CALL FOR PAPERS:
The American Studies program at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, is
seeking 1 page abstracts for its Second Annual Graduate Student Conference
scheduled for Friday, April 14 to Sunday, April 16, 2000.
The topic for the upcoming conference is: Memory, Autobiography and DNA.
By the inclusion of the perhaps unexpected third term, we hope to agitate
the less surprising alignment of memory and autobiography. Papers and/or
performances could engage in provocative explorations of the concept of
memory and any corresponding "texts"--oral, written or otherwise--that may
result. By the inclusion of "DNA" in our title we hope to invite
disciplines that may not traditionally participate in an American Studies
conference: We encourage "material," "biomedical" and "scientific"
inquiries into memory, and how these discourses affect our cultural
transactions with the term. Additionally, we would like participants to
consider how culture, class, race, gender, ethnicities and sexualities
inflect and deflect theorizations of memory and the productions of
memory's texts and practices.
Paticipants might consider the following topics, but are by no means
limited to them:
the evidence of memory; the science of memory; 'written on the body':
memory and the body; the sciences of testimony; cyber communities;
technologies of memory; re-memberings; collective memories; protoqueer
memories; dis-embodied subjects; memorializations-the Vietnam momument and
beyond; border crossings/border memories; memory and forgetting; trauma;
"American" anatomies: bodies, memory, culture; constituting "national"
memories; slave narratives; memories of food; dis-memberings ...
The due date for the 1 page abstract is January 15, 2000. Please send
e-mail submissions to: diaspora@raven.cc.ukans.edu -- paper submissions
to: Graduate Student Conference, American Studies Program, 2120 Wescoe,
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
Please note that a conference fee of $20 is required of participants: the
fee will include attendance to all conference panels and performances, the
keynote address and the reception following, a conference 'soiree',
program and T-shirt--an excellent package for twenty bucks if we do say so
ourselves!
We will have our conference web-site with relevant information about the
conference, travel to Lawrence, hotels/housing, parking, a message board
etc. active no later than February 2000: the web address will be included
in the acceptance notices in response to our CFP. We are currently in
negotiations with our keynote speaker, and the web-site will list the name
of the speaker and all other participants as well. Last year's
conference, with keynote speaker Michael Warner, was successful and
informative beyond our expectations, and we hope that you will make this,
our "Second Annual,' even better. We look forward to hearing from you.
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