The 1st Annual ESU Undergraduate and Graduate Student
Cultural and Literary Studies Conference
"On the Margins of it All" Saturday, April 24th, 2004 On the Emporia State University Campus Emporia, Kansas
Keynote Speakers: T.V. Reed, Professor of English and Chair of American Studies,
Washington State University Noel Sturgeon, Professor and Chair of Women's Studies, Washington State
University
You can now find a tentative schedule
for the conference at
http://www.geocities.com/cult_litstudiesconference/schedule.html
Suggested panels include: "Cleaning Out the Closet:
Theoretically Emancipating Human Sexuality" Suggested Areas Include: Registration fee for Students: $10 by April 1, or $15 at the door Registration fee for independent
scholars: $20 by April 1, or $25 at the door Fee includes dinner. There will be two awards available for the best undergraduate and best graduate paper
submitted to the conference. Proceedings will be published on CD ROM, as well on the internet. An extra $5 will be charged for a copy of the proceedings. Send a 200 word abstract, short bio, the paper (if submitting for the award) and check or money order to: Jack Hutchens 1200 Commercial English Department Emporia SU Emporia, KS 66801 Or send as an email to
[email protected] , with "Cult/Lit Conference" in
the subject line. The abstract must include all the contact information for the author and
a short biography. All abstracts are due by April 1 Make check or money order payable to ESU/Department of English
Promoted by the ESU Greens and Club Dialectic, ESU's Philosophy Club.
For information on hotels and B&Bs go to www.emporiakschamber.org/lodging.html
Go to www.emporiakschamber.org/map.html for a map of Emporia.
The ESU campus can be found in the D8 block.
Check back here for updates and schedule.
"Orientalism: Said's Legacy"
"Attack of the Killer
Rhizome: Cultural Lines of Flight"
"Asian American Women Writers: Nameless Organic Intellectuals of the Margins"
"Hiking Through the Desert of the Real: Postmodernism
and the Representation of Nature"
"Killing Tradition and Individual Talent:Postmodern Poetics"
"Creative Writing: Poetry, Short-Short, & Creative Nonfiction"
"Gangsters and Cultural Studies: Understanding Popular Culture
through Quentin Tarantino"
"Articulating Global Identities in Popular Culture: Sports, Music and Film"
Structuralism and Poststructuralism; Poetics; Queer Theory and Body Theory;
Marxism; Feminism; Popular Culture; Whiteness Studies;
Disability Studies; Masculinity Studies; Minority Studies; Subcultures; Postcolonialism;
Anti-Theory.
If you wish to submit your paper for the award you must send the paper by April 10