[Discussion] UPDATE: Merging Word and Image: Hybridity and Reimagining (new) Literacy Through Media (grad) (10/15/04; 2/3/05-2/4/05)

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*UPDATE*

The New Conference Website (with individual paper/panel/creative
submission information) is located at
http://english.lsu.edu/dept/orgs/egsa/BillConferencePage.html

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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.

  Although we invite abstracts which interpret the
  conference theme more broadly, possible paper topics, panels, and/or
creative submissions might explore:

  -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


  -using films in the english classroom


  -photography: the visual text


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


  -painting words and reading art


  -Medieval women and literacy acquisition


  -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

  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 400 words) is October 15 to
  jessicaketcham_reimaginetexts@hotmail.com

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


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