PLEASE FORWARD!!!! SIXTIES GENERATIONS: FROM MONTGOMERY TO VIET NAM AN INTERDISCIPLINARY MEETING OF SCHOLARS, ARTISTS & ACTIVISTS Second Annual Conference November 4-6, 1994 Sponsored by _Viet Nam Generation_ and hosted by Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT Call for papers, session proposals, readings, performance art pieces, and workshops. Deadline for proposals: July 15, 1994. The First Annual Sixties Generations conference was held March 4-6, 1993, in Fairfax, Virginia. It was sponsored by _Viet Nam Generation_ and the American Studies, Film Studies and African American Studies Programs of George Mason University. Sixty academic paper presentations, eight poetry and prose readings, one play reading and a concert filled three days. We also held a full-day roundtable discussion, "On the Sixties in the Nineties," featuring participants who were activists in the Sixties and continue to be so today, including activists in SNCC, SDS, the Black Panther Party, the Yippies, various racial/ethnic formation, antiwar formations, political formations, women's groups and cultural workers. The event was such a success that _Viet Nam Generation_ decided to do it again this year. [Last year's program is appended to this Call for Papers.] We welcome submissions in all disciplines, in all topic areas related to the 1960s in the U.S. and internationally. SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS Please send abstracts (250-500 words) describing your individual presentations, or collections of abstracts describing your panel proposals. Panel sessions will be 90 minutes. Folks interested in putting together whole panels should limit the number of presenters to three, and hold the length of individual presentations down to 20 minutes each, so that sufficient time will be left for audience responses. We welcome individual paper submissions on any topic related to the 1960s. Individual presenters should also limit their presentations to 20 minutes. We will assemble individual presenters into panels. LITERARY READINGS, VIDEO, FILM, AND PERFORMANCE ART If you are interested in reading prose or poetry, submit samples of your work (and tapes of previous of readings, if available). Readings will be limited to 25 minutes per reader. We will consider videos, films, and performance art pieces of up to 45 minutes in length. Please send samples, tapes, video clips, or whatever documentation is most suitable for your medium. WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Activists interested in putting on workshops at the conference can propose either 40 minute or 90 minute sessions. Please send a description of the workshop and related materials or publications. We welcome innovative ideas, so if you have an idea that doesn't seem to fit into one of the categories described above, write and tell us about it. Submit proposals either in hard-copy or over email to: _Viet Nam Generation_ 18 Center Road, Woodbridge, CT 06525 Fax: 203/389-6104 email: [log in to unmask] _____________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM FROM THE *FIRST* ANNUAL SIXTIES GENERATIONS CONFERENCE, *MARCH 4-6, 1993* HOLIDAY INN, FAIRFAX--FAIR OAKS Thursday, March 4 5:00-7:00pm Welcome Reception Cash bar 8:30-10:00pm Play Reading: Cellophane Xerox Friday, March 5 9:00-10:30am Panel 1: Reinterpreting the Sixties I "Still Blowin' in the Wind: Reinterpreting the 1960s in the 1990s," Cathey Calloway, Arkansas State Univ; "The Sixties as Great Awakening," Dr. David Williams, GMU"Rewriting the Sixties: How Current Cable Television Program Guidelines Create a Revisionist Look at the Events of the Decade," James M. Forsher Panel 2: Environmentalism in the Sixties: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment "Corporate Culture and the Commodification of Environmental Concern," Matthew Crane, Crozet, VA; "The Contrariness of Edward Abbey," Patrick Stejskal, Univ of Virginia; "More Notes on 'Camp,'" Dan Philippon, Charlottesville, VA; "You Say You Want a Revolution: Environmental Reform in the Literature of the 1860s and 1960s," Michael Branch 10:45am-12:15pm Panel 3: Reinterpreting the Sixties II "Pedagogy & Polarity: Understanding the Viet Nam War," Dan Scripture, UCSC; "Paradigms Lost: How Higher Education Killed the Sixties in America," John Milam, GMU; "Under the Counter Culture: Subtexts of the 60s, the 80s, and the 90s," Kim Worthy, Wagner College Panel 4: Reinterpreting the Sixties III "Again: The Drug Culture of the Sixties," Carolyn Buckley- LaRocque, GMU; "Lock and Load High School: The Landmark Battle Over the War in Vietnam and Free Speech at University High School, 1965-1970," Marc Jason Gilbert, North Georgia College; "'68: Gendering the Face of Political Action," Leah D. Hackleman, Bowling Green State Univ 1:30-3:00pm Panel 5: Gender, Sex, Nation: (Re)conceiving the Black Body Politic Marita Golden Marilyn Mobley Robert Carr Panel 6: Sixties Literatures "Officers Don't Cry: The Poetry of B.D. Trail," Dan Duffy, Viet Nam Forum, Viet Nam Generation; "Backwash