**PLEASE NOTE**
We have extended the deadline for submissions to Jan. 5th, 2001. Also
note the now available information regarding Dr. Tuzyline Allan, Keynote
Speaker.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dr. Tuzyline Allan, Associate Professor of English, CUNY Baruch College.
"Not Saying Amen to the Sermon: Aesthetics, Silence, and Writers on the
Margin"
Professor Allan is the author of _Womanist and Feminist Aesthetics: A
Comparative Review_, which won the 1995 NEMLA Book Award, and is a
Co-Editor of _Literature Around the Globe_.
*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
State University of New York at Stony Brook
13th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
February 16-17, 2001
Stony Brook's 13th annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference
seeks papers and panels from all disciplines and perspectives on the topic
of:
SECRETS AND CONFESSIONS
SECRET [1] kept hidden from knowledge or view; concealed. [2] dependably
discreet. [3] operating in a hidden or confidential manner. [4] not
frequented; secluded. [5] known or shared only by the initiated. [6]
beyond ordinary understanding; mysterious.
CONFESSION [1] the act or process of confessing. [2] something
confessed, a disclosure. [3] a statement acknowledging guilt. [4] an
avowal of belief in a particular faith; a creed.
Paper/panel topics may include, but are in no way limited to:
* the politics and aesthetics of secrets, the secrets of politics and
aesthetics
* the dirty little secret
* secret codes, coded secrets, blackmail
* secret identities, secret lives
* the paradoxical "open secret"
* infiltration, subversion, false pretenses, secret agendas
* "the truth is out there": conspiracy, covert operations, etc.
* secret agents, espionage, treason
* "there's something I've been meaning to tell you": the politics and
aesthetics of confession, the
confession of aesthetics and politics
* confessions of a _____ (justified sinner, bad girl, closet anarchist,
etc.)
* the tell-all, the (auto)biography, the secret history
(autobiography/confession as/in art form)
* sign here: extracting a confession, interrogation, getting at the
hidden truth
* all theoretical perspectives and periods welcome
Submissions for abstracts and/or panel proposals must be postmarked by
December 01, 2000. Submit 3 copies of a 1-2 page abstract; presentations
should be no more than 20 minutes. Include audio-visual requirements and
a cover page with your name, proposal title, and university
affiliation. Screening of submissions will be blind; do no place your
name on the abstract.
Queries and submissions to:
Gretchen Woertendyke-Rohde - <
HYPERLINK "mailto:gwoerten@ic.sunysb.edu"
gwoerten@ic.sunysb.edu
>
Department of English
Humanities 245
SUNY - Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5350
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