Postmodern CriticCFP Mash #5
May 19th 2007 02:16
How differently do people from various regions reflect on the experience? Given the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim veneration for the land, what role does religious belief play in the making of the geographical narratives? What social, theological, and/or political views do the narratives express? How might church or state governments utilize these views and to what purpose?
> Travel Narratives: East and West in the Holy Land (5/15/07; RSA, 4/3/08-4/5/08)
How do cultural representations of transgendered lives challenge the current legal discourse of human rights?
Does locating the representation of transgender issues in cultural productions within a framework based on the systemic link between socioeconomic rights and civil and political rights significantly alter our understanding of transgender cultures?
Can the socioeconomic position of the transgendered be traced through the changing discourses on sexuality?
How does the politics of postcolonial representations of the transgendered demarcate itself from that of other transgendered representations?
What are the distinctive textual strategies which transgendered people use to negotiate prescriptive religions that facilitate the performance of normative gender roles as routes of access to spiritual salvation? What are the other kinds of representational activities of the transgendered that facilitate such negotiations?
Finally, how have auto-ethnographies of transgendered individuals/collectives—wheth er in the form of photographic exhibitions, documentary films, or other narratives genres—significantly differed from state-sanctioned discourses about the transgendered?
> Transgendering Human Rights: A Postcolonial Reading of Subcultures of Resistance (3/21/07; MLA '07)
What effect has New Queer Cinema had on American cinema since 9/11? Is New Queer Cinema dead, transformed, or resurrected? Has a more sympathetic queer cinema and television diluted the political exigency of New Queer Cinema?
> New Queer Cinema in the 21st Century (4/13/07; MMLA, 11/8/07-11/11/07)
Often invoked as the key parameter for understanding twentieth-century culture, does space
retain this centrality today?
After a century largely devoted to thinking and creating in spatial terms, does space remain a viable paradigm or has it reached a point of exhaustion, simultaneously banal and fraught?
> Defining Space (Ireland) (3/31/07; 10/12/07-10/13/07)
Does a turn toward aesthetics suggest a shift away from ideological approaches? Does the "new aesthetics" signal a simply a return to Frankfurt School notions of aesthetics and politics, or something new?
> The "New Aesthetics" and Literary Criticism (4/15/07; SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)
Are you studying legal contracts in medieval Europe as they move from the oral to the written, or Indigenous treaty narratives from decolonizing parts of the world? Are you asking what happens to oral stories when they are transmuted into fiction, drama, printed poetry, or
visual media? Are you trying to reconstruct the oral delivery of sermons or epics on the basis of their printed forms? Are you working with Elders on the transcription of oral narratives, and would you like to discuss successes and obstacles in a workshop with others engaged or interested in this sort of work? Are you an oral storyteller/keeper or dub or spoken word poet interested in talking about your practice with scholars? Do you have other ideas for workshops related to the conference and festival theme?
> The Oral, The Written, and Other Verbal Media: Interfaces and Audiences (6/30/07; 6/19/08-6/21/08)
But was the city, both real and imagined, also understood to be a place of enticing possibility and anxious negotiation for men? To what extent did full participation in city life in the early modern period necessarily involve an indulgence in immoral or intemperate behavior?
> City of Vice: London, 1500-1700 (3/12/07; collection)
In the face of contemporary debates about whether postcolonial theory is bowing out to theories of globalization, what is at stake for us as postcolonial scholars in continuing our
research? Has the U.S. Empire actually or only seemingly "moved on" from previous colonial models? Does postcolonial study reveal continuing colonial violences from a century ago that shape geopolitical balances of power, and internal colonialisms within the U.S. that are lost in overemphasizing transnational flows?
> Postcolonial Representation[s] and the U.S. (grad) (3/16/07; 5/12/07)
Disconnections and missed connections between the spheres of disability, HIV/AIDS and culture. How do the three inform each other? How can they be (and are they) prioritized and with what investments? Which (types of) individuals navigate the three spheres and with what results?
> Disability, HIV/AIDS & Culture (3/15/07; MLA '07)
How do historians of various political persuasions use political ideas and ideologies to understand the past? How do political ideologies conceived in the present shape history as an object and a practice? The crisis of Marxist history is well known. Have other political appropriations of the past--conservative, liberal, feminist, black radical, and so
forth--undergone analogous turmoil? How have postmodern and postcolonial perspectives affected the deployment of political ideologies to understand and construct the past? What is the future of historical work on marginalized and subjugated peoples?
> Liberalism, Conservatism, Radicalism, and Historical Materialism (4/15/07; journal issue)
How has mass communication (radio, print journalism, television, or film) historically and more recently shaped meaning making? How do new media (electronic/post-digital communication) affect conditions for construction, reception, or rejection of texts? In what ways do readers use media to form interpretive or literacy communities across gender, age, education, culture, and geography, among other boundaries?
> Media and Reception (4/15/07; MMLA, 11/8/07-11/11/07 )
Have gender distinctions become obsolete in modern society? How does one gender gain power over another? Is there such a thing as a dominant gender?
> eSharp Issue 9 - Gender: Power and Authority (3/14/07; journal issue)
How is old age, aging, ageism, and age difference depicted poetically? (How) does the poet's age vary the depictions of aged speakers' or other aged characters' identities? What ties the
poets' depictions of aging and old age to their individual cultures? How do ideas of and responses to aging reflect or resist their cultural contexts?
