[Discussion] UPDATE: What Style Knows (grad) (7/15/05; 10/14/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: "Ashley T. Shelden" <Ashley.Shelden@tufts.edu>

The Steering Committee for the Tufts University Graduate Conference,=20
"What Style
Knows," has decided to extend the deadline for abstract submissions to=20
*July 15,
2005.*  Please see below for a full description of the conference.

WHAT STYLE KNOWS
17th Annual Tufts University English Graduate Conference

Keynote address: Professor D.A. Miller, University of California, Berkele=
y
Friday, October 14, 2005

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
Style seduces. By asserting itself in literary criticism, philosophical
discourse, and political inquiry, style destabilizes the structures of=20
knowledge
production on which these disciplines rely. Uneasily mediating between=20
language
and meaning, the spectacle of style fascinates even as it constitutes=20
the very
material of the text itself. Always a textual performance, style also=20
*performs
us.* This conference, then, will flirt  with the subversive potential tha=
t
interrogations of style--cultural, racial, generic, sexual, gendered, and
historical--might produce. What can style tell us about the social?=20
Does style
differ from the aesthetic, or the formal? Might its very playfulness offe=
r
radical possibilities unafforded by the systematized discourse of=20
aesthetics?
Can style ever be coherent? Does style impose limits or boundaries? How=20
do we
know What Style Knows?

We encourage abstracts that explore and problematize the phrase &#65533;W=
hat
Style Knows&#65533; from a wide range of fields and disciplines.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

(Re)framing film
The rhetoricity of sexuality and/or gender
Queer style(s)
Fashion and fiction
"The Stylothete"
Sophistication and vulgarity
Rhetorics of resistance
Pleasure, power, and style
Racial, ethnic, and/or historical performativities
Pastiche, collage, and genre crossing
Ironizing identity
Authorial style
Imitation and citation
Per*form*ativity
Sprezzatura: the art of seeming artless
A politics of panache
The pass=E9

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
We are very pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be D.A.=20
Miller,
the John F. Hotchkis Professor of English at the University of California=
,
Berkeley. One of the most influential critics in literary and cultural=20
studies,
Professor Miller has contributed significantly to the fields of queer=20
theory,
nineteenth-century fiction, and film studies. His most recent book,_Jane=20
Austen,
or the Secret of Style_, inquires into not only Jane Austen's corpus but=20
also
the ways in which style crucially informs the construction of texts and
subjectivity. In addition to numerous articles, Professor Miller has=20
published a
number of books including _The Novel and the Police_, and _Place for Us:=20
Essay
on the Broadway Musical_.  At our conference, he will speak about his=20
current
work, "The Social Logic of Style: Federico Fellini's _8 =BD_."

CONTACT:
Please send a 1-2 page, double-spaced abstract by July 1, 2005 outlining=20
your
paper or presentation. Abstracts, including your name and email address,
should be sent to:
2005 Graduate Conference: "What Style Knows"
c/o Ashley Shelden
317 East Hall, Department of English
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
http://ase.tufts.edu/tego

Or, you may send your abstracts by email to:
Ashley Shelden (Ashley.Shelden@tufts.edu)or
Amy Woodbury (Amy.Woodbury@tufts.edu)

For further information please contact us at either of the email addresse=
s
above.

Sponsored by:
Tufts English Graduate Organization
Tufts University English Department
Tufts Graduate Student Council
Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Tufts University LGBT Center


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