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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 17:12:50 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: Mediations of Identity and Space (1/7/00; 3/30-4/2)
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Disciplinary Diagrams, Political Fields:
Mediations of Identity and Space in the Late 20th Century
Thursday, March 30, to Sunday, April 2, 2000
Duke University
Sponsored by the Center for International Studies and the Literature Program
A CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS/PANEL PROPOSALS: JANUARY 7, 2000
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Regina Austin (U. Penn., Law School)
Robert Bailey (Rutgers, Public Policy)
Arturo Escobar (U. Mass., Amherst, Anthropology)
Richard Thompson Ford (Stanford, Law School)
Cherrie Moraga
Alberto Moreiras (Duke, Literature)
Valentin Mudimbe (Duke, Literature)
Jose Munoz (NYU, Performance Studies)
Michael Taussig (Columbia, Anthropology)
What topographies of power and representation have emerged in the wake of
the profound popularity within university discourse of theories of
hybridity, diasporas, border cultures, and cosmopolitanism? The new
global order of intensified flows and accumulations of capital and
labor--co-extensive with new forms of racism, nationalism, and
hetero/sexism--has refigured the relationship between identity and space in
the late 20th century. As social identities suffer spatial troubles in
the wake of these flows and accumulations, new conceptualizations of this
relationship seem in order. Thus, the proposed conference will offer
theoretical revisions of existing geocultural histories in an effort to
introduce new methodologies and conceptual tools into the disciplinary
diagrams circulating around transnational cultural studies and related
fields.
The conference will also examine disciplinary preoccupations with the "new"
as
symptoms of a desire for forms of scholarship that function as praxis,
through
their elimination of the distance separating the historical real from its
conceptualization.
POSSIBLE PANEL TOPICS:
Geopolitical spaces
Geographic spaces
Legal spaces
Performative spaces
Sexual/Gendered spaces
Sacred spaces
City/Suburban spaces
Academic spaces
SEMINAR ON MICHAEL TAUSSIG'S _DEFACEMENT_:
We plan to hold a seminar on Michael Taussig's latest work, _Defacement:
Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative_ (November, 1999,
Stanford University Press). Thus, papers that deal specifically and primarily
with Taussig are especially welcome for this part of the conference.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
We invite 200-300 word abstracts and/or panel proposals for the
conference. Panel proposals should also include separate 200-300 word
descriptions for each paper within the proposed panel. Please include
with your submission a cover sheet providing your name, institutional
affiliation, address, phone number, and email. Submissions may be mailed,
faxed, or e-mailed. E-mail submissions are preferred.
Disciplinary Diagrams, Political Fields Conference
Attn: Abdul Mustapha
Center for International Studies
Box 90404
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0404
Fax: 919.684.8749
Email: [log in to unmask]
Conference web page: http://www.duke.edu/~arg2/DDPF.html
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University of Iowa
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