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Craft Critique
Culture is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the intersections
among critical and creative approaches to writing both within and beyond the
academy. This year's conference will explore the dialectical relationship
between the periphery and center, specifically questioning the nature, theory,
practice or role of the periphery.

This year's keynote presentations
will include Michal Kobialka and Jane Lewty. Michal Kobialka, a Department of
Theatre Arts and Dance professor at University of Minnesota, studies medieval
theatre historiography and postmodern theatre. Recent Writers' Workshop
graduate Jane Lewty examines the intersection of analytical and expressionistic
prose discourses.

We invite submissions of critical,
theoretical, and original creative work in a variety of media and across the
humanities, sciences, and legal disciplines. In the past, submissions have included not only traditional scholarly
papers but also film, video, music, writing, visual art and artists' books.

Possible topics include, but are
not limited to:

·        
Postmodernity

·        
New media literature

·        
Avant-garde and
experimental literature, art and film

·        
Marginalia and other book
studies

·        
Subcultures

·        
Subaltern communities

·        
Queer studies

·        
Political radicalism

·        
Politics of marginalization

·        
Extremism

·        
Cults

·        
Border studies

·        
Native American
reservations

·        
Homelessness

·        
Target marketing

·        
Social work

·        
Disability studies

Please submit paper abstracts of no more than 350 words — creative
presentations also accepted. Full panels (featuring three papers) may also be
proposed. Each panel proposal should consist of three paper abstracts and a
brief explanation of the panel's purpose and relevance to the conference. Each
panel submission should total no more than 1,500 words. Please include name,
institutional affiliation (if applicable), street address, telephone number,
and email address on all abstracts and proposals. Please submit all paper
abstracts or panel proposals to:

Melanie Reichwald
308 English-Philosophy Building
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

or by email at: melanie-reichwald at uiowa DOT edu.

Submission deadline is December 18,
2009.