Re/Inventions Conference 2018: TRAUMA

Re/Inventions 2018: TRAUMA Call for Papers

REINVENTIONS 2018 – TRAUMA CFP Abstracts Due: February 16, 2018

Re/inventions is the annual conference organized by the English Graduate Student Association of California State University, Long Beach. Our goal is to provide a forum in which graduate students and advanced undergraduates may present their academic research in a conference setting. Re/Inventions promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement among students from Southern California and around the globe.

As we solicit papers which explore the theme TRAUMA, we ask scholars to consider the various aspects of trauma, including (but not limited to) the following:

● War Trauma
● Violence
● Refugee and Migratory Narratives
● Ecological Trauma
● Industrial Trauma
● Politics/Political
● Collective Trauma
● Individual Trauma
● (Un)acknowledged Trauma
● Gender Trauma
● Historical and Cultural Trauma
● Cyber Trauma
● Pedagogy
● Artistic Representations of Trauma
● Trauma in the Media
● Medical Trauma
● Spiritual Trauma
● Issues of Identity
● Racial Trauma
● Liminal Trauma
● Trauma in Memory
● Trauma of Aesthetic
● Bodily Trauma
● Nonhuman Trauma
● Power Trauma
● Anomic Trauma

This forum is intended for the presentation of academic papers and/or projects, including multimedia presentations. A limited number of creative submissions will also be considered.

SUBMIT ABSTRACTS OF 250-300 WORDS ALONG WITH A CURRENT CV TO: EGSA.CSULB@GMAIL.COM.

Presentations should run approximately 12 to 15 minutes.