Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric will emphasize the power of Humanities

by Kathleen McCoy  |   

Thursday-Saturday, March 19-21
Various locations on the UAA campus

The Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric is a non-profit event hosted annually by UAA's English Department and coordinated entirely by graduate students. The title for the 2009 conference is "Merging and eMerging Texts: (Re)defining Literacy, Identity and Selfhood in the Changing Cultural Landscape." In particular, this year's conference explores the changing roles of literacy, identity and selfhood in both literature and rhetoric.

The keynote speakers, Dr. Shari Huhndorf of the University of Oregon, and Dr. Richard Miller and Dr. Paul Hammond of Rutgers University, will lead presentations and panel discussions. Speakers from the community and UAA will host additional presentations.

Dr. Huhndorf specializes in Native American literature, Native cultural history and popular culture, and is the author of Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination. Dr. Miller and Dr. Hammond specialize in new media studies and Web 2.0. Their work emphasizes the position and power of the humanities at large.

The conference takes place Friday, March 20 from 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday, March 21 from 10:30 a.m.-6:15 p.m. Key events include:

  • Thursday, March 19 at 6 p.m. in the Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 118, Russian Poet Vera Pavlova and her translator, Steven Seymour;
  • Friday, March 20 at 4:15 p.m. in the UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307, Dr. Richard Miller and Dr. Paul Hammond;
  • Saturday, March 21 at 5 p.m. in the Arts Building, Room 117, Dr. Shari Huhndorf.
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