Dear Sir or Madam,
This is a reminder that graduate papers for the Spring 2008 issue of Working Papers are due May 12.
We are currently accepting papers devoted to the theme of Traversing Geographies. The call for submissions appears at the bottom of this e-mail.
Working Papers invites graduate students from all universities and disciplines to submit papers on French, Francophone, Spanish, Hispanic, Portuguese, and Italian literature, film, art, and popular culture from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Please encourage your students or graduate colleagues to send their electronic submissions (in English or any of the Romance Languages) as attachments to the following address: [log in to unmask] For more information on the journal, its editorial policy, and submission guidelines, they may consult our web site: www.pennworkingpapers.org.
Thank you for your assistance.
With kind regards,
Anne Bornschein
Noble Novitzki
Samuel Martin
Co-Editors of Working Papers
Traversing Geographies: New Poetics of Space
Deadline for Submission: Monday, May 12
Our Fall 2008 issue aims to establish a transdisciplinary dialogue to reflect upon the productions, representations, and inscriptions of space, and the various ways in which these processes configure a series of complex maps or cartographies, whether spatial, social, artistic, or epistemological. Some of the questions to be considered are: How has space been imagined in different historical moments and from different subjectivities? What is the relationship between the material and the conceptual spheres of space? How are categories such as identity, subjectivity, and sovereignty inscribed in the distribution of space? What are the intersections between time, space, and the body?
Potential topics may include, but are not limited to the following areas of inquiry:
* Intellectual and Artistic Utopias, Dystopias, and Heterotopias: the political imagination and the lettered city, the space of art: immanence vs. transcendence, the politics of aesthetics (romanticism and nationalism, the avant-garde, etc.), artistic communities and art as a community
* Inside/Outside National Space: national mappings of nature and the geographical space, state and the building of social space and identity, space of representation and the representation of space, immigrant history (arrivals/departures), voids in the nation and stateless subjectivities
* The Local and the Global: new configurations of space and identity, local/global art and market politics, transversal networking and alternative communities, cyberspace, tourism and space as commodity, ecocriticism and the global ecology
* Mapping the City: the city and its metaphors, metropolis/megalopolis, center/periphery, the underground city, urban visual culture (graffiti, advertising, etc.), urban heteroglossia
* Inscriptions of Time in Space: including mapping memory and history through architecture and monuments, sutures, testimonies and archives, art and literary emergences
* Spatial Gestures and their Inscriptions: the body, violence and desire, biopolitics (repression, centralization, control), space and perception, body as an extension of space or body as the measure of space, body wanderings, performance politics and space, desire and alternative spatial configurations (gender, sexuality, and queer mappings)
* Spaces of Intimacy and Everyday Life: topographies of experience, itineraries and journeys of identity (travel narratives, urban wanderings, etc.), (re)inscribing the public and the private
We welcome papers that address these issues through different cultural productions and from the perspectives of literature, cinema and media studies, performance studies, history, and architecture. Papers written in English and in any of the Romance Languages will be considered.
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