UPDATE: Cosmopolitanism and Its Ancient Antecedents (1/11/02; 3/1/02-3/2/02)

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Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 16:45:34 EST

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    The Department of Comparative Literature & Classics
    California State University, Long Beach
    Is Pleased to Announce its
    37th Annual Comparative Literature Conference
    March 1-2, 2002

    Citizen of the World:
    Cosmopolitanism and Its Ancient Antecedents

    Edward Said
    keynote speaker

    Call for Papers

    Proposed topics include but are not limited to:

    * redefining cosmopolitan identity
    * The politics of cosmopolitanism
    * citizen of the world and the end of frontiers
    * oppositions to ethnic and cultural chauvinism
    * cosmopolitanism and intellectual freedom
    * ancient philosophy and the state
    * urban odysseys
    * redefining city walls and boundaries
    * the image of the ancient and modern iconoclast
    * asceticism and the cosmopolitan
    * contemporary culture and the travel of thought
    * information without borders
    * cosmopolitan topography
    * invisible cities and cosmopolitan fantasies
    * the dandy as a cosmopolitan trope
    * the fool in the city
    * aesthetics of the city and the cosmos
    * cityscapes and escapes in art and literature
    * celluloid cities and citizens
    * Hotel California and nowhere man
    * city of signs and the simulacrum

    Suggestions for additional session topics are invited

    Papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Please send a one page
    abstract postmarked by
    January 11, 2002 to: Charles Jernigan, Chair, Comparative Literature,
    CSULB, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840-2404. Preferably e-mail
    abstract by January 11 to: jernigan@csulb.edu

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