[ecrea] cfp (B)ORDERS. Re-Imagining Cultural, Political, and Media Spaces in a Globalizing World

>CALL FOR PAPERS: (B)ORDERS. Re-Imagining Cultural, Political, and Media
>Spaces in a Globalizing World
>(Sep 3-4, 2010, Kloster Bronnbach)
>
>A globalizing world is characterized by continuous processes of constructing
>different worlds within one world, separated by boundaries. The act of
>breaking, erecting, and shifting borders enables a re-imagination of the
>established cultural, political, and media spaces. Apart from geographical
>(b)orders, metaphorical, and epistemological (b)orders are constantly
>redefined and resituated.
>
>The conference particularly addresses doctoral students and post-doctoral
>researchers in History, Media and Communication Studies, as well as Literary
>and Cultural Studies. Historical research is refocused by emphasizing the
>development of spaces and their delineations in different time periods. In
>Literary and Cultural Studies, the formation of individual and collective
>cultural identities across borders constitutes a focal point of analysis. In
>a globalizing world, media cultures are created across established
>boundaries and distant locations are connected instantaneously. The
>transdisciplinary character of the conference aims at a multiperspectival
>understanding of the role of (b)orders in processes of globalization.
>
>The conference will feature keynotes and panels, offering room for thorough
>discussion. There will be three interdisciplinary workshop panels. Papers
>should address one or more of the following questions:
>
>1.      (B)orders and Subjectivity: Hybridity, Liminality, and Experiences
>of Contingency
>-       What is the significance of border cultures, border zones, liminal
>margins, and hybrid spaces?
>-       What kinds of identity formations are triggered by shifting borders
>and emerging new spaces?
>-       How do borders provide order to subjective experiences of
>contingency?
>
>2.      (B)orders and Community: Integration, Exclusion, and Solidarity
>-       How resilient are established borders in (re)defining and
>(re)constructing communities and collective identities?
>-       Do international help and solidarity dissolve or consolidate borders
>between countries and continents?
>-       In what way have discourses on global integration shaped the social,
>economic, and political orders of the modern world?
>
>3.      (B)orders and the Polis: PR, Politics, and Public Spheres
>-       Does the trans-nationalization and interlocking of various mediated
>public spheres give rise to a "global polis"?
>-       How are public relations activities of companies, NGOs, and
>nation-states shaped by the challenges of cross-border communication?
>-       How do national political elites interact with a globalizing popular
>culture in structuring public discourses?
>
>We invite one-page proposals to (promotionskolleg /at/ uni-mannheim.de) by May 15,
>2010. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes.
>
>Kloster Bronnbach (www.kloster-bronnbach.de) is located southeast of
>Frankfurt am Main, in the 'Taubertal' region. It is a former Cistertian
>cloister, which today hosts different types of events. The cloister can be
>reached from Frankfurt by car within an hour. For train connections please
>consult www.bahn.de. For presenters of accepted papers some travel funds are
>available upon request.
>
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>
>Graduate Program
>"FORMATIONS OF THE GLOBAL"
>University of Mannheim
>L 15, 1-6
>68131 Mannheim
>
>Telefon +49 (0) 621 / 181 - 3567
>Telefax +49 (0) 621 / 181 - 2343
>E-Mail: (promotionskolleg /at/ uni-mannheim.de)
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
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