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Society
for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery
Tenth Annual Conference
CALL
FOR PAPERS
THE
IMAGE OF THE 20th CENTURY
(and
the End of the Millennium)
in
Literature, Media, and Society
Keynote
Speaker
Fredric
Jameson
(Postmodernism, or, the Cultural
Logic of Late Capitalism; The Political Unconscious)
March 9-11, 2000
Colorado Springs, Colorado
An interdisciplinary conference exploring the importance and significance
of the Twentieth Century (and the Millennium) in culture, literature,
history, politics, economics, film, television, art, music, social theory,
business. The view of the past and the future as we begin the next century
and the next millennium. Different perspectives on different issues, such as
change, technology, religion, race, sex, war, environment, and the market.
Possible topics would include:
 �� The 20th Century in
literature and popular culture � novels, poetry, drama, movies, TV
�� Modernity and Postmodernity in the
20th Century
�� Capitalism and socialism in the 20th
Century
�� The First and Third Worlds,
colonialism and imperialism in the 20th Century
�� Wars, conflicts, and cultures in the
20th Century
�� Men, women, families, children in
the 20th Century
�� Race, ethnicity, diversity in the 20th
Century
�� Markets, government, politics,
production, class in the 20th Century
�� Visions, stories, images of events,
values, and lives in the last century
�� Visions, stories, images of the
future, as optimistic and pessimistic science fiction
�� Cultural issues in the last century,
in the next century
�� Observing past and future
millenniums
�� Nature, the environment, population
� in the Century and the Millennium
�� Science, communication, information,
genetics � in the 20th and the 21th Centuries
�� Other imaginative variations.
An annual conference addressing the role and structure of imagery in
social life, with a different thematic focus each year. Eclectic and innovative
approaches are encouraged. A Proceedings of selected papers will be
published. Previous themes have included The Image of Violence, The Image of
Technology, The Image of Nature. Web-page: http://www.uscolo.edu/sissi
Submit a short abstract by December 1, 1999. Panel proposals are welcome,
as are graduate students. email: century@uscolo.edu;
fax: (719) 549-2705; mail: SISSI (Century), University of
Southern Colorado, Pueblo, CO 8l00l-4901. Contact Will Wright, Professor of
Sociology, University of Southern Colorado [719-549-2538; wright@uscolo.edu]
or Steven Kaplan, Dean of Arts and Sciences - Professor of English, Butler
University, Indianapolis, IN [317- 940-9874; skaplan@butler.edu].
Sponsored by the University of
Southern Colorado
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