Below the "read more" fold, I've pasted pretty much everything on the flyer I received for this conference on new media and literacy, which will take place at LSU in February 2005 (no web site that I know of), but here it is if you'd like to see it in its original context. The deadline for proposals is October 15, 2004.

merging word & image:

hybridity and reimagining (new) literacy through media

The 15th Annual Mardi Gras Conference

February 3rd and 4th 2005

Sponsored by the English Graduate Student Association at LSU

Keynote Speaker: Professor Gregory Ulmer

Keynote Artist: Professor W. Steve Rucker

From Logos “the word” to Logo “the icon,” the situation that English Studies finds itself in at the beginning of the 21st century is one of mixed cultures, integrated technologies, and hybrid writing styles. Visual rhetoric is vying for the same status as textual rhetoric, and scientists, educators, and artists continue to utilize a postmodern idea of fragmentation to redefine the stark binaries and boundaries of literacy from critical/personal to art/science to left brain/right brain. The current trend towards hybrid genres creates a new kind of literacy that has gained recognition through interdisciplinary fields, such as film studies, American studies, educational technology studies, and communication studies. This conference invites presentations from all disciplines to explore the relationships between text and image and its impact on literacy.

Possible panels include:

performative, intertextual and/or hypertextual writing

new media practice in the classroom

pedagogical exploration and application of visual literacy

(computer) memory and self: searching for the individual online

fragmentation of identity through fragmented text

somewhere between the written and the oral: using film as a pedagogical tool

photography: a visual text

conferencing the performative paper; performing the conference paper

orality in a textual world

advertising as a cultural mirror

literacy lost, literacy found: medieval women’s writing

Barthes and punctum: memory as text

ethnography: mapping the personal

searching for the diegesis in different mediums

hybrid truths: the nonfiction ego

FragmentNation: the subversion of racial and gender identity markers

The deadline for abstracts (no more than 500 words) is October 15, 2004.

Submit abstracts to: jessicaketcham_reimaginetexts@hotmail.com

Please send questions to: Marla Grupe mmgrupe@aol.com

If you would like to become involved, please contact: Tiffany Walter twalte2@lsu.edu