[Discussion] CFP: Global States (1/15/06; 5/5/06-5/6/06)

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From: etrapp@uci.edu

Global States
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/complit/globalstates

Announcing a conference hosted by the graduate students in the Department
of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, May 5-6, 2006

Featuring a keynote dialogue between
Judith Butler (UC Berkeley)
and
Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University)

CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference will delineate various "states" of sentiment, desire, or affect,
and examine their deployment on--or relation to--the global scene of political
and economic "states."  Within contemporary landscapes, the proliferating
language of sentiment and feeling (memory, mourning, terror, cruelty, suffering,
pleasure, paranoia, and nostalgia) appears encoded in political, economic, and
legal processes.  Our intention is to shift the parameters of current debates on
globalization onto new planes of experience and to interrogate the neutral terms
under which the name of the global is invoked.

What forms and relations of subjectivity are generated at the quilting point of
states of sentiment and politico-economic states?

How might states of sentiment underscore the conditions constitutive of rational
states, normative and ontological?

What resistant possibilities are enabled through states of sentiment? Renewed
forms of subjectivity, collectivity, globality?

**Thematic considerations may include:
The Global as Planet/World/Life-Worlds
Empire, Humanist Utopias, and the Relevance of the Humanities
Inscribing Global Bodies
Diaspora and Alternative Globalizations
Sovereignty and Modalities of Subjectivation
Psychoanalysis in Collective Domains
Colonial Intimacies, Race, and Neocolonial Formations
Global Visions, Fascinations, and Fantasies
Transnational Culture and Aesthetics

We welcome all submissions including those which concern literature, poetry,
drama, film, architecture, geography, queer and gender studies, psychoanalysis,
cultural studies, geopolitics, urban studies, contemporary popular culture,
critical race studies, diaspora and transnational studies, traditional and new
media, ethnology, political theory, philosophy, religious studies, and critical
theory.

Please send abstracts of about 500 words to globalstates@gmail.com by
January 15, 2006. Questions may also be sent to the same address.

Information and updates at
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/complit/globalstates



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