Flight Time: Moment and Momentum in the New Millennium
Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
Weisman Art Museum
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
March 22-24, 2002
Plenary Speaker: Réda Bensmaïa - Professor of French and Comparative
Literature, Brown University.
The present transformation of time and space is simultaneously opening
up new potentials and engendering new hazards. Our decreased reliance
on geographic, social and theoretical boundaries means increased
movement of global capital, peoples and ideas. This conference is
interested in the multiple implications of the concept of flight, and
how flight, as an inevitable feature of contemporary life, transforms
our very experience of time.
How does the concept of flight imply both freedom and containment? How
have our understandings of time and productivity changed? How does the
seeming dissolution of the nation-state affect traditional notions of
identity and community? How do contagion, crime and capital reconfigure
conceptual and material boundaries? How will academia adjust to these
changes?
We welcome papers, panels and artistic interventions that consider such
issues as the following:
-Urban (Im)mobility, Racial Profiling and Segregation
-Movements and Migrations: Literary, Political, Critical, Aesthetic
-Porous Borders: Freeing Trade and Restricting Bodies
-Technologies of Connectivity, Freedom, and Captivity
-Exiles and Refugees
-Traffic in Women in the 21st Century
-Moving Through Languages: The Stakes of Literary Translation
-Time Travel and Travel Time
-Waiting Rooms: Airports, Nursing Homes, Quarantines
-Free Time
-Nostalgia and Forgetting
-Stages of Life: Child Time/Adult Time
-Anachrony and Synchrony: Nachträglichkeit, Déjà-Vu, Nick at Night, and
Other Quirks of Time
In light of the events of September 11th, and the national and
international reactions to them, we feel that critical reflection is
required. We welcome panel or paper proposals that attempt to address
the impact of these events and their reception on the process of
globalization. Reflections on the challenges posed and faced by
intellectuals, writers, and artists are also invited.
Questions and inquiries can be sent through the following electronic
media:
email: flighttime@velocitymail.com phone: (612) 626 8278 fax: (612)
626 0228
You can find more information about the conference, panel proposals, the
department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, the
University of Minnesota etc. on the web at:
http://cscl.cla.umn.edu/flighttime/
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to the following address
(electronic submissions preferred) by January 25, 2002 to:
Flighttime@velocitymail.com, or
"Flighttime"
Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature,
9 Pleasant St. SE
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
USA 55455-0195
(612) 626 827
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