ATTENTION! EXTENDED DEADLINE

ABSTRACTS DUE: February 16, 2018

CONFERENCE DATE: April 5, 2018

KEYNOTE LECTURER: DR. MITCHUM HUEHLS 

Re/inventions is the annual conference organized by the English Graduate Student Association of California State University, Long Beach. Our goal is to provide a forum in which graduate students and advanced undergraduates may present their academic research in a conference setting. Re/Inventions promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement among students from Southern California and around the globe. 

PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO VIEW OUR CFP http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/english/reinventions/

As we solicit papers which explore the theme Trauma, we ask scholars to consider the various aspects of trauma, including (but not limited to) the following:

• War Trauma

• Violence

• Refugee and Migratory Narratives

• Ecological Trauma

• Industrial Trauma

• Politics/Political

• Collective Trauma

• Individual Trauma

• (Un)acknowledged Trauma

• Gender Trauma

• Historical and Cultural Trauma

• Cyber Trauma

• Pedagogy

• Artistic Representations of Trauma

• Trauma in the Media

• Medical Trauma

• Spiritual Trauma

• Issues of Identity

• Racial Trauma

• Liminal Trauma

• Trauma in Memory

• Trauma of Aesthetic

• Bodily Trauma

• Nonhuman Trauma

• Power Trauma

• Anomic Trauma
  
  
  

This forum is intended for the presentation of academic papers and/or projects, including multimedia presentations. A limited number of creative submissions will also be considered.

SUBMIT ABSTRACTS OF 250-300 WORDS ALONG WITH A CURRENT CV TO: EGSA.CSULB@GMAIL.COM.

Presentations should run for approximately 12 to 15 minutes.