Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:22:18 -0500
From: bd81085-AT-binghamton.edu (Leigh George)
Subject: upcoming conference at binghamton!!!



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>------- 5th ANNUAL COUNTER-DISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE-------
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>SUNY Binghamton graduate students invite submissions for:
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>CROSSING THE BOUNDARIES V
>A Counter-Disciplinary Graduate Student Conference
>April 4-5, 1997
>SUNY Binghamton
>Binghamton, New York
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>This year's conference will focus on:
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>"Translating/Transposing Cultures"
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>The collective of the 5th annual Crossing the Boundaries Conference
>invites members from various cultural spaces and different academic
>disciplines to examine the issues of cultural translation and/or
>transposition. We invite paper and panel proposals, as well as
>encourage creative, non-formal, and interactive presentations (e.g.
>video, performance art, installations, interactive multimedia,
>etc...). Completed panel proposals are encouraged and
>enthusiastically received. This conference has been established and
>is run by graduate students as a site of resistance.
>
>Some possible themes:
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>*issues of translation: being translated; representation outside of
>one's language and culture; what gets imposed?; how is one hailed?
>*pedagogy: teaching Postcolonial and Commonwealth literatures;
>teaching "other" cultures and classes
>*cyber-whatever: what gets "translated" through machine interface?
>*high culture/pop culture transpositions
>*multiculturalism and identity politics: unity, coalition forming,
>marginalization, and imposition of difference
>*queer work: what gets "translated" to/from feminist, gender, or
>postcolonial projects?
>*ideology and its pervasiveness
>*activism and academia: transposing community and academy
>*comparative histories (e.g. latin american, caribbean, asian, etc)
>*sex, disease, vilification, power
>*appropriation, imperialism, post-colonialisms
>*liminal frontiers: nomadism, hybridism and territorial mapping
>*the social constructions of pleasure, memory and the (un)conscious
>*working class identity, labour strikes and ritual protests
>*the built environment: urban planning translations/transpositions
>*the inter-merger of gender, science and technology
>*dressing for power, dressing for pleasure
>*"the new tribalism" and heroin chic
>*Website publishing: info technology, privatization and culture
>*morphing cultures
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>Submit one-page abstracts or presentation proposals by January 31,
>1997 to:
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>Crossing the Boundaries V
>c/o English Department
>SUNY Binghamton
>Box 6000, NY, 13902
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>Or e-mail your proposal to: br00577-AT-binghamton.edu
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>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.
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>Please include your mailing address, e-mail address, and phone
>number. As well, include a self-addressed stamped envelope for any
>materials you would like returned to you (portfolios, discs,
>slides, video tapes, etc.).
>
>If you need more information, please feel free to contact:
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>Michael Ma
>Department of Art History
>SUNY Binghamton
>Binghamton, NY, 13902
>email: br00577-AT-binghamton.edu
>phone: 607-797-9567
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>or
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>Jennifer Lutzenberger
>Department of English
>SUNY Binghamton
>Binghamton, NY, 13902
>email: be82767-AT-binghamton.edu
>phone: 607-722-9493
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