[ecrea] 2014 Annual GSA Conference - ‘Cultural Encounters and Global Connectivity’

The 2014 Annual GSA Conference - ‘Cultural Encounters and Global
Connectivity’

The 2014 Annual Global Studies Association Conference

York St John University, York, Thursday, 26 June - Saturday, 28 June, 2014

Keynote speakers (confirmed): Robert J. Holton (Trinity College Dublin),
Alan Rice (Central Lancashire) and Roland Robertson (University of
Pittsburgh and University of Aberdeen)


Cultural encounters – both as cultural phenomena and a concept – gain
momentum across the social sciences and humanities within an
interdisciplinary dialogue that calls for new analytical tools to
explain conditions of global connectivity. While there is already a
well-established literature on the ways in which cultural encounters
translate experiences of identity and difference in an interconnected
and postcolonial world, new approaches to cultural encounters in
relation to issues of power, global inequalities, cosmopolitanism,
digital communication, and borders (cultural and political) foreground
new questions and controversies in play within and across disciplinary
divisions. The 2014 Annual GSA Conference is particularly interested in
generating lively inter-disciplinary discussions while bringing to the
fore new theoretical positions and empirical analyses of cultural
encounters as an analytical lens to explain current and past global
connections. What kinds of cultural translations between western and
non- western modes of thought are made possible by cultural encounters?
What is the relation between virtual, imagined and embodied encounters?
What new encounters and connections are being made and how? How do ‘new
digital technologies facilitate/ hinder this ‘newness’? How adequate and
valid are theories which conceptualise cultural encounters as a type of
connection? How useful is the notion of cultural encounter to explain
new forms of transnational socio-political struggle and political
participation?

We welcome contributions from members and interested participants
working from within a variety of disciplines across the social sciences
and the humanities, such as literary studies, cultural studies, media
studies, sociology, anthropology, IR, geography, political science, and
cultural history.

We welcome proposals for papers in any of the following areas:

Postcolonial studies
Beyond ‘ World Literature’
Food studies
Migrant identities and mobilities
Cosmopolitan encounters
Digital diasporas
Encountering ‘the other: Travel writing
Orientalism and Occidentalism
Transnational cinema
Behind the scenes at the Museum:memorializing encounter, telling of trauma
Digital technologies and new forms of ’encounter’
Tourism and heritage studies
New pedagogies and the global classroom
Language studies and linguistics : World English and beyond
Translation and cultural encounters
Theology and spirituality
 From Interdisciplinary to interplanetarity:beyond the global
Encounters and the war on terror
Borders, connectivity and transnational politics
Borders in translation
New protest movements
The global city: urban encounters

Proposals for papers should take the form of a 300 word abstract. The
organisers will allocate papers to an appropriate panel. The deadline
for submission of abstracts is 4 April 2014. Please send to conference
organizer Maria Rovisco (atm.rovisco /at/ googlemail.com)

For more information visit:
http://globalstudiesassoc.wordpress.com/annual-conference-2013/

You can now register for the Conference at:
http://store.yorksj.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=7&catid=6&prodid=190


Dr Maria Rovisco
Department of Media and Communication
Room 2.01, Bankfield House
132 New Walk
Leicester LE1 7JA
Tel: + 44 (0)116 252 1619
Email:(mr268 /at/ leicester.ac.uk)