[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Decadence, Deviance, and Debauchery (grad) (3/26/07; 4/28/07)

[Gonul Pultar]

Decadence, Deviance, and Debauchery: A Celebration of Difference
Annual Graduate Students in English Association Conference
University of North Texas, Department of English
Saturday, April 28, 2007

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The Graduate Students in English Association at the University of North 
Texas is seeking papers and panel topics for our interdisciplinary 
conference that present a variety of interpretations and criticisms 
examining cultural deviations, be they literary, linguistic, historical, 
or philosophical. We are also accepting creative pieces dealing with the 
conference topic. Paper presentations should take approximately twenty 
minutes, including question and answer.

Our keynote speaker will be Brian Christopher Williams, award-winning
playwright and author of Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins.

First-time presenters are encouraged to submit their work.

Topics could possibly include (but are not limited to) the following:
?    Excessive consumption: culinary, cultural, sexual, and material
?    Atheism and/or religious upheavals
?    The transgressive nature of the creative act
?    The interpretive act as creative
?    Homosexuality and Queer Theory
?    Cultural diversification
?    Changing models of masculinity
?    Narrative Transvestism
?    Transforming social discontent and deviance into art
?    Challenging government
?    Radical forms of artistic expression
?    The revisionary nature of history
?    Paradigm shifts
?    The changing nature of visual culture

Please submit paper abstracts and panel proposals via email attachment
by Monday, March 26, 2007 to the following email address:
unt.gsea at gmail.com.

Paper abstracts should be 250-500 words in length. Panel proposals 
should consist of a panel topic and three paper abstracts. Panel 
proposals, which include the moderator's own abstract, will be considered.

Please include along with your proposal your email address, telephone 
number, and institutional affiliation.

Contributors will be notified by email no later than Monday, April 2, 2007

Contributors interested in being considered for the $150 Best Paper 
Prize must submit their final, conference-ready draft to the above email 
address by Saturday, April 21, 2007.

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