CFP: Borderlands Literature (grad) (2/15/02; 4/5/02-4/6/02)

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Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 23:07:08 EST

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    “(Dis)junctions: The Center Does Not Hold” is the Ninth Annual Humanities
    Graduate Student Conference at the University of California, Riverside. It
    is a two day event, April 5-6, 2002, located on the Southern California
    campus in Riverside.

    We are currently accepting abstracts for papers focusing Borderlands
    literature and theory. Some possible topics include:
    where do borderlands end?
    How do various authors deal with the phenomena of borderlands and its
    implications for nationalisms?
    What are the implications of the events of September 11 for the borders of
    US jursdiction, nationalisms and national mythologies? Interdisciplinary
    approaches are encouraged, though not necessary.

    Individual abstracts and abstracts for pre-formed panels of three should be
    sent to disjunctions@hotmail.com by February 15, 2002. The submissions
    should be no longer than 250 words for individual submissions and 750 for
    panel submissions. Applications sent via snail mail must arrive no later
    than February 15, 2002 and should be sent to:
    Disjunctions, UCR’s Ninth Annual Humanities Conference
    Department of English
    UC Riverside
    Riverside, CA 92521-0323

    For more information about the conference, please visit
    www.geocities.com.disjunctions.

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