From: IN%"[log in to unmask]" "Chaucer Discussion Group" 16-MAY-1995 23:31:37.20 To: IN%"[log in to unmask]" "Multiple recipients of list CHAUCER" CC: Subj: Cultural Studies Conference Cultural Frictions: Medieval Cultural Studies in Post-Modern Contexts A Local and World-Wide Interactive Conference at Georgetown University Washington, DC * October 27-28, 1995 Sponsored by: * Georgetown University (Medieval Studies Program and Graduate Program in Communication, Culture, and Technology) * George Washington University (Program in Human Sciences) * The Catholic University of America * The University of Virginia KEYNOTE SPEAKER Carolyn Dinshaw, UC-Berkeley ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: This conference will be devoted to the ways in which medieval literary studies are being reconceived and redefined with the models for social and cultural history developed in recent work on cultural studies and post-modern theory. Post-modern theory is also beginning to notice the impact of the new networked hypermedia environment of the World Wide Web on literary studies and the humanities, and the Web as a new context for cultural studies will be both a topic for discussion as well as the medium for transmitting this discussion worldwide during the weekend of the conference. THE WORLD-WIDE INTERACTIVE FORMAT: ACTING LOCALLY, THINKING GLOBALLY Papers presented at the conference will be published on the World Wide Web through the Labyrinth about 5 days before the meeting at Georgetown. Each paper will have a hyperlink to a comment form, which will allow readers around the world to respond to the papers and thus participate in the conference remotely. The comment files will also allow comments, either by the authors of the papers or by other virtual (or real) conference participants. The last session of the conference will be devoted to reviewing and discussing the accumulated global commentary on line, with a live Internet connection and projection monitor. Conference participants at Georgetown will also be given access to computer labs with Net and Web software. REGISTRATION AND LOCAL ACCOMODATIONS The registration fee for the day-and-a-half conference will be $25 for regular participants and $15 for students. Blocks of hotel rooms will be reserved at the Georgetown University Conference Center and at some local hotels for those wishing overnight accomodations. For further information and registration materials, send e-mail to: Martin Irvine([log in to unmask]), or surface mail to: Professor Martin Irvine Cultural Frictions Conference Department of English 305 New North Building Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Phone: (202) 687-7533 CONFERENCE WEB SITE For further information and Web resources in cultural studies, visit the Conference Web Site, which will be under development through October '95: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/conf/cs95/ Return-path: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from tigger.cc.uic.edu by cusrvb.cua.edu (PMDF V4.3-10 #9933) id <[log in to unmask]>; Tue, 16 May 1995 23:31:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tigger.cc.uic.edu (TIGGER.CC.UIC.EDU [128.248.3.50]) by tigger.cc.uic.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id WAA101537; Tue, 16 May 1995 22:26:06 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 23:22:10 -0400 From: "Martin Irvine, Georgetown University" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Cultural Studies Conference Sender: Chaucer Discussion Group <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list CHAUCER <[log in to unmask]> Reply-to: Chaucer Discussion Group <[log in to unmask]> Message-id: <[log in to unmask]> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT