[Commlist] 16th Issei Conference - Aftershocks: Globalism and the future of democracy

CFP FOR THE 16TH INTERNATIONAL ISSEI CONFERENCE: _AFTERSHOCKS: GLOBALISM 
AND THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY_

FROM THE BORDER: A COSMOPOLITAN LOOK AT THE CINEMA OF GLOBALIZATION.

Global processes have affected identities and social relations in 
drastic ways. Beyond their positive and negative consequences, these 
processes have changed our ways of looking at and understanding our 
place in a fast-changing world. Cosmopolitan theories offer ways of 
looking at the various challenges posed by globalization, from politics 
and economics to culture and the arts. Alongside its aspirational 
dimension of envisioning a society of universal human rights and respect 
for diversity, Cosmopolitanism offers a methodology for researching 
political, social and cultural realities. Central to this enquiry, as 
several theorists have argued—Gloria Anzaldúa, Anthony Cooper and Chris 
Rumford, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson—are the concept of the border 
and the actual borders and borderlands that affect the life of growing 
numbers of people across the world.

Borders and their representations are also central topoi in the cinema 
of globalization and, as in the social sciences, they also provide a 
privileged vantage point from which to explore industrial, cultural and 
aesthetic developments in contemporary cinema. This workshop invites 
papers on films and audiovisual texts that explore global processes with 
a particular emphasis on borders, border-crossings and crossers, 
cross-border mobilities, border and borderland identities, urban 
borders, and spaces that are associated with. While proposing 
cosmopolitan theories as an aid to understanding the complexities, 
contradictions and tensions of cinematic constructions of the global, it 
also welcomes other perspectives and approaches to the cinema of 
globalization.


Please submit a 350–500 word abstract to María del Mar Azcona, at 
(maazcona /at/ unizar.es) <mailto:(maazcona /at/ unizar.es)>. DEADLINE: MARCH 31, 2019.

Please visit this link for further information on the conference: 
https://issei2019.info/.



María del Mar Azcona
Coordinadora del Grado en Estudios Ingleses
Universidad de Zaragoza
(maazcona /at/ unizar.es) <mailto:(maazcona /at/ unizar.es)>
--------------------------------------------------------
MeCCSA mailing list
--------------------------------------------------------
To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please 
visit:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1
-------------------------------------------------------
MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication 
and cultural studies in UK Higher Education.

This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It 
is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post 
to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation.

MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information 
(for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of 
interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide 
general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are 
public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website 
(http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html).

Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable 
use policy, which states that users should avoid “engaging in 
unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on 
a list.”

For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/
--------------------------------------------------------
---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------