CFP: The Voice of the Other: Reconstructing Our Cultural Discourse (11/30/04; 4/22/05-4/23/05)

The Fourth Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature hosted by
the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will be held April 22-23, 2005.

This year’s topic, “The Voice of the Other: Reconstruction Our Cultural
Discourse,” should be construed broadly applying to both text and its
cultural context. This exploration may take many shapes. Possible topics and
approaches may include: race, gender, class and identity, Cultural Studies,
Folklore, material culture and oral culture, Theoretical approaches,
Rhetoric, Linguistic, and Interdisciplinary approaches.

Presenters may submit papers for the Darrell Bourque Award. This generous
monetary award has been established to recognize excellence in scholarly
writing, and is open to all presenters at the conference. To be eligible for
the award, candidates must first be accepted for presentation, then the full-
length conference paper must be by the March 17, 2005 deadline for
consideration.

Please submit 300-500 word proposals for 15-20 minute presentations by
November 30, 2005. Please send your name, institutional affiliation,
physical address, e-mail address, phone number, and a brief biographical
note with all submissions.

Abstracts may be mailed to:

2005 Graduate Conference on Language and Literature
H.L. Griffin 221
Department of English
P.O. Box 44691
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
70504-4691

Abstracts may be e-mailed to:
gradconf2005_at_louisiana.edu

For additional information please contact the Graduate Conference on
Language and Literature at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette at (337)
482-6906 or contact the conference via e-mail at gradconf2005_at_louisiana.edu.

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