[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: New Directions in Critical Theory (grad) (1/21/05; 4/7/05-4/9/05)

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From: Michael Parker <mparkeraz@earthlink.net>

New Directions in Critical Theory and the English Department at the
University of Arizona present:

Intersections: A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation for New Meaning
April 7-9, 2005

Update: Keynote Speakers

This year the New Directions in Critical Theory conference will host two
distinguished keynote speakers: Tania Modleski, the Florence R. Scott 
Professor
of English at the University of Southern California and Victor Villanueva
Professor of English at Washington State University. A leading scholar 
in the
fields of gender and popular culture, Professor Modleski is the author 
of Loving
with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women, The Women Who Knew too
Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory and Old Wives' Tales and Other Stories.
Professor Villanueva has contributed significantly to the study of the
interconnectedness between rhetoric, race and ideology. His Bootstraps: 
 From an
American Academic of Color won two national awards, and in 1999, he was 
named
Rhetorician of the Year by the Young Rhetoricians Conference.

The 2005 New Directions in Critical Theory Conference, an interdisciplinary
forum at the University of Arizona, will focus on the role that 
intersections
play in an increasingly complex and diversified world. We believe that
intersections represent especially promising sites for exploration 
because they
create new worlds and new meanings that challenge dichotomous thinking, 
allowing
researchers to wander productively through areas existing outside of
traditionally defined disciplines. They invite academics to become 
intellectuals
and participate in the world beyond the confines of the ivory tower. We 
imagine
that intersections offer flexible methodologies where theories inform 
practices,
and history complicates theory, where the concept of difference enables 
scholars
to discern the internal heterogeneity concealed by more monolithic
representations of identity, producing a filigreed image of subjectivities
simultaneously interpellated along racial, sexual, gendered and class! 
lines.
Researchers attuned to the role of intersections will note the way 
globalization
collides with nationalism, producing new forms of the imagined 
community. They
will see how high culture learns from popular and popular from high, and as
educators, they will interrogate the role that technology plays in their
pedagogy. Where do you see intersections at work and how can you formulate
intellectual practices that incorporate their lessons and that will be best
suited for understanding the world in which we live?

We invite graduate students from any discipline to present
theoretically-oriented scholarship that puts intersections to productive 
use,
scholarship that juxtaposes, problematizes challenges, blurs, and/or
deconstructs existing domains of knowledge in any area of cultural 
activity, and
in so doing, opens up new possibilities for understanding.

Presentation topics might include but are not limited to:

Theory and Practice
Theory and History
Theory and the Classroom
Theory and Activism
The Academy and Public Life
Activism and the Academy
Teaching in the Humanities
Technology and the Classroom
Technology and Reification
Technology and Nature
Literature and Ecocriticism
Community Intersections
Public and Private Realms
Marxism and Psychoanalysis
Representation and Power
Consumerism/ Media and Identity
Popular and High Culture
Film and Literature
Power and Sexuality
Performative and Substantial Identities
The Gendered/ Raced/ Classed/ Sexed and Differently-Abled Body
Sex and Economy
Women and Exchange
Feminism and Marxism
Feminist and Queer Theory
Heteronormativity/ Homosexuality and Transsexuality
Global and Local Politics
Globalization and Nationalism
Colonies and the Metropole
The Rhetoric of the Clash of Civilizations
Critical Race Theory
Hybridity, Identity and the Third Space
Nations and Language
Difference and Identity
Identity and Othering
Humanity and Monstrosity

We particularly welcome submissions attending to race, gender, class, 
ethnicity,
sexuality, material culture, media and film studies, feminist studies,
performativity, corporeality, and visuality. Please submit 100-250 word
individual abstracts or panel proposals, comprised of a 100-250 word 
abstract
for the entire panel and one 100-250 word abstract for each paper. Include
names, email addresses, institutional affiliations, technology
requests, paper titles with abstracts by January 21, 2005 to:

Michael Parker and Sami Sansevere
Conference Co-Chairs
Modern Languages Building, Room 445
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
(520) 621-1836
uanewdirections2005_at_yahoo.com




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