[Bilimsel Haber] NEXUS: Collected and Collective Identities Update

[Gonul Pultar]

*NEXUS: Collected and Collective Identities Update*
*Location:* 	Tennessee 
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United States 
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*CALL FOR PAPERS: NEW DEADLINE*

Collected and Collective Identities
A NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Friday 28 - Saturday March 29, 2008
Website: http://web.utk.edu/~nexus/

Keynote Speaker: Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University)
Creative Speaker: Shelley Jackson (www.ineradicablestain.com)

*Deadlines for Submission: UPDATED January 15, 2008*

This conference seeks to further conversation concerning the creation 
and structure of collectivities as well as the relationship of these 
collectivities to their members and the social world. Collectivities 
often serve as the public representations of the private self and, as 
such, provide an important intersection between internal subject and the 
external manifestation of identity. In short, these collectivities 
determine how we define ourselves, how others define us, and how the 
social world is organized.

The nexus of presentation and representation in collectivities and their 
members suggests many questions about the construction of the self in 
the world: How can we connect to and communicate with one another? Are 
fragmentary, multiple, or hybrid identities possible to hold both 
publicly and privately? Is a global collectivity possible? What does it 
mean to be a member of a collective? How are multiple interpretations of 
a collective reconciled?

Nexus 2008 seeks to discuss these questions of collectivity across 
disciplines, in the context of an increasingly global and virtually 
interconnected world. It is our hope that, by facilitating these 
discussions, we can explore the intersections of these forms of 
identification that we collect for ourselves and hold in common with 
others.

We welcome submissions from all disciplines, including activists and 
scholars without academic affiliation. Abstracts (250-300 words) are 
invited on a broad range of topics including but not limited to the 
following:

# Cosmopolitanisms
# Counterpublics
# Border Cultures
# Virtual Communities
# Collective Memory
# Fraternity and Sorority: Gendered Communities
# Urban Planning
# National Identity
# Fundamentalist/Extremist Communities
# American and International Regionalisms
# Organized Dissent
# Queer Cultures
# Families and Domesticities
# Linguistic Communities
# Ethics of Interaction
# Exile, Immigration, and Refugee

Please send electronic abstracts (250-300words) to 
nexus_conference at yahoo.com or hard copies to:
Nexus Conference
301 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996

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	Nexus Conference
University of Tennessee
301 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996
USA

Email: nexus_conference at yahoo.com <mailto:nexus_conference at yahoo.com>
Visit the website at http://web.utk.edu/~nexus 
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