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> CALL FOR PAPERS: Futures of World Literatures and Literacies
>
> The Fifth Annual International Red River Conference on World
> Literature and the Fifth Annual Great Plains Alliance for Computers
> and Writing invite proposals for a joint conference, "Futures of
> World Literatures and Literacies:"
>
> April 25-28, 2002
> North Dakota State University
> Fargo ND, USA
>
> Deadline for submission of proposals: November 30, 2001.
>
> The conference is being sponsored by the Department of English, North
> Dakota State University, Fargo ND, 58105. Proposals (300 words) for
> RRCWL should be directed to Kevin Brooks; proposals for GPACW should
> be directed to Elizabeth Birmingham. Please include your name,
> complete mailing address, and e-mail address. Proposals for panels
> must include an abstract for each presenter, as well as names,
> addresses, and e-mail addresses of all participants. Email and online
> submissions are welcome, but please include postal addresses. Send
> inquiries to: [log in to unmask] or
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>
> The RRCWL and GPACW conferences will run concurrently; sessions
> within each conference will run consecutively. Featured speakers will
> be shared by both conferences. While we are particularly interested
> in proposals that address the conference theme, papers on all aspects
> of world literature and computers
> and writing will be considered. Possible topics include, but are not
> limited to:
>
> * New writers, new readers, re-readings, and new interests in
> literary and literacy studies.
> * Globalization and its impact on literature and literacy.
> * The future of oral and literate traditions.
> * The future (of the) human/body/text.
> * Neocolonialism, postcolonialism, and the shaping of world
> literatures and literacy practices.
> * Hybridity, difference, and commonality in global culture and online.
> * Curricular changes and innovations-world literature and electronic
> literacy courses in institutional contexts.
> * Hypertext, film, new media-what will literature and literacy become
> in the future?
> * Teaching in the 21st century: pedagogy and practice in world
> literature and e-literacies.
> * Access to and accessibility of world literatures and technologies
> of literacy.
>
>
> Featured Speakers
>
> Carolyn Guyer is author of the hypertext Quibbling, essays on writing
> in the new millennium, co-author with Michael Joyce of Lasting Image,
> and co-ordinator of the Mother Millennia Project-an online collection
> of stories about mothers from around the world.
>
> Cass Dalglish, Professor of English, Augsburg College, Minneapolis,
> and author of Nin, a novel which uncovers and recovers the writings
> of women from Sumerian tablets to the World Wide Web.
>
> Geoffrey Sirc, Horace T. Morse Distinguished Teaching Professor in
> Composition, University of Minnesota, is author of "Never Mind the
> Tagmemics, Where's the Sex Pistols" and many other essays. He works
> in composition, broadly defined, especially where art, technology,
> voice, and writing intersect. His book, _Composition as a Happening
> II_, will be published by NCTE.
>
> International scholars, including Canadians, are invited to apply for
> travel funds generously donated by the President of North Dakota
> State University.
>
> Go to http://www.ndsu.edu/RRCWL for further details about the conference.
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