[Discussion] UPDATE: Insecurity, Undergraduate/Graduate Cultural Studies Conference (grad & undergrad) (12/1/05; 2/10/06-2/11/06)

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From: Cultural Studies <cultstudies@emporia.edu>

Keynote speaker announced:

Cultural Studies in an Age of (In)security

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

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

Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2005



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