[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Identities: Individual, Cultural, National (grad) (11/15/06; 3/31/07)

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Update CFP: Identities: Individual, Cultural, National, ...
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
2007 Graduate Student Conference: 31 March 2007
URI Memorial Union, 8:00 am-5:45 pm
Deadline 15 November 2006

Keynote Speaker: Ann Harleman, Ph. D.
Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design.

Dr. Harleman, the author of the novel Bitter Lake and short story
collection Happiness, deals with the concept of identity in our changing
world. Her new short story collection, Thoreau's Laundry, appears in
February 2007. Her awards include Guggenheim and Rockefeller
Fellowships, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Berlin Prize in
Literature, the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, the O. Henry Award, and a
Rona Jaffe Writer's Award. Dr. Harleman is also the RI State Council on
the Arts Fiction Fellow.

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? 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
* Writing:  Rhetoric, Composition, Creative Writing, Journalism
* Art, Drama, and Film Studies
* Historical Studies
* Anthropology
* Imperialism, (Post)Colonialism, Nationalism
* Globalization
* Women's Studies, Gender Studies
* Race/Ethnicity/Multi-cultural Studies
* Culture and Class
* Education
* Language and Dialect
* 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 up to 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-minute (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.

The conference committee prefers the submission of materials in the body
of an e-mail or as a Microsoft Word attachment sent to Meredith Krall
(mlkrall46 at mail.uri.edu). If e-mail submission is impossible, you may
submit materials via USPS to Claire Reynolds, English Department,
Independence Hall, 60 Upper College Road, University of Rhode Island,
Kingston, RI 02881. We are happy to answer any questions regarding the
conference. Please contact Claire Reynolds (creynolds at mail.uri.edu) or
visit us at www.uri.edu/artsci/eng/.

Deadline for receipt of submissions is 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, 15 November
2006.

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

A registration fee for each individual selected to participate in the
conference covers all food service, including continental breakfast, a
buffet luncheon, and closing reception with cheese, assorted crackers,
and fruit. Payment received by 1 March is to be in the amount of $20.00.
  After 1 March, the fee will be $25.00.

Make checks payable to: 2007 Graduate Student Conference.

Send checks to: Claire Reynolds, English Department, Independence Hall,
60 Upper College Road, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA.


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