[Discussion] Mapping Identities: Urban Landscapes and the Discourses of Space

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Mapping Identities: Urban Landscapes and the Discourses of Space

This one-day colloquium will explore political and cultural shifts in
approaches to questions of subject formation and urban representations.
Panels may explore inter-relationships of race, ethnicity, nationalism and
nationhood, sexuality, and class within the context of space and place in
the urban sector(s) in literature, film, and cultural studies.
Interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. The organizers of this one-day
conference in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at The
Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. invite proposals for
papers on:

Borderland(s) and Margins

Ghettoization and Gentrification

Spaces of Performance

Deterritorialization and Reterritorialization

Displacement, Diaspora and Migrant Communities

Urban Representations in Film

Space and Race

New Social Landscapes

Gender Identity and Place

Embodied Subjectivities

Securing the Homeland

Sacred Space

Utopias



Proposals for 20-minute presentations addressing new research directions,
methodologies, pedagogical perspectives, and related topics are sought.
Please send a one-page abstract and title page to Gizella Meneses
(meneses@cua.edu) by January 15, 2004.

 For more information visit our website at:

http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/ml/faculty/shoemaker/colloquium/colloq.html
<http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/ml/faculty/shoemaker/colloquium/colloq.html>



Faculty, graduate students and independent scholars are welcome.

The Annual Colloquium at the Catholic University of America Department of
Modern Languages and Literatures
April 3, 2004