conference call

[eaeg at unity.ncsu.edu]

For more information or a snazzy poster, write me.
--Eyal Amiran
eaeg at unity.ncsu.edu


Requesting Submissions for a Graduate Student Conference at 
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

April 18-20, 1997

The Third Annual

Cultural Cartographies III:  Negotiating the Vanishing
Borders


     Contemporary society is witnessing the erasure of the
traditional distinctions between high and mass culture.  How
is T.S. Eliot perceived by a culture that values both 
surfing the net and body piercing?  As the once rigid
distinction between high and low culture fades and the
appreciation for folk and mass cultures increases, how do we
negotiate the vanishing borders of our cultural landscapes? 

     Cultural Cartographies III will examine the protean
relations between mass culture and aesthetic production. 
This conference encourages submissions from various
disciplines and theoretical and creative perspectives.  It
invites speculation on this topic in aesthetic, social,
ethnic, sexual, political, and historical terms.  Pertinent
subjects include reception, the place of high art in
contemporary culture, appropriation/ parody/ subversion of
high art, Third World negotiations of the concept of art,
the politics of publishing, and the study of subcultures,
leisure, consumerism and economics, ethnicity and
multiculturalism, architecture, music, internet, and the
media.

     The conference will feature Laura Kipnis, Associate
Professor of Radio/TV/Film, Northwestern University, and
Fred Pfeil, Professor of English, Trinity College.  Kipnis
has written articles and books on multimedia such as _Bound
and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in
America_ and has written, produced, and directed "A Man's
Woman" and "Marx: The Video."  Pfeil has written extensively on
popular culture and is the author of _White Guys: Studies in
Postmodern Domination and Difference_ and _Another Tale to
Tell: Politics and Narrative in Postmodern Culture_.

Please send or e-mail a detailed 1 page abstract by March 3,
1997 to:
David Cudar (Humbert at unity.ncsu.edu)

Please send or e-mail creative work by March 3, 1997 to:
Lee Capps (jlcapps at unity.ncsu.edu)

English Department
Tompkins Hall, Box 8105
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8105