10th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium
March 8-10, 2001
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: October
20, 2000
The
Topic:
How do we understand the family as we enter a new century? How
have kinship and affiliation responded to social and political pressures
over time? This topic is designed to elicit conversations about the
past, present and future of the family, its boundaries and its possibilities.
Plenary Speakers:
STEPHANIE COONTZ, author of The Way We Never Were: American Families
and the Nostalgia Trap and The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with
America's Changing Families
CARTER REVARD, poet and author of Ponca War Dancers and Family Values, Tribal Affairs
The Conference:
Kansas State University
Program in Cultural Studies invites paper or panel proposals for its
annual symposium, the longest continuing cultural studies conference in
the nation. All disciplinary perspectives, historical topics and
periods, and subjects artistic and nonartistic, are welcome. We encourage
interdisciplinary work and innovative formats.
Suggested topics include but are not
limited to:
Representations of the nuclear or extended family, family law, heteronormativity
and the family, gender roles, gay and lesbian kinship, gay marriage and
adoption, adoptive and biological kinship, law and love, reproductive technologies,
science and the family, childlessness, custody & parental "right,"
grandparents, poverty and family violence, family pets, children's rights,
"blended" families, "wicked" step-parents and teen rebellion, gay and lesbian
teens, cross-cultural families, exile, inter-country adoption, child abandonment,
orphans, family photos, family reunions, "black sheep," religion, economics
of the family, family in the media & cultural texts, family rituals
and holidays, family in history, family in the new millennium, "family
values," il/legitimacy & "bastardy," the rhetoric of family.
Abstracts for papers or panels:
Proposals should be limited to one page, single-spaced abstracts, which
should be sent to:
Jill R. Deans
Department of English
Denison Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
FAX: 785-532-2192
Program
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