Call for Papers:
Second Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference
and Workshop at the
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, April 16-17,
2010
Title: Networks of Power: Re-imagining the Imagined
Community in a Globalized World
Keynote Lecture to be delivered by: Neil Larsen
(University of California, Davis)
Beginning with the Enlightenment the nation-state has been
the dominant organizing principle of global societies.
Since then cultural production has been central to the
imagining of the national community. With the dawn of the
postmodern age, however, the nation-state seems to have
lost its dominant position. A host of economic, social,
and cultural processes have offered both new points of
departure for imagining collective identities, and new
points of contention in negotiating those identities.
Processes of globalization, such as the emergence of
transnational corporations and supranational
organizations, and the intermingling of peoples and
cultures all seem to undermine the normative power of the
national community. In fact, the globalization of cultural
production offers a new lens for interrogating the
seemingly ‘national’ character of cultural texts.
We are seeking contributions that investigate the
implications of globalization for cultural production and
the renegotiation of power and identity that is played out
in cultural texts, e.g. literature, film, music,
television, as well as policies, and international
communiqués.
Leading questions are: In what ways can one theorize
"globalization"? How do concepts and realities of
globalization change (in) different regions? What new
communities are imagined through transnational cultural
production and what new identities and power relations are
produced, reproduced, and challenged? How have attempts
to reassert national hegemony in the face of these global
changes manifested themselves in cultural texts? How are
the intersections of race, gender, and class de- and
reconstructed by globalization? How have strategies of
international warfare shifted in the face of increasingly
porous national organizations? How has globalization
changed notions of citizenship with respect to
self-determination?
Possible session topics include but are not limited to:
• Historicizing “Globalization”: Early Modern – Modern –
Postmodern
• Global Identities v. National Loyalties
• Benedict Anderson: Imagined “Global” Communities?
• Imagining History: Mobilizing Tradition or Seeking
Innovation
• Information Technologies and Globalization
• Resisting Globalization: Revolutions and Reactions
• The Dark Side of Globalization: Terrorism?
• Cultural Hybridity and the Transnational Film Industry
Conference Structure: This conference/workshop will be
comprised of the keynote address and two sessions on
Friday, followed by two additional two sessions on
Saturday. Central to the conference is a graduate seminar
style workshop on Saturday. This workshop is led by the
keynote speaker and designed to explore the issues
presented and discussed in more detail and depth. We
strongly invite all participants to attend this final
event. Presenters are requested to arrange their travel
so that they can participate in the entire event,
including the workshop.
Please send a 500 word abstract along with a brief
biographical statement to [log in to unmask] by
March 20, 2010. Selected participants will be notified by
March 26, 2010. You can also visit our webpage (coming
soon) for additional information about the conference:
http://www.unm.edu/~fll/grad-conference.htm (check for
frequent updates).
Jason Wilby, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Ortega Hall 349B
MSC 03 2080
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
(505) 277-7363
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