The deadline for abstracts and panel proposals for the Duquesne University
Graduate Conference, "Theory and Praxis: Intersections between the Academy
and Culture," has been extended to Sept. 10, 2002. Please see the CFP below
for additional information.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Duquesne University Graduate Organization is seeking papers for its
ninth annual interdisciplinary conference: Theory & Praxis: Intersections
between
the Academy and the Culture"
Keynote Speaker: Jane Tompkins, University of Illinois, Chicago. Author of
A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned (1997); West of Everything: The
Inner Life of Westerns (1993); Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of
American Fiction (1989).
Dates: October 25th and 26th, 2002
Location: Duquesne University Campus, Pittsburgh, PA
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Fifteen to twenty minute papers on any aspect of theory, praxis and the
historical or contemporary
function of the academy are welcome from graduate students or faculty from
the following disciplines and methods of study: Literature and Literary
Theory, Education, Theology, Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology, Communications,
Rhetoric, History, Political Science, Sociology, Architecture, and
Computer/Information Science. We are seeking papers that address how culture
in general affects and/or is affected by life and work in the academy in both
positive and problematic ways. Papers can deal directly with relations
between the academy and the world outside of it as well as employ
praxis-oriented theoretical methods. Submissions/Suggestions for panels are
welcome.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, interpretations
of the following:
Non-Traditional Instructional Methods
Community Activism and the Academy
Political Movements and the Academy
The Public Intellectual
Gender, Class and/or Racial Politics
Publication and Dissemination of Texts
The Politics of Canon Formation/ Canonical/Non-Canonical Authors
The Uses of Literary Criticism
Literary or Other Representations of the Academy
Religion, the State, and Those Outside
Literary versus Popular Culture
Literature(s) of Engagement
Representations of Protest
Ideology and the Subject
Campus Communities
Please e-mail 200-300 word abstracts, by Sept. 10, 2002, to
(DUQGSIC@aol.com); or
feel free to mail them to Department of English, C/O Megan Jewell and Kara
Mollis,
Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh PA, 15282. Please include
your e-mail and postal addresses as well as a phone # on your submissions.
*Note: If you had previously submitted an abstract via e-mail for our
earlier conference scheduled for March 2002, please resubmit your materials
to the above e-mail or surface address.
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