[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Cosmopolitanism in Literature and Film (10/15/06; 2/1/07-2/4/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

The 32nd Annual FSU Conference on Literature and Film

Cosmopolitanism: Thinking Beyond the Nation
February 1-4, 2007
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

http://english.fsu.edu/filmlit/


Keynote Speakers:

     * Timothy Brennan, Professor, Departments of English and Cultural
Studies & Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
     * Pheng Cheah, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, University of
California, Berkeley
     * Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Associate Professor of Modern Culture and
Media, Brown University
     * Patrice Petro, Director of the Center for International Studies
and Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
     * Screening, TBA

In his introduction to Cosmopolitics, Pheng Cheah writes, "The main
purpose is to explore the feasibility of cosmopolitanism as an
alternative to nationalism." Indeed, ever since Kant, the concept of
cosmopolitanism has been central to thinking about social relations,
culture, and the problem of war outside of the relations of the
nation-state. As the nation-state has organized the fields of literary
and cinema studies as well as the broader field of culture, questioning
such categorization is crucial, as it opens up new ways of thinking
about literary and filmic production as part of a larger context of
interaction. It can also account for novel ways of describing the field
of contemporary knowledge and experience.

The question of the nation seems particularly important now because of
two main transformations on the world scene: (1) economic globalization,
in which the category of the nation-state is only one among many of
possible identifications and sites of transaction, and (2) the growing
inevitability of perpetual war (what Kant called "perpetual peace") and
the endless expansion of global militarisms.

Is cosmopolitanism just another form of elitism that re-inscribes social
hierarchies, or does it provide an opening for new alliances? What new
cultural formations, social networks, and institutional structures have
arisen, both now and historically, in response to what Bruce Robbins
called "the moral and cultural existence of non-citizens"? What
resistances to global capitalism and global warfare might fall outside
of such liberal solutions as the nationalized welfare state, nativism,
or local communitarianism? In what ways do the current circulations of
language systems, aesthetic orders, semiotic codes, national identities,
and genres in film and literature transcend economics and politics
formerly envisioned in national terms?



Possible topics include:

     * Marxist Internationalism in Contemporary Context
     * The Global Corporate Class
     * The Worldwide Proletariat Class
     * Civil Society
     * Race
     * Translation Studies
     * Migration
     * Immigration
     * Tourism
     * Labor
     * Borders and Border Crossings
     * Professionalism
     * Feminism
     * Global Hollywood
     * Modernism
     * Urbanization
     * Human Rights
     * Citizenship
     * National and Transnational Cinemas and Literatures
     * Consumption
     * Imperialism
     * Totalitarianism
     * Outsourcing
     * Global Markets for Film & Literature
     * New Media
     * The Intelligentsia
     * The Age of the World Picture
     * Cinema and the City



2007 Conference directors:

     * Robin Truth Goodman: rgoodman at english.fsu.edu
     * Barry J. Faulk: bfaulk at english.fsu.edu
     * Maricarmen Martinez: mmartine at mailer.fsu.edu
     * Frank P. Tomasulo: ftomasulo at film.fsu.edu


For more information, visit our website at http://english.fsu.edu/filmlit/


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