8.0340 Conference: Culture is Ordinary (1/55)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 1 Dec 1994 09:08:03 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0340. Thursday, 1 Dec 1994.
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 22:15:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Lawrence Schwartz <jeffs@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
Subject: conference stuff (fwd)
Attn. Graduate Students:
CULTURE IS ORDINARY
"There is no document of civilization that is not
at the same time a document of barbarism. And just
as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism
taints also the manner in which it was transmitted
from one owner to another."
Walter Benjamin,
_Theses_on_the_Philosophy_of_History_
National Graduate Student Conference in Cultural Studies
21-22 April 1995
Bowling Green State University
Keynote address: Jane Caputi, Professor of American Studies,
University of New Mexico
Seeking papers for the following panels://Performance Art &
Censorship//Postmodern American Culture: Artistic Practices in the
Society of the Spectacle//Construction of Desire: Sex & the Body
Politic//Feminism Inc.: Incorporatiing Feminism into Hegemonic
Discourse//Architecture & Cultural Space//Popular Music & Critical
Theory//Meida & the Politics of Representation//Critical
Interrogations of Sport//Spectacularizing the Sixties//Intellectuals,
Ethics & Social Change//Distributed Selves, Virtual Communities:
Networking, Internetworking & Critique//The Machine in the
Garden: The Dialectical Interface of Homo Sapiens &the
Environment//Transcending Essential Violence: Women As
Warriors//Multiculturalism: Communicating the Concept
Send 250-word abstracts by December 16, 1994 to:
Graduate Student Conference
American Culture Studies, 211 Moseley Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
(419) 372-2231 or (419) 353-5719
or email to:
swilbur@dad.bgsu.edu
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Internet Users: Conference organizers are also planning distributed,
realtime sessions on the Internet, using (at least) MOO & IRC. If
you have a particular network project involving cultural studies
which you would like to have included in a virtual extension of the
conference, please send a brief proposal/explanation to Shawn P.
Wilbur (aka bookish) via email <swilbur@dad.bgsu.edu>.
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