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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:21:14 -0800 (PST)
From: SHARON BETH OSTER <sharono-AT-ucla.edu>
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Southland Conference, LA, CA, 3/1; 4/17 (fwd)


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Colleagues,

Graduate students in literary, cultural, ethnic studies and related fields
are invited to share their work in progress at the UCLA Southland Graduate
Student Conference conference, now is its ninth year.

Topics of special interest:
The Spirit and cultural / national consciousness.
Religious movements and political formation.
Transnationalism, as resistance or reiteration.
Aztlan.   Diaspora.  Zion.
Ethical issues surrounding globalism and universal morality.
Formations of national ideologies in early modern literature.
The internet, electronic communities and "electronic expatriates."
Millennialism.
Intersectional subjectivities and "passing."
Pan-nationalism.

Please send a one page abstract together with a separate letter which
includes your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number and
academic affliation to the address below.  Your name must not appear on the
abstract itself.  E-mail submissions are welcome.

Submissions must be received by Monday, March 2.

Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by a committee of UCLA graduate
students.  Some papers will be selected for publication in the 1999 issue
of SUITCASE.

Send abstracts, or direct questions to:
Southland Conference
c/o Colette Brown
UCLA Department of English
2225 Rolfe Hall
Box 951530
Los Angeles, CA  90095-1530
brown-AT-humnet.ucla.edu
(310) 825-4173 (messages only)

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Sharon B. Oster
UCLA Department of English
sharono-AT-ucla.edu




   

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