*****Cultural Frictions Conference on the Web*****
*Papers now available for reading and commenting!*
Conference Home Page:
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/conf/cs95/
Index of Conference Papers:
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/conf/cs95/papers/
Join in the first Medieval Cultural Studies conference
and the first conference in the Humanities on the Web.
Papers:
Unfolding the Middle Ages
Vance Smith and Michael Uebel, "Leaving the Fold"
Leslie Dunton-Downer, "The Horror of Culture"
Robert Stein, "Medieval, Modern, Post-Modern: The Middle Ages
in a Post-Modern Perspective"
Bounding Culture
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, "Masoch / Lancelotism"
Steven F. Kruger, "Medieval Christian (Dis)identifications:
Muslims and Jews in Guibert of Nogent"
Kathleen Biddick, "English-America: Curricular Masks/Imperial
Phantasmatics"
Queering Medieval Culture
Robert L.A. Clark and Claire Sponsler, "Queer Play: The Cultural
Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama"
Glenn Burger, "Queer Performativity and the Natural in Chaucer's
Physician's and Pardoner's Tales"
Sarah Stanbury, "Visibility Politics in Chaucer's Knight's Tale"
The Circulation of Cultural Bodies
Martin Irvine, "The Pen(is), Castration, and Subjectivity: Abelard's
Negotiations of Gender"
Andrew Galloway, "Private Selves and the Intellectual Marketplace in
Late 14th Century England: The Case of the Two Usks"
JoAnn Moran, "Homosexuality and the Romance of the Rose"
Each paper has a comment form (and allows for comments
on comments also), and all comments posted from participants
around the world will be read and discussed at the
local conference at Georgetown University, Washington, DC,
October 27-28.
The comment form will work with any WWW browser, Lynx to
Netscape.
Some discussion lists have already begun a lively discussion
and debate about the issues raised by the conference and various
arguments in the papers. I'd like to extend a personal
invitation to respond to the papers on the Web and have your
comments become part of the conference itself.
The Web facilitates a new way of "acting locally but thinking
globally", and we hope this way of holding a conference can
be a model for opening up discussions unconstrained by the
limitations of meeting at one place and time.
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Martin Irvine, Chair, Cultural Frictions Committee
Director, Communication, Culture, and Technology
Georgetown University
irvinemj@gusun.georgetown.edu
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