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The Graduate Students of the department of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC have revived the
Crossing Borders Conference on March 29th & 30th, 2013. Crossing Borders is a decade long collaboration to bring together graduate students from USC, UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, UCLA and beyond in the interest of initiating conversations across institutions and disciplines. This is a joint endeavor to foster intellectual community amongst graduate students pursuing degrees in Ethnic Studies, American Studies, the humanities, arts and social science programs in California.
This year’s conference engages the theme of “crossing” as both a spatial operation that confounds and consolidates borders and as an analytic through which to reconceptualize politics, culture, and social movements. Crossing challenges conventional understandings of imperialism, capitalism, militarism, debt accumulation, uneven geographic development, and imprisonment by illuminating the mobility of people, practices, ideas, and goods while transforming our conceptions of justice, solidarity, collaboration, and communication. Crossing also asks us to consider the methods of multi- and inter-disciplinary modes of knowledge. Exploring the concept of “border” beyond a singular understanding as geographic space, this conference encourages a multidirectional understanding of “borderland” as discursive, material, disciplinary, psychic, and imagined. The convergences of these different political-intellectual projects summon unruly archives and require flexible understandings of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Such convergences ask us to investigate the ways these categories are re-calibrated and dismantled through struggle in times of crisis. We seek papers that address the notion of crossing in any number of different struggles, sites and conflicts. Submission deadline: January 1, 2013.
PANEL SUBMISSIONS ENCOURAGED. PANELS SHOULD DEMONSTRATE A DIVERSITY OF INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION AND DISCIPLINES.
Possible Topics and Themes include (but are not limited to):
- interdisciplinary methods & epistemologies
- political economy
- geography & memory
- governance, dissent, & surveillance
- transnationalism & the nation-state
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queer & feminist of color analysis
- spatial and social theory
- representation & visuality
- neoliberalism, liberalism, & socialism
- settler-colonialism, decoloniality, & indigeneity
- confinement & imprisonment
- debt & consumption
Individual paper submission requirements:
- paper abstract: 250 words
- 1 page CV
- list of 3-5 keywords/themes
Panel submission requirements:
- panel title
- panel abstract of 250 words
- individual paper abstracts of 250 words each
- 1 page CVs for all participants
FORWARDED BY --
Jen Jack Gieseking, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Research Professor, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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