[Discussion] calls for papers

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I. The First Annual Call for Bodies
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Event
April 3rd, 2004

Bodies, broken and fragmented; queer, straight, and ambiguous bodies; war
torn bodies  and bodies in the borderlands; teachers¹ bodies and students'
bodies; rhetorical, historical, and material bodies; my body and your
body/ies.

Hosts: Graduate Students of the Department of Literature & Writing Studies;
California State University, San Marcos  & the CSU San Marcos Foundation

Conference Co-Chairs: Leila Granahan & Gina M. Altavilla

Deadline for proposal submissions: Please e-mail proposals by February 
21st,
2004 to lgranahan@cox.net and galtavil@csusm.edu


Proposals (150-250 words) for the first annual meeting of BYOB are now 
being
accepted. A Call for Bodies challenges all bodies and disciplines to bring
their "naked" bodies of work to the conference table: to explore our
bodies/our texts in unreal/real reality TV; to navigate our bodies/our 
texts
in cyberspace and as cyborgs; to examine our bodies/our texts in terms of
compulsory heterosexuality and/or "deviance"/"perversion"; to consider our
bodies/our texts as dis/abled; to search our bodies/our texts as 
Bush-ified,
terrified, and beatified; to scrutinize our bodies/our texts as pedagogical
pitchers and catchers; to recover our bodies/our texts as the abject, the
clean, and the stained.

We encourage submissions from all disciplines and welcome "experimental"
forms. Conference presentations should be 15 minutes in length. Submissions
should address, question, and examine the production and circulation of
bodies in popular culture, contemporary politics, and modern "news" media.

We also invite, as a part of our special event planning, submission of
multimedia proposals in the visual and audio arts: film, video, 
interpretive
dance, and electronic/techtronic/vocal productions. These multimedia texts
should reflect the BYOB themes and interrogate/explore/express the 
body/ies.


II. Please note: The deadline for proposals has been extended to January 
31,
2004

CALL FOR PAPERS
THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL COMPARATIVE LITERATURE CONFERENCE
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH

MARCH 18 AND 19, 2004

FILM, IDEOLOGY AND CULTURE:
LESSONS FROM THE 20th CENTURY/ ISSUES FOR THE 21st CENTURY

The CSULB Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics invites
paper and panel proposals pertinent to the topic of film in its ideological
and cultural contexts. The following panels have been proposed; additional
suggestions are most welcome.

- Postcoloniality, "Third Cinema" and the 21st Century
- Geopolitics, Globalization and the Future of World Cinema (Africa, Asia,
 East and West Europe, Middle East, Latin America, Pacific Basin)
- Documentary Film
- Images of Religion in Contemporary Cinema
- Hollywood, Bollywood and Hong Kong: Questions of Cinematic Hybridity
- Crossing Borders: Cinema in the Americas
- Pax Americana and the Resurgent Historical Epic
- Emerging Cinemas
- Science Fiction: Utopic/Dystopic Images of Humanity's Future
- Myth, Archetype and Film
- Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
- Pedagogical Issues: Film and Curriculum
- Gender, Politics and Film
- Fiction and Film

Papers should be limited to twenty minutes.  Proposals for papers or panels
should be approximately 250-400 words in length.  Note any visual resource
needs: slides, VHS/DVD players, laptops, PowerPoint, etc. The deadline for
submitting proposals is January 31, 2004.  Address all proposals and/or
further inquiries to:

Dr. Roland Bush
Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics
MHB 517
California State University Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Boulevard
Long Beach, CA 90840-2404

III. Call for Papers

Ethnicity in Siberia: The Past, Present and Future
15-17 November  Krasnoiarsk, Russia

The Krasnoiarsk Regional Museum invites papers on the topic of ethnicity 
and
ethnogenesis in all areas of anthropology, archaeology and sociology for an
international conference to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the
famous ethnographer Boris Osipovich Dolgikh.  The conference will take 
place
15-17 November 2004 in the Krasnoiarsk Museum where B.O. Dolgikh began his
career.  Abstracts and letters of interest should be sent to Nikolai P.
Markarov at mnp@kkkm.ru tel: +7-3912-22-65-36. Abstracts must be 
received by
the organisation committee by 30 April 2004.
Or respond via email to: rebush@csulb.edu

