CFP: Practices of Empire (1/14/05; GLASA, 3/18/05-3/19/05)

Call for Papers

The Great Lakes American Studies Association (GLASA) announces its biennial
meeting on March 18 and 19, 2005 on the urban campus of Indiana
University-Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI). The conference will
focus on Practices of Empire and will feature keynote lectures by Sandra
Gustafson (English, Notre Dame) and Neferti Tadiar (History of
Consciousness, Univ. of California-Santa Cruz). The conference hotel-the
Doubletree at University Place-is on the IUPUI campus, several blocks from
the center of downtown Indianapolis, where galleries, restaurants, museums,
music, theater, and recreational activities abound. Sessions will take
place at University Library, across the street from the hotel.

We invite paper and panel proposals that concern the direct or indirect
involvement of people in imperial regimes past or present as seen from the
disciplinary lenses of history, literature, the arts, cinema, the medical
humanities, and cultural and postcolonial studies. Proposals may
interrogate
how everyday social practices implicate U.S. citizens in forms of
imperialism,
when those practices are fostered by religious institutions, the media, U.S.
corporate enterprise, or the military-industrial complex. Other proposals
may address how empire has historically and at present affected the
rhetoric and discourse of Americans and American-ness broadly defined
across racial, gender, regional, international and class boundaries. We
also welcome topics that consider how empire affects the relationship of
citizens to the state, and of the nation to other states across time; and
how technologies of empire have been created, defined, and implemented.
Pedagogical and disciplinary papers on empire are also of interest: how
faculty members approach the teaching of imperial subjects in the classroom
and solicit student reaction; and how the scholarly study of empire differs
among literary and cultural studies theorists, historians, philosophers,
artists, natural scientists, and social scientists.

Please submit proposals (up to 500 words) for individual papers, paper
pairings, or full sessions (three to four papers). All proposals must
include the title of the presentation (and session title if applicable);
name, affiliation, email address, U.S. mail address, and phone number of
presenters; and any request for the use of audiovisual or computer
equipment. We also encourage workshop and roundtable formats. Send
proposals by January 14, 2005:

" By email to Prof. Jane E. Schultz, jschult_at_iupui.edu;
" By FAX to 317-278-1287 [IUPUI Dept. of English-Schultz]; or
" By U.S. mail to Prof. Jane E. Schultz, GLASA conference, Dept. of
English, 425 University Blvd., IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN 46202

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