>>> Beyond the Covers: Words Inhabiting the World <<<
2002 Conference on Word and Act
Sponsored by the Department of English
in cooperation with the Armstrong Browning Library
and the American Studies Program
Baylor University
Waco, Texas
February 15-16, 2002
Keynote Address to be given by
Dr. Thomas S. Hibbs, Boston College
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Central to our pursuit of the humanities is the conviction that what we say
to and about others directly affects what we do to them. Recent
interdisciplinary work has highlighted a number of ways the stories we tell,
the games we play, and the very words we use both reflect and create the
world we experience as "given" to us in any of several senses.
"Beyond the Covers" is an interdisciplinary forum for conversation about the
ways in which we populate the "real" world with words in speech, writing,
reading, and teaching. Papers relating divergent fields through specific
texts are particularly desired, but relevant papers from any literary,
rhetorical, or pedagogical angle will be given full consideration. Papers
should generally focus on the relationships of words to acts, or ways in
which words are acts.
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>>> Sample Panel Topics <<<
(by no means comprehensive!)
Community Service Learning
Radio and Radical Politics
Protected Speech and the Institutionalization of Protest
Language as Sacrament
Advertising and Irony
Popular vs. "Literary" Literature
Textual Ethics
Intentionally Fallacious
Manifest Destiny
Technology and the Inter/Active Word
Creative Writing: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction
Narrative Theologies
Dramatic Acting and Social Action
The Embodied Word
The Anxiety of Error and the Appeal of Pragmatism
Autobiography as Self-Creation
Resurrecting the Author
Empowering Students for Ethical Writing
Classroom versus Dialectic
Charity and Suspicion: the Pendulum of Discernment
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Please send panel proposals or abstracts (50-100 words) of papers suitable
for 20-minute presentation. All proposals must be received by December 1,
2001. For further information, or to send an abstract, contact
Peter G. Epps
Box 97404
Department of English
Baylor University
Waco, TX 76798-7404
or email wordact2002@baylor.edu.
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Submitted by
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// Peter G. Epps
// Baylor University
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