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Host: Tuttleman Learning Center, Temple University
Email: gradmag@astro.temple.edu
Deadline for abstracts: February 01, 2001
Description:
As we in academia march dutifully into the new millennium, the boundaries that once divided our areas of study have begun to fade noticeably. Universities frequently conflate once-separate History, Literature, and Philosophy courses into semester-long seminars in "The Humanities." English departments have co-opted numerous other disciplines, including psychology, sociology, linguistics, and ecology; some claim English departments have even abandoned literature. This conference will address both the problems and benefits of blurring the boundaries among the liberal arts. The liberal arts have much to offer each other, but at what cost?
Papers and panels illuminating any aspect of this theme are invited to be delivered at the fifth annual conference of Schuylkill, a scholarly organization dedicated to bringing together graduate students from a variety of regional institutions and departments. (Presenters from as far a field as Princeton, Rutgers, UMass, CUNY, Pittsburgh, Louisiana State, and NYU have participated with Temple grad students at previous Schuylkill conferences; departments have included Dance, Philosophy, Religion, Anthropology, Theatre, Education, as well as English.)
Possible areas of inquiry include:
- The "vanishing" text - Pedagogical approaches to the liberal arts - Pop culture and artistic expression - Differing approaches to race, gender, class and nation among the liberal arts
- The relationship between "hard science" and the liberal arts
Date received: November 14, 2000
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