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"
"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"

Suggested Areas Include:
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.

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.
If you wish to submit your paper for the award you must send the paper by April 10
th.

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 Englishst.

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.

This page was last updated March 11, 2004.

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