[ecrea] CFP: Circulations: Economies, Currencies, Movements in American Studies

>The New York Metro American Studies Association 
>(NYMASA) and the Columbia Journal of American 
>Studies (CJAS) announce a call for papers for 
>our 2008 annual one-day conference:
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>Circulations: Economies, Currencies, Movements in American Studies
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>Saturday, November 8, 2008
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>9:00am-5:30pm
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>Circulations: blood, ideas, books, money, 
>people, contagions, politics, trade.  All of 
>these economies, both literal and figurative, 
>operate within and across the porous boundaries 
>of the United States.  From the virtual 
>circulation of futures markets and viral video 
>to the embodied circulation of migrants and 
>goods, the economies of the United States ride 
>any number of waves of circulation, some voluntarily, some much less so.
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>The goal of this conference is to investigate, 
>interrogate, interrupt, and intervene in the 
>various circulatory systems that run through 
>both the United States of America and American 
>Studies.  How do ideas, people, and goods 
>circulate?  How do different kinds of economies 
>and currencies  monetary and otherwise  
>shapeape us and the field of American 
>Studies?  To what extent are metaphors of 
>circulation useful in imagining intellectual 
>networks, such as those produced by the 
>Internet, trans-disciplinary (and transnational) 
>collaborations, or academic activism?  How, too, 
>are limits on movement like incarceration and 
>immigration restriction connected to enforced 
>movements like extraordinary rendition and 
>deportation?  How do we theorize the 
>metastasizing meanings of circulation?  How do 
>we study moving targets?  What challenges does 
>the study of circulations pose to traditional 
>forms of knowing and scholarship, and what 
>opportunities does it make available?  How might 
>we reconfigure Marxist, post-structuralist, or 
>other theoretical approaches in American Studies 
>to account for these new global, economic, and 
>political circuits?  How do we construct 
>archives for studying such mobile phenomena?
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>In imagining this conference, we invite 
>participants to engage with any of the following 
>issues (or any other this topic inspires):
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>Circulating people: migration, displacement, diaspora
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>Political movements, political economies
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>Distressed economies: panics, depressions, recessions
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>Psychic economies: panics, depressions, repressions
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>Aesthetic economies and art markets
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>Transnational economies: remittances, tourism, global circuits
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>Knowledge economies and intellectual exchange
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>Informal economies: mix-tapes, novelties, networks, survival crimes
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>Virtual circulations: viral video, memes, folksonomies, wiki wisdom
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>Bodily circuits, physical circulations
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>Circulating currents: electricity, excitement, change
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>Print circulation: underground, academic, institutional
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>Circulars: periodicals, publications, pamphlets
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>Circulating libraries, old and new
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>Libidinal circuits: kinship networks, love 
>triangles, prostitution rings, circuit parties, sex tourism
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>Gender circuits and feminist waves
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>Congested circuits: traffic, density, crashes
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>Speculating in futures/speculating on the future
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>Fashions and fads: going into/coming out of circulation
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>Bad currency: loans, debts, IOUs
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>Recycling: biological and ecological 
>recirculations (air, blood, power, water, waste)
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>Enforced movement and/or enforced stillness
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>Cornering the market
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>Corrupted circulation: fakes, frauds, plagiarists
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>Moving vehicles, moving violations
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>Legal tender: slavery, trafficking, exploitation
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>Contagion and epidemics, transmissions of affect
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>Ethical economies and circuits of responsibility
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>We welcome papers on any historical period in 
>American Studies, as well as 21st century 
>topics.  We particularly encourage presentations 
>that circulate across historical and 
>disciplinary borders.  Please note that we will 
>accept abstracts for individual paper 
>presentations only, not pre-constituted panels.
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>Please send well-developed abstracts of 200-300 
>words to (nymasa08 /at/ gmail.com) by June 1, 
>2008.  Please write â¬SNYMASA Conference⬝ in the subject line.
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>The conference will take place in New York City; 
>exact location will be announced at a later 
>date.  For more information, visit our website 
>at www.nymasa.org or send an e-mail to (sarah.chinn /at/ hunter.cuny.edu) .
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