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WEST COAST LITERATURE THE THEME FOR CHI '97
John Muir, Robinson Jeffers, and other celebrated figures in the
literary heritage of California and the Pacific Northwest will be
discussed at the 50th annual California History Institute, held on
the campus of the University of the Pacific, April 18-20. This
three-day event features presentations by more than two dozen
participants from across the country. The multimedia format will
include lectures, exhibits, panel discussions, and a variety of
video presentations.
The program begins Friday afternoon, April 18, with a session on
"California Places: Mapping the Terrain." Following a reception
and banquet, a keynote panel of prominent California writers
concludes the first day's event with a roundtable discussion on
"Writing California." Saturday, April 19, starts with a breakfast
and program sponsored by the Jedediah S. Smith Society, followed by
morning sessions on "Natural California" and "California in the
Sixties," and afternoon sessions on "Representations of California
in Popular Culture," and "The Western in Cartoon and Cinema." The
Institute concludes Sunday, April 20, with sessions on "Pacific
Northwest Places" and "Social Utopias in the Far West."
According to program co-chairs, Professors Reinhart Lutz and
Heather Mayne of the UOP English Department, this conference will
focus on literary approaches which reflect the rich ethnic and
multicultural diversity of the people, living, dreaming, writing,
and reading in California and the Pacific Northwest. "Almost from
the beginning of its settlement by non-native peoples," said Lutz,
"California and the Pacific Northwest have inspired literary and
fictional responses to this unique part of America. With a wealth
of literary texts surviving, and no end in sight to the production
of contemporary fiction set in the "Golden State" of California, or
further North on America's Pacific Coast, this conference invites
scholarly responses to this wealth of literature."
With literary criticism having seen dramatic changes in the 1990s,
conference participants will discuss new approaches to classic
texts and authors long considered canonical, as well as papers
which focus on writers or issues that have shifted to the
foreground of contemporary critical awareness.
For more information contact Professor Lutz at the English
Department, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211, phone
(209) 946-2616; fax (209) 946-2318. A copy of the program and
registration form follows:
PROGRAM
CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST IN LITERATURE AND
FICTION
APRIL 18-20, 1997
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC,
STOCKTON
All sessions at Weber Hall unless otherwise
indicated
FRIDAY APRIL 18:
12:00-5:00 P.M. REGISTRATION AND EXHIBITS - Weber 107
1:00-3:30 SESSION 1: CALIFORNIA PLACES: MAPPING THE TERRAIN
> Moderator:
> Speakers: Adrielle Mitchel, Kresge College, UC Santa Cruz:
>From Granite and Hawks to Human Wishes:
California's Poetry of Place
David Fine, CSU Long Beach: The Emergence of Los
Angeles as a Literary Territory
4:00-5:30 SESSION 2: GENDERED SPACE: WOMEN IN WEST COAST
LITERATURE
> Moderator:
> Speakers: Arthur Ramirez, Sonoma State University: Recent
Califorina Chicana Literature
Lois Kerschen, Lamar University: Proverbs about
Women from California and the Pacific
Northwest
5:30-7:30 RECEPTION AND BANQUET - Regents' Dining Room
8:00-9:30 KEYNOTE PANEL: WRITING CALIFORNIA - Wendell
Phillips
Center
Room 140
> Panelists: Gerald Haslam, John Huston, Al Young, Jose
Montoya, Catie Webster
SATURDAY APRIL 19:
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. REGISTRATION AND EXHIBITS - Weber 107
7:00-9:00 JED SMITH SOCIETY BREAKFAST - Regents'
Dining
Room
> Presiding:
> Speaker:
9:15-10:45 SESSION 3: NATURAL CALIFORNIA: AN
ENDANGERED
SPACE?
