FYI...Stefanie ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- The Western Literature Association and the Canadian Association for American Studies Joint Annual Meeting Banff Center for Conferences, Banff Alberta Oct. 14-18, 1998 Call for Papers Crossing the West(s): Inventing Frontiers Papers on the Canadian and American West Twenty years ago, Banff hosted the unique conference, "Crossing Frontiers," which brought together Canadian and U.S. scholars. Since that time, much has changed in Western Studies, including a sustained challenge to the term "frontier" itself. We welcome papers, panels and other submissions which encourage new voices, new approaches and multidisciplinary work on The West. We are particularly interested in discussions that complicate the ways we think about The West as cultural production, historically and acutally, and across national boundaries. The Western Literature Association and the Canadian Association for American Studies invite proposals that considers a wide range of theoretical, material, social and cultural issues in the ongoing "invention" of the The West. Papers might address Aboriginal issues; economics and settlement; comparative politics; spirituality and The West; the Asian West; film forms; North/South "Wests;" Mexico as "West;" politics of "The West": radical right/radical left; gendering The West/sexing The West; Western environments; music, visual arts (contemporary/traditional); the West and the museum; fashions (furs and spurs, hats and chaps). Particularly, the ways and methods by which Western writers have dealt in such matters are of espeical interest. Proposals for panesl are welcome and should include a brief abstract of each paper. Individual proposals (for papers or presentations) should be no more than a page in length. Western Literature Association deadline: June 15, 1998 For more details contact: Robert Thacker, president-elect WLA Canadian Studies Program, St. Lawrence University Canton, New York 13617 Phone: 9315) 229-5970 Fax (315) 229-5802 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************ 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 ************************************
