[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Changing the Subject: Poesis, Praxis, and Theoria in the Humanities (grad) (3/1/06; 4/22/06-4/23/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

   Call for Panels and Papers: NEW 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 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"

   Robert Scholes is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and
Emeritus Professor Emeritus of English, Comparative literature, and MCM
at Brown University. He served as the 2004 President of the MLA and is
currently Director of Modernist Journals Project. Without doubt, those
of us in English studies have encountered at least one text by Robert
Scholes. Many times The Rise and Fall of English is a text we confront
as we negotiate our place in the academy. However, in our preparation as
teachers, Textual Studies approaches issues about literary theory�s
place in the classroom, in terms of the theoretical and pragmatic. For
our course work as scholars, we see his engagement of critical theory
and critical practice in several books, such as Semiotics and
Interpretation and Structuralism in Literature. In addition, Modernist
scholars look to his work on the period via In Search of James Joyce and
will be looking forward to the publication of Paradoxy of Modernism in 2006.

   Changing the Subject: Poiesis, Praxis, and Theoria in the Humanities
   For more than two thousand years, Aristotle�s division of rational
human activity into Labor, Action, and Contemplation has served to guide
discussion about our work as writers, teachers, and scholars. The model
has also been invoked recently to help maintain divisions and identities
among the disciplines that make up the humanities. In the past century,
Aristotle�s model has been, like many cultural assumptions, held up to
increasing scrutiny. Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Paolo Virno
are only a few of the thinkers who have reconceived the boundaries among
these categories, while movements as diverse as psychoanalysis,
surrealism, and deconstruction have questioned the very foundation upon
which these categories stand. The separations among the disciplines have
undergone a similar challenge and reconfiguration. Writers such as
Robert Scholes, Stanley Fish, bell hooks, Paulo Friere, John Guillory,
and Bill Readings have examined the shifting ground of the humanities!
  , not
  only re-imagining the topic of our study but also our
reconceptualizing who we are as human subjects.

   Perhaps these changes should not surprise us; for does not the
impulse for the crossing of boundaries, for conversation rather than
compartmentalization, lie at the very heart of literature? That is, has
not literature always already had a tradition of crossing lines, and has
not this quality served as a definition for the literary? Have not those
boundaries, whether abstract, generic, or national, been at the subject
of works ranging from Aphra Behn�s Oroonoko to the more recent by poet
John Ashbery, and the novels of W.G. Sebald and J.M. Coetzee? And,
furthermore, has not literature and the teaching of literature always
had as its focus not merely the representation of our identity but very
literally our conceiving of it?

   What relevance, then, does the classical model have for us today? And
what, if anything, might replace it? Possible topics on this theme
include performance and criticism of boundary-crossing art, studies of
the effect of mass-production and global economies on the work of art,
discussions of the politics of teaching and the future of the
university, and questions about the role of theory in today��s
increasingly cross-disciplinary study.

   Panels and papers are sought for three general and flexible areas:
Pedagogy/writing instruction, Creative Writing, and
Literary/Critical/Philosophical. Please email a 300-500 word panel
proposal or abstract with a short biography to egsoalbany@yahoo.com.

   Conference website: http://www.albany.edu/english/grad_conference_06/





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