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>From: "Roy Perez" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP: Production, Critical Race Analysis
>and Literary Studies (11/20/06; 2/23/07-2/24/07)
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>PRODUCTION: Critical Race Analysis and Literary Studies
>A Graduate Student Conferece
>New York University, 23-24 February 2007
>Coordinators at New York University seek abstracts for a two-day
>conference on ěproductionî at the intersection of critical race
>analysis and literary studies. Organized by the Critical Race
>Analysis and Literary Studies Colloquium (CRALS) at NYU, this
>conference will provide an opportunity for graduate students to
>present work that reflects on the significance of critical race
>theories to teaching, research, and writing in departments of English
>and other fields related to literary study. Beyond (but including)
>the analysis of cultural production, we are interested in examining
>race as it bears meaning in the production of new critical frameworks
>and in academic relations of production at the university level.
>Proposals for the discussion of racism and anti-racism, feminism,
>sexual politics, and ability as they pertain to labor in the academic
>workplace are especially welcome. Other possible topics include:
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>-Genealogies of critical race analysis
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>-Pedagogies for critical race analysis
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>-Race and theories of the body in literature
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>-Race and popular culture/genres, e.g. comics, TV and film,
>conceptions of the paraliterary
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>-Race in law and literature
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>-Race, literature, and the working-class experience
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>-Race and emerging critical frameworks, e.g. disability studies,
>rural studies, transgender studies
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>-Privilege in literature and literary studies
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>-Transnational and postcolonial literary studies
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>-Aesthetics and minoritarian cultural production
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>Please submit abstracts of 250-500 words to [log in to unmask] by
>Monday, 20 November 2006. Please let us know if you have any special
>media equipment requirements. Accepted presenters will be notified
>no later than 22 December 2006. A limited number of travel
>scholarships will be available for graduate students presenting at
>the conference.
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>ABOUT: CRALS emerges from an ongoing faculty and graduate student
>colloquium bringing contemporary debates on race and representation
>to bear on literary texts and criticism. CRALS focuses on examining
>literature in relation to racial politics; negotiating the
>interdisciplinarity of cultural and literary studies; and developing
>critical race theories that address literary works in English.
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