[nativestudies-l] CFP: Migration, Border, and Nation-State, deadline 1/19/09

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

*CFP: Migration, Border, and the Nation-State (4/9-4/11/09)*

 

*The 2009 Joint Conference on "Migration, Border, and the Nation-State" 
co-hosted by Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Program and 
the United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language 
Studies *

*TTU Graduate English Society is also a sponsor of the conference *

 

*April 9-11, 2009 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, U. S. A.*

Texas Tech University houses the internationally known Southwest 
Collections and the Vietnam Archives. Spring in Lubbock is mild and sunny.

 

*Keynote Speakers:*

Rafael* **Pérez-Torres**, *Department of English, University of 
California in Los Angeles**

Saskia Sassen, Department of Sociology and the Committee on Global Thought,

Columbia University and the London School of Economics

 

*Plenary Speakers:*

Alicia Schmidt Camacho, American Studies Program, Yale University

R. Radhakrishnan, Departments of Asian American Studies and Comparative 
Literature,

University of California at Irvine

Xiao-huang Yin, Global Studies Program, Michigan State University

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*Creative Writer and Visual Artist:*

Ana Castillo, author of /So Far From God/, /The Guardians/, and 
/Massacre of the/

/Dreamers /among other novels, poem and essay collections

David Taylor, Department of Art, New Mexico State University at Las

Cruces

 

*A Featured Round-Table Session on "the Postcolonial and the Global"*

John Hawley, Department of English, Santa Clara University 

Revathi Krishnaswamy, Department of English and Comparative Literature, 
San Jose

State University

Kirpal Singh, Department of English Literature & Creative Thinking, 
Singapore Management University

 

*Proposal Submission Deadline: January 19, 2009*

 

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?  

 

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.

 

Possible topics may include but are not restricted to the following:

 

-- Migration, border crossing, and changing family structure

-- Migration, gender, and social justice

-- Homeland security and the militarization of the Mexico-U.S. border

-- Borderland and mestizo consciousness

-- Borderland, natural environment, and planetary consciousness

-- Border crossing and critical cosmopolitanism

-- Border literature, Chicano/a theory, and hemispheric studies

-- The fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Soviet Communism, and 
the representation

of the Cold War      

-- Post-socialism in China, Russia, and Eastern European countries

-- The Trans-Pacific movement of Chinese in diaspora

-- Wall Street and the future of "market democracy"   

-- Westward movement and American Southwestern literature

-- Globalization and transnational American studies

-- Human rights and human abuse in an age of endless war

-- Postcolonial literatures from South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, 
and the Caribbean

-- Colonialism and neocolonialism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America

-- Casualties of war: displacement, migration, and expulsion

-- Vietnamese in diaspora and the global memory of the American War in 
Vietnam

-- Transnational feminist and queer studies

-- Postcolonial studies and beyond

 

Please send your one-page proposal and one-page C.V. by January 19, 2009:

 

Dr. Yuan Shu

Department of English

P.O. Box 43091

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX 79409-3091

 

You may email your inquiry, proposal, and C.V. to Dr. Yuan Shu at 
(yuan.shu at ttu.edu <mailto:yuan.shu at ttu.edu>). The symposium information 
is available on our website: http://english.ttu.edu/complit/.

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