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Movement, Cuban Revolution, Fort Hood 3, GI Movement, Jackson State
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Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Third World Liberation Movements, Urban
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SIXTIES GENERATIONS: FROM MONTGOMERY TO VIET NAM
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY MEETING OF SCHOLARS, ARTISTS & ACTIVISTS
Second Annual Conference
November 4-6, 1994
Sponsored by _Viet Nam Generation_ and hosted by
Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT
Call for papers, session proposals, readings, performance
art pieces, and workshops.
Deadline for proposals: July 15, 1994.
The First Annual Sixties Generations conference was held March 4-6, 1993,
in Fairfax, Virginia. It was sponsored by _Viet Nam Generation_ and the
American Studies, Film Studies and African American Studies Programs of
George Mason University. Sixty academic paper presentations, eight poetry
and prose readings, one play reading and a concert filled three days. We
also held a full-day roundtable discussion, "On the Sixties in the
Nineties," featuring participants who were activists in the Sixties and
continue to be so today, including activists in SNCC, SDS, the Black
Panther Party, the Yippies, various racial/ethnic formation, antiwar
formations, political formations, women's groups and cultural workers.
The event was such a success that _Viet Nam Generation_ decided to do it
again this year. [Last year's program is appended to this Call for
Papers.] We welcome submissions in all disciplines, in all topic areas
related to the 1960s in the U.S. and internationally.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Please send abstracts (250-500 words) describing your individual
presentations, or collections of abstracts describing your panel proposals.
Panel sessions will be 90 minutes. Folks interested in putting together
whole panels should limit the number of presenters to three, and hold the
length of individual presentations down to 20 minutes each, so that
sufficient time will be left for audience responses.
We welcome individual paper submissions on any topic related to the 1960s.
Individual presenters should also limit their presentations to 20 minutes.
We will assemble individual presenters into panels.
LITERARY READINGS, VIDEO, FILM, AND PERFORMANCE ART
If you are interested in reading prose or poetry, submit samples of your
work (and tapes of previous of readings, if available). Readings will be
limited to 25 minutes per reader.
We will consider videos, films, and performance art pieces of up to 45
minutes in length. Please send samples, tapes, video clips, or whatever
documentation is most suitable for your medium.
WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Activists interested in putting on workshops at the conference can propose
either 40 minute or 90 minute sessions. Please send a description of the
workshop and related materials or publications.
We welcome innovative ideas, so if you have an idea that doesn't seem to
fit into one of the categories described above, write and tell us about it.
Submit proposals either in hard-copy or over email to:
_Viet Nam Generation_
18 Center Road, Woodbridge, CT 06525
Fax: 203/389-6104 email: kalital@minerva.cis.yale.edu