UCR’s Tenth Annual Humanities Conference
(dis)junctions 2003: ‘morphing the written word’
(2/14/03; 4/11/03-4/12/03)
Event Description & Speakers
(dis)junctions: ‘morphing the written word’ is the Tenth
Annual Humanities Graduate Student Conference at the
University of California, Riverside. It is a two-day event,
spanning Friday and Saturday, April 11-12, 2003, at the
Southern California campus of UC Riverside. For this year’s
conference, we have enlisted the help of two keynote
speakers: Amitava Kumar and Ivón Gordon Vailakis.
Kumar is an Associate Professor at Penn State and is a
Rockefeller recipient from the Center for Ideas and Society;
his writings have been as diverse as they have been
experimental; in the small space of a page, his critical work
and creative writing tend to blur to amazing degrees of
prowess, writing both fiction, poetry and literary criticism
in places such as The Nation, The Times of India, Harper’s
and The New Statesman. He recently published an
experimentive, multigenre work called Passport Photos
(University of California Press, 2000) that is part
biography, fiction, postcolonial theory and poetry. He has
just finished a book about Indian novelists writing in
English, entitled Bombay-London-New York (Routledge, 2002).
Kumar is also involved with film. He is the script-writer
and narrator of Pure Chutney, a documentary film detailing
the complex nature of Indian-Trinidad identities.
Like Kumar, Vailakis is intensely fascinated with the nature
of diaspora and the repercussions of history and cultural
fragmentation. A native of Ecuador, she is a Professor of
Latin American literature at the University of Redlands. She
has written three volumes of poetry, numerous studies of
women writers, and is finishing a book on Chilean poet
Gabriela Mistral. In 1999, she was awarded a Fulbright
scholarship to research the conversos of Jews in Ecuador;
both her studies and personal memoirs led to her most recent
collection of poetry, Manzanilla del insomnio (Editorial El
Conejo,2002), which was given the prestigious Jorge Carrera
Andrade award. Vailakis will give a bilingual poetry reading,
sharing with us the powerful possibilities for “morphing” the
written word. Marjorie Agosín of Wellesley University offers
a hint of what we can expect: “It's not easy to find in
poetry of the Spanish language an imagination as powerful and
valiant as that of Ivón Gordon Vailakis. To read it is to
feel the ashes, begin apprenticeships and dream with the
future that is memory.”
Submissions
(dis)junctions: ‘morphing the written word’ is intended to
foster critical awareness of a mélange of current academic
issues and trends from across the humanities. We are
currently accepting individual abstracts and abstracts for
pre-formed panels of three papers which demonstrate
innovative and original approaches to, and a critical
awareness of specific fields including, but certainly not
limited to:
Beowulf and Chaucer Studies
French New Wave
Hip Hop and Racial Protest
Anglo-Saxon Literature
Medievalisms
Renaissance Drama
Modern Drama
Gender and Religion
Dance and the American Musical
New Global Feminisms
19th-Century American Studies
Melville and Race
Mixed-Race Studies
Andy Warhol Goes Pop
Black Body Politics
Borderlands Literature
Food and Cultural Meaning
Sexual and Colonial Artifacts
California Studies
Surrealism and Da-da
Minorities in Photography
Native American Studies
Video Poetry
Dance, Performance, Film
Latin American Novel
Rock Nouveau: Beck, Radiohead, Wilco
Gothic Literature
British Romantic Women Writers
Victorian Poetry
21st Century Shakespeare
Jane Campion
Horror and Cult Films
Television and Media
Resistance in WWII
Low Modernisms
Cross-Cultural (post)Modernisms
Post-1945 Literatures
Coldwar Containment
Autobiography and Memory
Postcolonial Directions
Global Migration, Social Change and Cultural Transformation
Spaces and Places
Sound and Music in Literature
Mourning and Memory
American Studies
Slam Poetry and Performance
Queer Theory
Dressing, Cross-Dressing, and Un-Dressing in the Arts
Avant-Garde Cinema
Fantastical Children’s Literature
MTV and the Music Video
Science Fiction
The Comic Book vs. The Graphic Novel
New Media Studies
Because of this year’s speakers and the very nature of our
conference, we are seeking interdisciplinary approaches, and
we encourage both critical and creative submissions exploring
themes of diaspora, exodus and exile of the immigrant, and re-
conceptions through multiple critical discourses that frame
this year’s conference.
Individual abstracts and abstracts for pre-formed panels of
three presenters should be sent to: disjunctions@hotmail.com
by February 14, 2003. Please indicate your name and
conference panel in the email subject line. No attachments,
please. The submissions should be no longer than 250 words
for individual proposals and 750 for panel proposals.
Applications sent via snail mail must be postdated no later
than February 14, 2003 and should be sent to:
(dis)junctions: ‘morphing the written word’
Department of English
UC-Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521-0323
How to Get There
Riverside is located within an hour of Los Angeles and the
Orange County beaches, and within a few hours of San Diego,
Santa Barbara, and Las Vegas. Two international airports,
LAX and Ontario, are located within seventy minutes and
twenty minutes from the campus.
Contact Information
For updated information about the conference and local
information, please visit www.geocities.com/disjunctions or
contact Cara Cardinale cardic01@ucr.edu, or Matthew Snyder
withsecretnoise@yahoo.com, (dis)junctions conference co-
chairs.
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