[Discussion] CFP: Interdisciplinarity: Questioning the Boundaries in & around the Humanities (grad) (12/16/05; 3/17/06-3/18/06)

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From: Rebecca DaPra <daprareb@yahoo.com>

4th Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
Interdisciplinarity: Questioning the Boundaries in & around the Humanities
University of Utah, Salt Lake City ~ March 17-18, 2006


KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Rosemary Hennessy
Department of English
The University at Albany, SUNY

Attention Graduate Students!

The Humanities Graduate Conference Committee invites you to share your work at a
conference organized by graduate students for graduate students. This year's
theme presents a question to further expand the interdisciplinary conversation:
What are the facts, manners, and means of negotiating borders and identities in
the humanities?


Call for Abstracts

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Graduate students please submit an electronic abstract (250 words or less) of
your paper, presentation, collaborative work, or performance.  Please include
the abstract in the body of your email message (attachments will not be read),
and send it to: hgc@mail.hum.utah.edu

Submissions should contain presentation title, author&#65533;s name,
institutional and departmental affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, and
phone number. We must receive your abstract by December 15, 2005. Works in
progress, panel presentations, and creative works are welcome.


POSSIBLE PANEL TOPICS:

Aesthetics and/or Art History
Challenges of Interdisciplinarity
(Inter/Cross/Trans) Disciplinary Identity
The Place of the Private
Truth, Meaning, Knowledge
Educational Reform
Creation, Performance, Text
Pedagogy
Issues in Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
Culture, Language, Composition
(Inter-)Disciplinary Knowledge
Ethics and Activism
History's Interdisciplinary Future
Science, Mind, and Nature
Literature and "-isms"
Rethinking Theory and Method
Social Criticism and Culture Studies
Philosophical Movements
Public Memory and Social Space
Additional Topics Welcome


For more information, please contact:

Rebecca DaPra:  r.dapra@utah.edu
Kathleen Bingham: Kathleen.Bingham@utah.edu
Dr. Mark Bergstrom, faculty advisor: Mark.Bergstrom@hum.utah.edu

Visit out web site at:  www.hum.utah.edu/hgc/





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