This may be of interest to those concerned with technology and globalisation
- possible topics include: the Internet and cyberspace ....
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From: Dale Fitzgibbons [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 October 2000 15:38
Subject: Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
Border Subjects V:
Global (Dis)Connections
April 26-27, 2001
Illinois State University invites paper or panel proposals on the topic of
Global (Dis)Connections.
We welcome considerations of the ways in which economic, cultural, judicial
and/or political processes of globalization forge new forms of both
connection and exclusion. We encourage papers that deal with specific local
manifestations and effects of globalizing processes, as well as with more
broadly conceived theoretical considerations of these processes. We welcome
diverse and creative interpretations of our topic.
Possible topics:
Discourses of human rights (children's rights, labor rights, women's rights,
etc.)
The globalization of labor (sweatshops, unions, etc.)
Informal economies (low-capital production and marketing)
The globalization of consumerism
Gender and globalization
Queering the global
Globalization and education
Global constructions of the local
Cultural homogenization and ghettoization
Local appropriations of the global
The postcolonial globe
Temporal and spatial aspects of globalization
Global citizens, immigrants and foreigners
Finance and the mobility of capital
Global Trade
Global democracy and/or justice.
Transnational organizations (WTO, IMF, World Bank, World Court, human rights
organizations)
Globalization and the environment
Sovereignty and nation states
Native cultures
Tourism, neo-colonialism and sex
Sport and national identity
The Internet and cyberspace
Globalization and the media
Send abstracts by December 15 to:
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or
James H. Reid
Department of Foreign Languages
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-4300
Other members of the Conference Organizing Committee:
Anthony Adedze [log in to unmask]
Marilyn Boyd [log in to unmask]
Angelo Capparella [log in to unmask]
Dale Fitzgibbons [log in to unmask]
Mary Anne Moffitt [log in to unmask]
Ron Mottram [log in to unmask]
William Rau [log in to unmask]
Rebecca Saunders [log in to unmask]
Beatrice Smith [log in to unmask]
Manfred Steger [log in to unmask]
Ron Strickland [log in to unmask]
Mohammed Tavakoli [log in to unmask]
Douglas Turco [log in to unmask]
Kevin Zhang [log in to unmask]
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