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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 Alternative Histories History as Tragedy
History as Farce Subaltern Studies Area Studies The Idea of Periods
Museum Culture Collective Memory The History Channel Nostalgia
Oliver Stone Period Pieces and Costume Dramas Nietzsche
Documentary The End of History Biography and Autobiography
Psychohistory Evidence and Archive History at the Margins "oWomenAEs
History Month"oePhotography The Bridge to the Future "oBlackHistory
Month"oe 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:
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For more information contact the above address.
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