Rapoport Center’s fall Human Rights
Happy Hour speaker series
Mon, September 19, 2011 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM • Law School
Rapoport Center’s fall Human Rights Happy Hour speaker series has a terrific line-up,
and we can join for any or all of the talks, which will all take place on Monday
afternoons from 3:30-5:30 at the Law School. The specific room locations are listed
below each talk.
We have a number of other exciting events that we are sponsoring or co-sponsoring in the
fall. We will be in touch with more information on those events in the coming days.
September 19, 2011
Inderpal Grewal
Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
"Humanitarian Citizenship and Race: Katrina and the Global War on Terror"
Co-sponsored by the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies
Location: Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111)
National Book Award Finalist, Karen Tei
Yamashita, reading from her novel, IHotel
Tue, September 20, 2011 • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM • The Etter-Harbin Alumni
Center, The Connally Banquet Hall at 2110 San Jacinto Boulevard,
Austin, TX 78712
With humor and tender humanity, Karen Tei Yamashita's I-Hotel centers on an iconic site
in Asian American history -- the International Hotel -- epicenter of the Yellow Power
Movement. Yamashita's novel about the Asian American civil rights movement presents
a kaleidoscope of the ideals and conflicts, experiments and personalities that
characterized the emergence of Asian American identity, culture, and community in the
turbulent 1960s.
About the author: Heralded as a "big talent" by the Los Angeles Times, Karen Tei
Yamashita is an American Book Award and Janet Heidinger Kafka Award winner. A
California native who has also lived in Brazil and Japan, she is Professor of Literature
and Creative Writing at the University of California-Santa Cruz, where she received the
Chancellor's Award for Diversity in 2009.
Stanley Lombardo Love Stories from
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Wed, September 21, 2011 • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM • Jessen Auditorium,
Homer Rainey Hall 2.104
Love stories from his new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Dr. Lombardo has delighted UT and Austin audiences for many years with his thrilling
renditions of epic tales from the classical world.
American Studies Fall Film Series: Island
in the Sun
Wed, September 21, 2011 • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM • PAR 203
The American Studies department is happy to announce the re-start of the
American Studies Film Series for the 2011-2012 school year. This year our theme is "The
'Other' Americans." We'll be looking at a wide variety of films dealing with the
interactions between the U.S. and the people and nations of the rest of the Western
Hemisphere. We've got island paradises and private armies, drug smugglers and
cartoon llamas.
I FILM DEL CIRCOLO ITALIANO: Le
Quattro Volte
Thu, September 22, 2011 • 8:00 PM • MEZ B0 306.100
Thursday September 22 THE FOUR TIMES (Frammartino, 2010)
Autunno 2011 Fall 2011
I FILM DEL CIRCOLO ITALIANO
Alle 20:00 a MEZ B0.306 100
Tutti i film sono in italiano con sottotitoli in inglese, eccetto l'ultimo, in italiano con
sottotitoli in italiano
Per ulteriori informazioni contattare
At 8:00pm in MEZ B0 306 100 (in the basement)
All films are in Italian with English subtitles
The Annual British Studies Shakespeare
Talk and 2011 Cranfill Shakespeare
Lecture
Fri, September 23, 2011 • 3:00 PM • Prothro Theater, Harry Ransom
Center
What’s for Dinner on a Desert Island: Feast and Famine in The TempestProfessor
Leonard Barkan, Princeton University
Friday, September 23 at 3:00 p.m.in the Prothro Theatre, Harry Ransom Center
If one dips below the surface of The Tempest, even slightly, one discovers that the
question of food and drink is intriguingly pervasive. No surprise, since the early modern
literature about unknown worlds beyond Europe was often obsessed with the question of
what (or who) was eaten in those far-off places. Caliban's menu, Stephano's wine cask,
the sumptuous banquet that magically appears and disappears in front of the hungry
travellers: these add up to a significant dimension of the play. Leonard Barkan is the
Class of 1943 University Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative
Literature at Princeton University where he has taught courses on subjects including
Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Narcissus, Word and Image, and Comedy. He is the author
of more than a half-dozen books; the most recent, Michelangelo: A Life on Paper, was
published in November 2010. He is also a regular contributor to publications in both the
U.S. and Italy, where he writes on the subject of food and wine. A recipient of the
Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he has
been a professor of English and of Art History at universities including Northwestern,
Michigan, and N.Y.U.
