8 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, April 19
‘Significations’ to feature acclaimed Malaysian writer Shirley Lim
invited to converge at Cal State L.A.
Los Angeles, CA – Sexual purity, violence and healing, language and literacy, and ethical and aesthetic journeys are among topics to be addressed at “Significations: 13th Annual CSU Graduate Conference,” organized by Cal State L.A.’s English Graduate Student Association and Associated Students, Inc.
A forum for English graduate students from campuses throughout the CSU system to share their recent research in their current fields of literary and cultural study, the conference will be held Saturday, April 19, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., at the Golden Eagle Ballroom, on the Cal State L.A. campus.
The keynote speaker will be prominent Malaysian writer Shirley Geok-lin Lim, author of the recently published children’s novel, Princess Shawl. Lim is professor of English at UC Santa Barbara whose research focuses on Asian-American and post-colonial cultural productions and ethnic and feminist writing. An acclaimed writer of both critical and creative works, Lim edited/co-edited The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology, which received the 1990 American Book Award. Her first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula (1980), received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She has also has received the Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer award and the J. T. Stewart Hedgebrook award.
Panel presentations to be featured throughout the conference include the following:
- “Aesthetic and Sexual Purity in Faulkner”
- “Narrating Terror and Violence in the Americas”
- “Reconfiguring Women: Explorations of Femininity and the Female”
- “Genres of Creative Writing”
- “Art and Authority in African American Literature”
- “Issues in Language and Literacy”
- “Rewriting the History of Modernism: American Women Writers”
- “Creative Writing: Works about Violence and Healing”
- “Embodied Spaces: The Mapping of American Identities”
- “The Place of the Personal: Ethical and Aesthetic Journeys”
- “Language and Identity: Connecting and Controlling Bodies”
- “Imperialism, Gender, and Sexuality”
For more information or a complete schedule, call the CSULA English Department at (323) 343-4140 or go to www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/nsign2008.htm.
WHAT:
Cal State L.A. to present “Significations: 13th Annual CSU Graduate Conference.“
WHEN:
8 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, April 19; welcome begins at 8:35 a.m. with panel presentations to follow.
WHERE:
Golden Eagle Ballroom, on the Cal State L.A. campus. Public permit dispenser parking available at the upper level of Parking Structure C. Campus map or directions: www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamap.htm
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