Event Description and History
In 1992, the graduate student of the English department initiated a small intra-departmental conference to promote professional and academic development among the department’s graduate students. For the first five years of the conference’s history, the (dis)junctions Committee focused on providing English graduate students with a casual forum in which to deliver their conference papers, receive direct feedback from fellow students, and prepare their papers for national and international conferences.
Over the years, the conference has expanded to include a wide range of topics from UCR’s various departments. With the incorporation of panels on History, Spanish, Art History, Theater, Dance, Comparative Literatures, Creative Writing, Music, Pedagogy and Education, New Media, and Cultural Studies, graduate participation from UCR’s humanities and social science departments has further enriched the conference, providing vital cross currents, new ideas and interdisciplinary bridges between the various departments on campus. In the most recent years, the conference organizers pushed to further expand the conference’s scope by actively soliciting the participation of graduate students from an even greater number of the social science departments, including Anthropology, Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science, and Economics. Moreover, over the past two years, performance panels have been added, and will no doubt continue to be a vital component of the proceedings.
CIN|tax is a short film forum hosted by graduate students in the
English department at the University of California, Riverside. This
year's forum will be held on the night of April 4, 2009 as the closing
event of the annual (dis)junctions Graduate Conference.
CIN|tax seeks to establish dialogue between artists and academics,
providing an opportunity for filmmakers and film critics to view,
discuss, and exchange in an informal setting.
After showing the featured films we invite the audience to ask
questions to a moderated panel of filmmakers who attend the forum.
In keeping with the tradition established last year, we also will be
giving out awards and cash prizes to filmmakers featured at the forum.
For more information visit the Cintax website.
(dis)junctions 2009 will be exploring the construction and definition of "the world," in all its various permutations, including topics such
as imperialism, postcolonialism, travel narratives, medieval mappaemundi and philosophy, creation narratives and mythology, science-fiction planet-building, fantasy literature, narrative representations of the natural or sociopolitical world, and/or questions of identity and self in relation to the ever-changing global landscape. We are interested in how the idea of "the world" crosses boundaries of space and time, as well as the ways in which diverse participants construct, and relate to, ever-changing conceptions of what "the world" entails. As always, (dis)junctions welcomes scholars from all areas of the humanities, social sciences, and creative disciplines.
