Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:58:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: Making and Unmaking History 


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From: "chaklada-AT-scf.usc.edu" <chaklada-AT-scf-fs.usc.edu>
Subject: CFP: Making and Unmaking History

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First Call For Papers
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'Making And Unmaking History'
The Annual Interdisciplinary English Graduate Conference
The University of Southern California
February 27-28, 1998

What is history? What does it do? What do we do with it? What does it do
to us?

This conference welcomes papers and presentations, in traditional and
nontraditional formats, on the general subject of history and culture
from graduate students, faculty and independent scholars.

The view of history as a universal, objective, progressive force has
come under attack from a variety of perspectives suspicious of
foundationalist claims for history as truth. Certain strands of
post-structuralist, feminist, postcolonial, post-marxist scholarship
(amongst others) have been in the forefront of countering the monolithic
conception of history, seeing it instead as always contested, contingent
and fragmentary. While this debate, represented schematically here, and
the understandings that have emerged from it are of some interest to
this conference, papers and presentations are invited on any and all
fields of historical/cultural study, from all theoretical and
methodological standpoints, and from all disciplines.

Possible panel topics include (but are not limited to):

Writing and Rewriting History=09Alternative Histories  History as Tragedy
History as Farce   Subaltern Studies  Area Studies  The Idea of Periods
Museum Culture=09Collective Memory  The History Channel     Nostalgia
Oliver Stone   Period Pieces and Costume Dramas    Nietzsche 
Documentary  The End of History=09  Biography and Autobiography
Psychohistory  Evidence and Archive  History at the Margins  "=93Women=92s
History Month"=94Photography  The Bridge to the Future   "=93BlackHistory
Month"=94 Foucault  Disciplining History    The Teaching of History   The Uses of
History  The End of Teleology   Oral History    Memory and Forgetting
The Victims of History     New Historicism    The Ideology of the News
History as Narrative Historical Readings of Culture    Cultural Readings
of History Paranoia  Reason in History  The Language of History

1-2 page abstracts are due by November 15, 1997 at the following
address:

Arnab Chakladar
Dept. of English
Taper Hall Of Humanities
USC University Park
Los Angeles CA 90089

or by email (in text-only format) to:
chaklada-AT-scf.usc.edu

For more information contact the above address.