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Date sent: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 09:09:15 -0600
From: Mark Stoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: GLOBALICITIES: Issues Related to Globalization,
East Lansing (Oct 18-20, 2001)
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Subject: CFP: GLOBALICITIES: Issues Related to Globalization,
East Lansing (Oct 18-20, 2001)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Michigan State University's 2001 Modern Literature Conference.
GLOBALICITIES
A Conference on Issues Related to Globalization
Sponsored by the Program in Comparative Literature
Date: October 18-20, 2001; Location: Michigan State University
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
-GAYATRI SPIVAK, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia
University
-MICHAEL HARDT, Associate Professsor of Literature and Romance Studies,
Duke University
-MAHMOOD MAMDANI, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Director,
Institute of African Studies, Columbia University
-SASKIA SASSEN, Professor of Sociology, The University of Chicago
A number of recent, important works make clear that the present moment's
metaphor for the economic, political, social, and cultural
interrelationships between nations is "globalization," a concept that has
come to replace earlier formulas of "modernization" and "civilization."
This conference, "Globalicities," will focus on the limitations and
implications of theoretically determining these relations. We are
interested in reflections on the anthropological, sociological, economic,
legal, linguistic, and aesthetical ways in which the "global" has been
thought and actualized during the last 500 years. We particularly are
soliciting serious investigations of the rhetorics and practices of recent
theories of the global, postcolonial, and international. We hope that the
neologism, "globalicities", stands in relation to commonsense notions of
the global in the same way that temporalities and historicities stand in
relation to conventional notions of time and history.
Possible areas or topics include, but are not limited to:
*Theories of Narrative and the global
*Rethinking travel, exile, migration, diaspora
*Mestizo logics; or, hybrid theory "all the way down"
*"Development," "modernization" and "civilization" and the fate of
dependency theory
*Race and gender in globalization theory
*Post-structuralism and the critique of late-capitalism
*Markets, profits, and violent conflicts
*State violence, armed resistance, and limits of international law
*The return of the state in global theory
*The rhetorics of geography, space, and place theory
*Questioning post-Marxism's turn to "culture"
*Subalternities and Solidarities
*Markets, products and the construction of taste
*Queering the sphere
* Genetics, biotechnology and the globe
Abstractions for individual papers should be no more than 500 words long;
abstracts for panels are limited to a total of 1000 words. DEADLINE for
Proposals: March 31, 2001
Please send abstracts and one-page vita for each proposed panelist to:
Professor Kenneth Harrow
Director, Program in Comparative Literature
Morrill Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824; fax 517 353 3755; e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Environmental Management & Design Division
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