Two Graduate Conferences Announced for Spring
July 12, 2010
CFPs for "New Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange East and West" and "Nomenclature" have been posted.
“New Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange East and West” -- April 17, 2010
The Department’s biannual Medieval and Renaissance conference is expected to draw graduate students from across the country for a day-long interdisciplinary discussion. The effects of New World encounters on literature, culture, politics, religion, philosophy, and science will form the theme of this year's conference. "New Worlds" aims for a “broader understanding of ‘New Worlds’ to complicate the bifurcated focus on East/West relations.”
Bruce Holsinger, Professor of English and Music at the University of Virginia, will be the keynote speaker for the conference. Abstracts are due January 15, 2010.
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“Nomenclature” -- March 5 and 6, 2010
The Department’s Graduate English Organization will be holding its third annual graduate student conference in March. This year, GEO will be interrogating the causes, conventions, and consequences of the human impulse to name, label, and categorize. Students operating within a wide variety of critical perspectives and in a diverse range of historical periods and disciplines are invited to participate.
Tita Chico, Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, and Kavita Daiya, Associate Professor of English at George Washington University will deliver keynote lectures. Abstracts are due December 4, 2009.
Visit the conference website for more details.