UPDATE: Theory/ Anti-theory/ After Theory (grad) (12/20/05; 3/4/05)

City University of New York Graduate Center
English Student Association Conference
Conference Date: March 4, 2005.
New Deadline: December 20th, 2005.
Please send abstracts of 250 - 500 words to esaconference_at_yahoogroups.com.

C A L L F O R P A P E R S A N D P
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Owning It :
Theory/Anti-Theory/After Theory
Keynote speaker Jane Gallop

 "Owning It: Theory/ Anti-Theory/ After Theory" is an all day conference
organized and sponsored by the English Student Association at CUNY Graduate
Center. This conference seeks to bring together graduate students from
different methodological perspectives to reassess and reassert the scope,
style, and usability of the literary theoretical enterprise. "Owning it" is
a call to "own" ourselves as practitioners of theory, and to understand
theory not as an external, static edifice but rather as a shifting ground
constituted by our collective, everyday theoretical practices.

This conference invites papers that explore those practices; that examine
the role of graduate students as producers and consumers of theory; that
initiate dialogue between different orientations toward theory; that imagine
new directions for literary theory, and that ask what it means to practice
theory in what has been labeled a "post-theoretical" academic landscape. It
is also a chance to investigate the political ramifications of theoretical
work, including inviting speculations on the causes and consequences of the
ongoing backlash to theory. We encourage submissions that take strong
positions on these issues, as well as papers that comment on methodological
practice in a more reflective mode.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
  

Literary Theory and the Social Sciences
Politicization/ Depolitization and Theory
Theory and the Culture Wars
Future Theory / Emergent Theory
Hostility to Theory
Theory and Undergraduate Education
Paradigm Shifts in Theory
Theory and the Classroom
Theory and Popular Culture
Theory and Postmodernism
Theory and the Para-Literary
Class/Race/Gender/Sexuality and Theory
Theory and Advertising
Theory and Visual Culture
Feminism and Theory
Women as Producers of Theory
Theory and Justice
Relativism
The Uses of History in Literary Theory
Theory and Deconstruction
Forgotten Theories
Theory and Class Revolution
Theory and the Canon
Theory and Materiality
Theory and/of the Body
Theoretical Language / Jargon
The Aesthetics of Theory
Composition/ Rhetoric and Theory

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