"Carried Across: Translations, Temporalities, and Trajectories" (Deadline March 1, 2010)
This is a Graduate Conference hosted by the Department of English at University of Rhode Island on Saturday, April 24, 2010. The Keynote Speaker is Dr. Rey Chow, Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University, and author of several books, including Woman and Chinese Modernity(1991), Writing Diaspora (1993), Ethics After Idealism (1998), and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films (2007)
The phrase “carried across” constructs a picture that requires several elements: the Act of transference, conveyance, or carriage itself; the agent of this action(the carrier); the Subject or Object of this action (the carried); and the Medium or Threshold across which this act occurs, succeeds, or fails. How might consideration of “translations,” “temporalities,” and “trajectories” aid in investigating these interactive elements? How might this assemblage of concepts help us plot our own courses and our own researches of and across time, languages, texts, nations, races, genders, and lives? What might we discover, invent, and/or carry along our way?
We invite graduate students to submit paper or panel proposals that seek to pursue these (or related) questions. In addition, we encourage submissions from a variety of fields—history, film, cultural studies, philosophy, literature, political science, rhetoric/composition, languages, visual studies, and creative writing (though not limited to these fields). Please submit abstracts of 250 words (for individual proposals) or 400 words (for panel proposals) to uriconference2010@gmail.com by March 1st, 2010. Please include your full name, contact information, and institutional affiliation. Individual presentations should be no longer than 15 minutes
The phrase “carried across” constructs a picture that requires several elements: the Act of transference, conveyance, or carriage itself; the agent of this action(the carrier); the Subject or Object of this action (the carried); and the Medium or Threshold across which this act occurs, succeeds, or fails. How might consideration of “translations,” “temporalities,” and “trajectories” aid in investigating these interactive elements? How might this assemblage of concepts help us plot our own courses and our own researches of and across time, languages, texts, nations, races, genders, and lives? What might we discover, invent, and/or carry along our way?
We invite graduate students to submit paper or panel proposals that seek to pursue these (or related) questions. In addition, we encourage submissions from a variety of fields—history, film, cultural studies, philosophy, literature, political science, rhetoric/composition, languages, visual studies, and creative writing (though not limited to these fields). Please submit abstracts of 250 words (for individual proposals) or 400 words (for panel proposals) to uriconference2010@gmail.com by March 1st, 2010. Please include your full name, contact information, and institutional affiliation. Individual presentations should be no longer than 15 minutes
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