COSMOPOLITANISM:
Contributors are welcome to submit papers examining cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan theory,
cosmopolitanism in literature, cosmopolitan ethics, etc. Possible topics include:
The roots / routes of cosmopolitanism
Contemporary cosmopolitan thought
Cosmopolitanism and government
Cosmopolitanism and the environment
Cosmopolitanism and the global economy
Cosmopolitanism in a particular literary piece / genre / period
Cosmopolitanism and "states of crisis"
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be emailed to Ray Crosby at raycrosby@gmail.com by
Friday, March 12, 2010 by 5pm Pacific. Please indicate any A/V needs.

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General conference information:

(dis)junctions 2010: States of Crisis
April 9-10, 2010
University of California, Riverside (USA)
Graduate Student Conference

http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/

For (dis)junctions 2010, we are seeking papers that explore the construction, definitions of, and
reactions to "crisis" in all its various permutations. Considering the states of crisis across the
world—at home and abroad, in the space of the domestic and in the public arena—this year's
conference strives to provide an interdisciplinary space to discuss the conditions, consequences,
and productivity of the many forms of "crisis." The focus of the conference is to engage with
crisis as both an abstract theoretical concept and a material reality that impacts individuals and
populations. (dis)junctions anticipates responses to further explore how "crisis" challenges,
structures, and affects our understanding of the world and ourselves.
Papers may address topics such as, but not limited to: questions of identity, nation, and culture,
representations of crisis in the media, crisis within academia, religion and violence, economic
crisis, environmental crisis, race theory, gender and sexuality as categories of crisis, the
mechanisms for change, play as "productive crisis," play as a mode of resistance, narrative
representations of the "natural" or sociopolitical world, and questions of identity and "self" in
relation to the ever-in-crisis global landscape.