Thursday, March 30, to Sunday, April 2, 2000
Duke University
Sponsored by the Center for International Studies and the Literature Program
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS/PANEL PROPOSALS: JANUARY 7, 2000
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Regina Austin (U. Penn., Law School)
Robert Bailey (Rutgers, Public Policy)
Arturo Escobar (U. Mass., Amherst, Anthropology)
Richard Thompson Ford (Stanford, Law School)
Alberto Moreiras (Duke, Literature)
Valentin Mudimbe (Duke, Literature)
Jose Munoz (NYU, Performance Studies)
Michael Taussig (Columbia, Anthropology)
What topographies of power and representation have emerged in the wake of the profound popularity within university discourse of theories of hybridity, diasporas, border cultures, and cosmopolitanism? The new global order of intensified flows and accumulations of capital and
labor--co-extensive with new forms of racism, nationalism, and hetero/sexism--has refigured the relationship between identity and space in the late 20th century. As social identities suffer spatial troubles in the wake of these flows and accumulations, new conceptualizations of this relationship seem in order. Thus, the proposed conference will offer theoretical revisions of existing geocultural histories in an effort to introduce new methodologies and conceptual tools into the disciplinary diagrams circulating around transnational cultural studies and related fields. The conference will also examine disciplinary preoccupations with the "new" as symptoms of a desire for forms of scholarship that function as praxis, through their elimination of the distance separating the historical real from its conceptualization.
POSSIBLE PANEL TOPICS:
Geopolitical spaces
Geographic spaces
Legal spaces
Performative spaces
Sexual/Gendered spaces
Sacred spaces
City/Suburban spaces
Academic spaces
SEMINAR ON MICHAEL TAUSSIG'S DEFACEMENT:
We plan to hold a seminar on Michael Taussig's latest work, "Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative" (November, 1999, Stanford University Press). Thus, papers that deal specifically and primarily with Taussig are especially welcome for this part of the conference.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
We invite 200-300 word abstracts and/or panel proposals for the
conference. Panel proposals should also include separate 200-300 word
descriptions for each paper within the proposed panel. Please include
with your submission a cover sheet providing your name, institutional
affiliation, address, phone number, and email. Submissions may be mailed, faxed, or e-mailed. E-mail submissions are preferred.
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