>Dear Colleague,
>Please circulate news of our extended deadline for submissions to
>interested colleagues (Jan. 15th 2002). Amended text is below. We hope
>to see some return visitors - as well as many new presenters - in June.
>
>"Knowledge and Discourse: Speculating on disciplinary futures"
> A Call for Papers:
>Extended deadline: 15th January, 2002
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>The English Centre at Hong Kong University, with the Language Centre, is
>organising a follow-up conference to our 1st Knowledge & Discourse
>conference back in June 1996, entitled: "Knowledge and Discourse:
>Speculating on disciplinary futures" [KD2 for short!]
>Scheduled themes and plenary speakers are:
>Universities and knowledge production Steve Fuller (Warwick, UK)
>Critical approaches to literacy Roz Ivanic (Lancaster, UK)
>Voices and culture in the classroom Claire Kramsch (Berkeley, USA)
>Natural, social and virtual worlds Bruno Latour (Paris, France)
>Discourses of popular culture Gregory Lee (Lyon, France)
>Disciplinary discourses and practices Paul Prior (U-C, Illinois, USA)
>Workplace discourses and practices Srikant Sarangi (Cardiff, UK)
>Gender, ethnicity and identity tba
>
>The conference will also feature pre-conference workshops and
>conversations featuring plenary speakers, and a debate between Steve
>Fuller and Bruno Latour. We are aiming at an interactive conference,
>featuring discussion sessions after each plenary, and at the end of each
>trio of parallel session papers or colloquia [we are accepting proposals
>for 3-paper or 6-paper colloquia]. All discussions will be designed to
>address key questions or issues nominated by the speakers.
>
>We hope you will circulate this Call for Papers to your colleagues and
>others in your professional network, and to any discussion groups to which
>you subscribe. For more information, please check the attachment, or if
>that fails to download, visit the conference website directly at:
>http://ec.hku.hk/kd2
>The site will be regularly updated, notably with information on the
>pre-conference workshops (in December), selected abstracts (from
>February), and the program schedule (April).
>Note again the extended deadline for submissions of Jan 15th 2002
>We hope to see you in June, 2002, here in Hong Kong.
>
>Colin Barron and Nigel Bruce
>for the KD2 Steering Committee
>
>_________________________________________
>
>Nigel Bruce
>English Centre
>7/F, K.K. Leung Bdg.
>University of Hong Kong,
>Pokfulam Road,
>HONG KONG
>
>E-mail: njbruce@hku.hk
>http://ec.hku.hk/njbruce/
>Office Tel.: (852) 2859.2023; Fax: (852) 2547.3409
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