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>From: "Hammer Hammer" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>Subject: CFP: Insecurity, Undergraduate/Graduate
>Cultural Studies Conference (grad & undergrad)
>(12/1/05; 2/10/06-2/11/06)
>Cultural Studies in an Age of (In)security
>
>3rd Annual Emporia State University Student
>Literary and Cultural Studies Conference
>February 10-11, 2006
>Emporia Kansas
>
>Conference Description:
>The 3rd Annual Emporia State University Student
>Literary and Cultural Studies Conference will
>seek to examine the political, cultural, and
>psychological (clinical) discourses on issues of
>security and insecurity.
>In his 1977-1978 course published under the
>title SÈcuritÈ, Territoire, Population, Michel
>Foucault asks whether there is a "society of
>security" in which the "general economy of
>power" is dominated by technologies of security.
>Foucault's inquiry seeks to understand whether
>it is possible to trace the genealogical
>emergence of what he calls "technologies of
>security." Today the question of security, in
>the form of national security, has again become
>a central discursive order. The goal of this
>conference is to provide an environment for a
>polyvalent interrogation into the array of
>discourses that enunciate security and
>insecurity in all of its cultural
>representations--literary texts, cinematic
>artifacts, artistic productions, et cetera--as
>well as discourses on their histories and
>genealogies.
>In an effort to achieve inclusion, this
>conference is open to both undergraduate and
>graduate students, and all submissions germane
>to cultural and literary studies are welcome.
>However, the conference organizers are most
>interested in receiving proposals that deal with
>issues of security, insecurity, and the state of
>emergency. Different genres, approaches,
>disciplines, and historical locations are
>encouraged. Some possible areas of
>investigation/critical orientations include
>globalization, postcolonial studies, analysis of
>social movements, sex/gender studies,
>international relations, psychoanalytic
>criticism, nationalist, transnational and
>postnational studies, communications and media
>theory, and immigration politics.
>
>
>Keynote Speakers: TBA
>
>Send 200-300 word abstracts to [log in to unmask] or
>Taylor Hammer
>Department of English
>Campus Box 4019
>Emporia State University
>1200 Commercial Street
>Emporia KS 66801-5087
>
>Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2005
>
>

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