Manifesting Literary Feminisms: Drafts, Grafts, Nexus, and Faultlines
Monash University, City Campus, Melbourne - 13th-14th December, 2007
This conference brings together and honours two of the foremost feminist literary scholars in the United States and Australia: Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Susan Sheridan. Both have investigated the gravity of history and possible strategies through which the cultural agency of women writer might be made manifest against and within regimes of social power. For Rachel Blau DuPlessis, this necessitates a writing and reading otherhow. For Susan Sheridan, it means exploring the faultlines of how writers might simultaneously work within and against conventions. Their work investigates strategies by which feminist critics might better consider the affiliations and intersections, as well as the disjunctions and differences between women cultural producers, especially writers. The impetus toward cultural change that informed the women's movement also remains central to their thinking. This conference seeks to provide a forum in which genealogies of literary feminism, locally, nationally, and globally, might be articulated. It seeks to attract papers that focus on innovative feminist practice in literature and its criticism. We particularly invite papers that focus on the Australian context or on transnational literary and theoretical exchange.
Conference Inquiries: Sally Newman [Email]
Conference Convenors
Keynote Speakers
Seminars
Manifesting Literary Feminisms will also feature two seminars. Seminar participants are invited to produce brief 'position papers' (5-7 pages) that are emailed to the seminar leader by 1st December and then circulated to all participants of that seminar. With no more than 15 participants, the seminars aim to generate lively exchange and to produce networks of feminist scholars who may continue to work together beyond the conference. Seminar attendees will be invited to expand their papers and submit them for consideration in the published proceedings. Seminars are 2 hours in length.
- Colonial Conjunctions (Seminar Leader: Anne Brewster)
- Feminist Experimentalism (Seminar Leader: Alison Bartlett)
Panel
From Grafts to Future Projects of Feminist ScholarshipProgram
To view the draft program please click here. (PDF 15kb)
Registration
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Fully-waged |
Non-wage earner |
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Full Conference |
$140.00 |
$65 |
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Thursday |
$70.00 |
$40.00 |
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Friday |
$70.00 |
$40.00 |
Accommodation and Visitor Information
Conference Accommodation Information
Where to EatSponsorship
This conference is proudly sponsored by Monash University, University of Queensland Arts at Ipswich, and the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association.Venue
Monash Conference Centre
Level 7, 30 Collins Streeet
Melbourne 3000
