Abstract deadline: 3/5/10
General CFP- (General Call for Papers)
States of Crisis: (dis)junctions 2010
April 9th and 10th
For (dis)junctions 2010, we are seeking papers that explore the construction, definitions of, and reactions to “crisis” in all its various permutations. The titular concept, drawn from Giorgio Agamben’s pivotal work, State of Exception, functions as a starting point to facilitate a nuanced understanding of the intricacies of crisis. How does the framework of crisis impact communities across the globe in manifold ways? How have states of crisis functioned across time and space and in relation to questions of citizenship and nation? For example, how can crisis help us think about paradigmatic shifts between the crusades and modern imperialism? Further, how can we talk about interpersonal and psychological states of crisis? Can we view crisis as productive, and if so, how does this view complicate the violences and oppressions that often stem from personal and public states of crisis? How are notions of play and change utilized to further complicate crisis?[…]
List of Panel CFPs
9/11 and the “War on Terror” as Sites of Crisis
War and Crisis
Plagues and Pestilence
Chicana/Latina Identity in Crisis?
Crisis in Postcolonial Studies
Crisis in Comparative Literature
The Post Apocalyptic in Literature and Film
Anxieties of Influence: The Literary Extended “Family”
Visual Art: Paradigmatic shifts across time and space
Digital Worlds
Food Fights: Current Trends and Historical Movements
Cosmopolitanism
Spoken Word: Destructive Language
Mad Men
Men in Feminism
Bruce Springsteen Music
Pilgrimage
London
Speculative Fiction
Avatar
Medieval Literature
Renaissance Literature
Mythology and Folklore
Shakespeare and Popular CultureVictorian Literature and Culture
Detective Fiction
I’m not trying to hate, but um, wow. Wish it were clearer how these panel titles related to the theme of the conference as a whole.
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