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On Saturday, March 31, 2012, students from the Graduate Program in English at the University of Rhode Island will host the sixth annual URI Graduate Conference. This year’s conference title, Innovations and Anxieties, speaks to a broad range of disciplines, and we anticipate an exciting mix of presentations. Graduate students across a wide variety of interdisciplinary fields will be presenting their research and creative works. All talks and panel sessions are free and open to the public. Please see our Conference Schedule link for more detailed information about this year’s conference.

The aim of the URI Graduate Conference is to facilitate the innovative scholarship of graduate students across the nation and globe by providing opportunities for them to share academic work, receive scholarly feedback and network professionally. The event also facilitates the integration of faculty, promising scholars and colleagues in an interdepartmental intellectual dialogue. The URI Graduate Student Conference is a unique opportunity for graduate students to present their scholarly work at URI in a formal conference setting. Each year conference attendees hear from two highly respected and provocative speakers—one a professor from the URI community, the other a renowned visiting scholar. The 2012 plenary speaker will be URI Associate Professor Valerie Karno. The 2012 Conference keynote speaker will be Colin Milburn, Associate Professor of English at University of California, Davis and Director of the UC Davis Humanities Innovation Lab.