Each year, UF-EGO holds an interdisciplinary conference here in Gainesville Florida. It is a two-day event with a keynote speaker and visiting scholars from around the country.
2009 - Home/sickness: Desire, Decay, and the Seduction of Nostalgia will be held 12-13 November, 2009. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Dominick LaCapra.
2008 - Cultural Currency and Literary Exchange: Cultivating Texts as Commodity will be held 6-7 November, 2007. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Susan Rosenbaum.
2007 - As I Imagine: Fantasy, Identity, Politics was held 18-19 October, 2007. The keynote speakers were Dr. Beverly Lyon Clark and Dr. Carl Freedman.
2006 - Contours of Captivity: Resignifying Expressions of Power was held from 2-3 November 2006. The keynote speaker was Marianne Hirsch.
2005 - Theory * Activism * Creativity: Navigating Textual Politics was held from 27-29 October, 2005. The keynote speaker was Judith "Jack" Halberstam.
2004 - Constellations of Youth: Intersecting Adults' and Children's Culture was held from 21-23 October, 2004. Keynote speakers included Michael Moon and Jim Provenzano.
2003 - Insatiable Crises: Producing Obsessions, Evils, and Traumas was held from 3-5 April, 2003.
2002 - Theoretical Misfits: An Interdisciplinary Conference was held from 4-6 April, 2002.
2001 - Souths, Global and Local: an Interdisciplinary Conference was EGO at UF's first interdisciplinary conference. It was held 5-7 April, 2001.