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Every year, the Graduate Center English students of the City University of New York host a conference featuring graduate student panelists from all over the United States, Canada, and abroad. Past conference titles include “Talking Trash: Rethinking the Abandoned, the Recovered, and the Depraved”; “Wide Open Spaces”; and “Literature and the  City.” Our theme for this year is “Projection: Speculating on Presence, Absence, and Nonsense,” and the conference will be held on Friday, March 6, 2009, at the Grad Center, located in Midtown Manhattan right by the Empire State Building.

On this blog, you can download the call for papers as a Word document and a poster for the conference. In addition, we will be posting short passages from literature, theory, and philosophy in the coming months to get your creative juices flowing. If you have any questions, please contact us at projection [dot] conference [at] gmail [dot] com.

We would like to thank the Graduate Center Department of English, the Doctoral Students Council, and the Center For the Humanities for their generous support of this program.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Mia Chen and Leila Walker,

ESA Conference Co-Chairs

 

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