Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 01:31:23 -0600
Subject: Update: Globalization is/in America



"Globalization is/in America"
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Thursday, April 29, 2004

Keynote speaker: Kate A. Baldwin, author of Beyond the Color Line and the 
Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922-1963 (Duke UP 
2002).

NEW DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2004

This interdisciplinary graduate student conference examines the terms 
"globalization" and "America" as they have been problematized in recent 
cultural and literary criticism. We are interested in papers that pay 
particular attention to the internationalization of what heretofore has 
been known as "American Studies." Broadly speaking, papers for 
"Globalization is/in America" should consider how the idea of the nation 
and the nation-state structures cultural imaginaries, individual and group 
identities, and disciplinary boundaries.

"Globalization is/in America" takes up the following questions: What is at 
stake in a movement toward a post- or transnational approach to literary, 
cultural, historical, and sociological study? How are nations constituted 
or contested through the production of cultural objects? In turn, how does 
the idea of nation further inform or inflect our ideas about racialized, 
gendered, and classed subjectivities? How has work on America informed 
ideas about "the nation," and in what ways is "America" always already 
postnational? Finally, what is to be gained or lost by doing scholarly work 
that moves across boundaries?

Northwestern University will also be hosting a conference, "Globalizing 
American Studies," on April 30 and May 1, 2004. This important conference 
will bring together a group of scholars from various disciplines, including 
Dina Al-Kassim (Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine), 
Kate Baldwin (English, University of Notre Dame), Moustafa Bayoumi 
(English, Brooklyn College), Rachel Buff (History, Bowling Green State 
University), Brent Hayes Edwards (English, Rutgers University), Brian 
Edwards (English, Northwestern University), Brian Larkin (Anthropology, 
Barnard College), Meg McLagan (Anthropology, New York University), and 
Kariann Yokota (History, Yale University), to discuss their new work. 
Ronald A.T. Judy, author of (Dis)Forming the American Canon, will give the 
keynote speech. As "Globalization is/in America" is being held in 
conjunction with this event, registration entitles presenters admission to 
both conferences.

Paper topics might include, but are not limited to:

Narratives and histories of "American Studies"
Definitions of national and nationalist literatures
Anthologies of literary and cultural production
National and international prizes for cultural production (e.g. Booker 
Prize, Nobel, Commonwealth Prize, etc.)
Cultural periodization and national ideology
"Native" or "minor" literatures
National languages
Anderson's "Census, Map, Museum" revisited
Identification papers and ID cards
Internationalization of "national" cultures
De-centering and internationalization of studies about the US
Diaspora and diasporic identities
Alien, resident alien, non-resident alien


Proposals: Papers should be 15-20 minutes in length. We invite submissions 
of both panels and individual papers. Panel proposals should outline the 
panel as a whole and include 300 word abstracts of each individual paper. 
Paper proposals should include a 300 word abstract that explains the 
paper's purpose and how it relates broadly to the theme of the conference. 
Proposals are due January 15, 2004 to Bishupal Limbu at globalnu2004-AT-yahoo.com.



Bishupal Limbu
Comparative Literary Studies
Northwestern University 

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