[Englecturers] Experimental Writing Conference in Downtown LA

[John Ganim]

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>October 20-21, 2006
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>Impunities
>Experimental Writing Conference
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>In the confluence of imaginary communities, autonomous zones and 
>technologies of identity and difference, what role can writing play 
>in the invention of alternative communities, identities and 
>politics? The third annual conference hosted by the CalArts MFA 
>Writing Program brings together a disparate group of prominent 
>cultural nomads, writers and iconoclasts who set in motion our 
>collective fantasies of escape, oblivion, arrival and 
>transformation. This two-day symposium features Chris Abani, Sesshu 
>Foster, Renee Gladman, Johnny Golding, Shelley Jackson, Joni Jones, 
>Bhanu Kapil, Lewis MacAdams, K. Silem Mohammad, Ishmael Reed, Emily 
>Roysdon, Sarah Schulman, Mady Schutzman, Edwin Torres, and Anne Waldman.
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>Organized by MFA Writing Program faculty Matias Viegener and 
>Christine Wertheim with support from The Annenberg Foundation.
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>Date & time
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>General
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>Students,
>Alumni with
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>CalArts
>Students,
>Faculty and Staff
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>Fri 10.20.06, 12:30 pm
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>Fri 10.20.06, 8:30 pm
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>Sat 10.21.06, 10:30 am
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>Sat 10.21.06, 8:30 pm
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>Schedule:
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>FRI OCT 20, 12:30 PM
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>Introduction and Welcome 12.30 PM
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>Situated Identities: Locations of Difference 1-2:30 PM
>Against the ideology of a universal positionless subjectivity, (how) 
>can writers articulate specifically situated identities?
>Speakers: Renee Gladman, K. Silem Mohammad, Matias Viegener
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>Collectivity, Community, Control 3-4:30 PM
>Are there forms of collectivity, whether spontaneously 
>self-organizing or hierarchically formed, that offer alternatives to 
>the dominant systems of creation and social control?
>Speakers: Lewis MacAdams, Ishmael Reed, Emily Roysdon
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>FRI OCT 20, 8:30 PM
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>Evening reading performance 8:30-11 PM
>Chris Abani, Sesshu Foster, Johnny Golding, Shelley Jackson, Joni 
>Jones, Bhanu Kapil, Edwin Torres, Anne Waldman, Christine Wertheim.
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>SAT OCT 21, 10:30 AM
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>Imagined Identities: Technologies of the Self 10:30 AM-12 PM
>How can alternative identities be imagined and articulated in 
>language? Do such literary technologies of the self help us 
>negotiate with real powers, or do they always remain in the realms 
>of 'fiction'?
>Speakers: Shelley Jackson, Bhanu Kapil, Edwin Torres
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>Allegories of Transformation 12-1:30 PM
>What are the conceptual toolboxes of writers who imagine alternative 
>narratives and alternative worlds, and which devices and allegories 
>of transformation work best to effect real change?
>Speakers: Chris Abani, Sarah Schulman, Mady Schutzman
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>Lunch - on your own or with participants in Walt Disney Concert Hall 
>Cafe 1:30-2:45 PM
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>Counter-memory 2:45-4:15 PM
>How do writers activate memories against the stream? Can writing 
>help resist or liberate the peripheral consciousness of subjugated knowledges?
>Speakers: Sesshu Foster, Joni Jones, Anne Waldman
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>Summary Panel 4:15-5:45 PM
>Imaginary communities, actual issues | Fictional characters, real writers.
>Speakers: Christine Wertheim, Johnny Golding
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>SAT OCT 21, 8:30 PM
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>Evening reading performance 8:30-11 PM
>Renee Gladman, K. Silem Mohammad, Matias Viegener, Lewis MacAdams, 
>Ishmael Reed, Emily Roysdon, Sarah Schulman, Mady Schutzman,
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John M. Ganim
President, New Chaucer Society
Professor of English
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside CA 92521
TEL (951) 827-1540
FAX (951) 827-3967
ON CAMPUS PHONE 21540
EMAIL John.Ganim at UCR.EDU
http://www.english.ucr.edu/people/faculty/ganim/index.html
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/

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