The 4th Annual CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE conference will be held April 2-4,
2004.
CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the
intersections between critical and creative approaches to writing both within
and outside the academy. This year’s conference will have a special focus on
textual interactions—the relationship(s) among all aspects of a text’s
creation and consumption. The book is a center of a network of authors,
suppliers, producers, distributors, and readers. It exists in a context of
social, economic, historical, and cultural factors that inevitably influence
its production, distribution, and reception. By looking at the various
interactions between these factors, this conference will seek to include a
variety of issues, including materiality, experimental textual forms, border-
crossing, intermedia, hybridity, and the avant-garde. We encourage the
submission of literary criticism, border studies, theoretical and cultural
studies approaches, and original creative work in a variety of media
(including film, video, music, writing, visual art, artists books, etc.).
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
The creation, diffusion, or reception of the written or printed word in any
historical period.
Interactions between author and audience, form and content
Orality and literacy in a computer age
The fate of the book
Migration from text to image, from print to digital, and from bricks-and-
mortar to virtual
Literary migrations into other disciplines
The relationship between print culture and urban life (periodicals,
newspapers, advertisements, flyers, books, broadsheets, zines, calendars,
posters, maps, etc.)
Reading and literacy
Theories of the material production of texts
Information/media studies
The culture industry
Translation and translation theory
Sociologies of the text and communities of readers
The cultures of collecting
Popular culture and reader revisions/transformation/rewriting (slash, fanfic)
Imperial, colonial, and postcolonial histories of the book—the role of
imperial structures of book production, distribution, and reception
Please submit papers, abstracts, or panel proposals by February 15, 2004 to:
Jeffrey Butler, English Department, 308 English Philosophy Building,
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1492.
or by email to jeffrey-butler@uiowa.edu. Electronic submissions are strongly
encouraged.
website: www.uiowa.edu/~c3conf
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