Call for Papers

Women Writing and Reading: Past and Present, Local and Global

4-6 May 2007
At the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

This three day conference, being held at the University of Alberta,
offers a forum for academics and the wider community to discuss
issues around the theme of women as writers and readers. The aim of
the conference is to explore these issues in the past and present,
and in a local and global context. We invite contributions from a
wide variety of perspectives – social, literary, artistic,
historical, political, economic, scientific, legal, philosophical,
and so on. What, why, and how do women read and write? What
conditions shape women's reading and writing? What is the
relationship between women's reading and writing?

We are seeking proposals that engage with these questions in
innovative ways. The scope of the conference also includes performing
and creative arts. Presentations may be in the form of individual
papers, entire panels, workshops, creative pieces, performance, film
or video, multimedia projects, and any other alternative formats.
Individual presentations should be 20 minutes long, for inclusion in
a 90 minute session with plenty of time for discussion and feedback.
A selection of papers will be published. Early submission is
encouraged. Deadline for proposals is 28 February.

Please send proposals of 300 words to the conference organizers by
email or regular mail to: wwr2007_at_ualberta.ca or
Patricia Demers
Gary Kelly
Department of English and Film Studies
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
T6G 2E5

For more information about the conference, please see our website:
http://www.crcstudio.arts.ualberta.ca/wwr_conference
Received on Fri Aug 11 2006 - 16:08:35 EDT