[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: 15th Annual (dis)junctions Graduate Conference

[Charles Whitney]

If Creative Writing has any budget left after the move to the 
Interdisciplinary Building, we will be chipping in for this:  In the 
meantime, if any of you would like to be involved in planning the 
(dis)Junctions Grad Conference, please read on.....cw

>Dear Professor Whitney,
>
>We would like to inform you of the upcoming fifteenth annual
>(dis)junctions graduate conference, taking place in April of 2008. In
>the past, the conference has been largely run and organized by
>graduate students from UCR's English department in order to provide a
>space for students from our campus and those across the country to
>present new ideas in an environment that manages to be both scholarly
>as well as comfortable and encouraging. Last year, however, the
>conference experienced its largest and most
>diverse attendance rates, with panels showcasing students from
>backgrounds not only in humanities but in social sciences as well.
>Panels focused on advertising, national rhetorics, urbanism, visual
>studies/film, and philosophy of space with featured papers in areas as
>varying as dance, political science, psychology, art history,
>economics, communications, business, creative writing, philosophy,
>religious studies,
>and sociology. In light of the interest in the conference expressed by
>non-UCR students outside disciplines traditionally considered
>"humanities," this year we are hoping to garner support and advice
>from these same disciplines within our own campus.
>
>UCR's department chairs have historically been more than supportive in
>lending funds to the (dis)junctions conference, and we will be seeking
>similar support for this year's event. But, given the disciplinary
>diversity of last year's conference, this year we are also seeking
>help and advice beyond the monetary level from departments outside of
>our own. In particular, we would appreciate any assistance that
>department chairs are willing to contribute to entice the
>participation of UCR's graduate population at large. We are of course
>always interested in hearing papers presented by our HMNSS colleagues,
>but we would also benefit from any grads willing to lend a hand in the
>actual organization of the conference by serving on planning
>committees and meeting with the
>co-chairs to serve as liaisons between participating departments.
>
>Although it is still early in the 2007-2008 academic year, we would
>like to begin scheduling meetings with those departments interested in
>lending support. If you would like to meet with us to find out more
>about (dis)junctions and our efforts towards interdepartmental
>cooperation, please feel free to contact us by email or telephone. Or,
>if you would prefer, monetary assistance can be mailed to the English
>Department's Administrative Assistant, Cynde Sanchez, at
>cynde.sanchez at ucr.edu.
>
>Thank you for your time,
>
>Katy Warren, Treasurer kwarr002 at ucr.edu
>Rory Moore, Co-chair
>Mike Podolny, Co-chair
>
>disjunctions at gmail.com
>
>Katy: (575) 640-8611


-- 
D. Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair
Department of Creative Writing
University of California, Riverside    900 University Ave.
Riverside, CA 92521   951.827.6076  FAX 951.827.3619

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is a more immediate short-term
  weapon.
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