[Bilimsel Haber] Trans-- : Negotiations and Resistance (grad)

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CFP: Trans-- : Negotiations and Resistance (grad) (1/20/06; 4/7/06-4/8/06)

Trans-- : Negotiations and Resistance
19th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
Association of English Graduate Students
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
April 7 - 8, 2006

Keynote speakers:

Juana Maria Rodriguez and Pireeni Sundaralingam, with Colm O'Riain

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Trans- is a prefix circulating with increasing frequency, not only in 
the titles
and subject matter of our intellectual and creative work, but also in 
the terms
we use to define academic and creative selves.

This conference poses trans- as a question to be explored from a 
multiplicity of
positions, politics, and performances, utilizing multiple mediums, 
methods, and
genres. Participants may be inclined to invoke the prefix and terms 
directly, or
prefer to perform trans- work without directly referencing the prefix. Both
proposals, and a combination / revision of the two, are welcome.

We encourage critical and / or creative work that translates, transforms,
transgresses, or works at answering some of the aforementioned questions. We
seek proposals that will contribute to a truly transdisciplinary conference,
including projects that attempt to transcend creative and critical 
boundaries.

***Deadline for Submission: January 27th, 2006***

Potential papers should run 15-20 minutes. Please e-mail an electronic 
one-page
abstract (250-words, double-spaced), including your name, affiliation, 
address,
phone number, and e-mail address to:

uscaegs@gmail.com

Decisions will be made no later than mid-February 2006.

*** Juana M. Rodriguez received her B.A. in Liberal studies from San 
Francisco
State University, San Francisco in 1988, M.A. in English and Comparative
Literature, Columbia University, New York in 1991, and her Ph.D. in Ethnic
Studies from University of California, Berkeley in 1998. She currently 
teaches
in the Women and Gender Studies Program at UC Davis, and is the author 
is Queer
Latinidad.

Pireeni Sundaralingam was recently named as one of America's "Emerging 
Writers"
by the literary journal Ploughshares. She has won several awards and 
grants for
her poetry, including the prestigious Rosenthal fellowship from PEN USA. 
She is
editor of Writing the Lines of Our Hands, the first anthology of 
American South
Asian poetry. Her work will be featured in the documentary film "Veil of
Silence" and in The International Museum of Women in 2006. The poems in her
forthcoming first collection (Margin Lands) move from fragmented personal
memories of censorship and genocide in Sri Lanka to universal images of
immigration and repatriation in the West. In her spare time, Pireeni is a
cognitive scientist. Colm O'Riain, from the poetry and music performance 
group
Word & Violin, will join Pireeni on several collaborative pieces.

Mary Ann Davis & Jennifer Ansley, conference co-chairs
Email: uscaegs@gmail.com

Visit the website at 
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/english/aegs/conference/CFP/