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CULTURAL VIOLENCE
An International, Interdisciplinary Conference
7-8 March, 1997
The George Washington University, Washington DC
Keynote Speaker: ELIZABETH GROSZ, Monash University, Australia
Plenary Speaker: Kerric Harvey, National Center for
Communications Study, The George Washington University
World Wide Web Site http://www.gwu.edu/~violence
SPONSORS: The George Washington University Programs in the Human
Sciences, American Studies and Women's Studies, Departments of English,
Anthropology and Sociology, the English Graduate Student Assocation, the
Human Sciences Student Association, the George Mason University Program
in Cultural Studies, and the Washington Consortium of Universities.
Abstracts due: November 15, 1996
Notification by: December 1, 1996
Finished papers by: January 31, 1997
|The CULTURAL VIOLENCE conference will assemble members from many
different academic disciplines to explore the ways in which "culture" can
act as a violent force both to construct and to marginalize difference
and to constrain individual expression. The conference organizers
feel that it is important to address not just the obvious displays of
violence with which we are confronted on a daily basis, but also the
unspoken ways in "culture" undergirds those conflicts and fosters
violence among individuals and groups. Through the conference, it is
hoped that dialogue will be established concerning the ways in which
culture structures lived daily existence and imposes limitations on
subject positions and that this dialogue can serve as the basis upon
which to found strategies of liberatory resistance.
CALL FOR PAPERS
|Students and faculty members of programs in all divisions of the
Humanities and Social Sciences are invited to submit abstracts for
consideration for presentation at CULTURAL VIOLENCE. Both broad and
specific interpretations of the conference theme are welcome, as are
innovative and interdisciplinary forms of presentation and
collaboration. Suggested topics include:
|--cultural imperialism||--the violence of disciplinarity
|--"ethnic cleansing"||--objectifying gazes
|--cybercensorship||--queer bashing
|--"exploding the canon"||--media violence
|--representing otherness|--between race and religion
|--bodies in/of pain||--panoptics
|To facilitate the blind review process, *SIX* copies of 200 word
abstracts should be submitted, along with a *separate* listing of name,
paper title, institutional and departmental affiliation, preferred
mailing address, phone, and e-mail address by NOVEMBER 15,1996 to:
||Jeffrey A. Weinstock
||Program in the Human Sciences
||The George Washington University
||Washington, DC 20052
You will be advised of the status of your proposal by December 1, 1996.
In order to accommodate the respondent format of the conference, papers
selected for presentation at the conference must be submitted by JANUARY
31, 1997. *Presentations must be no longer than 20 minutes.*
|Selected papers will be published in *COLLEGE LITERATURE,* a
refereed triannual journal of scholarly and cultural criticism edited by
Kostas Myrsiades and dedicated to the needs of college/university
teachers. *COLLEGE LITERATURE* emphasizes innovative ways of studying
and teaching literatures old and new, as well as expanding and redefining
approaches to textual analysis and criticism on all world literatures, in
addition to interdisciplinary and comparative studies. Special issues
topics have included theory in the classroom, non-Western poetics, Queer
theory, teaching Postcolonial and Commonwealth literatures, the politics
of literature, race and politics, Third World women's inscriptions, law
and literature, and the forthcoming special issue on CULTURAL VIOLENCE.
A special one-time subscription rate will be available for conference
registrants.
RESPONDENTS
|CULTURAL VIOLENCE panels will feature a respondent format and graduate
student respondents are sought from Washington Consortium of
Universities institutions and beyond. Respondents will receive the
papers for the assigned panel approximately one month in advance of the
conference and will compose brief 5-10 minute responses addressing the
composition of the panel and the intersections of the included papers.
Responses should make connections between papers and serve as catalysts
for further discussion. While individuals presenting papers at the event
may not also serve as respondents, persons submitting abstracts may wish
to express their desire to be considered for respondent positions in the
event that their papers cannot be accommodated. Interested persons should
contact Jeffrey A. Weinstock, Program in the Human Sciences, The George
Washington University, Washington, DC 20052; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MODERATORS
|Faculty moderators are sought from Washington Consortium of
Universities member institutions. Moderators will introduce panelists
and direct discussion of the papers. The registration fee will be waived
for moderators and moderators will receive a free copy of the *COLLEGE
LITERATURE* edition of the proceedings. Interested persons should
contact Jeffrey A. Weinstock, Program in the Human Sciences, The George
Washington University, Washington, DC 20052; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|For more information, please contact Jeffrey A. Weinstock at the
e-mail and program addresses listed above.
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Linda Lopez McAlister, Editor, HYPATIA; Listowner SWIP-L; Chair
Dept. of Women's Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa.
Tel. 813-974-0982/FAX [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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