>Proposed seminar for American Comparative Literature Association
>April 4-6, 2003 meeting in North San Diego County




>Crossing Disciplinary Borders: Practice, Scholarship, and Pedagogy
>
>This seminar will be held at the American Comparative Literature Assoc.
>conference (www.acla.org). In the interest of bringing together scholars
>from a variety of fields and critical traditions, I invite papers that
>address interdisciplinarity in the broadest sense of the word.  Despite
>the long history of looking across aesthetic and academic borders in order
>to disrupt categorical assumptions, interdisciplinary endeavors continue
>to meet with skepticism in many academic communities.  While Comparative
>Literature has been relatively open to interdisciplinary research, critics
>may have legitimate concerns about the scholarly pitfalls of such
>projects. Nonetheless, the current multi-media environment demands that
>scholars and students develop flexible and productive critical models that
>seek connections as well as make distinctions between disciplines.  I hope
>that this seminar will appeal to scholars and practitioners of the visual,
>literary, and performing arts.
>
>Topics might include:
>
>-      Artistic and/or critical integrity
>-      Interdisciplinary or multi-media artistic practice
>-      Successful and failed cross-disciplinary endeavors
>-      The history of interdisciplinary studies
>-      Models of scholarship and/or theories of interdisciplinary criticism
>-      Collaborative artistic practice and academic scholarship
>-      The politics of interdisciplinary studies
>-      Bringing interdisciplinary studies into the classroom
>
>Abstracts of 500 words should be submitted to Julie Townsend
>([log in to unmask]) by September 20, 2002.