[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Identities: Individual, Cultural, National (grad) (11/6/06; 3/31/07)

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CFP: Identities: Individual, Cultural, National, ...

Graduate Student Conference: 31 March 2007
University of Rhode Island


What does identity mean in the contemporary moment? How do issues such  
as class, race, gender, ethnicity, religion, nationalism, and culture  
inform our concepts of identity? In 1950, Erik Erikson asserted,  
"[the] sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self  
as something that has continuity and sameness." Today, however,  
identities have been shaped and shattered by fissures, multiplicities,  
discontinuity and difference. Post-modernist theories of subject  
formation and questions of autonomy and social construction influence  
the ways in which we experience our identities as individuals and as  
active members of disparate academic and social communities.

The English Department Graduate Student Conference Committee at the  
University of Rhode Island invites submissions for presentations and  
panels pertaining to issues relating to the concept of identity. We  
anticipate a wide range of presentations from a variety of  
disciplines. Possible topics and areas of interest include, but are  
not restricted to:

* Literary Studies:  World, American, English, European, African, Asian,
Antipodean, Indigenous, Children's ...
* Writing:  Rhetoric, Composition, Creative Writing, Journalism
* Drama, Film, Media Studies
* Art and Art History
* Historical Studies
* Anthropology
* Imperialism, (Post)Colonialism, Nationalism
* Globalization
* Women's Studies
* Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Sexuality
* Race/Ethnicity/Multi-cultural Studies
* Culture and Class
* Education, the Teaching Profession, and Pedagogy
* Language and Dialect
* Critical Theory
* National/Regional Sports, Cuisine, Music, Dance ...

Please propose individual papers or panels, and indicate whether you  
are willing to moderate a panel.  Panels of 3-4 presentations are  
especially welcome. Panels will be one hour and fifteen minutes long.

To propose a paper, please submit a cover page with your name; institutional
affiliation; contact information (mailing address, phone number, and  
email), a 250-word abstract of the paper; a roughly 100-word bio for  
publication in the
conference program; and a detailed request for audiovisual equipment if
needed. Presentations will be limited to 15" (papers should be 6-8 pages in
length).

To propose a panel, please submit a cover page including the title of  
the panel and the names of presenters; a panel abstract of 150-250  
words; a separate page with the names of presenters, their contact  
information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and  
institutional affiliation(s), and the titles of their presentations;  
and a 250-word abstract for each paper. No names of presenters should  
appear on any of the abstracts.

The conference committee prefers the submission of materials in the body of
an e-mail or as an attachment in Word, text, or PDF documents, sent to
mlkrall46 at mail.uri.edu. If e-mail submission is impossible, you may submit
materials via USPS to Claire Reynolds, English Department, 60 Upper College
Road, Kingston, RI 02881, USA. We are happy to answer any questions regarding
the conference.  Please contact Claire Reynolds (creynolds at mail.uri.edu) or
Meredith Krall (mlkrall46 at mail.uri.edu).

Deadline for receipt of submissions is 5:00 p.m., Monday, 6 November, 2006.

Notification of acceptance will be by e-mail on or about Thursday, 30  
November.



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