ENGLISH SUBJECT CENTRE
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
The English Subject Centre is holding an International three-day Conference
at Senate House, University of London, July 17-19, 2003
www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/intconf
Plenary Speakers:Jonathan Bate,Catherine Belsey,Ronald Carter,
Ato Quayson,Elaine Showalter
'English: The Condition of the Subject'will present a major opportunity to
review current practice in English.Its prime aim is to reflect upon how
English has been constituted in the classroom through the changes of the
last ten years, how its manifestation in teaching lives alongside its
manifestation in research, and what the future of English might be.The
conference will be organised through themes, and the prime theme will
be the curriculum.Therefore papers (or strands of papers) are invited on
the topic of teaching particular curriculum areas.
Questions asked at the conference will also include:
·What is the condition of English now, and how are its subjects
(the curriculum, the students, lecturers and scholarship) constituted?
·How have the mechanisms governing our professional lives in the modern
university, and the culture of professionalism itself, affected the
subject?
·What is the English 'class' and how are we changing it or reinforcing it?
·Is English a subject without centre or margins? Where is the 'literary' to
be located or reinvented?
And the following broad topics will be under review:
·Interdisciplinary work, subject boundaries, context
·Global English
·Future of academic publishing
·Language and literature
·Theory: for and against
·Teaching creative writing
·The value and point of English
Papers are invited on any of these and related themes. There will also be
Seminar Strands (comprising three seminars of six papers)
co-ordinated by individual (or joint) Chairs to allow sustained discussion
on particular themes. The organisers will be pleased to help with the
co-ordination of seminar strands where appropriate.To
register:www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/intconf
If you wish to propose a paper or a seminar strand, please send an abstract
(no more than 200 words for a paper and 350 words for a seminar strand) to
the Subject Centre by 31st January 2003. All proposals should be addressed
to the Director, Professor Philip Martin
[log in to unmask]:English Subject Centre Tel:01784 443221
Carol Eckersley (Mrs), Administrator,
English Subject Centre
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
Tel:01784 443221Fax:01784 470684
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http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/
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