[Discussion] "Space(s)"

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"Space(s)"

College English Association
36th Annual Conference
31 March - April, 2005
Indianapolis, Indiana

We invite papers or panels on literature, languages, film, composition,
pedagogy, creative writing, business/technical writing, and book history
responding to the conference theme of Space(s).

Proposals may interpret the conference theme broadly, including--but not
limited to--the following "space(s)":

. Academic spaces: the library, the classroom
. Colonial spaces: the colony, the post-colony, the plantation, the
slave ship
. Contested spaces: the battlefield, the war zone, the refugee camp
. Cultural spaces: the theater, the stage, the gallery, the concert
hall, the
screening-room
. Cyberspace: the Web, hypertext, the cyborg
. Disciplinary spaces: cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary,
inter-disciplinary
. Diseased spaces: the hospital, the asylum
. Domestic spaces: the bedroom, the hearth, the kitchen
. Economic spaces: the shop, the mall, the exchange, the supermarket, the
workplace, the cubicle
. Environmental spaces: the moor, the sea, the national park
. Gendered spaces
. Inner and outer spaces
. Liminal spaces: the margin, the border, the frontier, diaspora
. Mythic spaces: the dreamscape, shamanistic spaces, fairyland
. National spaces: the voting booth, the protest, the congress
. Negative space
. Political spaces: the media, the land, the state, the nation
. Private spaces: the boudoir, the bedroom, the study
. Psychic spaces: the memory, the dream-world
. Public spaces: the monument, the gallows, the assembly room, the club,
the
garden
. Recreational spaces: the game field, the ballpark
. Ritual spaces: the church, the cathedral, the cemetery, the monastery,
the
convent, the confessional, the pilgrimage site, the stone-circle
. Rural spaces: the countryside, the mountain, the wilderness
. Space and community
. Space and ideology
. Space and identity
. Space and subjectivity
. Space and surveillance: the prison
. Space and the body
. Technological spaces: the laboratory, the computer desktop, the webpage
. Temporal spaces: childhood, college, old age
. Textual spaces: the page, the column, the margin, the binding, the print
shop
. Traumatic spaces: the emergency room, the operating table, the witness-
stand, the cell
. Urban spaces: the street, the park, the restaurant
. Virtual spaces: the video game, the Web, the web-page
. Writing spaces: the desk, the study, the page

Submit proposals, including an abstract of no more than 500 words, by
email,
fax or post by 1 November, 2004. If you email a proposal, please paste
it into
the body of the email message, rather than attaching a separate file.

Proposals should include the following information:
. Name
. Institutional affiliation (if applicable)
. Mailing address (including zip code)
. Phone number
. Email address
. Title for the proposed presentation.

If you are proposing a panel, the panel organizer should include the above
information for all proposed participants.

Address all conference correspondence to the Program Chair:
Ann R. Hawkins
CEA 2005 Program Chair
Department of English
Texas Tech University
Lubbock TX 79409

Phone: 806 742-2500, ext. 296
Fax: 806 742-0989
Email: ann.hawkins@ttu.edu
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