(dis)junctions 2006: lost in translation
  University of California Riverside
  April 7-8, 2006
  Updates:
  Keynote Speaker Announced
  Deadlines Extended: February 28, 2006
   
  We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be James Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California. His recent works include _Annoying the Victorians_ (1995), _Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting_ (1998), and _A History of the African-American People (proposed) by Strom Thurmond: a Novel_ (as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid) (2004).
   
  This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the University of California, Riverside's 13th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 7-8, 2006.
   
  We invite papers on medieval literature from the Anglo-Saxon period dealing with the changing nature of power. How do the shifting monarchies and the church view power and leadership? Who is in charge as society faces constant change? Proposals from all disciplines are welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
  -The power of kings
  -Invading pagans
  -Invading missionaries
  -Church and state
  -Roman power/influence
  -Bede
  -The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  -Kinship loyalties
  -Papal power
   
  Please send 250-word abstracts to aduvalle_at_prodigy.net by February 28, 2006 (text in body of message; please no attachments).
   
  For more information please visit:
  http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions
   
   
   
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