Cultural Frictions Conference on the Web

Conference Home Page:
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/conf/cs95/

Index of Conference Papers:
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/conf/cs95/papers/

Join in the first Medieval Cultural Studies conference and the first conference in the Humanities on the Web.

Papers:
Unfolding the Middle Ages

Vance Smith and Michael Uebel, "Leaving the Fold" Leslie Dunton-Downer, "The Horror of Culture" Robert Stein, "Medieval, Modern, Post-Modern: The Middle Ages

in a Post-Modern Perspective"

Bounding Culture

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, "Masoch / Lancelotism" Steven F. Kruger, "Medieval Christian (Dis)identifications:

Muslims and Jews in Guibert of Nogent" Kathleen Biddick, "English-America: Curricular Masks/Imperial

Phantasmatics"

Queering Medieval Culture

Robert L.A. Clark and Claire Sponsler, "Queer Play: The Cultural

Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama" Glenn Burger, "Queer Performativity and the Natural in Chaucer's

Physician's and Pardoner's Tales" Sarah Stanbury, "Visibility Politics in Chaucer's Knight's Tale"

The Circulation of Cultural Bodies

Martin Irvine, "The Pen(is), Castration, and Subjectivity: Abelard's

Negotiations of Gender" Andrew Galloway, "Private Selves and the Intellectual Marketplace in

Late 14th Century England: The Case of the Two Usks" JoAnn Moran, "Homosexuality and the Romance of the Rose"

Each paper has a comment form (and allows for comments on comments also), and all comments posted from participants around the world will be read and discussed at the local conference at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, October 27-28.

The comment form will work with any WWW browser, Lynx to Netscape.

Some discussion lists have already begun a lively discussion and debate about the issues raised by the conference and various arguments in the papers. I'd like to extend a personal invitation to respond to the papers on the Web and have your comments become part of the conference itself.

The Web facilitates a new way of "acting locally but thinking globally", and we hope this way of holding a conference can be a model for opening up discussions unconstrained by the limitations of meeting at one place and time.

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