SUNY Binghamton graduate students invite submissions for:
CROSSING THE BOUNDARIES IX
An Inter-Disciplinary Graduate Student Conference
March 30-April 1, 2001
SUNY Binghamton
Binghamton, New York
This year’s conference will focus on:
“Vagabond- Somewhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide”
The collective of the 9th annual Crossing The Boundaries Conference invites
members from various cultural spaces and different academic disciplines to
examine the issues of cultural groups/ individuals who travel for a myriad
reasons and motivations.
Some possible themes:
- Accounts of exploration and expedition
- Crusades
- Pilgrimages: secular and religious
- Tourists/tourism
- The refugee experience
- Nomads
- Collectors and collectibles
- The flâneur
- The Hobo
- Traveling salespeople
- Migrant workers
- Issues of immigration/emigration
- The “Grand Tour”
- Homelessness
- Rites of passage
We invite paper and panel proposals, and encourage creative, informal, and
interactive presentations (e.g. video, performance art, installations, etc.)
Completed panel proposals are encouraged and enthusiastically received.
This conference has been established and is run by graduate students.
Abstracts should be submitted along with a C.V., a separate listing of
name, paper title, institutional and department affiliation, preferred
mailing address, phone number, and email address. As well, include a
self-addressed stamped envelope for any materials you would like
returned to you (portfolios, discs, video tapes, etc.). Although January
15 is the submission deadline, earlier submissions are highly encouraged!
Submit one-page (250 words) abstracts or presentation proposals by
January 15, 2001 to:
Crossing the Boundaries IX
C/o Art History Department
SUNY Binghamton
Box 6000, Binghamton NY, 13902
Or e-mail your proposal to: bj93777@binghamton.edu
If you need more information, please feel free to contact:
Sara J. Yehl
Department of Art History
SUNY Binghamton
Binghamton, NY 13902
Email: bj93777@binghamton.edu
Or:
Sharon C. Smith
Department of Art History
SUNY Binghamton
Binghamton, NY 13902
Email: bf20558@binghamton.edu
Or:
Camille Goodison
Department of English
SUNY Binghamton
Binghamton, NY 13902
Email: cgoodison@hotmail.com
Sharon C. Smith
Department of Art History
SUNY Binghamton
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