[CW-Grad] FW: Deadline Extended 2/24 - CFP (dis)junctions 2012 Narratives Mediated

[Bryan G Bradford]

UCR (dis)junctions 2012: Narratives Mediated
April 13-14, 2012
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Leo Braudy, University of Southern California

The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to Friday, February 24th, at 5:00pm. Details about the CFP and a list of tentative panels/topics are below. Please visit http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/ for more information. If you are interested, please email a 250-300 word description of your project to disjunctions2012 at gmail.com<mailto:disjunctions2012 at gmail.com> by the 5pm on Friday of this week.

Call for Papers:
For (dis)junctions 2012, we are seeking papers that explore the construction and definition of "narrative" in all its mediated and mediating forms. The word narrative is typically associated with storytelling and plot, but for this year's conference we want to understand "narrative" as any instance of producing meaning or "truth." In this regard, a piece of literary criticism, while often explicating a literary narrative, is a type of narrative in itself. Further, in an attempt to be at once inclusive and provocative, we want to think about the way disciplines across the academy each work to construct particular narratives. History, for instance, seeks to understand the past through contending narratives; the Sciences constantly revises dominant narratives of the physical world; and even music, while not verbal, still has a trace of narrative in its composition, framed by a beginning and end. To what extent do narratives (in a broad sense of the term) reflect, challenge, or create a sense of both oneself and one's world? Does the medium act as a link between the reader/viewer/listener and the "real," or does the medium come to define the real? How do different academic discourses mediate and create new ontological narratives?

In keeping with previous years, (dis)junctions 2012 welcomes papers from all disciplines inside and outside of the Humanities. Participants may submit to a specific panel or in response to the general call for papers. Traditional genre and period-related papers, as well as creative writing, spoken word, dance pieces, and installation artwork are highly encouraged. Please look for additional panel-specific Calls For Papers in the weeks to come. Abstracts (250-300 words) may be emailed to disjunctions2012 at gmail.com<mailto:disjunctions2012 at gmail.com> by Friday, February 24th, at 5:00pm.

Please note any A/V equipment you may require. We can obtain VCRs, DVDs, and projectors for laptops. Less standard equipment is possible (although not guaranteed) upon request.
Possible panels/topics include, but are not limited to:

  *   Adaptation, Competition, and the Future of the Novel<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/adaptation_competition_future>
  *   Air Culture<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/air_culture>
  *   American Realist Narratives and the Advent of the Twentieth Century<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/american_realist_narratives>
  *   Cinematic Narratives<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/cinematic_narratives>
  *   Classroom Narratives: A Roundtable on Pedagogical Theory and Practice<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/classroom_narratives>
  *   Constructing Race and Empire in British Literature<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/constructing_race_empire>
  *   Detective Fiction<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/detective_fiction>
  *   Economic Inequality<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/economic_inequality>
  *   Feminist Approaches to Narrative<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/feminist_approaches>
  *   Futures Passed<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/futures_passed>
  *   Gothic Narratives<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/gothic_narratives>
  *   Language Translation<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/language_translation>
  *   Medical Narratives<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/medical_narratives>
  *   Medieval and Early Modern Mediation: Composition and Materiality<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/medieval_early_modern>
  *   Narrating Victorians<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/narrating_victorians>
  *   Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/19c_popular_culture>
  *   New Media<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/new_media>
  *   Prosthetics<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/prosthetics>
  *   Queerness and the "Coming Out" Narrative<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/queerness_coming_out>
  *   Race and Identity in American Fiction<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/race_identity>
  *   Science and Literature<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/science_literature>
  *   Speculative Fiction<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/speculative_fiction>
  *   Spiritualism and Mediumship in 19th- and 20th-Century Literature<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/spiritualism_mediumship>
  *   Steampunk<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/steampunk>
  *   "Wars Mediate(d)<http://disjunctions2012.wordpress.com/panels/wars_mediate%28d%29>

Thank you in advance for forwarding this message!

Sincerely,
Anne Sullivan
Public Relations Committee
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