[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Humanism and the Global Hybrid (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

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Humanism and the Global Hybrid

ACLA 2006, Princeton University, 3/23/06 - 3/26/06

Seminar Organizers:
Dr. Assimina Karavanta, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Dr. Nina Morgan, Kennesaw State University

In Humanism and Democratic Criticism, Edward Said defines humanism as "the
practice of participatory citizenship" whose "purpose is to make more things
available to critical scrutiny" and thus disclose its "human misreading and
misinterpretations of a collective past and present" (22). In a postcolonial and
global era that bears witness to a rapid mobility of peoples often thrown
together by fate, it is imperative to rethink humanism as the practice that
opens to a wide gamut of political and aesthetic forms of representation of what
we wish to call the "global hybrid" that emerges in the public realm of the
global sphere.

As the rapid flows of capital and labor force are producing new social, economic
and political conditions of co-existence, the reinvention of common space or
"public sphere", and the active participation in the constitution of "a
citizenship-in-the-making", to use Etienne Balibar's term, are necessary. We
invite papers that meticulously study the humanistic tradition and the need to
rethink humanism as a "democratic practice", that is, as an intellectual praxis
in the context of the newly constituting and constituted postcolonial and global
conditions. Especially welcome are papers that address the need to rethink the
field of comparative literature as a form of humanistic practice that can
contribute to the envisioning of a global community that is open to hybrid forms
of existence and representation.

Please submit your proposals (250 words) online through the ACLA website
www.princeton.edu/~acla06 before 30 November, 2005.

Please feel free to contact us at nmorgan@kennesaw.edu or minaka98@otenet.gr





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