announcing a conference on borders in tucson, october 2005.
i'm sure geographers can add to this list in interesting and
elusive ways. best jp
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BORDERS
Western Humanities Alliance
24th Annual Conference
October 20-22, 2005
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Proposals are invited for the 24th Annual Conference of The Western Humanities
Alliance on the theme of Borders: Cultural, Conceptual, Curricular. The Western
Humanities Alliance seeks a wide variety of contributions from all relevant
disciplines on questions such as:
* How do borders influence political, social or cultural issues within a given
country or internationally? In what sense are borders constructive or
destructive?
* How do borders facilitate or limit human understanding and scientific
progress? What is the function of conceptual borders and their synonyms, from
margins and boundaries to classification and categorization, from partitions
and interfaces to gaps and interstices?
* How do borders serve to define the relation between academic disciplines, from
the arts to the sciences, and between different disciplines within related
fields, such as the humanities, fine arts, social sciences and sciences?
* What is the role of borders, or how have policies on borders changed, since
9/11 as regards for instance terrorism and refugees, communication and
information, exportation/importation of commodities, artifacts, drugs or
weapons?
* What is the current status of borders in relation to issues in health and
medicine (e.g. regarding AIDS or SARS), in economics (e.g. regarding currency),
or in international law?
* How are borders related to discussions of race, class and gender or of
migration and identity? What is their relevance in literature, in psychology
(e.g. behavioral patterns with respect to borders, ?borderline
personalities,? etc.) and in the social sciences, including linguistics and
pedagogy?
* How do borders determine our relation to, and our usage of, natural resources,
such as water and minerals? Relevant topics may include, but are not limited
to, maritime borders, watershed boundaries and depth of property or mineral
rights.
* How do cultural borders relate to natural borders? How do borders help to
protect traditional cultures or to preserve the environment?
* How are borders related to reflection on time and space in fields such as
astronomy, geography, philosophy and archeology?
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Submissions should be addressed by February 15, 2005 to:
WHA Conference Committee
Modern Languages 345
P.O. Box 210067
University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ 85721-0067
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Proposals either for individual papers or for complete sessions are encouraged.
Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of the
Western Humanities Review.
For information on the Western Humanities Alliance: http://wha.ucdavis.edu
The WHA maintains a limited fund for graduate students from member institutions
only to help meet travel expenses to present at the conference. Eligible
graduate student participants who wish to apply for travel funding should
indicate their intent to do so in the proposal.
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The institutional members of the Western Humanities Alliance are:
Arizona State University ? University of California, Riverside
Claremont Graduate University ? University of California, San Diego
Reed College ? University of California, Santa Barbara
Stanford University ? University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Arizona ? University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of California, Berkeley ? University of Oregon
University of California, Davis ? University of Southern California
University of California, Irvine ? University of Utah
University of California, Los Angeles ? University of Washington
Utah State University ? University of British Columbia
University of Calgary
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John Paul Jones III
Professor and Head
Department of Geography
and Regional Development
409 Harvill Building
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0076
520-621-1652 work
520-940-0036 cell
520-621-2889 fax
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