Multi-Discursion: Remapping the Topography of Thought
Multi-Discursions: Remapping the Topography of Thought
A colloquium hosted by Sigma Tau Delta Iota Chi Chapter, sponsored in part by the Department of English at California State University, Northridge.
Saturday, April 25, 2015
California State University, Northridge
Italo Calvino once asked, "Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?" And while this question maintains its relevance, it is about time we turn our attention away from the individual, the "we," and ask this question of the texts we produce and the environments in which they are produced.
Texts, like the minds that produce them, exist in a state of perpetual movement outwards through space and time. This occurs despite the constrictions of discourse, of discipline, or genre. The boundaries we tend to operate within are either proponents of stagnancy or archaic in their limitations, closing off possibilities more than it opens up, just waiting for contemporary voices and approaches to remap the pathways of thought, to reopen the field of the study.
We are calling for works that find themselves within, between, and crossing these pre-established pathways, forging into unfamiliar territory. We want works that define, merge, or shatter the boundaries between established discourses, genres, works that are multi-disciplinary in nature that attempt to discover, uncover, bridge, and forge new pathways of thought.
We welcome graduate and undergraduate papers, panels, and creative works that include but are not limited to:
• Interdisciplinary Studies
• World Literatures
• Blended and Multi-Genre Writing: Hybridity, Liminality, Interstitiality
• Poetry, Poetics, Lyric Essays
• Unlikely Juxtapositions
• Identity, Identities, Identification(s)
• Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies
• Multi-Genre Approaches to English Studies
Please submit project, paper, and panel abstracts to sigmataudeltaiotachi@gmail.com by Saturday, December 27, 2014. Individual project and paper abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words. 500 words for panel abstracts.