Call for Papers: Confutati Graduat Student Conference

[eric r laursen]

The graduate students from the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Utah invite you to their 6th annual interdisciplinary conference on April 8 & 9, 2011. This year‟s theme is "Dissemi(nations): Embedded Identities in Cultural Con/Texts."



We aim to examine various modes of expression that arise as cultures are located, isolated and relocated. From migration to segregation to division by ethnicity, religion or lifestyle, how are identities separated from and embedded into mainstream cultures? Through music and poetry, visual arts and mixed literature, what cultural artifacts write themselves into their present cultural context? How do the „host‟ cultures read these new voices into their own identity, and how do they write them off?



Keynote Speaker: Dr. Martin Puchner (Harvard University)

"World Literature and the Creation of Literary Worlds"



Confutati invites graduate students working on any world literature and cultural productions to submit their abstracts. Topics include but are not limited to:

Translation Orientalism Cosmopolitanism

Hybridity Displacement Deterritorialization

Travel narratives Globalization Migration and Exile



Submit abstracts (250-300 words) to 2011abstracts at confutati.org no later than February 1st, 2011. Presentations should be in English and time is limited to 20 minutes. Presented papers will be considered for publication in our academic journal, the Utah Foreign Language Review. For more information go to www.confutati.org