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
opened on January 5, 2010.
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