For most current conference information, go to:
http://www.csulb.edu/depts/complit


IV. Conference 2004:
Catastrophe Now: The Wreckage of Utopia
Keynote Speakers: Susan Buck_Morss and Christian Parenti
March 25_27 at UF

"In the wake of the failed utopia of industrial modernity, where the
promises of mass sovereignty, mass production, and mass culture have led
not
to abundance and more freedoms, but instead to ecological devastation,
catastrophes of war, exploitation, dictatorship, and technological
destruction and to a panoply of phantasmagoric effects that aestheticize
the
violence of modernity and anaesthetize its victims, how do we
re_conceive
collective political action and a present utopia?" (Susan Buck_Morss,
Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West)

This conference seeks papers that address how pedagogy, activism,
aesthetics, and theory help constitute positions against the hegemony of
Global Capital. To be precise, how do we disrupt the seemingly
undisruptable: a Capitalist system that conjures up a communal unity
that
eventually obscures the social tensions of class conflict?  How do we
re_constitute past modes of (modernist) discourse into oppositional
modes of
engagement against the State? By dissolving the boundaries of disparate
modes of discourse  e.g., Islamism, aesthetics, Marxism,  can we produce
new
forms of engagement against Global Capital? How do we turn the
dreamworld of
consumerism into a state of desertion and engagement? How can we imagine
a
progressive globalization? How do we construct a progressive global
left?

Susan Buck_Morss, a professor of political philosophy and social theory
at
Cornell University, is the author of Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and
Critical Theory on the Left, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of
Mass
Utopia in East and West, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and
the
Arcades Project, and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodore Adorno,
Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute.Buck_Morss has written a
number
of innovative essays on aesthetics, politics, and the work of art,
including: "Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay
Reconsidered" and "The City as Dreamworld and Catastrophe."

Christian Parenti is the author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons
in
the Age of Crisis, Taking Liberties: Prisons, Policing, and Surveillance
in
an Age of Crisis, and The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from
Slavery to
the War on Terror. He is a Soros Senior Justice Fellow of the Open
Society
Institute and a Visiting Fellow at the CUNY Graduate School's Center for
Place, Culture, and Politics. He teaches at the New College of
California in
San Francisco and works as a radio journalist in Central America, New
York
and California. Parenti is a regular contributor to numerous
publications,
including: Salon,The Nation,San Diego Union Tribune, Washington Post,
The
Progressive, In These Times, Christian Science Monitor, and The New York
News Day.

Prospective papers may address (but are not limited to) the following:
*Anti_humanism/post_humanism in Empire
*Reification of history.
*Narrative mappings of the political.
*What counts as labor?
*Re_thinking subjectivities through singularity.
*Society of control and new forms of policing/discipline.
*The aesthetics of security.
*Re_writing the frontiers of the nation_state.
*Exploiting security: crime and the warehousing of the poor
*Prosthetics, Clones, Cyborgs: The body and technological ontologies.
*Strategies of containing revolutionary practices.
*Gender and the place of work.
*Global capital and imagining the apocalypse.
*Pedagogies and reorganizing relations of space.
*Literature and collectivity.
*Insurgent spatial practices: sites for alternative production.
*Professionalization and the corporate university.
*Media and formulations of collectivity.
*Constructions of a revolutionary identity.
*"National Dreams" of Prosperity and Poverty
*Politics of zoning.
*US policy, war, and terrorism.


V. Call for Contributions- Transoxiana Journal, No. 8, June 2004

Transoxiana Journal de Estudios Orientales

Transoxiana 8 / June 2004

Call for Papers

For more information, please go to:

http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/call_for_papers_eng.html [English]

http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/call_for_papers.html [Español]

Send your Manuscripts to:

referees[@]transoxiana.org

Paola E. Raffetta
Editora T R A N S O X I A N A
Journal de Estudios Orientales
URL: http://www.transoxiana.org
Mail to: editor[@]transoxiana.org

Escuela de Estudios Orientales "RP Ismael Quiles SJ"
Universidad del Salvador - Buenos Aires - Argentina