This year we will be planning most of our conference on this website. To get things going, we have a draft of our CFP, written by graduate board member Carol Fischer, that we can develop here.  Add comments to help us think through the plan for the conference:

Carol writes:

Below is an initial, rather sloppy, first pass at an actual cfp modeled on last year’s format. We gotta start somewhere!

Risk implies an individual, personal response because the threshold of risk is ultimately relative. It is the fluidity or slipperiness of the threshold that seems to cause the greatest problems, producing the largest successes and the most abysmal failures. The Seventh Annual CLTC Graduate conference, “Risk:__________________ [a negotiation between life and death?]” will focus on the element of risk in and across various disciplines. While the Consortium of Literature, Theory, and culture is grounded in the study of national and international literary traditions, our conference seeks interdisciplinary and theoretical reflections on risk as well as practical applications.

We invite 250-word abstracts that speak to any of the following topics:
Risk-taking in writing, in art
Risk in economics. banking, government
The risk of paradigm shifts
risk in science and inventions
multimedia
risky behavior
performing risk: tightrope walking, the Olympics
ethics of risk
extreme sports
going against criticism, against any flow
risky thought, philosophy
the audience for risk
everyday risk

Spring Conference