"Rethinking the Human Sciences: Interdisciplinary Studies, Global Education, &
the Languages of Criticism" Conference at The George Washington University,
April 7 & 8, 2000
What is the future of interdisciplinary scholarship? Have interdisciplinary
studies transformed the academy? What methodologies contribute to an
interdisciplinary approach to interpretive inquiry? Has global capitalism
impeded the development of interdisciplinary, transformative pedagogies and
scholarship? How will the influential ideas of structuralism and
poststructuralism and the languages of criticism impact interdisciplinary
critical theory and scholarship?
The GW Program in the Human Sciences seeks to explore all these questions in
its 6th Annual Conference. We invite and anticipate a variety of approaches to
these questions from scholars working in various disciplines across the
humanities and the social sciences.
We also seek to broaden the conversation, and thus encourage submissions from
scholars in the natural sciences and in applied fields such as education and
linguistics. Indeed, we want to draw attention to interdisciplinary
possibilities across all disciplines. The focus of this millennial conference
will be on how these areas of scholarship inform and influence the topics
under discussion and each other.
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Suggested Topics
Interdisciplinary Studies:
ú Disciplinarity in the humanities and social sciences
ú Anti-disciplinarity, inter-disciplinarity, post-disciplinarity
ú The relationship between the human sciences and the natural sciences
ú The politics of scientific literacy
ú Area studies and other interdisciplinary movements
ú Interdisciplinarity as cross-cultural communication
Global Education:
ú Centers and peripheries of global capitalism
ú Interdisciplinary transformations in education
ú The marketing of education and distance education
ú Resistance cultures: Postcolonial, indigenous, and or street cultures
Languages of criticism:
ú Discourses of structuralism/poststructuralism
ú Modernism and postmodernism
ú Language and hermeneutics
ú Language, power and critical traditions across cultures
ú Translation
ú Crossing academic and popular discourses
Keynote Speaker
Cary Nelson - Professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and
Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Books include:
ú Manifesto of a Tenured Radical (author)
ú Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education (co-authored
with Stephen Watt)
ú Cultural Studies - (coedited with Lawrence Grossber and Paula Treichler)
ú Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies (coedited with Dilip
Parameshwar Gaonkar)
ú Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics and the Crisis of the
Humanities (coedited with Michael B‚rub‚)
ú Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis (editor)
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Submission Guidelines
Please send a 250 word abstract with your name, affiliation, telephone number,
address, and email, by December 1, 1999 to:
Global Conference
GWU - Program in the Human Sciences
2035 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052 or by e-mail at global@gwu.edu
(202) 994-6134 (phone)
(202) 994-7034 (fax)
Visit the conference Web site at www.gwu.edu/~global
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