<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">“Contingent
Communities” (2010)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The Annual
Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Conference at University of
Minnesota<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dates:
10/15/10-10/17/10<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Keynote
Speakers: Rey Chow and Peter Hitchcock<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">As many have argued,
globalization puts into question the connection between fixed territories and
communal identifications. How, then, are we to conceive of community
differently? This conference takes as its starting point the insufficiency of
traditional identifications of class, gender, race, and nation for navigating
the complexities of contemporary life. It addresses the persistence of
practices of thinking and living beyond notions of essential identity and fixed
boundaries that nonetheless insist on the necessity of “community” as an idea
by which to understand contemporary modes of association. Our conference seeks
to combine the recent theoretical conversations interested in excavating and
rethinking the philosophical and political tradition of community under
conditions of late-capitalism and globalization, and the focus of literary
theory and cultural studies on contemporary practices of global association
(planetary literature and film, networks of migration, non-essentialist
theories of race, class, sex/gender, interdisciplinarity, etc.). In other words,
we are interested in work that raises the possibility of thinking the fact of
non-essential and global linkages under the sign of community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">We seek papers that move
across and between different disciplines, addressing the following questions,
as well as related concerns: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">In what ways do film,
literature, and other aesthetic media act as globalizing forces, generating
experiences of commonality that exceed the imaginary space of the nation-state?
Or how do such media re-engender the nation in a displaced form? What are the
effects of new mass communication and network technologies on emerging forms of
community? How does one speak of migrant or refugee communities, the very
existence of which challenges the nexus between nation and state? How does the
figure of “the camp” operate in a world of transnational migrations and
globalized networks? What forms of political organization are adequate to
transnational modes of affiliation? What is the role of class in the practices
of communities under late capitalism and how does this category function in
relation other forms of identification which today are referred to with the
term “identity politics”? How does the crisis of community change the way that
we think about comparativity or interdisciplinarity, especially in relation to
area studies? How does the imagination of community intersect with visions of
utopia? What is the role of so-called immaterial labor in postmodernity, and in
what ways do such concepts speak to the question of subalternity? How are we to
think community in a supposedly post-communist world?<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Possible paper topics include:
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="ListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Transnational
modes of affiliation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="ListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Literature,
film, and other aesthetic media generating experiences of commonality beyond or
traversing the nation-state.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="ListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Emerging
forms of collective life and mass communication and digital. connectivity.
Technological conditions of community. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="ListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
displacement and persistence of the nation-state. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="ListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Utopia
and other imaginary<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>
communities. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="ListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Subalternity.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="ListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Refugee
and Migrant communities. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="ListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Hostile
Communities, clandestine networks. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="ListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
discourse of the commons/the common. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="ListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
relationship between the human and the animal in the formation of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>community. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="ListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">So-called
“identity politics” and alternative ways of practicing race, gender/sex, class,
culture, religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Please
submit your abstract of no more than 250 words to </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:UMCSCLconference@gmail.com">UMCSCLconference@gmail.com</a> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">by 06/31/10. Include your
name, e-mail address, brief bio (including school affiliation, position, and
research interests), and any audio-visual requirements. Papers should be in
English and no more than 20 minutes in length. We are also interested in panel
submissions, which should consist of at least three participants and which
should include the above information about each participant and a tentative
title indicating the theme. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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