[Discussion] CFP: Post-Nationalism and Globalization (grad) (1/31/05; 3/25/05-3/26/05)

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Rice English Department Graduate Symposium
March 25-26, 2005; Rice University, Houston, Texas

Call for Papers

=93The Post-National Nation:
Institutions and Ideologies in the Global Era=94

In academic and public contexts, the nation-state has long served as a
point-of-origin for discussing and articulating identity, ideologies,
economies, histories and literary or cultural productions. As our title
suggests, the ascendancy of global paradigms have brought new urgency to
long running analyses and interrogations of the nation-state model.

We anticipate work exploring the discursive formation of the nation and
its ostensible role as a site for ideological, economic and cultural
capital, especially as that role is said to be eroded by a new world
order. Do cultural productions, institutions and ideologies belong to
the nation-state proper, or can they be more accurately understood
globally? How has the global been defined rhetorically and distinguished
from the national? What is the stake for political identity, cooperation
or agency within a global framework? Finally, what is the status of the
academic curricula within a global imaginary: how are disciplinary
boundaries being re-mapped while the globe is?

Both individual and panel submissions are welcome. Please send abstracts
of 200 words or less by January 31, 2005 to cledoux@rice.edu and/or
jjacks@rice.edu.
All presentations should be no longer than 15 minutes.

Possible topics include but are not limited to

      =B7Any topics on internationalism, cosmopolitanism, globalization
and 	geo-political order

      =B7All topics on the nation, the nation-state, nationalism and the
       political or cultural creation of national identity.

      =B7All papers on refugees, diasporas, exiles and displaced 		=09
populations

      =B7The circulation of capital, labor, literatures, populations and
       information

      =B7Global and/or national frames for understanding literary 		=09
productions of all periods

These questions, of course, could not be sufficiently addressed from
within a singular disciplinary framework. As such, we are actively
soliciting submissions from across academic departments and programs,
such as English, history, economics, cultural geography, religious
studies, sociology, anthropology, environmental sciences, philosophy,
political science, public policy. This theme demands a representation
that is, itself, global in its ambitions.


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