Novels and the Vietnam War," Victoria E. McLure, South Plains College; "Laughing at Fathers and Titans: Thomas Pynchon's Masculinist Gigantism," Wes Chapman, Illinois Wesleyan Univ 3:15-5:15pm Panel 7: International Perspectives "Five U.S. Wars in Asia," Renny Christopher, UCSC; "American Countercultural Representations of India and Hegemonic Discourse," Mike Youngblood, Univ of Wisconsin; "What Were Those Viet Cong Women Really Up To?" Lady Borton;"The Role of the American Exile Community in the Viet Nam Era Anti-war Movement," Jack Calhoun Panel 8: Reinterpreting the Sixties IV "Recollection or Recognition: Negotiating the 'Sixties' as Concrete Utopia," Tom Moylan, GMU; "History, Popular Culture and the Viet Nam War," Andrew Martin, Univ of Wisconsin; "The Other Sixties," Paul Lyons, Richard Stockton State College 5:30-7:30pm Poetry Reading Vince Gotera, Jive Talk: Poems on Growing Up Filipino-American in the 60s Renny Christopher, Viet Nam and California M.L. Liebler: Hippie Baseball Christopher Leland, Memory Tapes 8:30pm Poetry Reading & Reception Rod Kane W.D. Ehrhart David Connolly Wayne Karlin Rod Kane is the author of Veteran's Day. W.D. Ehrhart is the author of several narratives, including Vietnam-Perkasie, Passing Time, and Going Back, as well as essays and poetry in cluding Just for Laughs, Winter Bells, The Outer Banks, and To Those Who Have Gone Home Tired. David Connally 's first book of poetry, Lost in America, will be published this year. Wayne Karlin is the author of four novels: Crossover, Lost Armies, The Extras, and US. Saturday, March 6 Roundtable Discussion: "On the Sixties in the Nineties" 10:00am-1:00pm and 2:00-5:00pm The day long Roundtable will feature participants who were activists in the 60's and continue to be so now. People who were active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panther Party, the Yippies, various racial/ethnic formations, antiwar formations, political formations, or women's groups, as well as cultural workers will be part of the Roundtable. The intention of the Roundtable is to get beyond the ideological traps of nostalgic reminiscences or cynical dismissal of the movements of the 60's. Rather, we hope to achieve a serious reflection on what was fought for, learned, lost, and gained in those years. Yet, we also hope for a further discussion centered on the dreams and the means of the 60's as they continue today--older, wiser, and multiple and diverse. The morning session will focus on recollections and reflections on people's involvement in movement work in the 60's. The afternoon session will focus on the value of the lessons and the continuing agendas and methods of the 60's movements as they affect the work of social justice in the 90's. We encourage conference participants to drop in on the Roundtable and join the ongoing discussion. Roundtable participants are also urged to visit other conference events and to join us for a cash bar, reception, and concert at the conclusion of the discussion. Conference Panels 9:00-10:30am Panel 9: Viet Nam War Film I "Viet Nam War Film," Cynthia Fuchs; "The Heart of Darkness Motif in Vietnam War Texts," David L. Erben, Univ of South Florida; "Warren Beatty and the Draft," Katherine Kinney, UC Riverside 10:45am-12:15pm Panel 10: Sixties Popular Culture "Folk Songs and Allusions to Folks Songs in the Repertoire of the Grateful Dead," Josephine A. McQuail, Tennessee Tech Univ; "Beatles, Beach Boys, Leave It To Beaver, Mustangs, GTO's Freedom Marches, a sexual revolution, a war and PTSD," John Ketwig; "Talking about the Beatles," Bernie Sanders 1:30-3:00pm Panel 11: Performing Arts "Planet Shakespeare: The Bard in Cold War America" Susan Fox, Washington, DC; "Shakespeare, Kerouac & Hedrick," Donald K. Hedrick, Kansas State Univ; "West African Dance and Race/Culture and Gender Identity in Los Angeles African American Communities," Phylise Smith, UCLA Panel 12: Reinterpreting the Sixties V "Peace Through Law: John Seiberling's Vision of World Order," Miriam Jackson, Kent, OH; "Reverend Malcolm Boyd and Bishop Paul Moore, Jr.," Michael B. Friedland, Boston College; Eros on the New Frontier: The Limits of Liberal Tolerance," Louis J. Kern, Hofstra Univ 3:15-4:45pm Panel 13: The Viet Nam War "The National Liberation Front in South Viet Nam," Ton That Manh Tuong; "The Tet Offensive and Middletown: A Study in Contradiction," Anthony O. Edmonds;"The Impact of the American Antiwar Movement on the South Vietnamese Urban Youth Struggle Movement," Nguyen Huu Thai Panel 14: Viet Nam War Film/Drama II "Decentering Genre: Vietnam War Films and Portrayal of Reality," Catherine E. Richardson, Chattanooga, TN; "The Death of the Sixties: Easy Rider & and Deliverance," Margie Burns, Cheverly, MD;"Luis Valdez and Teatro Campesino," Dave DeRose, Yale Univ 5:00-6:30pm Panel 15: Music "Folkore of the Viet Nam War," Lydia Fish, SUNY-Buffalo; "In Country Songs," Chuck Rosenberg; "Pilot Songs of the Viet Nam War," Chip Dockery 7:30pm Concert & Reception O.V. Hirsch Chip Dockery Chuck Rosenberg