CFP: Significations: CSU Graduate Student Conf. (grad) (4/4/03; 5/10/03)

The California State University, Los Angeles Graduate Student Association
is pleased to announce the 8th Annual CSU Graduate Student Conference,
Significations, to be held on Saturday, May 10th, 2003.

We are currently accepting paper submissions from CSU system students for
this year’s conference. We have extended the deadline for the paper
submissions to Friday, April 4th, 2003. The following is a list of
suggested topics, which is not meant to be exhaustive: cultural studies,
critical theory, gender studies, composition, rhetoric, and language,
visual/performing arts, and studies in British, American, and World
literature.

Paper Guidelines: 10-12 pages, double-spaced, 12-pt Times New Roman font,
MLA format. Submit 2 blind copies (or one via e-mail), with your name
appearing only on a cover sheet along with the apper title, street
address, e-mail, phone number, institutional affiliation (only CSU
students may submit papers), and a short summary of your interests.

Send Submissions to: Graduate Student Conference
                                 Department of English
                                 5151 State University Drive
                                 California State University, Los Angeles
                                 or csucallforpapers_at_yahoo.com

This year’s conference will be especially exciting as our Keynote Speaker
will be Distinguished Professor Wa Thiong’o Ngugi, the Director for the
International Writing Center at the University of California, Irvine.

Students and participants will have the opportunity to engage with their
peers as well as a literary figure, critic, playwright, film maker,
political activist, and recipient of countless artistic and academic
awards. This is indeed an opportunity not to be missed. To name a few,
Professor Ngugi was the recipient of The East African Novel prize (1963);
the Unesco First Prize for his novel, Weep Not Child (1964); the Lotus
Prize for Literature (1973); The Paul Robeson Award for Artistic
Excellence, Political Conscience and Integrity (1992); The Zola Neale
Hurston-Paul Robeson Award, for artistic and scholary achievement, awarded
by the National Council for Black Studies (1993); the Gwendolyn Brooks
Center Contributors Award for significant contribution to The Black
Literary Arts (1994); The Fonlon-Nichols Prize for Artistic Excellence and
Human Rights (1996); and The Distinguished Africanist Award (1996). He was
invited to give the 1996 Claredon Lectures in English at Oxford University
in May 1996; and on October 1992, he was honored by New York University
with an appointment to hold the Erich Maria Remarque Professorship in
Languages.

For questions or further details, please contact Niklas at the English
Department, Advisement Office, (323) 343-4140; or you may send all e-mail
inquiries to csucallforpapers_at_yahoo.com.

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Received on Sun Mar 23 2003 - 16:01:27 EST