Issues surrounding the Right seem to be crucial to contemporary discussions of postmodernity. Currently, the "Right" connotes the new majority in Congress, yet we also see other "Rights" at the heart of recent academic and popular discourse. We'd like to discern -- that is, unhinge -- what appears to be an assumed relationship between the (civil, moral, political) Right and popular politics, conceived globally and/or locally through a consideration of various theoretical, critical, and/or representational discourses and other cultural productions.

We invite papers or panel proposals deriving from a wide variety of readings of the conference title and a similar variety of disciplinary perspectives: legal, pedagogical, literary, artistic, anthropological, queer, sociological, personal, theoretical, historical, psychoanalytic, televisual, feminist, cinematic, lesbigay, scientific, materialist, creative, etc.

Send a 300-word paper or panel proposal (papers should be 15-20 minutes long) by November 1, 1995, to:

Discerning the Right
Department of English and Comparative Literature University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201

If you have questions about the conference, please contact dtr-proposals@csd.uwm.edu. You may also email individual and panel proposals to this address.