(Fwd) call for papers

["Marek Tuszynski" <mtusz@[194.92.137.1]>]

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The English Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo 
announces its Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference, "Framing Time: 
Text/Archive/Trace" which will take place on April 5, 1997 at the Center for
the Arts.  Contributors are encouraged to submit 500-word abstracts addressing 
the concept of temporality as it hinges upon marxism, feminism, narrative, 
theater, post-colonialism, history, pedagogy, theory, sexuality, travel, 
collections, subjectivity, racism, queer studies, and psychoanalysis within a 
variety of discourses, including literature, philosophy, poetics, law, the 
social sciences, biology, anthropology, technology, and the visual arts. 
Possible topics include:
	**  Media Arts, Storage, Leaks, Transmission, Control
	**  Nostalgia From Fashion to Fascism
	**  Everyday vs. Monumental Time (the "anecdotal," the "epic") 
	**  Specters of Western Time, Conjuring the "East" 
	**  Memory, Moment, "Event"
	**  Shock and/or Banality
	**  Aliens & Mothers: "domestic" time, the return of the repressed
	**  Fissures, Enlightenments 
	**  "Our Time," "Time Out of Joint," the "Cutting Edge" 
	**  Counting the "Masses"
	**  Mourning and Monuments, Patents and Paternity
	**  Cinematic Time: Manufacturing Absorption/Anxiety
	**  Premodern, Nonwestern Sexualities, and Victorian Constructions
	**  Journalism, Photos, Talk Shows, Genealogies
	**  Anthropology, Ethnography, Supplements
	**  Myths of Origin: Once Upon a Nation-State, Once Upon a Subject
	**  Film Noir, Serial Killers
	**  Tradition/History: collective memory, the retrospection of culture
	**  Civilizing "Symptoms," Symptoms of "Civilization" 
	**  Feminist "Generations," Cyclical Time, Plural Events
	**  Tourism, Leisure, Souvenirs
	**  Pedagogical Versus Performative: the accumulative and/or recursive
	**  Gambling on Working Time
	**  Collections: the library, museum, & memorabilia
Send abstracts (six copies, with cover page including name, address, phone, 
e-mail number, and affiliation) no later than January 28, 1997 to the
following 
address: Abby Coykendall, Department of English, 306 Clemens Hall, SUNY at 
Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 (for further information: v526s9yn@ubvm.cc.buffalo.
edu).  Alternative, non-academic forms of presentation are also welcome with a 
description.

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