We are pleased to announce that Juliet Flower MacCannell, Dean MacCannell, and Valerie Traub will speak at the First Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference to be held at California State University, Stanislaus, October 17-19, 1997.
Juliet Flower MacCannell is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine and a visiting research professor at UC Berkeley, Dept. of Rhetoric. She has published several books including The Regime of the Brother (1991), Figuring Lacan(1986), Thinking Bodies (1994), and The Time of Sign (1982), co-written with Dean MacCannell. Prof. Flower-MacCannell plans to speak about "The Inhuman."
Dean MacCannell, currently a Professor of Environmental Design and Landscape Architecture at UC Davis, has influenced tourism studies with his book The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class (1976/1989). His work on tourism is featured in a current six-part BBC television miniseries, "The Tourist." Prof. MacCannell is expected address representations of the feminine, in particular of Marilyn Monroe.
Valerie Traub is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. Editor of Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects(Cambridge UP, 1996), she also authored Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Routledge, 1992). She recently received a Newberry Research Fellowship. She will speak about her latest research, which deals with Renaissance anatomy, cartography, and ethnography.
While papers on any aspect of "Constructions of the Human" are still welcome, we particularly seek presentations in the following areas:
Creative and/or analytical performance presentations are also welcome. A selection of conference papers will appear on a virtual journal.
We invite participants to explore "Constructions of the Human" in American, British, and/or World literature from any disciplinary perspective. Applicants working in such areas as Literature, Philosophy, History, Sociology, Psychology, Law, the Sciences, and the Fine Arts should submit abstracts of approximately 250 words for papers of 15 minutes.
Students might consider some aspect of the Human in relation to Cyborg Theory, Film Theory, Technology and the Machine, Images of the City, Identity, Gender/Sexuality, Reproductive Technology, The Monstrous, Alterity, Class, Labor and Leisure, Authority, Childhood, the Sentimental, Ethnicity, Personal/Public, and Literary vs. Nonliterary.
Conference Location: CSU, Stanislaus, in Northern California, is situated midway between San Francisco and Yosemite. A day trip to Yosemite, a film presentation, and an evening concert are activities planned for participants.
