UPDATE: The deadline for submitting a proposal for the theme session has
been extended to 11/12/01.
UPDATE: Cheryl Glenn of Penn State will be the conference keynote speaker.
She is author of the recent Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from
Antiquity through the Renaissance, a look at figures such as Aspasia,
Diotima, Margery Kempe, and Julian of Norwich. Her current book-length
project is The Fifth Canon: Gender and Delivery.
GENERAL INFORMATION
The 7th Annual GES Conference will be held February 22-23, 2002 at Texas
Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The theme of this year's conference,
"Past and Future Perspectives: Negotiating our Changing Field," addresses
our changing field from the graduate scholar's perspective. The palindrome
of the year suggests examination of ways our past can help us deal with our
future regarding issues arising from new theories, cultural shifts, evolving
technologies, and recent discoveries.
CONFERENCE THEME SESSION
Year 2002: The Challenge of the Palindrome for a Changing Scholarly Field
Where English departments can no longer support broad coverage of large
areas like literature or linguistics, they are thinking in terms of narrow
but deep coverage. Specialization seems to provide an answer, so pools of
interest will form (more than before) which will limit student choices (the
downside) and provide more faculty for the specialty (the upside).
Thus the kinds of seismic changes that are being implemented (or are coming)
require graduate student response and test our mettle. Will we fight change
or will we respond productively by actively helping to shape change in ways
that we can effectively defend as desirable? For graduate students hoping to
enter the ranks of the academy as decision makers, ours is the challenge of
the palindrome: to look both forward and back so as to identify
theoretically grounded praxis that best serve our field.
This session will accept proposals that specifically address changes to the
traditional field of English and discuss scholarly responses to those
changes from any of many possible perspectives. The intention of this
session is to create a dialogue on the general topic through the ideas
introduced by the presenters. Presentations will be short (about 10-15
minutes) to allow time for discussion.
E-mail submissions are strongly encouraged; please put "GES Conference
Proposal" in the subject line for all electronic submissions. Participants
may present no more than two papers or be on no more than two panels.
Abstracts/Proposals (250 words) and inquiries should be addressed to:
Ida Rodgers (Ida.Rodgers@ttu.edu)
Texas Tech University
Department of English
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Proposals on other topics are welcome for specific areas of English. Please
visit the GES Conference Website at: <http://english.ttu.eud/GESConference>
for area-specific calls for papers and details.
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