Call for Papers:
LATE MODERN PLANET: GLOBALIZATION,
MODERNITY, and CULTURAL STUDIES
(11th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium at Kansas
State University, Manhattan, KS) March 7-9, 2002
Are we living in a late modern planet? Have we moved
into the postmodern universe? In what ways have
globalization and diaspora changed culture and society
and when did this begin? How are shifts in technology,
international politics, or transnational economics
registered as changes in art, identity or other cultural
forms? Activist, empirical, and theoretical papers
welcome. We encourage papers from any historical
period.
Keynote Speakers:
*LAN CAO, Author of _Monkey Bridge_, Co-editor of
_Everything You Need to Know About Asian American
History_, and Professor of international trade law at
William and Mary School of Law.
*BRUCE ROBBINS, Author of _Feeling Global:
Internationalism in Distress_, _Secular Vocations:
Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture_, and _The
Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below_;
Co-editor of _Social Text_; and Professor of English at
Rutgers University.
*LAWRENCE GROSSBERG, Author of _We Gotta Get
Out of This
Place_, _Bringing it all Back Home_, and _Dancing in
Spite
of Myself_; Co-Editor of _Cultural Studies_; and Morris
Davis Professor of Communication Studies and
Cultural
Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
*AMITAVA KUMAR, Author of _Passport Photos_,
Script-Writer
for _Pure Chutney_, and Associate Professor of
English at
Penn State University.
Possible Topics:
* Early and Late Modernity
* "World Music"
* Diaspora and Immigration
* From Nation to Corporation
* Hollywood's International Markets
* World Wide Webs
* Colonization, Empire, and Modernity
* Transnational Communities
* "Discovering" New Worlds
* International Intellectuals
* World Bank / IMF
* Migrant Labor
* Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Mail or email one-page abstracts for papers or panels
to:
Michele Janette
Director, Program in Cultural Studies
English Department
Kansas State University
106 Denison Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-0701
email: janette@ksu.edu
Deadline for proposals: Oct. 20, 2001.
CFP also available online:
www.ksu.edu/english/sympo
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