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April 13, 2005
ICFA 26 - Cultural Identities Caucus Meeting
Cultural Identities Caucus Meeting
Ten people attended this year's meeting, and our discussion led me to realize that in the last year, Anita and I who are the co-moderators of the Caucus did not do a good enough job of continuing to get information out about this group and our purpose. So let me quote a bit from the CIC page on the IAFA web site: "Whether we believe in identities or deconstruct them, we live our lives within the politics of gender, race, class and sexual orientation. Our IAFA lives are no exception. In our environment, in the books we read and in the films we watch (whether we close our eyes to or open them up for such occurrences), we continuously come across questions of identities and politics in such varied texts as SF/F novels, horror films, comic books, and the LOTR visual adaptations. The Cultural Identities caucus is intended to add to the existing caucuses and divisions rather than to compete with them, to help those interested in writing on these issues to find a place, and to invite more participants into our already fantastic family."
The discussion at the meeting this year focused on how members can develop and submit not only individual proposals, but also session proposals, theory roundtable readings, and panel discussion proposals, as well as "theme" proposals for the conference. We worked on developing the proposal for a "Queer and Gender" Theme that was submitted to the Board this year, and discussed a future proposal for a "Race and Ethnicity" Theme to be developed in future years. If you are interested in working on either of these proposals, or have questions or other ideas, feel free to contact one of the two moderators listed below.
Anita Nicholson
anita.nicholson AT villanova.edu
Robin Reid
Robin_Reid AT tamu-commerce.edu
Posted by ChrissieMains at April 13, 2005 09:09 PM