INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE (UW-Madison, Feburary 27- March 1, 2003) (In)formation: Identity, Community,
Performance and Visual Cultures This conference is designed to express a growing
need to bring together graduate students of all disciplines who recognize the
increasingly more fluid relationship between theoretical investigation and creative
activity on the UW campus. We believe the topics forming the title for this
conference, Identity,
Community, Performance and Visual Cultures, serve a twofold purpose: These are guiding questions. Projects addressing any of these
questions or facets of these questions are relevant to this conference: How do communities form? What is the role
of performance What is visual
culture? SUBMISSIONS: Please submit an abstract of no more than 250-300
words for written papers by December 7th, 2002; photographs
or videos must be submitted along with the verbal abstract for performances
and visual works. Presentations must be no more than 20 minutes in length. (Address inquiries to: candacescott@wisc.edu
or brettonwhite@wisc.edu)
1) foster a sense of unity among graduate students from a variety of fields,
and, 2) reflect the more active involvement of university students in the social
debates and cultural developments of the 21st century.
How do you define (your) identity(ies)?
political position; ethnic, racial or cultural heritage;
geographic setting; social roles; sexual orientation; etc.
religious association; socio-political
affiliation (local, international,
global);
generational relation; artistic collaboration;
cultural-ideological connection; etc.
in shaping identity and community?
critical presentation; creative expression;
social interaction; multisensorial experience;
intertextuality and visuality, etc.
How is it developing?
learning through seeing; non-conventional
ways of looking; polysemous, multidiscursive
spaces; meaning through production-reception;
challenging social and cultural notions; etc.