Call for Papers for a Series of Interdisciplinary Panels: “Cosmopolitical
and Transnational Interventions”
Thirty Fourth Annual German Studies Association Conference
October 7-10, 2010, Oakland/California
Deadline: February 15, 2010
Contemporary socio-political theorists such as Etienne Balibar, Seyla
Benhabib, Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grandé, among others have emphasized the
need for a cosmopolitan Europe in the 21st century. Such a Europe would
utilize internal and external differences rather than suppressing them, and
work towards a “differential integration” of its subjects in order to
optimally fulfill its transnational obligations and connections. To mark the
end of the eventful first decade of the 21st century, we are inviting
proposals for an interdisciplinary panel series across a wide range of
historical, political, geographical, cultural, anthropological, linguistic,
aesthetic, philosophical, and visual perspectives.
CONCEPTS: Comparative discourses of post-, trans-, and inter-national
interventions; differential evaluations of cosmopolitanism and
cosmopolitics; colonial and postcolonial Europe; kinship, community, and
identity; human rights; spaces of citizenship.
NARRATIVES: Globalization and literary imagination; new and emergent forms
of bi- and multilingualism; translations, travelogues and other forms of
cultural transfer; literature as the space for cosmopolitical and
transnational interventions; transformative definitions of ‘national’
literatures; World Literatures and the literary marketplace.
HISTORIES: The archeology of cosmopolitan Europe against prevailing
presentism in discourses of multiculturalism, transnationalism, and
globalization.
MEDIA ENVIRONMENTS: Transnational modes of production, distribution,
circulation, and reception of cinema and television; internet art,
computer-games, video art, animation; digitization of libraries and museums,
theater and performance; cultural politics of the European Union;
architecture in relation to global environmental awareness; new cityscapes.
SOUNDS: World music (popular and classical) in/and Germany; musical
appropriations of rap/hiphop/Bollywood soundtracks and new meanings of race
and ethnicity; internet radio, podcasts and transformation of the public
sphere; copyright issues and piracy.
This series of panels is organized by B. Venkat Mani (University of
Wisconsin; bvmani(at)wisc.edu) and Elke Segelcke (Illinois State University;
esegelc(at)ilstu.edu) in collaboration with TRANSIT. Selected papers will be
considered for publication in TRANSIT <http://german.berkeley.edu/transit> .
IMPORTANT: Please send in your abstracts to the two organizers AND via the
GSA website by February 15, 2010 and indicate that your submission is
intended for the Interdisciplinary Program and the above series of panels
“Cosmopolitical and Transnational Interventions.” Visit the GSA website
(www.thegsa.org) for general information about membership requirement,
travel funding, and the online submission process, which opens on January 5,
2010.
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