<div dir="ltr">Dear Graduate Programs, please circulate the following message to your graduate students:<div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dear
Graduate Students,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">I am writing regarding the
upcoming conference DIS/JUNCTIONS</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,71,70)">: New Work Across the Disciplines.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dis/Junctions is an annual graduate
student conference dedicated to fostering dialogue across disciplines, methods,
and genres. After a brief hiatus, we’re excited to bring Dis/Junctions back in
collaboration with HHDJ. Rather than having a narrowly defined theme, we want
to open the invitation to all students (CHASS and STEM) interested in
showcasing their interdisciplinary work.</span></p>

<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">How
can we imagine modes of research, practice, and theorizing that surpass the
usual structure of academic disciplines? Or methodologically, how might we be
thinking in new ways across domains of embodiment, cognition, and
representation? How might advances (past or present) in or across our various
fields (such as modes of digitization, mediation, and the making and
circulation of information) be opening up new possibilities for
scholarship? </span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">As
the French historian, philosopher, and literary and cultural critic Michel
Foucault suggested, disciplinary lines can serve as foundations for ordering
knowledge and disciplining subjects into the<i> status quo</i>. However, when
we allow ourselves to play with such lines, we can stimulate the production of
new, and often subversive, knowledge and practices. In today’s academia, this
is reflected in a rise not necessarily in new "disciplines" but
rather in "areas of study." Decolonial, Indigenous, and Critical Race
Theories that carved out their intellectual spaces in the past decades are now
conjoined with Environmental, Medical, and Digital Humanities, Disability,
Animal, and Games Studies, among many others. At the same time, arts, sciences,
and humanities are entering an unprecedented level of dialogue. And while the
new “studies” might seem like yet another set of molds, they also resist the
standardization of what can be said and how it can be said. </span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The
work of UCR graduate students now involved in various areas of health
humanities and/or disability justice exemplifies this spirit. Their research
insists that bodies are always already entangled in sociopolitical
arrangements, that medicine is never simply objective, that health is never
merely personal. Through engagements with literature, performance, philosophy,
and more, they are showing what interdisciplinary critique can do. We invite
students from all disciplines to think alongside us and take part in this
unfolding dialogue.</span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We welcome
proposals from graduate students at all stages, especially those interested in
sharing works-in-progress, exploring experimental formats, or engaging in
conversation across fields. Whether you’re working on literature, theory,
culture, media, the environment, the body, the archive, or something that
doesn’t fit neatly into any category–this is your space.</span></p>

<p style="margin:5pt 0in 0in 47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The conference will take place on
Friday, May 30th, at HMNSS 1500.</span></p>

<p style="margin:5pt 0in 0in 47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The format will be short, flash
presentations or posters, with plenty of time for Q/A and discussion. If you
think your project is not quite fleshed out, this is a perfect opportunity to
get some feedback from the community!</span></p>

<p style="margin:5pt 0in 0in 47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">If interested, fill out <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe77tw-Xz9az7XuvIioJmXL2RHxyoFMciM9pCUmEOysJP5Psg/viewform?usp=header" target="_blank" style="color:blue">this Google form</a>, including a short, up to 100-word
description of your talk by May 23. </span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hope to see
you there!</span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Best,</span></p>

<p style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
organizing committee</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">Jovana Isevski</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">PhD Candidate in English</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">University of California, Riverside</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif"><a href="mailto:jisev001@ucr.edu" target="_blank" style="color:blue">jisev001@ucr.edu</a> </span></p>

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