[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Intersections, Marginality, and Parallels in Cultural Production (grad) (1/22/07; 3/9/07-3/10/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CFP: Intersections, Margins, and Parallels in Cultural Production
(Grad; 01/22/07; 03/9-10/07)

We are pleased to invite proposals for an interdisciplinary graduate
student conference organized by the Department of English at the
University of Victoria to be held March 9-10, 2007. This year's keynote
speaker will be Marshall Grossman of the University of Maryland.

The theme for the 2007 conference is "Playing the Angles: Intersections,
Margins, and Parallels in Cultural Production." How do ideas interact in
different fields of cultural production? Whatever our disciplinary or
theoretical approach to cultural production, we often encounter points
of intersection between two or more ideas, discover ideas on the margins
of the field, and/or see ideas that run parallel to one another.

At this conference, we intend to pick up threads of inquiry from both
among and within the disciplines and see where they lead us. Where do
those threads cross and what happens when they meet? What voices are on
the margins of the conversation? How do parallel topics mirror each
other and what is the effect of this relationship?

We welcome papers from a variety of disciplines that identify points
of intersection, explore issues of marginality, and/or draw parallels in
areas related to cultural production. Papers should be approximately 20
minutes long, including a 5-minute question period.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

* Relations between science/technology and literature
* Psychoanalysis and literature
* Relations between visual and print communication
* Issues of gender and sexuality in cultural production
* Interdisciplinary studies in the academy
* Intersecting, competing, and parallel ideas in critical theory
* Relations between ideology and form
* Relations between readers and texts
* Relations between past texts and present contexts
* Relations between religion and the arts
* The interaction of violence and cultural production

Proposals of 200-400 words, plus a 50 word abstract to be included in
the conference program, may be sent to David Cecchetto at
davidcec_at_uvic.ca by January 22, 2007. Please include your
name, address, telephone number, email address, and institutional
affiliations. Only email submissions will be accepted.

For more information, please see http://web.uvic.ca/~englgrad.



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