FYI...Stefanie
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CALL FOR PAPERS
T E R R A I N S: L A N D S C A P E S / B O D Y S C A P E S
A Cultural Studies Conference
State University of New York, Stony Brook
March 5 - March 7, 1998
Keynote: ANNE McCLINTOCK (_Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation &
Postcolonial Perspectives_ and _Imperial Leather: Race, Gender & Sexuality
in the Colonial Contest_)
Guest speaker: J. PAUL HUNTER (_Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of 18th
Century Fiction_ and several other texts)
Roundtable Discussion: "Millennial Bodies, Millennial Terrains" hosted by
E. Ann Kaplan, Director of Stony Brook's Humanities Institute & author of
_Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gase_ and other
texts.
Stony Brook's 10th annual graduate student conference seeks papers that
explore various terrains and encourages participants to venture beyond the
confines of conventionality. Submissions may interpret the Terrains theme
and the Landscapes/Bodyscapes sub themes as widely or narrowly as desired.
For example, landscapes of literature, culture, nation, technology,
theory, pedagogy, and historical periods are welcome. Bodyscapes such as
sexuality, gender, and bodily representation are possible terrains as w
ell. Papers addressing the Terrains theme are welcome from all
theoretical perspectives, periods, genres, and disciplines like -- but not
limited to -- anthropology, art, culture (both popular and "elite"), film,
literature, media, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, sci-fi,
sociology, women's studies, and theater.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
* How do we map the terrain of Cultural Studies? What is its topography and
where is it leading us?
* Denaturalizing/Re-inscribing the body/land
* Interpenetrations of body- and landscapes
* Genetics and cloning
* Architectural landscapes
* Virtual bodies, virtual sex
* The geography of cyberspace
* Millennial Landscapes
* Unbound boundaries: borders of the real/imagined, virtual/actual
* Queer terrains and Queering terrains
* Postcolonial, postmodern, post-structural landscapes
* What's beyond the territory of post- theory?
* Paradigm Shifts: fissures in the intellectual landcape
* The body politic: the individual and the state
* Public vs. private geographies
* Civilizing/conquering, enslavement, (de-)marginalization of the body/land
* Beauty culture, Girl culture
* CREATIVE WRITING submissions will also be invited in a separate CFP
SUBMISSIONS MUST BE POST-MARKED OR E-MAILED BY OCTOBER 15TH, 1997. Submit
3 copies of a 1 - 2 page abstract for a 15 - 20 minute presentation.
Include audio-visual requests if necessary and a cover page with your
name, proposal title, and university af filiation. Screening of
submissions will be blind; do not place your name on abstract. ***E-mail
submissions should leave several spaces after text of proposal before
including cover page information.
Queries & submissions to: Melissa Chinchillo, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sarah Lincoln, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris Nagle, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or mail to: M. Chinchillo, S. Lincoln, C.Nagle
TERRAINS: Landscapes/Bodyscapes Conference
English Department
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4433
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker
Department of Resource Management
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 56
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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