CALL FOR PAPERS
Border Subjects V:
Global (Dis)Connections
April 26-27
For Illinois State University's fifth annual Border Subjects Conference we
invite paper or panel proposals on the topic of Global (Dis)Connections.
We welcome considerations of the ways in which economic, cultural, judicial
and/or political processes of globalization forge new forms of both
connection and exclusion. We encourage papers that deal with specific local
manifestations and effects of globalizing processes, as well as with more
broadly conceived theoretical considerations of these processes. We welcome
diverse and creative interpretations of our topic.
Possible topics:
Discourses of human rights (children's rights, labor rights, women's
rights, etc.)
The globalization of labor (sweatshops, unions, etc.)
Informal economies (low-capital production and marketing)
The globalization of consumerism
Gender and globalization
Queering the global
Globalization and education
Global constructions of the local
Cultural homogenization and ghettoization
Local appropriations of the global
The postcolonial globe
Temporal and spatial aspects of globalization
Global citizens, immigrants and foreigners
Finance and the mobility of capital
Global Trade
Global democracy and/or justice.
Transnational organizations (WTO, IMF, World Bank, World Court, human
rights organizations)
Globalization and the environment
Sovereignty and nation states
Native cultures
Tourism, neo-colonialism and sex
Sport and national identity
The Internet and cyberspace
Globalization and the media
Send abstracts by December 15 to:
jhreid@ilstu.edu
or
James H. Reid
Department of Foreign Languages
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-4300
Other members of the Conference Organizing Committee:
Anthony Adedze adedze@ilstu.edu
Marilyn Boyd mmboyd@ilstu.edu
Angelo Capparella apcappar@ilstu.edu
Dale Fitzgibbons defitz@ilstu.edu
Mary Anne Moffitt mamoffi@ilstu.edu
Ron Mottram rjmottr@ilstu.edu
William Rau wcrau@ilstu.edu
Rebecca Saunders rasaund@ilstu.edu
Beatrice Smith bbsmith@ilstu.edu
Manfred Steger mbstege@ilstu.edu
Ron Strickland rlstrick@ilstu.edu
Mohammed Tavakoli mtavakol@ilstu.edu
Douglas Turco dmturco@ilstu.edu
Kevin Zhang khzhang@ilstu.edu
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