CFP: Documents of Barbarism: Comparative Culture and Literature (grad) (12/1/01; 2/1/02-2/2/02)

From: Rebecca Hong (rh50@cornell.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 30 2001 - 23:08:07 EDT

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    Documents of Barbarism: Comparative Culture and Literature

    Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

    CONFERENCE DATE: February 1-2, 2002

    DEADLINE for abstract submissions: December 1, 2001

    The Cornell Comparative Literature Department invites proposals for papers
    and panels on "the question of comparison" for its upcoming Graduate
    Student Conference (please note: Cornell faculty will participate in
    dialogue with the graduate student panels). Papers should address issues
    related to the nexus of knowledge and power in practices of comparative
    studies in the humanities. Topics include (but are not limited to):

     -comparative cultural studies
     -post-occidentalism
     -comparative postcolonial studies
     -globalization, transnationalism, postnationalism
     -comparative queer theory, comparative gender and feminist studies
     -translations of modernity
     -ideology and cultural identity
     -comparative visuality
     -literature's historical role in colonizing practices

    We encourage papers from scholars in all humanities fields, interested as
    we are in fostering cross-disciplinary conversation.

    Please send 250-word abstracts, either by e-mail by standard mail, by
    DECEMBER 1, 2001 to:

     Rebecca Hong, rh50@cornell.edu
     196 Crown St. Apt. 303,
     New Haven, CT 06510

     or

     David Agruss, dia1@cornell.edu
     Department of Comparative Literature
     257 Goldwin Smith Hall
     Cornell University
     Ithaca, NY 14853

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