"Religion and Political Liberty in EarlyModern Italian Political Thought (13001500)"
Mon, September 26, 2011 • 4:00 PM • BAT 5.108
The Department of Government and the Joe R. Long Chair Lectures in Political
Philosophy present a lecture by Maurizio Viroli, Professor of Political Theory at
Princeton University, entitled "Religion and Political Liberty in Early-Modern Italian
Political Thought (1300-1500)".
Mary Beard, Cambridge University:
Topic: the "Roman Joke Book"
Tue, September 27, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM • Bellmont Hall 328 (west
side of football stadium)
This does not include the recent pronouncements from the church in Rome about child
molestation. Annual William J. Battle Lecture sponsored by the Department of Classics.
Reception will follow.
Turkish Film Series: Sifir Dedigimde/On
The Count of Zero
Tue, September 27, 2011 • 6:00 PM • PAR 101
The Turkish Film Series presents:
Sifir Dedigimde/On The Count of Zero
Gökhan Yorgancıgil, 2007, 90 minutes
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
6:00 pm
PAR 101
A young girl loses a precious book borrowed from her teacher. Unable to remember
where and how she lost it, the girl becomes depressed and is taken by her best friend to a
psychiatrist who helps her to find the book through hypnosis. In that realm she meets a
strange man. In the real world, a thrilling chase reveals long forgotten people and events
as the story juxtaposes traditional Turkish fairy-tales and modern-day psychotherapy.
Turkish with English Subtitles.
Film: Vodka Lemon (2003), 101 min
Wed, September 28, 2011 • 7:00 PM • PAI 4.42
Film: Vodka Lemon (2003), 101 min
September 28, 2011 • 7:00 PM • PAI 4.42 Painter Hall, corner of 24th and
University Ave.
Winner of Best Film at the Venice Film Festival, Vodka Lemon is a bittersweet
concoction with a kick. In the snowy badlands of post-Soviet Armenia, village life is
nearing subsistence level. As one character says, the only thing the Russians have left for
them is the one thing they didn’t have before – their freedom.
Forced to sell off possessions while awaiting money from his son, Hamo, a former Red
Army officer, can only count on one thing: daily trips to the cemetery to commune with
his late wife. There, Nina, a beautiful widow, tends her husband’s grave. On the bus back
to the village, a tender romance blossoms.
The miracle of Vodka Lemon, the third feature by exiled Iraqi Kurd director Hiner
Saleem, is that this portrait of an abandoned community is so magically upbeat. With its
stunning, blinding-white vistas, its lovely Armenian score, and its Iosseliani-esque
whimsy, the film celebrates its quirky characters and, at its heart, s a Chagall-like vision
of love among the ruins
A educação do negro brasileiro responsabilidades, negligência e
inclusão
Thu, September 29, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM • BEN 2.104
A talk by Brazilian writer Ana Maria Gonçalves for her novel "Um defeito de Cor"
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Brazil Center/LLILAS, and the Warfield
Center for African and African American Studies cordially invite you for "A educação
do negro brasileiro - responsabilidades, negligência e inclusão,” a talk by Brazilian
writer Ana Maria Gonçalves, winner of the Casa de las Américas prize (2007) for her
novel Um defeito de cor.
Thursday, September 29, BEN 2.104, 4-5PM
Ana Maria Gonçalves will also speak on her life and work on Friday, September 30,
Hackett Room (SRH 1.313), LLILAS, 12-1PM.
Ana Maria Gonçalves is the author of Ao lado e à margem do que sentes por mim (2002)
and Um defeito de cor (2006). Her work has also appeared in short-story anthologies in
Portugal and Italy. Gonçalves currently lives in New Orleans, LA, having taught courses
at Tulane University as a writer-in-residence. She has also worked as a writer-inresidence at Stanford University (2008) and Middlebury College (2009).
Film: Kontroll (2003), 106 min
Wed, October 5, 2011 • 7:00 PM • PAI 4.42
Film: Kontroll (2003), 106 min
October 5, 2011 • 7:00 PM • PAI 4.42 Painter Hall, corner of 24th and University
Ave.
