CFP: How Fear and Loathing Create Borders Between Cultures (11/10/06; 4/24/06-4/26/06)
San Antonio College
13th Annual Multicultural Conference
Call for Papers
Fear and Loathing: The Springboards of Modern Culture
April 24-26, 2007
Fear and demonization have been some of the most powerful forces enlisted to
create borders between cultures. The call to build a wall between the US &
Mexico, the terms Islamofascism, and surrender monkies, the glorification of
violence in popular media-all are current expressions of fear and
loathing. In America's past we have seen fear and loathing expressed in
regard to Fascism, the Red Scare, the KKK, Japanese internment camps, the
Reservation system, deportations of foreigners, eradications of languages
other than English.
For our thirteenth annual Multicultural Conference we request papers that
deal with the use of fear and loathing- as played out in culture, in the
arts, in politics, in business, in the legal system-in fashioning both
past and present cultural and ethnic divisions.
We invite faculty, administrators, and staff to participate in delivering
presentations or reading creative works within the conference
theme.
Those wishing to present should submit via email a paper title and a 100-150
word abstract outlining the proposed topic and mode of
presentation. Individuals interested in reading creative works should
submit samples of their work. Completed manuscripts should not
exceed 10 double-spaced pages of typescript so that papers can be presented
in a twenty-minute presentation. (Individual submissions
only.)
Final selection of conference participants will be made by November 30,
2006.
Deadline for Submissions: November 10, 2006
SEND TO:
Laurie Lopez Coleman
English Department
San Antonio College
1300 San Pedro Avenue
San Antonio, Texas 78212-4299
Email: lcoleman_at_mail.accd.edu
Conference Coordinator Juanita Luna-Lawhn
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