The Association of English Graduate Students at the
University of Southern California invites proposals
on the theme of Contamination for its 16th annual
interdisciplinary conference to be held at the
University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
California, on February 28 -- March 1, 2003.
CONTAMINATION: Sites of Contagion, Transgression and
Transformation
The contamination of literatures, cultures,
borders, and genres may arouse anxiety over
uncontrolled mixtures and fear of undermined
authority. Yet it may also inspire pleasure in
transgressive acts, and the energy for cultural and
literary transformation. An inherently
destabilizing term, “contamination” derives from the
Latin word for improper touching and originally
refers to a desecration of the holy. Yet the term
is also suggestive of the transformative potential
located at the sites of intertextualities,
imbrications, queerings, and countless other
cultural mixtures, hybridities, and
cross-pollinations. These rich sites of
contamination are found throughout literary study,
and for this conference we encourage critical and
creative submissions from across periods and
disciplines.
Possible topics include but are not limited to the
following:
* Bodily Contaminations
* Border Crossings and Transgressions
* Miscegenation and Racial Mestizajes
* Class Corruptions
* Queerings and Hybrid Blendings
* Gender Crossings
* Formal/Textual/Structural Imbrications
* Colonial and Post-Colonial Invasions
* Desecrations and Desacralizations
* Creative Cross-Pollinations
* Generic Mixtures and Contaminations
* Theory in the Age of Eclecticism
* Mixing it up at the Movies: Books into Film and
other Translations
* Cross-Period and Cross-Disciplinary Contaminations
* Literal Disease and Metaphorical Infection
* Urban Pollution vs. Pastoral Purity: Environment
and Industry
* Theater and Contagion
* Women on Top/Topsy-Turvydom
* Purity and Danger: Anthropological Perspectives
* Hybridity
* Liminality
Please mail or email a one page abstract and/or
paper with a separate cover sheet including your
name, affiliation, address, phone number and email
address to:
contaminationusc@yahoo.com
OR
The Association of English Graduate Students
The Department of English
University of Southern California
Taper Hall of Humanities #420
Los Angeles, California 90089
Deadline for submission: December 10, 2002
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