A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, his fellow inspectors, a rival ticket inspection
team, and a tale about love…
The Budapest subway system, the world’s second oldest, is a dark, labyrinthine
netherworld as vast and various as the city above it. Of the hordes of people who can be
found there, most are passing through on their ways to better, brighter places, where
sunlight shines and fresh breezes blow. But, there are those who spend most of their lives
underground – the beleaguered ticket inspectors or “controllers,” who are assigned in
teams to various sections of the systems, and whose thankless job it is to ensure that no
passengers ride without paying. Deployed by those in control – unseen authority figures
who monitor the trains and travelers on massive grids and screens – these inspector teams
are a much-despised lot. Who, on his way to work or to an appointment, wants to be
stopped and asked for a receipt? And who, having sneaked though a turnstile, wants to be
apprehended by pretty officers who represent power at its most powerless?
"The Companions of Muhammad and the
Formation of Orthodoxy in Medieval
Islam"
Thu, October 6, 2011 • 5:00 PM • Texas Union, Governor's Room (3.116)
The Workshop on Late Antiquity presents:
"The Companions of Muhammad and the Formation of Orthodoxy in Medieval
Islam"
A talk by Nancy Khalek, Brown University
The historical origins of Islamic political and religious identity have recently attracted the
increased attention of academics across disciplines. More than ever before, Religious
Studies, Anthropology, and Political Theory are influencing how scholars of the history
of Islam conduct their research. One of the most compelling issues at stake is whether a
theory of the formation of political and religious identity is traceable to the earliest period
of the Islamic Empire. Early Islamic leadership centered on how the early community
exercised, legitimized, and contested authority. At the heart of any investigation into
religious and political authority in the early days of Islam lie the networks of power and
persuasion among the Companions. The question of the authority of the Companions—
and the variety of answers to that question—forms the epistemological foundation of the
multiple orthodoxies that would eventually come to fruition in the medieval Islamic
world.
Japan Seminar: Specialization and
Happiness in Marriage: A U.S.- Japan
Comparison
Fri, October 7, 2011 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • Meyerson Conference Room,
WCH 4.118
We examine the relationship between specialization and happiness in marriage in the
U.S. and Japan. Our findings, based on the General Social Surveys in the U.S. and Japan,
indicate both similarities and differences in the determinants of marital happiness in the
two countries. In the U.S., the findings are mixed. Women's reported marital happiness in
the U.S. is more likely to follow the predictions of the bargaining model where their
happiness is determined by their own income. Men's marital happiness in the U.S.
follows the predictions of the specialization model; they are happier if their wives are not
working or, alternatively, if they are financially dependent on their wives. In Japan, we
find support for the specialization model, particularly in the case of women; they are
happier if they are specialized in the household and they have a higher household income.
Our research highlights how marital quality is affected by the institutional context and the
normative environment.
Dr. Hiroshi Ono is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Texas
A&M University. His areas of interest are Economic Sociology, Stratification and
Inequality, Work and Labor Markets, and International Business.
American Studies Fall Film Series: The
Border
Wed, October 12, 2011 • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM • MEZ 1.306
Film: Khadak (2006), 101 min
Wed, October 12, 2011 • 7:00 PM • PAI 4.42
Film: Khadak (2006), 101 min
October 12, 2011 • 7:00 PM • PAI 4.42 Painter Hall, corner of 24th and University
Ave.
Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after
animals fall victim to a plague that threatens to eradicate nomadism.
“Khadak is a magical-realist fable that tells the epic story of Bagi, a young nomad
shepherd who confronts his destiny to become a shaman. After a plague strikes their herd,
Bagi and his family are relocated to a mining town. There, he saves the life of Zolzaya, a
beautiful performer/coal thief. When Bagi discovers the plague was a government lie
fabricated to eradicate nomadic life, he and Zolzaya incite a revolution. Bagi’s shaman
powers help rally his people, but will they ever be able to return to their former lives?”
October 13, 2011
Pulitzer-winning writer Jennifer Egan reads her work
Time:
Thrusday October 14, 2011 7:30-9:30
p.m.
The Michener Center for Writers presents a talk and reading by Jennifer
Description Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel "A Visit
:
from the Goon Squad." Egan's other works include "The Invisible Circus,"
which was released as a feature film in 2001, "Emerald City and Other
Stories," "Look at Me" and the bestselling "The Keep."
