Free Exchange is an annual graduate student conference organized entirely by graduate students at the University of Calgary Department of English. Founded more than fifteen years ago, it has grown to attract participants from across Canada, the United States, and elsewhere in the world.

Information about the 2010 Free-Exchange Conference will be updated on this page soon. Conference organizers can be contacted at: freeex [at] ucalgary [dot] ca.

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Call For Papers

Moving Type: Consequence in Cultural Production

Free Exchange Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference University of Calgary

March 13 - March 14, 2010

The Free Exchange Graduate Student Conference at the University of Calgary seeks abstracts for papers for our forthcoming conference on the roles of type in cultural production.  We are most interested in work that engages with the topic of this multi-disciplinary conference in original ways, from material print culture to identity politics; from examinations of migration to site-specific textual analysis. Whether questioning existing methods of literary production or engaging with the gender/genre dynamics of cultural production, we embrace vigorous research on the complicated life, mobility, and circulation of text.

Please submit 250 word abstracts for original academic papers on the conference theme by January 8th 2010 to freeex [at] ucalgary [dot] ca. We invite participation from graduate students of any discipline, including but not limited to English literature, film studies, visual culture, gender studies, and cultural studies.

We also welcome creative writing submissions for our creative writing panel and events.

Topics might address but are not limited to the following:

.        Type-writing
.        Translation and typography
.        Print culture
.        Scribal handwriting
.        Literary production
.        Selected Letters
.        Writing as object
.        Travelling types
.        Materiality and migration
.        Space, place, time
.        Encoding and memory
.        Modes of performance
.        Screen-life
.        Site-specific text

Please contact Carmen Derkson and Colin Martin if you have questions regarding the conference at freeex [at] ucalgary [dot] ca

Carmen Derkson                                        Colin Martin
PhD Student                                                 PhD Student
Department of English                              Department of English
University of Calgary                                  University of Calgary
caderkso [at] ucalgary [dot] ca                            colinmart [at] gmail [dot] com