Old Email Archive

digest 1997-03-21 #001


11:26 PM 3/20/97 -0800
From: "Society for Literature & Science" 

Daily SLS Email Digest
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 20 Mar 1997 10:23:34 -0800
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Call for papers....
From: Laurie Dickinson 
Subject: Call For Papers--Cross-Cultural Poetics Conf.
!!CALL FOR PAPERS!!
Conference: Cross-Cultural Poetics
Dates: October 16-19, 1997
Place: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Campus
Keynote Speakers: Kamau Brathwaite, Diane Glancy, Dennis Tedlock,
Kirin Narayan, David Antin
Despite artificial disciplinary barriers, ethnographers & poets have
in
recent years come to realize how similar their projects are.
Cross-Cultural Poetics seeks to address the increasingly untenable
boundaries between poetic & ethnographic practices.  The conference
will
focus on the role of poetry in the on-going discourses of
multiculturalism,
ethnography, and literary theory and practice.  While recent years have
seen a debate in "how culture is written (about)" and most of
these debates
make extensive use of the term "poetics," poetic discourse
itself has not
been foregrounded in these debates.  Construing the term
"poetry" fairly
broadly, we invite poets and scholars working in a broad range of fields
--
anthropology, urban studies, ethnic studies, folklore, literature and
literary theory, sociology, history, publishing, film, American
studies,
performance studies, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, etc. -- to
propose
readings, papers or panels that address the topic of cross-cultural
poetics.  the following are suggested topics, but you need not feel
limited
to them:
- - Comparative Poetries &/or Poetic Traditions
- - Oral/Literate Interfaces or Standoffs
- - Anthropological Methodologies Applied to Poetic Texts, Communities,
Events, or      Individual Poems or Poets
- - Ethnography as Poetry/Poetry as Ethnography
- - Ethnic, Folkloric & Vernacular Poetries
- - Poetry as Cultural & Social Praxis
- - Poetry as Cultural & Social Critique
- - Constituting Communities through Poetic Activity
- - Poetry as Mass Culture
- - Poetry & the Public Sphere
- -Poetry and Politics
- - The Anthropology of Writing & the Writing of Anthropology
- - Representing Self/Other
- - Issues in Cultural Translation
- - "Ethnopoetics": Reappraisals?
- - Poetry & Other Media (Song Lyrics, Music, Film, Movement, Visual
Arts,
etc.)
- - Close Readings of &/or Listenings to Ethnographic Documents
- - The Poetics of Thick Description
- - Ritual, Play, etc. as Elements in Poetic Composition
- - The Act of Inscription: Fieldnotes, Notebooks, etc.
- - The Cultural Migration of Texts
- - Hybridization of Genres & Traditions
- -Trans/post/supra national Poetix?
PAPERS (and Writing Samples for people wanting to read) AND PANEL
PROPOSALS
(a 1-2-page abstract) should be sent by April 15, 1997 to Maria Damon,
English Dept., 207 Lind Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
55455.
/-------------------------------------------------------/
Wayne Miller                     waynem@humnet.ucla.edu
Germanic Languages               2326 Murphy Hall, UCLA
Humanities Computing Facility    343 Kinsey Hall,  UCLA
(310) 206-2004                   FAX:    (310) 825-7428                 

/-------------------------------------------------------/