Applied Computational Engineering & Science Building (ACE) Avaya
Location:
Auditorium, 2.302
Sponsor:
Michener Center for Writers Like the John 21:25 class at ubcaustin.org
Leslie Kurke, U.C. Berkeley: "Imagining
Chorality: Plato's Puppets, Wonder,
and Moving Statues"
Fri, October 14, 2011 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM • Waggener Hall 116 (Classics
Lounge)
An initial look into the way a choral presentation might look and sound in preparation for
considering the making of the Oratorio based on Song of Songs in the spring.
Visiting Artist Program presents Jon Rafman
Time:
Monday, October 17, 2011 5-6 p.m.
Attend a lecture by visiting artist Jon Rafman. Rafman often acts as a
cyberspace anthropologist, exploring areas of the Internet such as social
media and Web mapping sites. In his work, he represents automated,
"neutral" documentations of our world via Google Maps and conducts
Description
guided tours of Second Life, providing sociological glimpses at varied
:
online subcultures.
Through these almost curatorial efforts, Rafman questions ideas of privacy
and surveillance and seeks, in a sense, to "humanize" digital media.
Rafman, who lives and works in Montreal, received an M.F.A. at the Art
Institute of Chicago in 2008. His work has been seen in exhibitions at
venues such as The New Museum, New York; Museo d'Arte
Contemporanea di Roma, Italy; Johan Berggren Gallery, Sweden; and the
2010 Ars Electronica Festival, Austria.
Location:
Time:
Each year, the Visiting Artists Program in the Department of Art and Art
History brings internationally known artists during fall semester to give
lectures and seminars, and to meet with graduate students for critiques.
Art Building (ART) 1.102
Monday, October 17, 2011 6:30-8 p.m.
Sterling Allen, founder and co-director of Okay Mountain, discusses his
work, followed by a Q&A.
This edition of Art in Practice is presented in conjunction with the course
"Performing Critique" (ART 382), taught by Risa Puleo, assistant curator of
Description contemporary art at the Blanton Museum of Art, and takes as its premise the
:
idea that art is a conversation.
Allen received his B.F.A. in studio art from The University of Texas at
Austin in 2003. In 2006, together with eight other Austin artists, he founded
Okay Mountain. As a solo artist and in collaboration with Okay Mountain,
he has exhibited and created numerous projects at venues throughout the
United States and received several residencies, including the Artpace
International Artist-In-Residence Program in San Antonio, Texas. He is
currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Sculpture at the Milton Avery Graduate
School of Arts at Bard College.
Location:
Art in Practice provides guidance and insight into the professional world to
students preparing for careers in the arts. Varying topics of conversation
range from a nuts-and-bolts approach to gaining valuable job skills to broad
issues relevant to creative culture as a whole.
Art Building (ART) 1.110
Turkish Film Series: Korkuyorum Anne/
What's a Human Anyway?
Wed, October 19, 2011 • 6:00 PM • PAR 101
The Turkish Film Series Presents:
Korkuyorum Anne / What's a Human Anyway?
Reha Erdem, 2007, 128 minutes
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
6:00 pm
PAR 101
Set in an urban apartment building where neighbors, friends and family live in close
quarters, this film focuses on male protagonists exploring the three phases of moving into
manhood in Turkish society. In this circus-like environment, a little boy refuses to be
circumcised, a young man refuses to do his military service, and a 30-year-old man
refuses to leave home. A sweet comedy...
Turkish with English Subtitles.
Research, Reconstruction, and Breaking
Boundaries in the Xiangtangshan Caves
Project
Fri, October 28, 2011 • 3:00 PM • Auditorium, Art Building
Talk by Dr. Katherine R. Tsiang, Associate Director, Center for the Art of East Asia,
Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Reception and digital demonstration at 2:00 PM • Art History Conference Room,
DFA 2.506
The exhibition “Echoes of the Past” is the result of a multiple-year research project
entitled “The Xiangtangshan Caves Project: Reconstruction and Recontextualization”
begun in 2004 with two major components—new digital imaging systems and more
traditional forms of academic research. The exhibition brings together strikingly fine
examples of the limestone sculptures from the caves which have not been seen together
since they were taken from the caves as much as a hundred years ago and displays them
together with digital imaging installations, a video, interactive touch screen monitors and
a virtual or digital cave which present the Xiangtangshan caves and their sculptures in
spatial, geographic, historical, cultural and religious contexts.