> Aging Poetically (3/15/07; MLA '07)
> Travel Narratives: East and West in the Holy Land (5/15/07; RSA, 4/3/08-4/5/08)
How do cultural representations of transgendered lives challenge the current legal discourse of human rights?
Can the socioeconomic position of the transgendered be traced through the changing discourses on sexuality?
How does the politics of postcolonial representations of the transgendered demarcate itself from that of other transgendered representations?
What are the distinctive textual strategies which transgendered people use to negotiate prescriptive religions that facilitate the performance of normative gender roles as routes of access to spiritual salvation? What are the other kinds of representational activities of the transgendered that facilitate such negotiations?
Finally, how have auto-ethnographies of transgendered individuals/collectives—wheth er in the form of photographic exhibitions, documentary films, or other narratives genres—significantly differed from state-sanctioned discourses about the transgendered?
> Transgendering Human Rights: A Postcolonial Reading of Subcultures of Resistance (3/21/07; MLA '07)
What effect has New Queer Cinema had on American cinema since 9/11? Is New Queer Cinema dead, transformed, or resurrected? Has a more sympathetic queer cinema and television diluted the political exigency of New Queer Cinema?
> New Queer Cinema in the 21st Century (4/13/07; MMLA, 11/8/07-11/11/07)
Often invoked as the key parameter for understanding twentieth-century culture, does space
retain this centrality today?
After a century largely devoted to thinking and creating in spatial terms, does space remain a viable paradigm or has it reached a point of exhaustion, simultaneously banal and fraught?
> Defining Space (Ireland) (3/31/07; 10/12/07-10/13/07)
Does a turn toward aesthetics suggest a shift away from ideological approaches? Does the "new aesthetics" signal a simply a return to Frankfurt School notions of aesthetics and politics, or something new?
> The "New Aesthetics" and Literary Criticism (4/15/07; SAMLA, 11/9/07-11/11/07)
Are you studying legal contracts in medieval Europe as they move from the oral to the written, or Indigenous treaty narratives from decolonizing parts of the world? Are you asking what happens to oral stories when they are transmuted into fiction, drama, printed poetry, or
visual media? Are you trying to reconstruct the oral delivery of sermons or epics on the basis of their printed forms? Are you working with Elders on the transcription of oral narratives, and would you like to discuss successes and obstacles in a workshop with others engaged or interested in this sort of work? Are you an oral storyteller/keeper or dub or spoken word poet interested in talking about your practice with scholars? Do you have other ideas for workshops related to the conference and festival theme?
> The Oral, The Written, and Other Verbal Media: Interfaces and Audiences (6/30/07; 6/19/08-6/21/08)
But was the city, both real and imagined, also understood to be a place of enticing possibility and anxious negotiation for men? To what extent did full participation in city life in the early modern period necessarily involve an indulgence in immoral or intemperate behavior?
> City of Vice: London, 1500-1700 (3/12/07; collection)
In the face of contemporary debates about whether postcolonial theory is bowing out to theories of globalization, what is at stake for us as postcolonial scholars in continuing our
research? Has the U.S. Empire actually or only seemingly "moved on" from previous colonial models? Does postcolonial study reveal continuing colonial violences from a century ago that shape geopolitical balances of power, and internal colonialisms within the U.S. that are lost in overemphasizing transnational flows?
> Postcolonial Representation[s] and the U.S. (grad) (3/16/07; 5/12/07)
Disconnections and missed connections between the spheres of disability, HIV/AIDS and culture. How do the three inform each other? How can they be (and are they) prioritized and with what investments? Which (types of) individuals navigate the three spheres and with what results?
> Disability, HIV/AIDS & Culture (3/15/07; MLA '07)
How do historians of various political persuasions use political ideas and ideologies to understand the past? How do political ideologies conceived in the present shape history as an object and a practice? The crisis of Marxist history is well known. Have other political appropriations of the past--conservative, liberal, feminist, black radical, and so
forth--undergone analogous turmoil? How have postmodern and postcolonial perspectives affected the deployment of political ideologies to understand and construct the past? What is the future of historical work on marginalized and subjugated peoples?
> Liberalism, Conservatism, Radicalism, and Historical Materialism (4/15/07; journal issue)
How has mass communication (radio, print journalism, television, or film) historically and more recently shaped meaning making? How do new media (electronic/post-digital communication) affect conditions for construction, reception, or rejection of texts? In what ways do readers use media to form interpretive or literacy communities across gender, age, education, culture, and geography, among other boundaries?
> Media and Reception (4/15/07; MMLA, 11/8/07-11/11/07 )
Have gender distinctions become obsolete in modern society? How does one gender gain power over another? Is there such a thing as a dominant gender?
> eSharp Issue 9 - Gender: Power and Authority (3/14/07; journal issue)
How is old age, aging, ageism, and age difference depicted poetically? (How) does the poet's age vary the depictions of aged speakers' or other aged characters' identities? What ties the
poets' depictions of aging and old age to their individual cultures? How do ideas of and responses to aging reflect or resist their cultural contexts?
> Aging Poetically (3/15/07; MLA '07)
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