Call for Papers: "Nation Matters: America's Shifting Terrains"
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
[Abstract deadline: 2/2/03; Conference dates: 4/30 - 5/2/03]
The American Studies Colloquium at the University of Washington is seeking
abstracts for its 11th annual graduate student conference, "Nation
Matters: America's Shifting Terrains." In response to the global shift of
the new American Studies, this conference will consider the extent to
which the "nation matters" to the study of American cultural forms and
historiography from a variety of critical approaches. We are interested
in individual papers or panel presentations which address the place of the
nation as the ultimate rubric within disciplinary organizations of
knowledge, especially in reaction to the field's increasingly
postnational(ist) and transnational tendencies. We see these questions as
largely a matter of critical scale and we are very interested in work
which functions in and across a multiplicity of geographical, economical
and hermeneutical scales in its treatment of culture, politics and
history.
The keynote speaker of this year's conference is John Carlos Rowe
(English, UC Irvine), whose recent work on Post-Nationalist American
Studies (U of California P, 2000) and The New American Studies (U of
Minnesota P, 2002) has been concerned with assessing the recent
transnational or postnational(ist) shift in American Studies scholarship,
which asks us to reconsider the categories which have shaped and informed
the field up to this point. This year's conference takes these new
critical discourses as its starting point.
Participants might consider the following broadly articulated questions:
Does the nation matter to the production of knowledge in the humanities
and social sciences? What are the political implications and stakes
involved in questioning the position of the nation within knowledge
production? To what extent do national biases inform emerging
transnational and global methodologies?
Topics/Fields may include but are not limited to:
National territoriality, spatialization and landscape
National and transnational social movements
Race, class, gender and sexuality in national and transnational contexts
Cosmopolitanism and citizenship
Imperialism and postcolonialist critique
Pragmatism and nationalism
History of American Studies, Ethnic Studies and Literary Studies
Transnational approaches to cultural politics and theory
Ethnography and travel writing
Cultural and political geography
Pedagogy, institutional practices, and the teaching of the nation
Theories of the state-form and nationhood
Language communities and the nation
Memory, trauma and collective identity
Nationalist and post-nationalist multiculturalisms
Expatriation, diaspora, migration
Nation and affect
Science, technology and the (re)production of the nation
Please send (via email or regular mail) a one-page abstract for a 15
minute paper by February 2, 2003 to:
Ji-Young Um
umji@u.washington.edu
Box 354330
Department of English
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-4330
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