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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