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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">CFP: Migration,
Border, and the Nation-State (4/9-4/11/09)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">The 2009 Joint
Conference on “Migration, Border, and the Nation-State” co-hosted by <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Texas</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tech</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> Comparative
Literature Program and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">TTU
Graduate English Society is also a sponsor of the
conference <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">April 9-11, 2009 at <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Texas</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tech</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lubbock</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Texas</st1:State>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">U. S. A.</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Texas</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tech</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
houses the internationally known Southwest Collections and the Vietnam
Archives.
Spring in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lubbock</st1:place></st1:City>
is mild and sunny.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Keynote Speakers:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Rafael<b> </b></span><strong><span
style="font-weight: normal;">Pérez-Torres</span></strong><b>, </b><span
style="">Department of English, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName> in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:City><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Saskia Sassen, Department of Sociology and the
Committee on
Global Thought,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Columbia</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> and the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">London</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
of Economics</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Plenary Speakers:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alicia Schmidt Camacho, American Studies Program, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Yale</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">R. Radhakrishnan, Departments of Asian American
Studies and
Comparative Literature,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName> at <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Irvine</st1:place></st1:City></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Xiao-huang Yin, Global Studies Program, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Michigan</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Creative Writer and Visual
Artist:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ana Castillo, author of <i style="">So
Far From God</i>, <i style="">The Guardians</i>, and <i style="">Massacre
of the<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><i style="">Dreamers
</i>among other novels, poem and essay collections</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">David Taylor, Department of Art, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">New Mexico</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
at Las</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Cruces</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">A Featured Round-Table
Session on “the Postcolonial and the Global”<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John Hawley, Department of English, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Santa Clara</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Revathi Krishnaswamy, Department of English and
Comparative
Literature, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Jose</st1:place></st1:City></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Kirpal Singh,
Department of English Literature & Creative Thinking, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Singapore</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Management</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Proposal Submission
Deadline: January 19, 2009<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As our age of globalization continues to be
defined by
endless war and persistent economic crises, migration and border
crossing have increasingly
become tropes of cultural imagination and sites of critical
intervention. Not
only has the traditional singular pattern of human migration from the
“periphery” to the “core” nation-states been diversified and
supplemented by
two-way and circular movements of human populations around the planet,
but new
border economies, hybrid identity formations, growing planetary
consciousness, and
transnational cultural productions have also flourished in challenge to
the
nation-state and the capitalist world-system. How have these defining
moments
been captured, negotiated, and represented in literary and cultural
productions?
How have creative writers, visual and performance artists, as well as
cultural
theorists intervened in the process of globalization and articulated
their new cultural
visions, artistic sensibilities, and political agencies? <span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The joint conference looks for presentations that
investigate
new meanings, assumptions, and implications of migration, border
crossing, and
nation building as well as papers that explore the representations of
emigration,
borderlands, and nation-states in different cultural forms, literary
genres,
and technological media. We welcome both proposals that examine the
interrelations among migration, border, and the nation-state in
political and
historical terms and projects that offer innovative interpretations of
cultural
productions that foreground the new dynamics in relation to our
everyday life, social
practice, and planetary awareness.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Possible topics may include but are not restricted
to the
following:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Migration, border crossing, and changing family
structure
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Migration, gender, and social justice</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Homeland security and the militarization of the
Mexico-U.S. border</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Borderland and mestizo consciousness </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Borderland, natural environment, and planetary
consciousness</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Border crossing and critical cosmopolitanism</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Border literature, Chicano/a theory, and
hemispheric studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- The fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of
Soviet
Communism, and the representation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">of the Cold War <span
style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Post-socialism in <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
and Eastern European countries</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- The Trans-Pacific movement of Chinese in
diaspora</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Wall Street and the future of “market
democracy” <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Westward movement and American Southwestern
literature</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Globalization and transnational American studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Human rights and human abuse in an age of
endless war</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Postcolonial literatures from South Asia,
Africa, the Middle
East, and the <st1:place w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Colonialism and neocolonialism in Asia, Africa,
and <st1:place w:st="on">Latin America</st1:place></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Casualties of war: displacement, migration, and
expulsion</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Vietnamese in diaspora and the global memory of
the
American War in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:place></st1:country-region></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Transnational feminist and queer studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- Postcolonial studies and beyond</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.5in; text-indent: -4.5in;">Please
send your one-page proposal and one-page C.V. by January 19, 2009:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.5in; text-indent: -4.5in;"><span
style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.5in; text-indent: -4.5in;">Dr.
Yuan Shu </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.5in; text-indent: -4.5in;">Department
of English </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.5in; text-indent: -4.5in;"><st1:address
w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">P.O. Box</st1:Street> 43091</st1:address></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.5in; text-indent: -4.5in;"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Texas</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Tech</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.5in; text-indent: -4.5in;"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lubbock</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">TX</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">79409-3091</st1:PostalCode></st1:place></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You may email your inquiry, proposal, and C.V. to
Dr. Yuan
Shu at (<a href="mailto:yuan.shu@ttu.edu">yuan.shu@ttu.edu</a>). The
symposium
information is available on our website: <span style="color: blue;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://english.ttu.edu/complit/">http://english.ttu.edu/complit/</a>.</span></p>
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