call for papers

[Mary Bucholtz]

Call for Papers

"Silence and Expression: Histories of Permission and Censorship"
Center for Humanities Research
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

March 30 - April 2, 2000

Papers that address the strategies by which expression is facilitated or
restrained -- who speaks, sings, or paints, under what circumstances and
constraints, for which purpose(s) -- are invited for this interdisciplinary
conference.

Keynote speakers for the conference include:  Ann Bergren, Department of
Classics at the University of California, Berkeley; Allen Frantzen,
Department of English, Loyola University, Chicago; Sander Gilman,
Distinguished Service Professor of Liberal Arts in Human Biology, University
of Chicago; Don Kulick, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm
University; Greil Marcus, _Artforum International_; and Martha Woodmansee,
Department of English, Case Western Reserve University.

Inquiries and abstracts may be sent by 15 October 1999 to:

Craig Kallendorf, Conference Chair
Center for Humanities Research
College of Liberal Arts
c/o Department of English
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4227

Email: ckalendrf at tamu.edu
Phone: (409) 845-8301; (409) 845-8328
Fax: (409) 862-2292
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