[Bilimsel Haber] Fwd: UPDATE: Reading Traditions, Appropriating Cultures (grad) (2/28/06 4/21/06-4/22/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Update: We have extended the abstract submission deadline to February 28th.

Reading Traditions, Appropriating Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Graduate
Conference in Rhetorical, Literary, and Cultural Studies

The University of Oklahoma

April 21-22, 2006

Keynote Speaker: Michael Moon, Johns Hopkins University

As scholars and as teachers, academics are necessarily engaged in 
negotiations
with a number of different cultures, communities, and traditions. From
contemporary critical attempts toreread the dominant traditions of Western
history, art, and philosophy to politically charged efforts at education 
reform,
questions regarding inherited methods, conventions, and paradigms are 
currently
of paramount and wide-ranging importance. Scholars in the humanities cannot
avoid asking these questions. If "history" is a narrative written by the
victors, in what ways do we reread and thereby rewrite our various 
histories?
How are dominant histories reinforced, challenged, subverted, or 
appropriated
for different, often contradictory aims? What does it mean to "read" such an
intertextual and heteroglot text as culture or tradition? How can 
teachers deal
with the multiple cultures and traditions represented or underrepresented or
misrepresented in their curricula and by their students?

More fundamentally, how do we reconfigure the concepts "culture" and 
"tradition"
that are both the means and the ends of these negotiations? How do these
concepts intersect with each other and influence each other, either as 
scholarly
topoi or in other discursive fields beyond the university?

The University of Oklahoma Student Association of Graduate English Studies
(SAGES) seeks proposals for papers and panels that address these and related
issues. As the title "Reading Cultures, Appropriating Traditions" 
suggests, this
conference aims to inaugurate and to encourage interdisciplinary 
dialogue that
interrogates ideas and cases of culture and tradition, as well as such 
related
concepts as identity, community, history, subjectivity, agency, and so 
forth.
Although this is a conference in rhetorical, literary, and cultural studies,
papers from such diverse fields as history, philosophy, communication, 
and the
social sciences, as well as interdisciplinary fields such as women's 
studies or
subaltern studies (to name but a few possibilities) are not only welcome but
actively encouraged. In addition, SAGES also welcomes proposals for entire
panels (of three to four papers).

Please send an abstract (approximately 250 words) describing the focus, 
scope,
and method(s) of your paper to ousagesconference@gmail.com. To propose a 
panel,
please include a description of the panel (approximately 150 words) 
along with
the individual abstracts.

(Note: panels will be externally chaired rather than be chaired by one 
of the
presenters.) Sessions will run 90 minutes, with one hour for papers (15-20
minutes each) and 30 minutes for discussion.

The deadline for proposals is January 28, 2006. Please send any 
questions to the
email address listed above.

Aaron Cerny and James Liner
Department of English
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019



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