Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 17:37:19 -0900 (PDT) From: Hannu Salmi <hansalmi@utu.fi> Subject: "Cultural Violence" CFP (fwd) To: h-verkko@sara.cc.utu.fi
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 15:15:56 -0700 From: Ken Nolley <knolley@willamette.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list H-FILM <H-FILM@H-NET.MSU.EDU> Subject: "Cultural Violence" CFP
From: Jeffrey A Weinstock <jaw@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
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CULTURAL VIOLENCE An International, Interdisciplinary Conference
7-8 March, 1997 The George Washington University, Washington DC
Keynote Speaker: ELIZABETH GROSZ, Monash University, Australia Plenary Speaker: Kerric Harvey, National Center for Communications Study, The George Washington University
World Wide Web Site http://www.gwu.edu/~violence
SPONSORS: The George Washington University Programs in the Human Sciences, American Studies and Women's Studies, Departments of English, Anthropology and Sociology, the English Graduate Student Assocation, the Human Sciences Student Association, the George Mason University Program in Cultural Studies, and the Washington Consortium of Universities.
Abstracts due: November 15, 1996 Notification by: December 1, 1996 Finished papers by: January 31, 1997
The CULTURAL VIOLENCE conference will assemble members from many different academic disciplines to explore the ways in which "culture" can act as a violent force both to construct and to marginalize difference and to constrain individual expression. The conference organizers feel that it is important to address not just the obvious displays of violence with which we are confronted on a daily basis, but also the unspoken ways in "culture" undergirds those conflicts and fosters violence among individuals and groups. Through the conference, it is hoped that dialogue will be established concerning the ways in which culture structures lived daily existence and imposes limitations on subject positions and that this dialogue can serve as the basis upon which to found strategies of liberatory resistance.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Students and faculty members of programs in all divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences are invited to submit abstracts for consideration for presentation at CULTURAL VIOLENCE. Both broad and specific interpretations of the conference theme are welcome, as are innovative and interdisciplinary forms of presentation and collaboration. Suggested topics include:
--cultural imperialism --the violence of disciplinarity --"ethnic cleansing" --objectifying gazes --cybercensorship --queer bashing --"exploding the canon" --media violence --representing otherness --between race and religion --bodies in/of pain --panoptics
To facilitate the blind review process, *SIX* copies of 200 word 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 by NOVEMBER 15,1996 to:
Jeffrey A. Weinstock Program in the Human Sciences The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052
You will be advised of the status of your proposal by December 1, 1996. In order to accommodate the respondent format of the conference, papers selected for presentation at the conference must be submitted by JANUARY 31, 1997. *Presentations must be no longer than 20 minutes.*
Selected papers will be published in *COLLEGE LITERATURE,* a refereed triannual journal of scholarly and cultural criticism edited by Kostas Myrsiades and dedicated to the needs of college/university teachers. *COLLEGE LITERATURE* emphasizes innovative ways of studying and teaching literatures old and new, as well as expanding and redefining approaches to textual analysis and criticism on all world literatures, in addition to interdisciplinary and comparative studies. Special issues topics have included theory in the classroom, non-Western poetics, Queer theory, teaching Postcolonial and Commonwealth literatures, the politics of literature, race and politics, Third World women's inscriptions, law and literature, and the forthcoming special issue on CULTURAL VIOLENCE. A special one-time subscription rate will be available for conference registrants.
RESPONDENTS
CULTURAL VIOLENCE panels will feature a respondent format and graduate student respondents are sought from Washington Consortium of Universities institutions and beyond. Respondents will receive the papers for the assigned panel approximately one month in advance of the conference and will compose brief 5-10 minute responses addressing the composition of the panel and the intersections of the included papers. Responses should make connections between papers and serve as catalysts for further discussion. While individuals presenting papers at the event may not also serve as respondents, persons submitting abstracts may wish to express their desire to be considered for respondent positions in the event that their papers cannot be accommodated. Interested persons should contact Jeffrey A. Weinstock, Program in the Human Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052; jaw@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
MODERATORS
Faculty moderators are sought from Washington Consortium of Universities member institutions. Moderators will introduce panelists and direct discussion of the papers. The registration fee will be waived for moderators and moderators will receive a free copy of the *COLLEGE LITERATURE* edition of the proceedings. Interested persons should contact Jeffrey A. Weinstock, Program in the Human Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052; jaw@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
For more information, please contact Jeffrey A. Weinstock at the e-mail and program addresses listed above.