross-genre discussions.

ATTENTION: CALL FOR PAPERS

Communities in Crisis: Isolation, Desecration, Transformation in the
Twentieth Century:
An International Interdisciplinary Conference
http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/20thcenturyconference
Saturday, April 2 - Sunday, April 3, 2005
University of South Carolina-Columbia
Department of English

Across professions and academic fields, the topics of (re)construction
of communities, potential and real problems they face, and, finally, the
position of an individual in a group (spanning from very local to global
communities) have been explored and disputed by writers, poets,
essayists, art and media critics, sociologists, psychologists,
politicians, and many others. Stuart Hall talks about "mutual
reorganization of the global and the local" in the postmodern world.
Other critics discuss the emergence of the "third space" and its
significance, the sacred roots of nationalisms, the threats of
ethnocentric politics, and the horrors of ethnic cleansing. Raymond
Williams, Frederic Jameson, Benedict Anderson, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said,
and many others, have focused on the question of the origin and
mechanisms of communities, and argued about pivotal elements in their
(re)construction. Community in crisis is one of the crucial themes in
the works of Camus, Bulgakov, Forster, Joyce, Coetzee, Rushdie, O=EB,
Calvino, Dos Passos, and others. It triggers disturbing questions about
power, racial tensions, gender relations, and human nature. Following
the success of last-year's conference, "(Dis)Locating Identity in the
20th Century," we invite papers that not only reflect and build upon
these issues, but encourage the analysis and exploration of multiple
types of literature such as hypertext, film, art, and music, in addition
to poetry and fiction. We strongly encourage cross-genre discussions.

Topics may include, but certainly are not limited to:

* imagined and real communities			=09
* mobility vs. passivity
* urban vs. rural communities				=09
* fl=E2neur
* citizenship and civic engagement			=09
* periphery
* migration, deracination, hybridity			=09
* multiculturalism
* "politics of recognition" vs. "politics of redistribution" 		* utopian
communities
* endangered spaces/engendered spaces		=09
* racial and ethnic conflict
* communities sacred and profane			=09
* class conflict
* communities in exile				=09
* third space
* collective/individual trauma and recovery		=09
* communities and contrapuntal reading
* national identity and postcoloniality		=09
* globalized communities
* alternative and subversive communities		=09
* academic communities
* micro- and macro-communities			=09
* rehabilitation and reconstruction

The deadline for submission is Friday, November 19, 2004.
Please submit an abstract
athttp://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/20thcenturyconference .


Information on our Keynote Adressess:

Professor Zack Bowen - University of Miami

Zack Bowen is an internationally renowned James Joyce scholar and an
authority on music in Joyce's books. His numerous publications include
Padraic Colum: A Biographical-Critical Introduction (1970), Musical
Allusions in the Works of James Joyce (1974), Mary Lavin (1975),
"Ulysses" as a Comic Novel (1989), A Reader's Guide to John Barth
(1993), and Bloom's Old Sweet Song: A Collection of Essays on Joyce and
Music (1995). For many years a chair of the English Department at the
University of Miami and an editor of James Joyce Literary Supplement, he
is also a co-author of Science and Literature: Bridging the Two Cultures
(2001) and co-editor of A Companion to Joyce Studies (1984). Bowen
teaches 20th-century British, Irish, and American literature.


Professor Josephine Gattuso Hendin - New York University

Josephine Hendin, Tiro A. Segno Professor of Italian American Studies at
New York University's English Department, has won major awards for
teaching, research, and fiction. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Hendin is
the author of many critical works including The World of Flannery
O'Connor (1970), Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction Since
1945 (1978), The Feminist Press (1999), and Heartbreakers: Women and
Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature (2004). Hendin serves as
a member of the Modern Language Association's Executive Board and the
National Book Critics Circle. She is also a critically acclaimed fiction
author and won the American Book Award in 1988 for The Right Thing to Do.



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