[Discussion] CFP: The Secret Lives of the Conservatives (10/24/05; KSU CSC, 3/9/06-3/11/06)

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From: hedrick@ksu.edu


I invite papers for a panel to be held at the fifteenth annual Cultural Studies
Conference at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, March 9-11. Papers can
be on a wide variety of topics related to the conference theme of privacy and
secrecy and the public sphere.

Papers on specific instances are welcomed, and papers considering a variety of
issues and concerns:  tabloidization and the neutralization of the political;
the personal as political; hypocritical Puritanism; the defense by offense; vast
right wing conspiracies; "outing" as a political tactic; scandal amnesia; "spin"
and tactical framing; true evil beneath the compassionate, Christian front; why
nothing makes a difference; left tactics and despair; the politics of denial and
shame; business secrecy vs. personal secrecy; liberal vs. conservative secret
lives; sexual dysfunction in conservatives; Laura Bush's private life; scholarly
muckraking and shockjocking.

Send brief, 200 word abstracts by email, not attachment, to Don Hedrick, along
with a very brief bio, to Don Hedrick, Department of English, Kansas State
University, at hedrick@ksu.edu, by October 24. Inquiries welcome.

Don Hedrick



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