On the first and most obvious level, reconstruction was necessary because the
sculptures seen in the exhibition were removed from sixth century Buddhist cave temples
in northern China. Displayed as works of art in museum galleries outside of their original
groupings and cave contexts, their meaning and places in design of the caves as a whole
were lost. The caves themselves could not be studied in depth without more information
about their former appearance. The Northern Qi caves associated with the name
Xiangtangshan today are located at 3 sites in southern Hebei Province, near the Northern
Qi capital at Ye. These are known as the Northern Xiangtangshan, Southern
Xiangtangshan and Shuiyusi Caves. All have suffered severe damage beginning in the
early 20th century before the earliest known photographs of the sites. Through a
combination of visual analysis and imaging technology, substantial theoretical
reconstruction can now be proposed, and the locations of many pieces can be
demonstrated irrefutably with the 3D digital imaging. The study of the caves can be
approached through various other perspectives including social and cultural history, and
history of Buddhist thought and practice. The talk presents some analysis and elaboration
of the multiple aspects and levels of reconstruction: methodologies, results, and also
limitations.
“Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan” is currently on
view in Dallas, http://smu.edu/meadowsmuseum/about_China_Caves.htm
Rapoport Center’s fall Human Rights
Happy Hour speaker series
October 31, 2011 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM •
Law School Youk Chhang
Executive Director, Documentation Center of Cambodia John Ciorciari
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor
"Archiving Memory after Mass Atrocities"
Co-sponsored by the School of Social Work, The Schusterman Center
for Jewish Studies, the School of Undergraduate Studies, and the
Embrey Human Rights Program at SMU
Location: Jeffers Courtroom (TNH 3.140)
Turkish Film Series: Yahsi Bati/The
Ottoman Cowboys
Thu, November 10, 2011 • 6:00 PM • MEZ 2.124
The Turkish Film Series presents
Yahsi Bati/The Ottoman Cowboys
Ömer Faruk Sorak, 2007, 128 minutes
Thursday, November 10, 2011
6:00 pm
MEZ 2.124
Two special agents, Aziz and Lemi, are tasked by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire with
delivering a diamond as a gift to the American President [James A. Garfield]. As they
ride on a stagecoach across the American Wild West, they are robbed of the diamond by
some bandits and left stranded without any money. A tough cowgirl, Suzan Van Dyke
(a.k.a. Calamity Janevari) joins them on their quest...
Turkish with English Subtitles.
Rapoport Center’s fall Human Rights
Happy Hour speaker series
November 14, 2011 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM • Law School
Henry Steiner
Professor of Law, Harvard University
"Muslims in Europe: Culture Shock, Cultural Clash, Human Rights"
Location: Goolsby Conference Suite (JON 5.206/5.207/5.208)
"A Biography of Job"
Wed, November 16, 2011 • 5:00 PM • Texas Union Sinclair Suite (3.128)
Ancient Near East Lecture Series
"A Biography of Job"
Edward L. Greenstein (Bar Ilan University)
November 16, 2011
5pm
Texas Union Sinclair Suite (3.128)
Job is a most intriguing figure whose story has excited the imaginations of artists of every
kind. Readers may be curious to know more about the character Job, but the book that
portrays him presents only fragments of his biography. Although biographical works are
very popular in our world, the biographical form as such was apparently not typical of
ancient Near Eastern literature or of the Hebrew Bible. Some moderns have tried to
reconstruct Job’s story by superimposing a biographical pattern drawn from elsewhere,
but such readings run up against the details of the biblical text. Not all is lost, however.
Readers may restore many aspects of Job’s biography by asking questions and seeking
answers in the allusions, images, and suggestive gaps in the book. No background in
Hebrew or Biblical studies is necessary in order to join in this adventure of the literary
imagination. We may discover that Job’s story is both sadder and more inspirational than
we had formerly thought.
