Keynote speakers are Qwo-Li
Driskill, co-editor of Queer Indigenous
Studies; Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics and Literature (2011)
and Peter Van Buren, a former employee of the U.S. Foreign Service and author
of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the
Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (2011).
We
invite both critical and creative submissions that exhibit a multi- or
inter-disciplinary approach to examining issues central to the study of the
Humanities on a global level. We are particularly interested in discussions
that address the political, social, and institutional significance of global
culture beyond (and in between) the traditional disciplinary boundaries, as
well as those that fortify existing connections within and across them. The
conference is open to both graduate students and professionals, and in addition
to individual paper submissions, panel proposals (of up to four 10-15 minute presentations)
are highly encouraged.
Submissions
may address (but are not limited to) the following themes, concepts and topics:
·
Cultural
geographies and topographies
·
Postcolonial
identities and the arts
·
Literary
cartography
·
Cosmopolitanism
and nationalism
·
Global
feminist activism
·
Linguistic
mapping and lexical ex/change
·
Liminality
and border studies
·
Indigenous
studies
·
Regional
subcultures
·
Ecocriticism,
ecopoetics, and globalization
·
Global
social networks and communications
·
Migration
and diaspora
·
Cultural
ownership, dissemination, and misappropriation
·
New
media, television, and radio
·
Politics
of sustenance
·
Labor
movements in the global south
·
Cultural
and political responses to AIDS/HIV
·
Transnational
identities
·
Fashion,
identity, and performance
·
Alternative
travel narrative
·
Marginalized
peoples, diaspora, and refuge
Presenters
should submit abstracts of 300 words by December 15, 2012 to ahalouisville@gmail.com. Please
include your name, affiliation, mailing address, and paper title in your email,
and please attach an abstract with title only for blind review. For panel
proposals please submit all of the requested information and paper abstracts
for each individual presenter as well as a 200-300 word panel abstract
outlining the theme of your panel.
Notification
of acceptance will be issued no later than February 1, 2013. The cost for
registration is $30.00. Late registration ($40.00) begins March 15th and will
be accepted through March 22, 2013.
