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The Department of Comparative Literature & Classics
California State University, Long Beach
Is Pleased to Announce its
37th Annual Comparative Literature Conference
March 1-2, 2002
Citizen of the World:
Cosmopolitanism and Its Ancient Antecedents
Edward Said
keynote speaker
Call for Papers
Proposed topics include but are not limited to:
* redefining cosmopolitan identity
* The politics of cosmopolitanism
* citizen of the world and the end of frontiers
* oppositions to ethnic and cultural chauvinism
* cosmopolitanism and intellectual freedom
* ancient philosophy and the state
* urban odysseys
* redefining city walls and boundaries
* the image of the ancient and modern iconoclast
* asceticism and the cosmopolitan
* contemporary culture and the travel of thought
* information without borders
* cosmopolitan topography
* invisible cities and cosmopolitan fantasies
* the dandy as a cosmopolitan trope
* the fool in the city
* aesthetics of the city and the cosmos
* cityscapes and escapes in art and literature
* celluloid cities and citizens
* Hotel California and nowhere man
* city of signs and the simulacrum
Suggestions for additional session topics are invited
Papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Please send a one
page abstract postmarked by January 11, 2002 to: Charles
Jernigan, Chair, Comparative Literature, CSULB, 1250 Bellflower
Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840-2404. Preferably e-mail abstract by
January 11 to: [log in to unmask]
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Dr Peter Davies
School of European Languages and Cultures (German)
University of Edinburgh
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