CFP: Italian Imperialism (11/1/05; Empire, 3/16/06-3/18/06)
Dear Colleagues:
I am assembling a panel on representations of Italian imperialism in
literature, film and the visual arts as part of the conference on "Empire,
Borderlands, & Border Cultures." Papers addressing images of imperialism on
the Italian peninsula or by Italy from Classicism to World War II (the
Greeks, Romans, Bourbons, Habsburgs, Fascists, etc.) would be appropriate.
I hope for a range of topics, including scholars working on Italy's ideology
of imperial expansion as a way of "making Italians," as well as on
representations of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century imperial
adventures (the Battle of Adua, the Ethiopian Crisis, the March on Fiume,
etc.). Please see the general cfp for more conference information, and
contact me if you have any questions.
Arnold A. Schmidt, Ph.D. / Professor / California State
University
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
"EMPIRE, BORDERLANDS, & BORDER CULTURES"
In an effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary
conversation about empire, California State University/Stanislaus will
host a conference on "Empire, Borderlands, & Border Cultures,"
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 16-18 March 2006. To situate these
topics in as broad a context as possible, we seek scholars working in
such disciplines as Anthropology, Architecture & Art History,
Economics, Education, Ethnic & Gender Studies, Film Studies,
Geography, History, Literature, Philosophy, Politics & Public Policy,
and the sciences.
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Yen Le Espiritu. Department of Ethnic Studies, University of
California, San Diego
(http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/html/espiritu.html).
Selected Publications: Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across
Cultures, Communities, and Countries (University of California Press,
2003); Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love (Sage
Press, 1997); Filipino American Lives (Temple University Press, 1995);
Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities
(Temple University Press, 1992).
Philippa Levine. Department of History, University of Southern
California
(http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/history/Faculty/f-files/Levine/Levine.htm).
Selected Publications: Gender and Empire (ed., Oxford University
Press, 2004); Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal
Disease in the British Empire (Routledge, 2003); Women's Suffrage in
the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race (ed., Routledge,
2000); Feminist Lives in Victorian England. Private Roles and Public
Commitment (Basil Blackwell, 1990).
PRESENTATION GUIDELINES:
We hope that participants will address the issues of empire from
antiquity to postmodernity, on every continent and from many cultures.
Suggested topics might include, but are by no means limited to, the
following:
-- Diaspora, Immigration, "Crossing Over," & "Passing."
-- Ecocide & the Political Ecology of Empire.
-- Reverse Colonization: the Latinization of North America.
-- Imperial Borders & Language: Dominance, Discrimination, &
Assimilation.
-- The Empire in Popular Culture.
-- Teaching Imperial Ideology: Empire, Education, &
Children's Literature.
-- Borders and "Borders" -- Theorizing Cultural Connection &
Separation.
-- From Hollywood to Bollywood & Beyond: the Empire on Film.
-- Home, Refugees, the Dispossessed: Migration, Place, &
Identity.
-- The Border as Metaphor.
-- Constructing/Constricting National, Religious, & Ethnic
Identities.
-- Imperialism & Visual Culture.
-- Theories of Empire: the Political, Historical, Erotic, &
Aesthetic.
-- Biopower.
-- The Imperial In-Between in Drama, Fiction, Film, &
Poetry.
-- Transnational Feminism(s).
-- Dialectism & Resistance: Black English, Chicanismo, &
Linguistic Minorities.
-- Technological Border-Crossings: Empire, Film, TV, and the
Web.
-- Gender & Empire.
-- Cosmopolitanism: World Culture vs. Local Identity.
-- Imperialism, Philanthropy, & Aid.
Submission deadline: 1 November 2005. You may send hardcopies to
Arnold A. Schmidt, Ph.D.
Empire Conference Committee
Department of English
California State University, Stanislaus
801 W. Monte Vista Ave.
Turlock, CA 95382
One page vitas and proposals for 20-minute papers can be emailed to
Betsy Eudey (BEudey_at_csustan.edu) or Arnold Schmidt
(aschmidt_at_csustan.edu).
We welcome panel proposals. No attachments please.
Located in the Central Valley, CSU/Stanislaus lies about two hours
east of San Francisco and Berkeley, and about three hours west of
Yosemite National Park.
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