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CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the intersections between critical and creative approaches to writing both within and outside the academy. This year’s conference will examine the ways in which culture, in any of its aspects—products, works, forms, behaviors, institutions, etc.—is produced, distributed, manipulated, interpreted, and consumed. The conference encourages inquiry from a range of disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences. We invite the submission of critical, theoretical and original creative work in a variety of media (including film, video, music, writing, visual art, artists’ books, etc.). This year’s conference highlights will include a keynote presentation by Duke University’s Frances Fox Professor of Literature, Janice Radway. The conference will be held April 8-10, 2005, at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Communities of readers
- Cultures as texts (and critiques thereof)
- Popular culture and reader revisions/rewriting (slash, fanfic, etc.)
- Reader response and reader practices
- Influence of the marketplace: censorship, editing, advertising, etc.
- Adaptation, transformation, & distortion
- Translation and cultural reproduction
- Text and image
- Cultures of collecting
- Authorship and publishing
- Fakes and frauds
- Libraries and museums: cultural capital, public access, politics of space, preservation
- Digital cultures, digital texts
- Space, place, and geography
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