[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Empire: Migrations, Diasporas, Networks

[Gonul Pultar]

  Empire: Migrations, Diasporas, Networks


  March 13-15, 2008 

From: Kim De Vries <kdevries_at_csustan.edu 
<mailto:kdevries_at_csustan.edu?Subject=Re:%20CFP:%20%5BEthnic%5D%20Empire:%20Migrations,%20Diasporas,%20Networks;%20March%2013-15,%202008>> 


Empire: Migrations, Diasporas, Networks; March 13-15, 2008
http://web.csustan.edu/CHSS/Empire/


We seek papers, panels, workshops, and artistic works that examine the 
connections/disconnections between enactments and perceptions of empire 
with migrations, diasporas and/or networks. We hope that participants 
will address the issues of empire from antiquity to postmodernity, on 
every continent and from many cultures. We also hope to look at a 
variety of
empires such as national, media, corporate, and technological. To 
situate these topics in as broad a context as possible, we seek 
presentations by scholars working in such disciplines as Anthropology, 
Architecture & Art History, Humanities and Social Sciences, Computing, 
Economics, Education, Ethnic & Gender Studies, Film Studies, Geography, 
History, Literature, New Media, Philosophy, Politics & Public Policy, 
and the Natural and Physical Sciences.

We also welcome panel proposals which should include a title, and 
abstracts for all papers; these maybe emailed directly to Kim De Vries. 
We are happy to add sub-calls to our pages. We also welcome submission 
of creative work; for information on submitting sample images, video, 
etc, again please contact Kim De Vries.

Suggested topics might include, but are by no means limited to, the 
following:

        * Diasporas and Migrations: geographic, cultural, ideological, 
rhetorical, technological or other.
        * Sustainability & the Political Ecology of diasporic 
communities, migrations, and networks.
        * Reverse Colonization of place, of media, of technologies.
        * Imperial Borders & Language: Dominance, Discrimination, & 
Assimilation.
        * Images of Empire in Popular Culture.
        * Teaching/Subverting Imperial Ideology: Empire, Education, & 
Resistant Pedagogy.
        * Borders and "Borders" -- Theorizing Cultural Connection, 
Separation, and Entanglement.
        * From Hollywood and Microsoft to DIY Videos and the Open Source 
Movement: Media Empires, Rebellions, and Collaborations.
        * Home: Migration, Place, & Identity.
        * Constructing/Constricting Identities.
        * Imperialism & Visual and Musical Culture.
        * Theories of Empire: the Political, Historical, Erotic, & 
Aesthetic.
        * The Imperial In-Between in Drama, Fiction, Film, & Poetry.
        * Networks of Resistance: Feminist, Ecological, Ethnic, 
Technological, etc.
        * Dialectism & Resistance: Black English, Chicanismo, & 
Linguistic Minorities.
        * Technological Migrations: Empire, Film, TV, and the Web.
        * Gender & Migration, Diaspora, and/or Networks.
        * Cosmopolitanism: World Culture vs. Local Identity.
        * Imperialism, Philanthropy, & Aid.

Important Dates

Online submissions open Oct 1, 2007
Online submissions close Dec 1, 2007


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