CFP: English: The Condition of the Subject. An International Conference
to be held in London (7/17-19/03; ESC [English Subject Centre])
Description
'English: The Condition of the Subject' . An International three-day
Conference to be held at Senate House, Univ of London
July 17-19 2003
Plenary Speakers: Jonathan Bate, Catherine Belsey, Ronald Carter, Ato
Quayson, Elaine Showalter.
Papers are invited on the following questions, topics or related themes. In
addition, there will be Seminar Strands (comprising three seminars of six
papers) co-ordinated by individual (or joint) Chairs to allow sustained
discussion on particular themes.
* What is the condition of English now, and how are its subjects
(the curriculum, the students, lecturers and scholarship) constituted?
* How have the mechanisms governing our professional lives in the
modern university, and the culture of professionalism itself, affected the
subject?
* What is the English 'class' and how are we changing it or
reinforcing it?
* Is English a subject without centre or margins? Where is the
'literary' to be located or reinvented?
* Interdisciplinary work, subject boundaries, context
* Global English
* Future of academic publishing
* Language and literature
* Theory: for and against
* Teaching creative writing
* The value and point of English
If you wish to propose a paper or a seminar strand, please send an abstract
(no more than 200 words for a paper and 350 words for a seminar strand) to
the Subject Centre by 31st January 2003. All proposals should be addressed
to the Director, Professor Philip Martin p.martin@rhul.ac.uk
<mailto:p.martin@rhul.ac.uk>
Enquiries: English Subject Centre Tel: +44 (0)1784 443221
Carol Eckersley (Mrs), Administrator,
English Subject Centre
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
Tel: 01784 443221 Fax: 01784 470684
e-mail: c.eckersley@rhul.ac.uk <mailto:c.eckersley@rhul.ac.uk>
<http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/> http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/
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