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CFP: Forging Frontiers: Imagination, Technology & Culture
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: November 1, 2000
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Arizona State University Graduate Scholars of English
Association (GSEA) and the Department of English are pleased to sponsor the
ninth annual Southwest Graduate Literature Symposium, March 2-4 2001, at
Arizona State University in Tempe.
The conference entitled "Forging Frontiers: Imagination, Technology &
Culture" invites you to explore the ways in which different contexts,
including but not limited to imagination, technology, and culture, create or
engage frontiers. This conference is open to papers on any aspect of
literature, film, theater, creative writing, or language studies and
pedagogies. We would like to especially encourage panel submissions.
Because the theme of the conference is inclusive and interdisciplinary, the
following list of questions is one way to begin thinking about how the theme
may apply to your own work. The questions are meant to motivate, but not
limit, your thinking.
- What is a frontier?
- In what ways has literature, creative writing, rhetoric, linguistics,
education, and/or media studies been re-formed, re-mapped, or re-imagined by a
new frontier?
- Who claims, controls, polices, inhabits or settles the current
geographic/cultural/bio-tech frontiers? How?
- In some ways the frontier signifies the unexplored, the potential for new
perspective. How, then, are issues of gender, culture, ethnicity, language,
sexuality, or other categories of identity being challenged as new frontiers
are explored?
- How has living on the edge of the technological frontier
reshaped/reconfigured classroom spaces/pedagogical approaches?
- How has the frontier been transformed by history, cultures, philosophies, or
genres?
- How does literature and/or creative writing reflect imaginative, creative,
interactive, virtual, or otherworldly frontiers?
- Is the frontier still a space of imperialism? Exclusion? Colonialism?
All proposals related to Renaissance Studies will be eligible for the John
Doebler Memorial Award, presented at the general session on the evening of
March 2nd. Presenters who wish to have their papers considered for the
Doebler Award should submit full-length, conference-ready papers (not
abstracts) in accordance with the submission specifications outlined below.
HOW TO SUBMIT: Please submit a one-page blind proposal, in triplicate, by
post, email or fax (listed below) by November 1, 2000. Your proposal should
be accompanied by a cover sheet clearly indicating your name, address, phone
number, email address, institution, and title of proposal.
Please direct all proposals or correspondence to:
2001 Southwest Graduate Literature Symposium
Department of English, Arizona State University
Box 870302
Tempe AZ 85287-0302
Fax: (602) 965-3451
Web Address: http://www.asu.edu/studentprgms/orgs/gsea/sw/sw.html
email: SWSYMPOSIUM@asu.edu
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