Please note new Deadline for submissions!
The English Department and the English Graduate Student Organization of the
University at Albany, SUNY are pleased to announce the third annual graduate
student conference:
Conflict and (Ir)resolution: Negotiating Disciplinary Spaces
April 6, 2002
Keynote Speaker: Thomas Keenan, Director of The Human Rights Project,
Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Bard College
This year's conference addresses dissensus, competing perspectives, outright
warfare, and uneasy cease-fires, both within and among the humanistic
disciplines, and as objects of disciplinary study. Graduate students often
find themselves in the crossfire of academic conflicts, whether
institutional, theoretical, methodological, pedagogical or aesthetic; we
invite our colleagues to report from the front lines. We are looking for
work that addresses conflicts in disciplinary spaces, speculates on the
prospects of resolution, and investigates the indeterminate states that
often result from these conflicts.
We encourage submissions from all disciplines. Possible topics include:
*Post-colonial and postmodernist challenges to disciplinary boundaries
*Human rights and trauma studies as recent expansions of the humanistic
critical purview
*The status of historical, nationally-based and period-based approaches to
literature.
*Globalization and its effects on the traditions and ethos of the academy
*Inter- and intradisciplinary conflicts: Area studies versus traditional
disciplines
*Academic critique and current political events
*Violence as a principle of aesthetics
*Scenes of conflict in literature
*Writing as critique
*Critical Pedagogies: Negotiating conflict/resolution in the classroom
*Graduate- and teaching-assistant organizing and unionization; trends in the
job market; the recent MLA survey of grad satisfaction; the politics of
publication.
Submit 250-word abstract and CV by: MARCH 20, 2002. E-mail submissions
strongly encouraged. Please send files as attachments in .rtf or .doc
format.
For more information, please visit our web page at
http://www.albany.edu/english
Contact:
graduate_conference@hotmail.com.
Conflict and (Ir)resolution
English Department
Humanities 334
University at Albany
1400 Washington Ave
Albany NY 12222
(518)442-4042
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