While you're putting together your proposals for CCCC, consider proposing a paper or panel for the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature held October 29-31 in Cortland, NY. Here's the general call for participation.

Haunted by the Future: the Academy's Coming Community
Keynote Speaker: Victor Vitanza, Professor, University of Texas-Arlington
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CNYCLL seeks conference proposals from across the disciplines of literary and cultural studies, languages, and rhetoric-composition for its fourteenth annual meeting. Addressing the conference theme is not a requirement, though it will be appreciated.

How will we as individual intellectuals, but also as members of various scholarly and academic communities, address a future so often described in terms of globalization and information technologies? If twentieth-century humanities developed in both support and opposition of nationalism and industrialization, how do we foresee the practices of the coming generation of humanists? Our theme’s reference to “haunting” suggests how our ideas of the future might be seen as uncanny projections of repressed or silenced pasts. The “coming community,” then, to borrow Giorgio Agamben’s phrase, asks us to consider a new “belonging” within and between the academic communities in which we now participate.

Please visit our website http://www.cnycll.com for information on existing panels seeking individual proposals.

Deadline for submissions is July 15, 2004.

Questions, comments, and submissions may be sent directly to the conference director:
Alex Reid
CNYCLL Director
English Department
PO Box 2000
SUNY-Cortland
Cortland, NY 13045
e-mail: reida@cortland.edu
phone: 607.753.2069
fax: 607.753. 5978
web: http://www.cnycll.com