****NEW: Extended Submissions Deadline! ***
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.
** We are pleased to announe that Professor Catherine Gallagher from Berkeley will be giving a keynote address at the conference.
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: January 1, 2003
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