“Belonging: Community, Commonality, and the Politics of the Singular.”
In The Coming Community, Giorgio Agamben asks “What could be the politics
of whatever singularity, that is, of a being whose community is mediated
not by any condition of belonging (being red, being Italian, being
Communist) nor by the simple absence of conditions…but by belonging
itself?” The Graduate Students of the New York University Department of
Comparative Literature invite graduate students from across the humanities
to submit papers for their 2004 spring conference, “Belonging: Community,
Commonality, and the Politics of the Singular,” April 2nd and 3rd.
Possible panel topics include but are not limited to: Aesthetic
Communities, Collectivity, Cosmopolitanism, Exiled Communities,
Friendship, Global Struggles, Hegemony, Hospitality, Imagined communities,
Isolationism, Kinship, Mass Production, Masses, Media/Popular Culture,
Nation/State, Nationalisms, Occupied Territories, Parties, Peoples,
Private languages/Social Languages, Race, Refugees/Statelessness, Schools,
Sex, Shared Spaces, Sociability, Solidarity, Sovereignty,
Translation/Monolinguism, Tribes, and Universalism.
We are especially excited to announce that our keynote speaker this year
will be NYU Global Distinguished Professor Giorgio Agamben. Also, in
memory of Professor Edward Said, we will also be hosting a special faculty
roundtable discussion on the question of belonging in his work. Students
of his thought are especially encouraged to submit.
One page, single-spaced abstracts are due to Michael Tan (mkt209@nyu.edu),
Alejandra Uslenghi (auslenghi@yahoo.com), Sabrina Waldron
(sabrina_213hotmail.com) by February 15, 2003. Please send copies to all
members of the organizing committee. Contact Michael Tan with any
queries.
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