An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Date: June 1st
Place: College of Law, University of Cincinnati
Sponsored by: Composition Program, Department of English & Comparative
Literature
Proposals due by: March 30th
Call for Papers:
The English Department at the University of Cincinnati invites you to
submit proposals for an interdisciplinary academic conference focusing
on the value of sharing works in progress as a means to increase
experimentation, build community, and test new ideas. Rather than
soliciting finished products from participants, we seek work that shows
its seams, represents thinking in action, invites revision, and resists
closure. In other words, don’t hide your process; advertise it .
Changing concepts of materiality , influencing everything from mediums
to social communication, have highlighted the importance of process to
all forms of production. In this spirit, we encourage projects that take
process seriously, that understand process—how things are made, how
ideas cohere, how writing happens—as a legitimate and compelling of
object of study. Projects could include but aren’t limited to
explorations of the academic and the technical; pedagogical, artistic
and scholarly experiments and practices; and reflective, theoretical,
rhetorical, creative, or critical works.
We encourage presenters to experiment with the genre of their
presentations. Presenters should feel welcome to take advantage of
multimodal delivery. Presentations might take the form of a PowerPoint
project, a short film, an interactive discussion or workshop, some
combination of these, or other possibilities.
Proposals for individual and panel presentations might address any of
the following:
· Non-linear narratives
· Multi-author works
· Reconsidering ownership
· Law in the digital age
· Piracy and plagiarism
· Digital technology
· Transcending conventional mediums
· (Re)use/mediation/mix/vision
· Mash-ups and multi-modalities
· Text-in-progress
· Work that is self-conscious about process
· Restructuring spaces
· Collaborative art
· Questioning “the finished project”
· Re-envisioning embodiment and materiality
· Persona and social networking
Panel proposals should include a coversheet containing panel title, each
presenter’s name, the name of a moderator, presentation titles,
university affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, phone number,
requests for technology, and anticipated format of presentation (papers,
multimodal, interactive, workshop, etc.); the second page should
include abstracts of 250-words for each presentation (3 to 4) and a
250-word abstract for the panel as a whole.
Individual proposals should consist of two pages. On the first page,
include name, presentation title, university affiliation, mailing
address, e-mail address, phone number, and details of any technology you
may require, and the anticipated format of presentation (paper,
multimodal, interactive, etc.).; the second page should contain a
250-word abstract.
Please do not include identifying information on second page
(abstracts).
Individual presentations should not exceed twenty minutes; panel
presentations should plan for 80 minutes total (including Q&A time).
Mindful of the financial pressures we all face, there will be no fee to
attend or present at this graduate conference.
Email proposals to uccompconf@gmail.com
