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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 13:27:06 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: PLC: CFP: Bastards of Imperialism: Indentity, Nation, and Identity ...


The Program in Modern Thought and Literature & The Center for Comparative
Studies in Race and Ethnicity
invite submissions of papers for the conference:

Bastards of Imperialism:  Identity, Nation, and Citizenship in the Wake of
Spanish and US Expansions

April 30-May 2, 1998
Stanford University

Although encompassing several distinct populations, the term Latino or Hispanic
has come to signify an identifiable US population.  Within academia, scholars of
Chicano history or literature are expected to speak
with equal authority on Cuban and Puerto Rican topics as though these histories
were continuous while other histories, such as Pilipino, are disregarded.  This
conference addresses the historical events and
continuing effects of the Wars of 1848 and 1898 in the development of U.S.
racial and ethnic groups, including Chicano, Cuban, Pacific Island, Pilipino,
Puerto Rican, African-American, and Native American populations.
The historical coincidence of 19 8 is of unparalleled importance as it is the
centennial of the Spanish American War and the Treaty of Paris, and the
sesquicentennial of the end of the Mexican American War and the
signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.  In this year Chicano, Cuban, Puerto
Rican, and Pilipino communities will be commemorating anniversaries of events
that have profoundly changed the history of the Unites States, the respective
foreign nations that lost territories, as well as the sovereign countries,
American states, and the provinces or commonwealths that were created by these
events.

As such, 1998 presents an opportunity to investigate and articulate connections
on multiple levels between communities and histories; in addition it provides a
moment in which a cluster of closely related,
timely discussions of both U. S. and American history and culture can occur. The
relevance of this historical juncture to contemporary debates such as
immigration, the vitality of the existent communities and their
histories, and the serendipitous accident of nice, round numbers--100 and
150--coalesce to offer a rich opportunity for investigation.

Topics that proposals might consider include:

%race and law
%language policies and practices
%migration, immigration, and exile
%national imaginations and histories
%post colonial theory in the Americas
%making and breaking of laws and treaties
%political activism and cultural production
%conceptions of cultural or national citizenship
%theories of identity, subject formation, and epistemology of identity
%specific and comparative histories, connections, and issues in Cuban,
Puerto Rican, Chicano, and Pilipino studies
%other subjects and comparisons not listed here.

Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged.

Deadline:  December 1
Conference papers will be 25 minutes in length.
Travel funds may be available for accepted papers.
Address inquiries, papers, proposals, and abstracts (200-500 words) to:

Alicia Maria Gamez,  amgamez-AT-leland.stanford..edu
Sandra Shagat,  slsr-AT-leland.stanford.edu
1998 Conference Committee
Program in Modern Thought and Literature
Stanford University
Stanford,  CA  94305-2170


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