American Studies Fall Film Series:
Walker
Wed, November 16, 2011 • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM • MEZ 1.306
"Beyond Representation? Revisiting
Islam's 'Image Problem'"
Thu, November 17, 2011 • 5:00 PM • Texas Union, Governor's Room
(3.116)
The Workshop on Late Antiquity presents:
"Beyond Representation? Revisiting Islam's 'Image Problem'"
A talk by Finbarr Barry Flood, New York University
Most text books on Islamic art feel compelled to address the ‘problem’ of the image in
passing, engaging the assumption that an uncompromising Bilderverbot shaped the
development of the arts in the Islamic world both negatively (constraining the use of
figural imagery) and positively (promoting the development of calligraphy, geometry,
and vegetal ornament). Apart from questions of dating, however, there has been little
sustained analysis of the core proscriptive texts, their relationship to antecedent
traditions, and implications for the status of the image in theological Islam. Analysis of
both texts and artifacts suggests that the nature of the concerns with images in theological
Islam has been misunderstood in modern scholarship. Emphasizing their significance for
the history of image theory, this lecture suggests that the relevant proscriptions highlight
the limits of mimetic or representational concepts of the image, their historical
contingency, and their inability to offer a universally valid account of the image’s
ontological status.
Society for Textual Scholarship
Current Conference Program
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Society for Textual Scholarship
International Interdisciplinary Conference
31 May – 2 June 2012
The University of Texas at Austin
Program Chairs: Coleman Hutchison & Matt Cohen, The University of Texas at Austin
Deadline for Proposals: January 2, 2012 (NB: Conference Program will be ready
Spring 2012)
This off-year conference will bring the Society for Textual Scholarship to a campus with
internationally significant archival holdings, in one of the most interesting cities in the
United States. A number of on-campus resources — The Harry Ransom Center, Dolph
Briscoe Center for American History, and the Benson Latin American Collection, among
others — and the vast multicultural resources of Texas’s capital city and technology hub
make this an exciting venue for the meeting.
The Program Chairs invite a broad set of proposals on the discovery, enumeration,
description, bibliographical analysis, editing, annotation, and mark-up of texts in
disciplines such as literature, history, musicology, classical and biblical studies,
philosophy, art history, legal history, the history of science and technology, computer
science, library and information science, archives, lexicography, epigraphy, paleography,
codicology, cinema studies, new media studies, game studies, theater, linguistics,
women’s studies, race and ethnicity studies, indigenous studies, and textual and literary
theory.
As always, the conference is particularly open to considerations of the role of digital tools
and technologies in textual theory and practice. Papers addressing aspects of archival
theory and practice as they pertain to textual criticism and scholarly editing are also
especially welcome.
Submissions for the conference may take one of the following forms:
1. Papers. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length. They should offer the
promise of substantial critical or analytical insight. Papers that are primarily reports or
demonstrations of tools or projects are discouraged.
2. Panels. Panels may consist of either three associated papers or four or five roundtable
speakers. Roundtables should address topics of broad interest and scope, with the goal of
fostering lively debate between the panel and audience following brief opening remarks.
3. Workshops. Workshops should pose a specific problem, tool, or skill set for which
the workshop leader will provide expert guidance and instruction. Examples might
include an introduction to forensic computing or paleography. Workshop leaders should
be prepared to offer well-defined learning outcomes for attendees, and describe them in
the proposal. Proposals that are accepted will be announced on the conference website
<http://textualsociety.org> and attendees will be required to enroll with the workshop
leader(s). NB: All workshops will be scheduled for Thursday, 31 May 2012.
Proposals for all formats should include a title; abstract of the proposed paper, panel,
seminar, or workshop (500 words maximum); and the name, e-mail address, and
institutional affiliation for each participant. Workshop proposals in particular should take
care to articulate the imagined audience and any expectations of prior knowledge or
preparation.
***All proposals should indicate what, if any, technological support will be required.***
Inquiries and proposals should be submitted electronically to:
Professor Coleman Hutchison (STSTX2012@gmail.com)
Additional contact information:
Department of English
1 University Station B5000
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
Phone: (512) 471-8372
Fax: (512) 471-4909 (marked clearly to Coleman Hutchison’s attention)
All participants in the 2012 STS conference must be members of STS. For information
about membership, please contact Secretary Meg Roland at <mroland@marylhurst.edu>
or visit the Indiana University Press Journals website and follow the links to the Society
for Textual Scholarship membership page: <http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/>.
For conference updates and information, including a list of keynote speakers, see the STS
website at <http://textualsociety.org>.