[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Insecurity, Undergraduate/Graduate Cultural Studies Conference (grad & undergrad) (12/20/05; 2/10/06-2/11/06)

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From: Cultural Studies <cultstudies@emporia.edu>

Deadline extended:

3rd Annual Emporia State University Student Literary and Cultural Studies
Conference
February 10-11, 2006
Emporia Kansas

Conference Description:
The 3rd Annual Emporia State University Student Literary and Cultural 
Studies
Conference will seek to examine the political, cultural, and psychological
(clinical) discourses on issues of security and insecurity.

In his 1977-1978 course published under the title Securite, Territoire,
Population, Michel Foucault asks whether there is a "society of security" in
which the "general economy of power" is dominated by technologies of 
security.
Foucault's inquiry seeks to understand whether it is possible to trace the
genealogical emergence of what he calls "technologies of security." 
Today the
question of security, in the form of national security, has again become a
central discursive order. The goal of this conference is to provide an
environment for a polyvalent interrogation into the array of discourses that
enunciate security and insecurity in all of its cultural representations--
literary texts, cinematic artifacts, artistic productions, et cetera--as 
well as
discourses on their histories and genealogies.

In an effort to achieve inclusion, this conference is open to both 
undergraduate
and graduate students, and all submissions germane to cultural and literary
studies are welcome. However, the conference organizers are most 
interested in
receiving proposals that deal with issues of security, insecurity, and 
the state
of emergency. Different genres, approaches, disciplines, and historical
locations are encouraged.  Some possible areas of investigation/critical
orientations include globalization, postcolonial studies, analysis of social
movements, sex/gender studies, international relations, psychoanalytic
criticism, nationalist, transnational and postnational studies, 
communications
and media theory, and immigration politics.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Susan Koshy, Professor of English and Asian American
Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The conference organizers plan to publish the proceedings in an edited 
volume
with an academic press and will consider critical essay versions of
presentations for possible publication.

Send 200-300 word abstracts to cultstudies@emporia.edu or
Taylor Hammer
Department of English
Campus Box 4019
Emporia State University
1200 Commercial Street
Emporia KS  66801-5087
USA

Deadline for submissions: December 20, 2005



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