> Moderator:
> Speakers: Francine K. Ramsey Richter, Sul Ross State
University: "Special" Ordinary Places:
the
Wilderness Preservation of John Muir
Malcolm Margolin, Heyday Books: Truth, Beauty and
Swagger: a Look at Joaquin Miller's
Life Among
the Modocs
10:45-11:00 BREAK
11:00-12:45 SESSION 4: CALIFORNIA IN THE
SIXTIES
> Moderator:
> Speakers: Joseph Mills, UC Davis: "Debauched by a Book":
Franklin, Brautigan, and the Pleasure
of the
Text
Pamela Waxman, Univ. of Michigan: [French
Intellectuals and California Hippies]
Donna L. Pasternak, Jersey City State College:
California as Vietnam War Landscape in
Robert
Stone's Dog Soldiers
12:45-2:15 LUNCH - Regents' Dining Room
> Presiding: Heather Mayne, University of the Pacific
2:30-4:00 SESSION 5: REPRESENTATIONS OF CALIFORNIA IN
POPULAR
CULTURE
> Moderator:
> Speakers: Heather Mayne, University of the Pacific: The
Wild,
Wild West: Images of California in
Contemporary
Rap Music
Reinhart Lutz, University of the Pacific: "On the
Road to Nowhere?" California's Car Culture
4:15-5:45 SESSION 6: THE WESTERN IN CARTOON AND CINEMA
> Moderator:
> Speakers: Bruce McKenna, National University: Yosemite Sam
Never Settles Down
Diane Borden, University of the Pacific:
Foreclosing
the Frontier: Cinematic Representation and the
American Mythos in the
Post-Western
6:00-7:00 RECEPTION AND EXHIBIT: STOCKTON: A HISTORICALLY
DIVERSE COMMUNITY - Holt-Atherton Library
7:00- ON YOUR OWN FOR DINNER
SUNDAY APRIL 20: UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC
9:00-12:00 noon REGISTRATION AND EXHIBITS - Weber 107
9:00-10:30 SESSION 7: PACIFIC NORTHWEST PLACES
> Moderator: Anne Jackets, Everett Community College
> Speakers: John Magee, Ohio Northern University: [Carver
Country: Raymond Carver on the
Columbia River]
John Childrey, Florida Atlantic University: The
Skagit Valley in Literature
10:30-10:45 BREAK
11:00-12:30 SESSION 8: DREAMING THE IMPOSSIBLE: SOCIAL
UTOPIAS IN THE FAR WEST
> Moderator:
> Speakers: Newell Bringhurst, College of the Sequoias: Kawea
Cooperative Commonwealth, 1886-1892:
Its Literary
and Ideological Basis
Connie Broughton, Washington State University:
Miners and Maidens: the Fiction of
Eugene Klein,
1884-1901
12:45-2:15 LUNCH - Regents' Dining Room
> Presiding: Reinhart Lutz, University of the Pacific
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LODGING AVAILABLE:
- IN STOCKTON: We are listing the following hotels/motels near the
campus and their rates (tax not included). Please make your own
direct arrangements. For all but Travelers Inn, the rate listed is
a special rate for Conference participants, provided you notify
them you are participating in a John Muir Center conference. The
Travelers Inn offers a 10% discount for senior citizens and AAA
members.
HOLIDAY INN OF STOCKTON $64.
111 E March Lane
(209) 474-3301
(800) 633-3737
STOCKTON HILTON $75.
2323 Grand Canal Blvd.
(209) 957-9090
(800) 444-9094
TRAVELERS INN $50. single
$57. double
2654 W. March Lane
(209) 478-4300
(800) 633-8300LA QUINTA INN $58.
2710 W. March Lane
(209) 952-7800
(800) 531-5900
MOTEL 8 $48. SINGLE, $54.
DOUBLE
2717 W. March Lane
(209) 477-5576
(800) 800-8000
MOTEL 6 $30.
6717 Plymouth Rd.
(209) 951-8120
(800) 466-8356
COLLEGE CREDIT AVAILABLE. One unit of extended education credit is
available to participants who attend all academic sessions of the
weekend conference and prepare a short paper. A copy of the
course description and registration packet will be mailed upon
request. Contact either the Office of Lifelong Learning on campus
(209-946-2424) or the John Muir Center (209-946-2527).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Contact Mrs. Pearl Piper at the John Muir Center for Regional
Studies, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211; voice phone
(209) 946-2527; fax (209) 946-2318; e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
CALIFORNIA HISTORY INSTITUTE, APRIL 18-20, 1997
California and the Pacific Northwest in Literature and
Fiction
REGISTRATION FORM
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FULL REGISTRATION $20. per person
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ONE-DAY REGISTRATION $10. per person
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FRIDAY BANQUET $20. per person
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SATURDAY BREAKFAST $10. per person
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(SPONSORED BY THE JEDEDIAH SMITH SOCIETY)
SATURDAY LUNCH $13. per person
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SATURDAY RECEPTION FREE
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SUNDAY LUNCH $13. per person
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Deadline for fully reimbursed cancellations: APRIL 5
NON-REFUNDABLE LATE REGISTRATION (AFTER APRIL 5, 1997)
$15. per person
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Make checks payable to: University of the Pacific CHI 97
Mail payment and registration form to: CHI 97, John Muir Center, Univ.
of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Ave.,
Stockton, CA 95211.
Ron Limbaugh, Director
John Muir Center for Regional Studies
University of the Pacific, Stockton CA 95211
Phone: 209-946-2527 Fax: 209-946-2318
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Stefanie S. Rixecker
Department of Resource Management
Lincoln University, Canterbury
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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