[ecrea] Cosmopolitanism -- FSU Film and Literature Conference

>The deadline for submission of proposals has been extended until 1 November.
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> > Please circulate widely:
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> > The 32nd Annual FSU Conference on Literature and Film
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> > Cosmopolitanism: Thinking Beyond the Nation
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> > February 1-4, 2007
> > Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
> > http://english.fsu.edu/filmlit/
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> > Keynote Speakers:
> >   a.. Timothy Brennan, Professor, Departments of English and Cultural
> > Studies & Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
> >   b.. Pheng Cheah, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, University of
> > California, Berkeley
> >   c.. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Associate Professor of Modern Culture and
> > Media,
> > Brown University
> >   d.. Patrice Petro, Director of the Center for International Studies and
> > Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> >   e.. Screening, TBA
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> > In his introduction to Cosmopolitics, Pheng Cheah writes, "The main
> > purpose
> > is to explore the feasibility of cosmopolitanism as an alternative to
> > nationalism." Indeed, ever since Kant, the concept of cosmopolitanism has
> > been central to thinking about social relations, culture, and the problem
> > of
> > war outside of the relations of the nation-state. As the nation-state has
> > organized the fields of literary and cinema studies as well as the broader
> > field of culture, questioning such categorization is crucial, as it opens
> > up
> > new ways of thinking about literary and filmic production as part of a
> > larger context of interaction. It can also account for novel ways of
> > describing the field of contemporary knowledge and experience.
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> > The question of the nation seems particularly important now because of two
> > main transformations on the world scene: (1) economic globalization, in
> > which the category of the nation-state is only one among many of possible
> > identifications and sites of transaction, and (2) the growing
> > inevitability
> > of perpetual war (what Kant called "perpetual peace") and the endless
> > expansion of global militarisms. Is cosmopolitanism just another form of
> > elitism that re-inscribes social hierarchies, or does it provide an
> > opening
> > for new alliances? What new cultural formations, social networks, and
> > institutional structures have arisen, both now and historically, in
> > response
> > to what Bruce Robbins called "the moral and cultural existence of
> > non-citizens"? What resistances to global capitalism and global warfare
> > might fall outside of such liberal solutions as the nationalized welfare
> > state, nativism, or local communitarianism? In what ways do the current
> > circulations of language systems, aesthetic orders, semiotic codes,
> > national
> > identities, and genres in film and literature transcend economics and
> > politics formerly envisioned in national terms?
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> > Possible topics include:
> >   a.. Marxist Internationalism in Contemporary Context
> >   b.. The Global Corporate Class
> >   c.. The Worldwide Proletariat Class
> >   d.. Civil Society
> >   e.. Race
> >   f.. Translation Studies
> >   g.. Migration
> >   h.. Immigration
> >   i.. Tourism
> >   j.. Labor
> >   k.. Borders and Border Crossings
> >   l.. Professionalism
> >   m.. Feminism
> >   n.. Global Hollywood
> >   o.. Modernism
> >   p.. Urbanization
> >   q.. Human Rights
> >   r.. Citizenship
> >   s.. National and Transnational Cinemas and Literatures
> >   t.. Consumption
> >   u.. Imperialism
> >   v.. Totalitarianism
> >   w.. Outsourcing
> >   x.. Global Markets for Film & Literature
> >   y.. New Media
> >   z.. The Intelligentsia
> >   aa.. The Age of the World Picture
> >   ab.. Cinema and the City
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> > 2007 Conference directors:
> >   a.. Robin Truth Goodman: (rgoodman /at/ english.fsu.edu)
> >   b.. Barry J. Faulk: (bfaulk /at/ english.fsu.edu)
> >   c.. Maricarmen Martinez: (mmartine /at/ mailer.fsu.edu)
> >   d.. Frank P. Tomasulo: (ftomasulo /at/ film.fsu.edu)
> > For more information, visit our website at http://english.fsu.edu/filmlit/
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