CFP: Space(s) (11/1/04; CEA, 3/31/05-4/3/05)

"Space(s)"

College English Association
36th Annual Conference
31 March - April, 2005
Indianapolis, Indiana

We invite papers or panels on literature, languages, film, composition,
pedagogy, creative writing, business/technical writing, and book history
responding to the conference theme of Space(s).

Proposals may interpret the conference theme broadly, including—but not
limited to—the following “space(s)”:

• Academic spaces: the library, the classroom
• Colonial spaces: the colony, the post-colony, the plantation, the slave ship
• Contested spaces: the battlefield, the war zone, the refugee camp
• Cultural spaces: the theater, the stage, the gallery, the concert hall, the
screening-room
• Cyberspace: the Web, hypertext, the cyborg
• Disciplinary spaces: cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary
• Diseased spaces: the hospital, the asylum
• Domestic spaces: the bedroom, the hearth, the kitchen
• Economic spaces: the shop, the mall, the exchange, the supermarket, the
workplace, the cubicle
• Environmental spaces: the moor, the sea, the national park
• Gendered spaces
• Inner and outer spaces
• Liminal spaces: the margin, the border, the frontier, diaspora
• Mythic spaces: the dreamscape, shamanistic spaces, fairyland
• National spaces: the voting booth, the protest, the congress
• Negative space
• Political spaces: the media, the land, the state, the nation
• Private spaces: the boudoir, the bedroom, the study
• Psychic spaces: the memory, the dream-world
• Public spaces: the monument, the gallows, the assembly room, the club, the
garden
• Recreational spaces: the game field, the ballpark
• Ritual spaces: the church, the cathedral, the cemetery, the monastery, the
convent, the confessional, the pilgrimage site, the stone-circle
• Rural spaces: the countryside, the mountain, the wilderness
• Space and community
• Space and ideology
• Space and identity
• Space and subjectivity
• Space and surveillance: the prison
• Space and the body
• Technological spaces: the laboratory, the computer desktop, the webpage
• Temporal spaces: childhood, college, old age
• Textual spaces: the page, the column, the margin, the binding, the print
shop
• Traumatic spaces: the emergency room, the operating table, the witness-
stand, the cell
• Urban spaces: the street, the park, the restaurant
• Virtual spaces: the video game, the Web, the web-page
• Writing spaces: the desk, the study, the page

Submit proposals, including an abstract of no more than 500 words, by email,
fax or post by 1 November, 2004. If you email a proposal, please paste it into
the body of the email message, rather than attaching a separate file.

Proposals should include the following information:
• Name
• Institutional affiliation (if applicable)
• Mailing address (including zip code)
• Phone number
• Email address
• Title for the proposed presentation.

If you are proposing a panel, the panel organizer should include the above
information for all proposed participants.

Address all conference correspondence to the Program Chair:
Ann R. Hawkins
CEA 2005 Program Chair
Department of English
Texas Tech University
Lubbock TX 79409

Phone: 806 742-2500, ext. 296
Fax: 806 742-0989
Email: ann.hawkins_at_ttu.edu

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