[Discussion] CFP: Animals and Globalization (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

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From: neel ahuja <nahuja@ucsd.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS
"Animals and Globalization"
Seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association 2006 Conference
March 23-26, 2006
Princeton, NJ

Proposals due November 30, 2005

Conference Website: http://webscript.princeton.edu/~acla06/site/

This seminar will consider the changing roles of nonhuman animals as laborers,
companions, commodities, and cultural figures in current processes of
globalization. Animals and products produced from and by animal bodies are
increasingly circulated by transnational production networks, impacting
practices of human nutrition, scientific experimentation, agriculture,
industrial production, and animal domestication worldwide. And as globalization
also transforms the lived spaces of human and nonhuman life, animals have come
to serve as powerful symbols in the transnational politics of culture: companion
animals, laboring animals, and hunted animals are used to depict the
cosmopolitanism and inequalities (economic, racial, etc.) enabled by the
globalization of labor, information, and commerce.

Proposals which use animals to creatively integrate posthumanist, Marxist,
postcolonial, transnational, and/or poststructuralist theoretical perspectives
are especially welcome. Please submit 250 word abstracts through the ACLA
conference website. The Paper Proposal form is at

http://aslamp01.princeton.edu/%7Eoitdas/acla06/

and proposals are due November 30, 2005. Make sure to select "Animals and
Globalization" as the seminar on the form.

Questions? Email Neel Ahuja at nahuja@ucsd.edu.



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