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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) > >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: > >-Genealogies of critical race analysis > >-Pedagogies for critical race analysis > >-Race and theories of the body in literature > >-Race and popular culture/genres, e.g. comics, TV and film, >conceptions of the paraliterary > >-Race in law and literature > >-Race, literature, and the working-class experience > >-Race and emerging critical frameworks, e.g. disability studies, >rural studies, transgender studies > >-Privilege in literature and literary studies > >-Transnational and postcolonial literary studies > >-Aesthetics and minoritarian cultural production > >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. > >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. ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Megan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html