UPDATE: Locating "the West" (2/25/05; CHATS, 4/15/05-4/17/05)

UPDATE: CALL FOR PANELS

The Center for Humanities, Arts, and TechnoScience (CHATS) presents:
Structure, Space and Transmigrations
April 15-17, 2005
University at Albany, SUNY
Albany, New York

The State University of New York at Albany will host its third annual CHATS conference (formerly HumaniTech*), which focuses on examining the intersection between humanities, science and technology. The three-day conference will host an array of events, including academic papers and multi-media presentations, performance, exhibits, a plenary discussion, and keynote speaker (to be announced). We are particularly interested in panels and papers that take an interdisciplinary approach, and incorporate perspectives from a wide range of disciplines. Priority consideration will be given to those speaking to this year’s theme, “Structure, Space and Transmigrations.” Works from all fields and disciplines are welcome.

Panel proposal for Spring 2005 CHATS conference “Structure, Space, and Transmigrations”.

Locating “the West”: Exploring a Metaphor

The idea of “the West” as an entity of culture and of colonial domination has been recently discussed among scholars from many disciplines. How have the changes wrought by the overthrow of formal colonialism changed notions of the West itself? And, how does this reflect a migratory notion of identity in global terms? That is, how can we understand a metaphor that keeps changing, traveling? Or, is it possible that the West remains much as it ever was in terms of its relations to the rest of the world? Approaches to this topic could include a discussion of space in terms of mapping, architecture, etc. They might also include an examination of the metaphor of “the West” in literature, history and/or culture. I am interested in papers that address this topic from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including (but not limited to): History, English, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Geography, Science, Etc.

Please direct your paper proposals of not more than 500 words to Kelly Secovnie at KS8658_at_albany.edu by February 25, 2005.

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