25th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities: Word / Image / Culture
The University of West Georgia's 25th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities will be held November 11-13, 2010 on the University of West Georgia campus in Carrollton, Georgia. The topic for this year's conference is Word / Image / Culture.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Carrie Noland (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine. She has published on European and avant-garde literary and artistic production, performance theory, phenomenology, and postcolonial poetry and poetics. Her books include Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures, Producing Culture (2009) Harvard U Press, Poetry at Stake: Literary Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology (1999) Princeton U Press and the co-edited volumes Migrations of Gesture with anthropologist Sally Ann Ness (2008) U of Minnesota Press and Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement with poet Barrett Watten (2009) Palgrave.
