[Discussion] CFP: Cartographies: Literature, Maps, and Mapping (1/10/05; 4/15/05-4/16/05)

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The New York College English Association Announces

CARTOGRAPHIES: A Conference on an Interdisciplinary Approach to
Writing and Literature

Literature and maps might be said to share the same enterprise.  As
Paul Theroux wrote, in =93a sense, the world was once blank =85 and =85
cartography made it visible and glowing with detail.=94 Like maps,
literature plots paths through uncharted territories, trying to
make visible what before sat unnoticed.  It shapes and transforms
experiences into a new kind of knowledge, a new way of seeing with what
Margaret Atwood terms our =93third eye,=94 the eye that shows us that =93=
this
truth is not the only truth.=94

The spring 2005 NYCEA Conference, Friday, April 15th and Saturday,
April 16th sponsored by Siena College, requests proposals for papers
addressing the theme listed above. Cartographies embrace a wide range
of areas and topics that include the following:

Philosophy
Constructing Nature
History
Rhetoric
Projecting Peace
Film
Charting the
Environment
Pedagogy
Identifying Borders and Boundaries
Communications
Technology
Defining Cultures
Race, Class, Gender, Sex, Age and Ethnicity
Science
Art and Music

For further information contact:
Laurene DeMichele,
Continuing Education,
LDeMichele@Siena.edu

Please direct 500 word abstracts for panel or individual presentation
proposals with your name, affiliation, address, email, and phone number
to:
Elaine R. Ognibene, Ph.D
ognibene@siena.edu
Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
Siena College
515 Loudon Rd.
Loudonville, NY 12211
Proposal deadline:  January 10, 2005


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