This is a re-formatted version of our previous
Call for Papers. Our apologies to those of you
who could not read our first posting. Thanks for
your interest and patience.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The University of Cincinnati
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Presents
The 1999 Graduate Student Conference
Intersections:
Multi-Ethnic Literatures @ Century's End
Saturday, October, 23, 1999
Cincinnati, Ohio
The purpose of the 1999 Graduate Student
Conference is to examine intersections: the ways
that aesthetics, disciplines, themes, and
theories are merging within the field of Multi-
Ethnic literary and film study. This one-day
exchange of literary scholarship anticipates how
boundaries are-- and will continue to be--
crossed, erased, and modified in the next
century.
POSSIBLE TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
THEMES AND CROSS-ROADS:
** Border-crossings and Intersections in
literatures, films
** Turn-of-the-Century and Millennial themes in
Multi-Ethnic literatures, films
** Migration and Immigration
** Passing: How do ethnic writers and/or
characters "pass" in culture, society?
** Queering passages, sexual transgressions
** Orature, Drama, and Literature
** "Slam" poetry, Hip Hop, and emerging forms
INTERDISCIPLINARITY, PEDAGOGY, AND THE ACADEMY:
** Where, in literature and/or film, does "race"
intersect with class, with sexuality, with other
social codes?
** Division or Hybridity? How is hybridity
changing Multi-Ethnic Studies? What
distinctions remain?
** Canon formation: Where do we stand in the
year 1999?
** Who is "allowed" to teach Multi-Ethnic
literatures and/or films?
** Walls in Academia: How have Multi-Ethnic
movements affected disciplinary borders?
** Whiteness Studies
** The Multi-Ethnic Literature classroom in the
New Millennium
THEORY , AESTHETICS, COMMODIFICATION:
** Applying Western theories to Multi-Ethnic
texts (Psychoanalytic, Deconstruction, etc.)
** Multi-Ethnic theories and Western texts
** How do we evaluate Multi-Ethnic literatures
and films?
** Questions of genre and classification:
Autobiographical "fact" or fiction? Where does
memoir fit?
** Jazz, Blues, and Rap Aesthetics in literature
and film
** The Black Aesthetic
** Literary/film production, marketing, and the
commodification of "ethnicity"
EMERGING TRENDS:
** Technology + Multi-Ethnicity: Spiderwoman's
Web(sites)?
** Hypertext and Multi-Ethnic Literatures
** Pop Culture
** Film Studies
** CREATIVE SUBMISSIONS WELCOME**
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Creative and scholarly submissions must include
a separate listing of name, paper title,
institution, departmental affiliation, mailing
address, e-mail address, and phone number.
Please submit TWO COPIES of your work.
Send copies of one-page abstracts or completed
papers by July 23, 1999 to:
Intersections Conference
University of Cincinnati
Department of English and Comparative Literature
P.O. Box 210069
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0069
Notification of acceptance will be sent by
September 1, 1999.
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Please direct e-mail submissions and questions
to:
Rebecca Meacham
meachara@ucenglish.mcm.uc.edu
AND:
Wendy Rountree
rountrw@ucenglish.mcm.uc.edu
Or visit our website (under construction)for
updates on keynote speakers, maps,
accommodations, and other news:
http://ucaswww.mcm.uc.edu/english/gradconference
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