[Discussion] CFP: Globalization and the Rhetoric of Authenticity (12/1/04; 4/21/05-4/24/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CFP:  Globalization and the Rhetoric of Authenticity
(12/01/04; CSA 05; 4/21/05-4/24/05)

Globalization and the Rhetoric of Authenticity
The Third Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference (U.S.)
Theme: Sex, Race, and Globalization
Tucson, AZ
April 21-24, 2005

This panel (or panels) will examine the role the rhetoric of
authenticity plays in struggles whose outcomes often determine access to
markets and trading rights, citizenship, human and civil rights, jobs,
education, and health care. In a global economy in which national
identity has increasingly less currency, what other identities and
coalitions are forged and what role does the rhetoric of authenticity
play in debates determining their legitimacy, status, and access to the
bounty promised by globalization? What constitutes the authentic at any
given site of contestation and to what degree has globalization
exacerbated anxieties concerning the authentic?  What economic or
political agendas are mobilized by rhetorics of authenticity invoked
around national or religious affiliation, class, race, gender, or sexual
orientation in the age of globalization?  Papers from all disciplines
and theoretical dispositions, from national and international
perspectives, are invited on how rhetorics of authenticity play a role
in determining the legitimacy of any given individual or group's appeal
for survival.

U.S. examples include:  Opposition to LGBT marriage as an inauthentic
copy of the original, the development of user authentication as a
gateway to networks and the internet, the role of authenticity in
determining qualifications for political asylum, the degree to which
debates regarding designations like unlawful enemy combatant are
ultimately about who has the power to name and authenticate status, etc?.

Please direct inquiries by snail mail to Maureen A. Riddle, Dept of
English, 406 Holmes Hall, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 or
by email to MaureenARiddle@comcast.net.  Abstracts of @ 250 words will
be accepted as attached Word documents at MaureenARiddle@comcast.net
until midnight December 1st, 2004. Actual panel application deadline is
Dec. 15th, so no proposals will be accepted after the Dec. 1st deadline.


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