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Conference Announcement "Modernity and Locality: Discrete Spaces in Global Culture" Interdisciplinary Symposium Binghamton University Binghamton, NY (USA) 12-13 October 2007 __________________________________________________ Purpose: The current rise of transnational studies in the humanities and social sciences has made us aware of the constraints of traditionally bounded areas of area studies as well as those of national frameworks. Scholars respond in different ways to the current direction of transnational studies. Some emphasize the universalizing and homogenizing tendencies of global modernity, while others turn to the study of particular communities, places, and histories to expose the “parochialism of the West.” At this juncture, it is therefore urgent that we re-assess our methodologies and reconceptualize the relation between the local and the global, the particular and the universal, in an interdisciplinary forum. Speakers: Ben Conisbee Baer (Comp Lit, Princeton) Elisa Camiscioli (History, Binghamton) Pheng Cheah (Rhetoric, Berkeley) Iftikhar Dadi (Art History, Cornell) Todd Franklin (Philosophy, Hamilton) Espen Hammer (Philosophy, Essex) Naeem Inayatullah (PoliSci, Ithaca) Robert Ji-Song Ku (AAAS, Binghamton) Minjeong Kim (English, Binghamton) Ayse Kucukkirca (Philosophy, Binghamton) Brian Lennon (English, Penn State) Robert Pippin (Social Thought and Philosophy, Chicago) Pamela Smart (Anthropology, Binghamton) Dale Tomich (Sociology, Binghamton) Organziers: Nergis Erturk (Comparative Literature) [email protected] Praseeda Gopinath (English) [email protected] Robert Guay (Philosophy) [email protected] Juliet Shields (English) [email protected] Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Binghamton University, with additional support from the English Department, the Comparative Literature Department, the Philosophy Department, and the Program on Global Studies. Information and registration: http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~rguay/mod-loc.htm __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
