[Discussion] CFP: Empire, Borderlands, & Border Cultures (11/1/05; 3/16/06-3/18/06)

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From: "Arnold A. Schmidt" <aschmidt@csustan.edu>

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

"EMPIRE, BORDERLANDS, & BORDER CULTURES"

In an effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary 
conversation about
empire, California State University/Stanislaus will host a conference on
"Empire, Borderlands, & Border Cultures," Thursday, Friday, and 
Saturday, 16-18
March 2006.  To situate these topics in as broad a context as possible, 
we seek
scholars working in such disciplines as Anthropology, Architecture & Art
History, Economics, Education, Ethnic & Gender Studies, Film Studies, 
Geography,
History, Literature, Philosophy, Politics & Public Policy, and the sciences.


PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Yen Le Espiritu.  Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California,
San Diego (http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/html/espiritu.html).

Selected Publications: Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures,
Communities, and Countries (University of California Press, 2003); Asian
American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love (Sage Press, 1997); Filipino
American Lives (Temple University Press, 1995); Asian American Panethnicity:
Bridging Institutions and Identities (Temple University Press, 1992).


Philippa Levine.  Department of History, University of Southern California
(http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/history/Faculty/f-files/Levine/Levine.htm).

Selected Publications: Gender and Empire (ed., Oxford University Press, 
2004);
Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the 
British Empire
(Routledge, 2003); Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, 
Nation
and Race (ed., Routledge, 2000); Feminist Lives in Victorian England. 
Private
Roles and Public Commitment (Basil Blackwell, 1990).


PRESENTATION GUIDELINES:

We hope that participants will address the issues of empire from 
antiquity to
postmodernity, on every continent and from many cultures. Suggested 
topics might
include, but are by no means limited to, the following:

           -- Diaspora, Immigration, "Crossing Over," & "Passing."
           -- Ecocide & the Political Ecology of Empire.
           -- Reverse Colonization: the Latinization of North America.
           -- Imperial Borders & Language: Dominance, Discrimination, &
              Assimilation.
           -- The Empire in Popular Culture.
           -- Teaching Imperial Ideology: Empire, Education, & Children's
              Literature.
           -- Borders and "Borders" -- Theorizing Cultural Connection &
              Separation.
           -- From Hollywood to Bollywood & Beyond: the Empire on Film.
           -- Home, Refugees, the Dispossessed: Migration, Place, & 
Identity.
           -- The Border as Metaphor.
           -- Constructing/Constricting National, Religious, & Ethnic 
Identities.
           -- Imperialism & Visual Culture.
           -- Theories of Empire: the Political, Historical, Erotic, & 
Aesthetic.
           -- Biopower.
           -- The Imperial In-Between in Drama, Fiction, Film, & Poetry.
           -- Transnational Feminism(s).
           -- Dialectism & Resistance: Black English, Chicanismo, & 
Linguistic
              Minorities.
           -- Technological Border-Crossings: Empire, Film, TV, and the Web.
           -- Gender & Empire.
           -- Cosmopolitanism: World Culture vs. Local Identity.
           -- Imperialism, Philanthropy, & Aid.


Submission deadline: 1 November 2005. You may send hardcopies to

           Arnold A. Schmidt, Ph.D.
           Empire Conference Committee
           Department of English
           California State University, Stanislaus
           801 W. Monte Vista Ave.
           Turlock, CA 95382


One page vitas and proposals for 20-minute papers can be emailed to 
Betsy Eudey
(BEudey@csustan.edu) or Arnold Schmidt (aschmidt@csustan.edu). We 
welcome panel
proposals. No attachments please.

Located in the Central Valley, CSU/Stanislaus lies about two hours
east of San Francisco and Berkeley, and about three hours west of Yosemite
National Park.



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