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Call for papers for the Second Annual UBCO
FCCS/IGS graduate student conference taking place March
13-14, 2009 in Kelowna, British Columbia. This is a
conference created for graduate students by graduate students in an
attempt to create a supportive academic environment for up and coming
research.
Borders and Border
Crossings:
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on
Liminality, Hybridity, Mediation, Exchange and Everything In-Between
At the University of British Columbia Okanagan
March 13 & 14, 2009 in Kelowna B.C., Canada
The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
Department at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna invites you
to attend our Second Annual Graduate Student Conference. This
conference seeks to examine “in-between” texts through the utilization
of creative and critical perspectives. Although this conference
focuses on Studies in English, Languages, Culture, Multi-media Arts,
and Creative Writing, we encourage submissions from across graduate
disciplines.
Proposals for both academic papers and creative
work will be considered, and all presentations will be 15 minutes in
length. Proposals should be no longer than 500 words, bear no
identifying information, and be accompanied by a covering letter that
includes the applicant’s name and contact information. Please submit
proposals to ubco.igsa@gmail.ca
as email attachments in .pdf, .rtf, or .doc format by January 1, 2009.
Graduate students and independent scholars are
encouraged to apply to one of the following panels:
Theorizing Sites of Liminality: This
panel invites submissions that interrogate popular theories of liminal
spaces/places, bodies and structures. Areas of interest may include
unique readings of theory in Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque, Turner’s Ritual,
Butler’s Performance, and Mollenkopf’s “Contested City.”
Representations of Gender and Sexuality: This
panel invites submissions that interrogate representations of gender
and sexuality against the complexities of identity, performance and
classification. Possible areas of interest include deviance and
hegemony, queer discourse, feminine masculinities/masculine
femininities, the performance of gender and the cross-dressed tongue.
Children’s Literature and Folkloric Texts:
This panel invites submissions on any aspect of fairy tales, folk tales
and children’s literature. Areas of interest may include critical and
creative approaches to myth and morality, as well as interrogations of
in-between places (ie. towers, forests, fairy kingdoms, etc), events
(puberty, the quest, etc) and/or characters (shapeshifters, witches,
monsters, mythohistorical figures, teenagers, etc).
Pop Culture: This panel invites
submissions that explore popular culture through its text and
reception. Areas of interest include television, cinema, music, graphic
novels, popular fiction and videogames.
Gothic Texts: This panel invites
submissions on any aspect of eighteenth century and modern Gothic
texts. Possible areas of interest include the abject, postcolonial
hauntings, telepathy, phantasmagoria, supernatural literature or film,
the Uncanny and liminal creatures (ie. ghosts, vampires, shapeshifters,
the undead, etc).
Narratives of Trauma: This panel
invites submissions on texts that explore trauma through
(inter)personal, literary or historical discourse. Possible areas of
interest include holocaust literature, illness/disability narratives
and historical/cultural traumas which could include themes of
disability, torture, transmission of trauma, (false) memory,
normalization and mortality.
Postcolonial Discourse: This panel
invites submissions that explore post-colonial theory through
historical and literary contexts. Areas of interest may include
critical or creative approaches to repression, genocide, slavery and
imperialism within Aboriginal Canadian discourse, Indigenous texts and
“Minor” literature.
Historical (Mis)Representations: This
panel invites submissions on the representation and/or
misrepresentation of historical events and figures in literature, film,
or television. Areas of interest may include author(ity) and
authenticity, (his)story, the “medieval” period, oral history and
historical fallacy.
Genres of Writing: This panel
invites submissions that interrogate forms and
classification of writing with specific attention to overlaps in
fiction and nonfiction.
Areas of interest may include creative nonfiction, fictional
(auto)biography, autobiographical fiction, and historical fiction.
Transnational and Diasporic Trends in
Canadian Texts: This panel invites submissions that explore
ethnicity, nationality and identity within Canadian discourse. Areas
of interest may include hybridity, immigration, cosmopolitanism,
tourism and symbols of (dis)connection (ie. “/,” “-” and “&”).
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