[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Local, Global, and Glocal: Shifting Borders and Hybrid Identities (grad) (2/28/06; 4/6/06-4/8/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: dewinter@email.arizona.edu


This updated version reflects the following:

1) Conference dates changed slightly
2) Extended deadline to end of February

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY:
Local, Global, and Glocal: Shifting Borders and Hybrid Identities
University of Arizona
April 6-8, 2006


CALL FOR PAPERS:
The 2006 New Directions in Critical Theory Conference, an interdisciplinary
graduate student forum at the University of Arizona, will focus on tensions
between local identities within global contexts. This conference will 
address
the crisis of how "local" identities must act in "global" frameworks, 
and the
ways that global frameworks in turn reflect and shape conceptions of local
identities. Concepts of local identity such as "nation," "culture," and
"language" are complicated by geo-political issues such as globalism and 
global
capitalism. Individuals do not adhere to discrete categories of one 
culture, one
nation, or one ideological framework. While subjects may still be 
defined by a
local or global identity, they are also now subject to one that is 
"glocal"--a
hybrid identity that speaks to a complex interconnectedness of both 
global and
local identities. This is a particular concern in border states and 
towns that
must negotiate the immediate local needs of a diverse community of Caucasian
Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and Mexicans, as well as the
formation of a national identity that works to define and thereby 
exclude for
economical and political reasons.

Glocal identity does not go unchallenged; groups fight for local 
identities and
effectively tribalize knowledge and access to knowledge while the 
pressure to
act within larger contexts constantly weighs on people. This tension can be
found not only in the aforementioned identity and world politics, but 
also in
the academy itself, where academic tribalism comes into conflict with more
global interactions within the university (crossing disciplinary 
boundaries in
favor of interdisciplinarity). This leaves us to question how identity,
discipline, and politics can be defined as both local and global, and 
how these
relate to a hybrid glocal approach.

An address, "Capitalism, Compassion, and the Children: Rosetta and La 
Promesse"
by Lauren Berlant: Lauren Berlant, Professor of English at The University of
Chicago will open this event. Professor Berlant is a distinguished 
scholar who
explores questions of nationhood, citizenship, and modes of political
embodiment. Her work rethinks class, racial, gender, and sexual 
formation in the
context of national and ethnic patriotism, constructions of family, 
consumerism,
and the emotions of the political public sphere. In her scholarship and
publications Professor Berlant exposes the multiple intersections 
between those
facets of citizenship that shape how American culture perceives and 
constructs
boundaries and borders, both physical and symbolic. Her recent publications
include, The Anatomy of National Fantasy, The Queen of American Goes to
Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship, and the edited volumes 
Intimacy
and Compassion.

We invite graduate students from any discipline to present
theoretically-oriented scholarship that investigates the social 
formation and
maintenance of local/tribal identities, global contexts, and the 
possibility of
hybrid glocal identities, and in doing so, question the tensions between 
these
forms of interaction and possible rewards attained from not merely 
crossing the
border, but from redefining and reconceptualizing definitions of citizenship
and nationhood.  We would also welcome interdisciplinary work that crosses
disciplinary borders to create new knowledge within a glocal university 
context
(such as papers, film, artwork, installation projects, and so on).

Possible Topics:

Global/Local Politics
Postcolonialism
Language and discrimination
Language and racism
Language policy and planning
Tourism/Travel Writing/Advertising
Architecture/Geography
History/Autobiography
Memory and Identity
National/Cultural/Racial/Sexual/Gendered/Class Identity
Hybridity and Identity
Hybridity and Embodiment
Borders of the Human
Peripheral Zones/Contact Zones
The Rhetoric of Borders, Territories, Frontiers
Barriers/Communities/Home
Space/Mobility/Displacement
Immigration/Alienation
Othering
Borders and Criminality
Borders in Film and Literature
Science and Technology Studies
Virtual Borders
Borders and Boundaries in Cyberspace
Popular Culture/High Culture
Consumerism, Media and Identity
Sex and Economy
Violence and Desire
Heterinormativity/Homosexuality/Transsexuality
Feminist Theory and Queer Theory
Critical Race Theory
Spirituality and Subjectivity
Texts, Bodies and Spectacle
Bodies of/and Knowledge
Diversity, Similarity and the Academy
Translation/Appropriation/Adaptation
Teaching and Service Learning
The Academy and Activism

Please submit 100-250 word individual abstracts or panel proposals, 
comprised of
a 100-250 word abstract for the entire panel and one 100-250 abstract 
for each
paper.  Include names, email address, mailing addresses, institutional
affiliations, technology requests, paper titles, and abstracts by 
February 28th
2006 to:

Meg Smith-Hallak (Department of English), Erica Reynolds Clayton, or 
Jennifer
deWinter (Department of English)
Modern Languages Building, Room 445
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
USA

(520) 621-1836
ndconf@email.arizona.edu

If you should have any questions or concerns, please contact Meg 
Smith-Hallak at
ndconf@email.arizona.edu.




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