[Discussion] UPDATE: Reading Readers/Reading Cultures (3/15/05; Craft Critique Culture, 4/8/05-4/10/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Call For Papers
5th Annual CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE Conference
Reading Readers/Reading Cultures
April 8-10, 2005
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on
the intersections between critical and creative approaches to writing
both within and outside the academy. This year=92s conference will examin=
e
the ways in which culture, in any of its aspects=97products, works, forms=
,
behaviors, institutions, etc.=97is produced, distributed, manipulated,
interpreted, and consumed. The conference encourages inquiry from a
range of disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences. We
invite the submission of critical, theoretical and original creative
work in a variety of media (including film, video, music, writing,
visual art, artists=92 books, etc.). This year=92s conference highlights
will include a keynote presentation by Duke University=92s Frances Fox
Professor of Literature, Janice Radway and the University of Iowa=92s
English Professor, Garrett Stewart.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
=95	Communities of readers
=95	Cultures as texts (and critiques thereof)
=95	Popular culture and reader revisions/rewriting (slash, fanfic, 	=09
	etc.)
=95	Reader response and reader practices
=95	Influence of the marketplace: censorship, editing, advertising,
	etc.
=95	Adaptation, transformation, & distortion
=95	Translation and cultural reproduction
=95	Text and image
=95	Cultures of collecting
=95	Authorship and publishing
=95	Fakes and frauds
=95	Libraries and museums: cultural capital, public access, politics
	of space, preservation
=95	Digital cultures, digital texts
=95	Space, place, and geography

Please submit all paper abstracts or panel proposals to Dory Weiss at
308 English-Philosophy Building, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
52242 or by email at dorothy-weiss@uiowa.edu.  Submission deadline is
March 15, 2005. Visit the website at http://www.uiowa.edu/~c3conf for
more information and scheduling updates.



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