World Literature / World Film: Intersections and Challenges (12/16/02; 4/25/03-4/27/03)
The Sixth Annual International
Red River Conference on World Literature
April 25-27, 2003
North Dakota State University, Fargo ND
Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 16, 2002
This year's theme is "World Literature / World Film: Intersections
and Challenges." Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Film adaptations of literature: practices and politics.
- Literature and film as technologies of nationalist and/or
post-nationalist expression.
- Authors and auteurs: in focus, under scrutiny.
- The world outside Hollywood: North American independent films and
world cinema.
- Composing in text and on film: the craft and materials of storytelling.
- Globalization and the new economies of print and film.
- Representations, gazes, otherings, disruptions.
- National film boards: impacts and influences.
- Literature as film, film as literature.
- The new media revolution and its challenge to film and literature.
- New curriculums: world literature and film in the 21st century
curriculum.
While we are particularly interested in proposals that address the
conference theme, papers on all aspects of world literature, global
culture, and postcolonial studies will be considered.
Workshops on teaching world and multicultural film and literature,
using technology to teach literature and film, and on making "little
films" will run in conjunction with the conference.
Please use the online submission form
(www.ndsu.nodak.edu/RRCWL/submit.html) or send a 300-word abstract
for individual papers; include your name, complete mailing address,
and e-mail address. Proposals for panels must include an abstract
for each presenter, as well as names, addresses, and e-mail addresses
of all participants.
Address all submissions and inquiries to Kevin Brooks, Coordinator,
Red River Conference on World Literature, Department of English, 320
Minard Hall, North Dakota State University, Fargo ND 58105-5075.
Kevin.Brooks@ndsu.nodak.edu.
Selected papers from the conference will be published in the online
Proceedings, available through the Conference web site:
http://www.ndsu.edu/RRCWL/proceedings.html
Featured Speaker
Renee Tajima-Pela: writer and filmmaker.
Tajima-Pela has become a chronicler of the American scene with her
award-winning films "Who Killed Vincent Chin?," the Academy
Award-nominated investigation of the beating death of a Chinese
American in Detroit, and the Sundance Film Festival award-winning "My
America=8Aor Honk if You Love Buddha." In this feature-length
documentary, Tajima-Pela takes you on a cross-country road trip as
she searches for Asian America. The result is an often funny and
poignant look at a changing panorama as she encounters rappers,
debutantes, laborers and freedom fighters.
Tajima-Pela will deliver a talk at the conference Saturday afternoon,
and screen "My America=8Aor Honk if You Love Buddha" at the historic
Fargo Theater Saturday evening, April 26th, 2003.
Kevin Brooks
Assistant Professor
Department of English
320 Minard Hall
North Dakota State University
Fargo ND 58105
701-231-7146
