Assuming Gender
An International Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

Venue: Gregynog Hall, University of Wales, Newtown, Wales.
Date: 27-29 May 2008

Organised by the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory
School of English, Communication, and Philosophy
Cardiff University, Wales, UK

Plenary Speakers
Professor Krishna Sen (Calcutta)
Second to be confirmed

Call for Papers

• ‘To adopt, choose, elect, to some position’
• ‘To take upon oneself, put on (a garb, aspect, form, or
character)’
• ‘To lay claim to, appropriate, arrogate, usurp’
• ‘To take for granted as the basis of argument or action’

“Evolving Intertextualities: Voices, Visions, and Virtualities”

March 28-29, 2008
University of Alaska Anchorage

Keynote Speakers
Dr. Bruce McComiskey, University of Alabama, specialist in rhetoric and
composition, classical rhetoric, and
professional writing. Author of Teaching Composition as a Social Process
and Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric.

Dr. Lisa Surridge, University of Victoria, specialist in Victorian Studies,
with a particular focus on the relation
between gender studies and the Victorian novel. Author of Bleak Houses:
Marital Violence and Victorian Fiction.

CFP: Aesthetics, Politics & Marketing of Asian American Genre Fiction
(1/10/08; ALA/CAALS, 5/22/08- 5/25/08)