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Third Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, STANISLAUS 6-7 October 2000
"CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE HUMAN: THE FRONTIER"
The frontier in any realm has long attracted the adventurous and the
curious. Whether in the Arts, the Humanities, or the Sciences, the
exploration and taming of their respective frontiers usually transforms
the avant-garde into the traditional (and sometimes, back again). The
frontier can exist as an actual place and time, or as a way of
conceptualizing investigative study. It may appear as a metaphor or as a
Zeitgeist. And while the Frontier may seem to be a natural given, it can
be problematized. We welcome abstracts for individual papers or panels
which explore the frontier (however defined) in any discipline. Topics
might include, but need not be limited to:
-- Aesthetic/Intellectual Movements (any -ism or -ist in the Visual 2000
Arts, Music, Film, Drama, or Literature)
-- Border(lands)/Contact Zones/Centers/Peripheries
-- Big History
-- Post-Humanism
-- Artificial Intelligence/Computers/Cyborg Theory
-- Genetic Engineering and/or Medical Ethics
-- Urban Frontiers (Re-inventing the City)
-- Frontiers of Fashion (the Dandy, Image, Style, le bon ton)
-- Frontiers of Normality
-- Poetics of Space and/or Time
-- Millennium Studies (from Medieval Y1K to PostModern Y2K)
-- Gender at the Edge
-- Political Frontiers Revolutions, Restorations, and the Status Quo
-- Chaos Theory and Frontiers of Order
-- Racial Frontiers Ethnic and Border Studies
-- Philosophy/Postmodern Ethics
-- Economic Frontiers The New Economy
-- The Frontiers of Youth (Rebels, Slackers, Generation X, Hip-Hop, etc.)
Papers about films dealing with any of these subjects would be most
welcome.
Abstracts should be approximately 250 words for papers of 15 minutes
or 750-1000 words for panels of four 15 minute papers.
DEADLINES FOR SUBMISSION: Those who submit proposals by 1 May 2000
will be notified as to the status of their submission by 31 May 2000;
those sending proposals for our final deadline of 1 August 2000 will be
notified by 1 September 2000.
A $100-per-student prize (ie $400 in total) will be awarded to those
presenting on the panel judged ^Sbest at conference.^T Participants are
invited to submit articles developed from their papers to CSU/S^Rs faculty
peer-reviewed annual publication, the "Journal of Research.^T
Conference Location: CSU, Stanislaus, in Northern California, is
situated midway between San Francisco and Yosemite. A day trip to
Yosemite for participants is planned for Thursday, October 5th.
Send abstracts, questions, or inquiries to Nathan Bento or Susan
Clapper at frontier@athena.csustan.edu. Or you may write us at
Nathan Bento
Department of English
California State University, Stanislaus
801 W. Monte Vista Avenue
Turlock, CA 95382
Or
Susan Clapper
Department of History
California State University, Stanislaus
801 W. Monte Vista Avenue
Turlock, CA 95382
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