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College English Association - Middle Atlantic Group

ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE 2007

Call for Papers

“The Ethics of Power”

10 March 2007

Keynote Speaker: TBA

Montgomery College, Rockville, MD

We invite papers or panels on literature, language, cultural studies, composition, and pedagogy that will help us explore the ethics of power within the discipline of English and other areas in the humanities. We encourage interdisciplinary papers and panels. Proposals may broadly interpret the conference theme along (but not confined to) the following lines:

· Immigration and Nationalism

· Ethics and Literature

· Educational Choices

· Power Relations in the Classroom/Department/University

· Ethics and Power in Pedagogy and Assessment

· Racism and the Canon

· Technologies of Empowerment

· Higher Education and Corporate

America

· War and Power

· Institutionalization of Power

Please submit your paper abstracts (of 500 words or less) or panel proposals by Dec. 1 to Dr. Linda DiDesidero, Program Committee Chair, at [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] (301) 460-7721. A conference registration/CEA membership fee of $40 ($20 grad students) is required.

Other questions about the conference may be directed to Dr. Michael Eckert, CEA-MAG President, at (301) 251-7414 or [log in to unmask] .

Paper Proposals should include the following information:

• Name
• Institutional affiliation (if applicable; graduate students should identify themselves to be eligible to compete for $50 prize for best grad student paper)
• Mailing address (including zip code)
• Phone number
• E-mail address
• Title for the proposed presentation
• Abstract of no more than 500 words (papers at the conference should be limited to 15 minutes)
• A-V needs, if any
• Special needs, if any