[Discussion] World Literatures and Global Disorders

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

*SCLA 2005*
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Conference Theme: World Literatures and Global Disorders

Conference Site: University of Houston-Central Campus
Abstract deadline: May 15, 2005
Conference Dates: September 22- 24, 2005

Plenary speakers: Lois Zamora & Nicol=E1s Kanellos

Presentation Topics include:

    * literature and globalization
    * (in)tolerant ethnocentrism
    * regional literatures in global contexts
    * questions of empire
    * images of 9/11
    * (new) world literatures
    * terrorism and literature
    * comparative neo-liberalism
    * Latino literature and global relations
    * comparative literature between the old world and the new
    * rearticulating regional-global relations
    * cosmopolitanism
    * American world literature
    * glocal studies
    * spectres of nationality
    * remembering Edward Said, Susan Sontag, Jacques Derrida
    * teaching the comparative literature in times of disorder
    * new media and world disorder
    * disordering identity/reordering the world
    * acts of narrative resistance

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