CALL FOR PAPERS
Michigan State University^Òs 2001 Modern Literature Conference.
GLOBALICITIES
A Conference on Issues Related to Globalization
Sponsored by the Program in Comparative Literature
Date: October 18-20, 2001
Location: Michigan State University
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
-GAYATRI SPIVAK, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia
University
-MICHAEL HARDT, Associate Professsor of Literature and Romance Studies,
Duke University
-MAHMOOD MAMDANI, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Director,
Institute of African Studies, Columbia University
-SASKIA SASSEN, Professor of Sociology, The University of Chicago
A number of recent, important works make clear that the present moment^Òs
metaphor for the economic, political, social, and cultural
interrelationships between nations is ^Óglobalization,^Ô a concept that
has come to replace earlier formulas of ^Ómodernization^Ô and
^Ócivilization.^Ô This conference, ^ÓGlobalicities,^Ô will focus on the
limitations and implications of theoretically determining these
relations.
We are interested in reflections on the anthropological, sociological,
economic, legal, linguistic, and aesthetical ways in which the ^Óglobal^Ô
has been thought and actualized during the last 500 years. We
particularly are soliciting serious investigations of the rhetorics and
practices of recent theories of the global, postcolonial, and
international. We hope that our neologism, ^Óglobalicities,^Ô stands in
relation to commonsense notions of the global in the same way that
temporalities and historicities stand in relation to conventional time
and history.
In other words, our invitation is to treat the concept of the ^Óglobe^Ô
not as something given, but rather as something which is politically
fashioned posterior to our always endless relations.
Possible areas or topics include, but are not limited to:
*Theories of Narrative and the global
*Rethinking travel, exile, migration, diaspora
*Mestizo logics; or, hybrid theory ^Óall the way down^Ô
*^ÓDevelopment,^Ô ^Ómodernization^Ô and ^Ócivilization^Ô and the fate of
dependency theory
*Race and gender in globalization theory
*Post-structuralism and the critique of late-capitalism
*Markets, profits, and violent conflicts
*State violence, armed resistance, and limits of international law
*The return of the state in global theory
*The rhetorics of geography, space, and place theory
*Questioning post-Marxism^Òs turn to ^Óculture^Ô
*Subalternities and Solidarities
*Markets, products and the construction of taste
*Queering the sphere
* Genetics, biotechnology and the globe
Abstractions for individual papers should be no more than 500 words
long; abstracts for panels are limited to a total of 1000 words.
DEADLINE for Proposals: March 31, 2001
Please send abstracts and one-page vita for each proposed panelist to:
Professor Kenneth Harrow
Director, Program in Comparative Literature
Morrill Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
fax 517 353 3755
e-mail harrow@xxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
As in past years, a selection of conference papers will be published by
the Centennial Review, which in 2001 enters its 45th year of publication
and interdisciplinary scholarship.
The Program in Comparative Literature has hosted the Modern Literature
Conference for many years. Recently the program has developed a special
emphasis in African and the African diaspora studies, and the program
serves as a complement to interdiscipinary Ph.D. programs in Michigan
State University^Òs College of Arts and Letters, including the
Literatures of the Americas and Postcolonial Studies, founded in 1998,
and the Ph.D. program in Africa and the African-American Diaspora, which
will be launched in Fall 2001.
Michigan State University^Òs 2001 Modern Literature Conference.
GLOBALICITIES
A Conference on Issues Related to Globalization
Sponsored by the Program in Comparative Literature
Date: October 18-20, 2001
Location: Michigan State University
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
-GAYATRI SPIVAK, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia
University
-MICHAEL HARDT, Associate Professsor of Literature and Romance Studies,
Duke University
-MAHMOOD MAMDANI, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Director,
Institute of African Studies, Columbia University
-SASKIA SASSEN, Professor of Sociology, The University of Chicago
A number of recent, important works make clear that the present moment^Òs
metaphor for the economic, political, social, and cultural
interrelationships between nations is ^Óglobalization,^Ô a concept that
has come to replace earlier formulas of ^Ómodernization^Ô and
^Ócivilization.^Ô This conference, ^ÓGlobalicities,^Ô will focus on the
limitations and implications of theoretically determining these
relations.
We are interested in reflections on the anthropological, sociological,
economic, legal, linguistic, and aesthetical ways in which the ^Óglobal^Ô
has been thought and actualized during the last 500 years. We
particularly are soliciting serious investigations of the rhetorics and
practices of recent theories of the global, postcolonial, and
international. We hope that our neologism, ^Óglobalicities,^Ô stands in
relation to commonsense notions of the global in the same way that
temporalities and historicities stand in relation to conventional time
and history.
In other words, our invitation is to treat the concept of the ^Óglobe^Ô
not as something given, but rather as something which is politically
fashioned posterior to our always endless relations.
Possible areas or topics include, but are not limited to:
*Theories of Narrative and the global
*Rethinking travel, exile, migration, diaspora
*Mestizo logics; or, hybrid theory ^Óall the way down^Ô
*^ÓDevelopment,^Ô ^Ómodernization^Ô and ^Ócivilization^Ô and the fate of
dependency theory
*Race and gender in globalization theory
*Post-structuralism and the critique of late-capitalism
*Markets, profits, and violent conflicts
*State violence, armed resistance, and limits of international law
*The return of the state in global theory
*The rhetorics of geography, space, and place theory
*Questioning post-Marxism^Òs turn to ^Óculture^Ô
*Subalternities and Solidarities
*Markets, products and the construction of taste
*Queering the sphere
* Genetics, biotechnology and the globe
Abstractions for individual papers should be no more than 500 words
long; abstracts for panels are limited to a total of 1000 words.
DEADLINE for Proposals: March 31, 2001
Please send abstracts and one-page vita for each proposed panelist to:
Professor Kenneth Harrow
Director, Program in Comparative Literature
Morrill Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
fax 517 353 3755
e-mail harrow@xxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
As in past years, a selection of conference papers will be published by
the Centennial Review, which in 2001 enters its 45th year of publication
and interdisciplinary scholarship.
The Program in Comparative Literature has hosted the Modern Literature
Conference for many years. Recently the program has developed a special
emphasis in African and the African diaspora studies, and the program
serves as a complement to interdiscipinary Ph.D. programs in Michigan
State University^Òs College of Arts and Letters, including the
Literatures of the Americas and Postcolonial Studies, founded in 1998,
and the Ph.D. program in Africa and the African-American Diaspora, which
will be launched in Fall 2001.