Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:03 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christina Hauck <hauckc-AT-ksu.edu>
Subject: Cultural Studies Symposium


Dear Colleagues,

May I call your attention to the following CFP? The Cultural Studies
Symposium of K-State is a wonderful, small, intense, and intellectually
(and socially) stimulating conference. Also, the topic of this year's
conference should appeal in particular to those of you working in family
systems theory. Please consider submitting.

Christina Hauck

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UPDATE: CALL FOR PAPERS; NEW Deadline NOV. 10, 2000
FAMILY, KINSHIP & CULTURAL STUDIES: 10th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium, 
Kansas State University, March 8-10, 2001.

Plenary Speakers: Stephanie Coontz, author of _The Way We Never Were:
American Families and the Nostalgia Trap_ and _The Way We Really Are:
Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families_ and Carter Revard, poet
and author of _Ponca War Dances_ and _Family Values, Tribal Affairs_.

The Theme:  How do we understand the family as we enter a new century?  How 
have kinship and affiliation responded to social and political pressures over 
time?  This topic is designed to elicit conversations about the past, present 
and future of the family, its boundaries and its possibilities.

Proposals should be limited to one page, single-spaced abstracts, which should 
be sent to: Jill R. Deans, Department of English, Denison Hall, Kansas State 
University, Manhattan, KS  66506.  FAX: 785-532-2192.  Email: jrdeans-AT-ksu.edu 
(See our website: http://www.ksu.edu/english/culturalstudies)

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:  Representations of the 
nuclear or extended family, family law, heteronormativity and the family, 
gender roles, gay and lesbian kinship, gay marriage and adoption, adoptive and 
biological kinship, law and love, reproductive technologies, science and the 
family, childlessness, custody & parental "rights," grandparents, family 
violence, family pets, children’s rights, "blended" families, "wicked" 
step-parents and teen rebellion, gay and lesbian teens, cross-cultural 
families, exile, inter-country adoption, child abandonment, orphans, family 
photos, family reunions, "black sheep," religion, economics of family, family 
in the media & cultural texts, family rituals & holidays, family in history 
and politics, family in the new millenium, "family values,"  il/legitimacy & 
"bastardy," the rhetoric of family

The Conference:  Kansas State University Program in Cultural Studies invites 
paper or panel proposals for its annual symposium, the longest continuing 
cultural studies conference in the nation.  All disciplinary perspectives, 
historical topics and periods, and subjects artistic and nonartistic, are 
welcome.  We encourage interdisciplinary work and innovative formats.