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> Call for Papers
>
> THE BUSINESS OF CULTURE/ THE CULTURES OF BUSINESS
> April 23-24, 1999
> San Jose State University
>
We are pleased to announce that the keynote address will
be given by
Christopher Newfield
Associate Professor of English, UCSB
Author of The Emerson Effect and a forthcoming study of business
cultures.
> An interdisplinary conference on reading business cultures.
The English Graduate Group at San Jose State University invites graduate
> students of all disciplines to submit papers on all aspects of
> business
> culture. All approaches are welcome. Possible topics may include but
> are not limited to:
>
>
> * Representation of business in literary and filmic texts
> * Diversity management
> * Intra-gender communication in corporate culture
> * The transmission of shared values
> * Semiotics of dress
> * Form and communication in the digitalized text
> * Technology and aesthetics
> * Medical presence in corporate culture
> * Boundaries within technical writing
> * Professionalism and its discontents
> * History and Management
> * Pornography, the Internet, and the Business of Sex
> * Rhetorics of motivational discourse
> * Human Resources and humanism
> * Spatial management and virtual space
> * Design values, technology, and the material conscious
> * Representations of bureaucracy
> * Spectacles and display
> * Temp culture
> * Counter culture and the web in the private sector
> * Corporate identities
> * Globalization and Post-coloniality
> * Ethics
> * The relationship and influence between business and the
> humanities
>
Participants who arrive early on the 4/22 may also attend a lecture
given by
playwright Arthur Miller, sponsored by SJSU's Center for Literary Arts.
Submissions from graduate students and scholars in all disciplines are
> welcome. Individual presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Please
> submit one-page abstracts to Bill Orchard at orchar_b@cob.sjsu.edu.
Deadline: March 15, 1999.
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