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>CAN WE TALK?: INTERDISCIPLINARITY, CULTURE, AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
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>In what ways have the phenomena known collectively as globalization
>affected knowledge and the exchange of ideas? within disciplines, between
>disciplines, beyond disciplines?  Does the economic retain priority in
>mapping the global?  Or does interdisciplinarity promise a new lingua
>franca, and, if so, how can we characterize this language of exchange(s)?
>What are the ethical implications of new global formations and knowledge?
>What are the opportunities for articulating resistance to the dominant
>discourses of globality within and across disciplines and cultures?  For
>the 2003 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
>to be held at Cal State San Marcos in North San Diego County, April 4-6,
>2003, we invite papers on these and related issues:
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>*       Re-formation of knowledge(s)
>*       Implications of global culture for traditional disciplines
>*       The new epistemologies of the global economy
>*       Past globalisms
>*       Value and value-coding in a global context
>*       Restructuring ethical paradigms in light of globalism
>*       Multinationalism and transnationalism
>*       Financial cultures and cosmopolitanism
>*       Gendered perspectives on constructions of local/global
>   identities
>*       Circuits of exchange
>*       Time/place of information in the global economy
>*       Mapping the global market
>*       Construction of the citizen subject
>*       Glocality and its ethical implications
>*       The languages of globalism
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>Please send an abstract (approx. 250 words) and a brief CV to Samir Dayal
>or Margueritte Murphy by email ([log in to unmask];
>[log in to unmask]) or by mail (English Department, Bentley
>College, 175 Forest Street, Waltham,
>MA 02452-4705) by September 16, 2002.
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