[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Changing the Subject: What is Called Theory (grad) (3/1/06; 4/22/06-4/23/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: EGSO Albany <egsoalbany@yahoo.com>

Call for Panels and Papers: Deadline 3/1/06

The English Graduate Student Organization (EGSO) of the
University at Albany, SUNY announces its annual graduate student conference
Saturday April 22 and Sunday April 23, 2006:

Changing the Subject: Poesis, Praxis, and Theoria in the Humanities

Robert Scholes is the Keynote Speaker, presenting a paper titled
"Changing the Subject: Periodical Studies"

Call for Papers and Panels: What Is Called Theory?

Martin Heidegger's swansong as a professor at the University of Freiburg was
published under the title, WHAT IS CALLED THINKING? This was Heidegger's 
attempt
to elucidate and illustrate the very act of thinking, starting from the 
premise
that "what is most thought-provoking is that we are still not thinking."
He questioned the most basic presupposition of Western ontology--i.e.: 
that we
are beings who may be defined by our thinking--in order to explore 
questions not
only of thinking but also of identity. We would like to propose a 
similar tactic
in terms of critical theory. Are we thinking critically about criticism? Or
can we say that what is most worthy of criticism is that we are not thinking
critically? What does theory mean to us today? Who are we as critical 
thinkers
or theorists?  What is called theory?

Questions to be considered include:

--Can/should theory be taught?

--Who do we think we are, as theorists?

--What is the role of theory in literary studies?

--Is the teaching of theory a distraction from or supplement to the 
teaching of
literature?

--What is the future of theory, or does it have any, given the recent
discussion of post-theory?


Please submit a 250-400 word proposal for papers and/panels by March 1, 
2006 to
Jon Coller and Steve Weber at egsoalbany@yahoo.com.

For more information visit: 
http://www.albany.edu/english/grad_conference_06/






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