[Discussion] "Merging Word & Image: Hybridity

[sule tarakcioglu]

This year marks the 15th Annual Mardi Gras Conference sponsored by
the LSU English Graduate Student Association. We are excited to
announce this year's theme:

"Merging Word & Image: Hybridity
and Reimagining (new) Literacy Through Media"

and to reveal our

Keynote Speaker: Professor Gregory Ulmer
and
Keynote Artist: Professor W. Steve Rucker.

>From Logos "the word" to Logo "the icon," the situation that
English Studies finds itself in at the beginning of the 21st century
is one of mixed cultures, integrated technologies, and hybrid writing
styles. Visual rhetoric is vying for the same status as textual
rhetoric, and scientists, educators, and artists continue to utilize
a postmodern idea of fragmentation to redefine the stark binaries and
boundaries of literacy from critical/personal to art/science to left
brain/right brain. The current trend towards hybrid genres creates a
new kind of literacy that has gained recognition through
interdisciplinary fields, such as film studies, American studies,
educational technology studies, and communication studies. This
conference invites presentations from all disciplines to explore the
relationships between text and image and its impact on literacy.

Possible panels include:

-performative, intertextual and/or hypertextual writing

-new media in the classroom

-benefits? of digital text

-(computer) memory and self: searching for the individual online

-fragmentation of identity through fragmented text

-somewhere between the written and the oral: using film as a
pedagogical tool

-photography: the visual text

-performative writing and the conference paper; performing the
conference paper

-orality in a textual world

-advertising as a cultural mirror

-Barthes and punctum: memory as text

-ethnography: mapping the personal

-searching for the diegesis in different mediums

-hybrid truths: the nonfiction ego

-FragmentNation: the subversion of racial and gender identity markers

Abstracts are invited on these topics or on work that interprets the
conference theme more broadly. Creative submissions are definitely
welcome.

The conference is also open to those who wish to attend without
presenting a paper (and as the conference is right before Mardi Gras
weekend I suspect that this may be applicable to many of you!)

The deadline for abstracts (no more than 500 words) is October 15,
2004 to
jessicaketcham_reimaginetexts@hotmail.com
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=jessicaketcham_reimaginetexts@hotmail.com>


Please address all inquiries to the conference chair, Jessica, at the
same email address.

The Conference Website is located at:
http://english.lsu.edu/dept/orgs/egsa/2005%20Conference
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"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful
twilight that enhances every object"-Camus

"This is the hour of the children and the mad" -Szpilman


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