http://uiowa.orgsync.com/org/ccc/
This is a graduate student conference at the University of Iowa that I have attended in the past. This year’s theme is bridging divides and they seem particularly interested in the digital as well as interdisciplinary work. Deadline to apply is January 8th.
Craft Critique Culture
Jerome McGann, Keynote Speaker
We are thrilled to announce that Jerome McGann will be our keynote speaker at this year's conference. Dr. McGann is the John Stewart Bryan Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His most recent book, A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction focuses on philology as it impacts the digital humanities. His work brings together seemingly disparate disciplines whose relationship reveals a productive way forward.
Tom Keegan, Plenary Speaker
We are also very excited to confirm that Tom Keegan will be our plenary speaker. Dr. Keegan's teaching and research address the use of digital humanities and publicly engaged pedagogies across a variety of curriculums. To this end, he studies and designs new pedagogical models that refashion writing and literary classrooms outside the institution’s physical bounds. In addition to teaching Rhetoric at the University of Iowa, he directs the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio.
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for this year's Craft Critique Culture Conference, to be held on April 8-9, 2016. Our theme is "Bridging Divides," and we welcome papers with any interpretation of our theme. If you'd like to participate, please submit 300-word abstracts by January 8, 2016to [email protected]. See below for details.
16th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference
Bridging Divides
April 8-9, 2016
University of Iowa
CRAFT CRITIQUE CULTURE is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the intersections of critical and creative approaches to writing both within and beyond the academy. This year’s conference will encourage an examination of the “inter” of interdisciplinary—as well as the construction and deconstruction of boundaries between and within the academic, public, private, personal, critical, and creative discourses—through an inquiry into bridging divides. Bridges carry connotations of reciprocity, of connecting the seemingly unconnected, and of moving across fissures, topographical and ideological. Bridges do not simply appear—bridges are strategically built and require tension, support, and anchorage. Consequently, bridges beget a sense of precarity, a fear of collapse and disintegration, a risk of unsure footing. We seek submissions that prompt investigation into the bridges and divides that both connect and sever disciplines, departments, institutions, cultures, systems and conceptual categories. How can scholars bridge the ostensible divide between theory and practice? Between the academy and lived experience? What interpretive possibilities stem from finding commonality in the seemingly disparate? What tensions arise when attempting to find these commonalities? Can attempting to find connection perpetuate disconnection? Can bridging divide? We encourage diverse explorations of these questions and welcome traditional scholarly papers, poster exhibits, pre-made panels, and roundtables, as well as submissions of film, video, music, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, visual art and artists’ books, as well as theater and performance.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Representations of divides in literature, art, film
Works that bridge divides between theoretical approaches, disciplines, historical periods, methodologies
National/Transnational links and fissures: cultural, linguistic, historical, commercial, ideological
Translation and communication between linguistic divides
Borders: geographical, conceptual, ideological, literary
Transmission and media exchange
Bridging academy and community: activism, engagement, pedagogy
Artistic collaboration: influence, association, partnership
Construction and deconstruction
Liminal spaces, identities, experiences, etc.
Bridging the “divide” between…
Mind and body
Theory and practice
Past and present
Academic disciplines and methodologies
Selves: private selves, professional selves, online selves, etc.
Acknowledgement and concealment
Act of appropriation and acts of appreciation
What to send:
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday, January 8th, 2016
Abstracts must include:
a) author(s)
b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in the program
c) email address
d) paper title
Please email all submissions to: [email protected]
Accepted papers will be notified by February 12th, 2016. We acknowledge receipt and answer all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week, please resend your proposal.
