[Nettime-bold] ny: global studies conference 9/21-22/01

["geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>]

From: "Bruce Simon" <simon@fredonia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:38 AM
Subject: global studies conference 9/21-22/01

Subject:  Global Studies Roundtable Conference
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:31:18 -0400
From: Robert Marzec <marzec@fredonia.edu>

All:  Please pass the word along to your colleagues and students.
Members from the departments of English, History, and Political Science
at SUNY Fredonia have put together a non-traditional conference based on
roundtables that will include a number of
important scholars from the U.S. and Canada, in addition to our own
faculty.  It will be a rare opportunity to have all these people
presenting together.  For further details, contact Bob Marzec
(marzec@fredonia.edu) or Bruce Simon (simon@fredonia.edu).

MINICONFERENCE IN WESTERN NEW YORK:
             Globalization:  The Stakes of Global Studies in the
twenty-first century
DATES: FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2001
LOCATION: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT FREDONIA, FREDONIA NY,
USA.

"Globalization: The Stakes of Global Studies" takes as its point of
departure the subject of "Global Studies"-a field of intellectual
inquiry in the university system that ostensibly speaks directly to
international relations and corporate control in the past and present.
It is a series of roundtables designed to spark conversations across the
disciplines about the
phenomenon of globalization.  The conference is planned in such a way as
to resist the traditional format of an academic conference.  There will
only be one roundtable panel per time slot.  Presenters have been asked
to frame a question, a problem, or an argument briefly, at which time
the focus will then turn to a dialogue among the presenters, and with
the audience.  The conference will thus be a two-day long conversation
on the subject of globalization and global studies.

Roundtable Presenters Include:

·       Eric Clarke (University of Pittsburgh, advisory editor for
boundary 2, author of Virtuous Vice: Homoeroticism and the Public
Sphere).
·       Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois, Chicago, author of
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body, coeditor of Left
Politics and the Literary Profession).
·       Richard Eaton (University of Arizona, author of The Rise of
Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760; Islamic History as Global
History).
·       Ranjana Khanna (Duke University, author of Dark Continents:
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Postcolonial Condition).
·       Peter Linebaugh (University of Toledo, author of The Many-Headed
Hydra).
·       Deborah Rosenfelt (University of Maryland, Director of Women's
Studies, Area, and International Studies Project entitled "Women and
Gender in an Era of Global Change: Internationalizing and 'Engendering'
the Curriculum," author of Sex, Class, and Race in Literature and
Culture).
·       William Spanos (Binghamton University, founding editor of
boundary 2, author of America's Shadow; The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The
Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies).
·       Rinaldo Walcott (York University, author of Black Like Who?).

Fields of inquiry such as "Global Studies," "Transcultural Studies,"
"International Studies," and others have come to transform the
disciplines of Anthropology, Economics, English, Geography, History,
Political Science, and Sociology, but in a manner different from that of
"Cultural Studies," or even "Postcolonial Studies."  Though widely
acknowledged, global studies has not been adequately thought, especially
in relation to the stakes of intellectual inquiry in the contemporary
occasion of the economic, political, and cultural circulation of
knowledge on a planetary level.  One concern of the conference is to
consider the stakes of developing a global studies curriculum in
academia, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels-and to hazard
for question the rationale for any such curriculum.  Participants will
be concentrating on the relation between epistemology, pedagogy,
citizenship, and power in a global order.

These are some of the questions that guided us in the planning of the
conference: What do the different disciplines mean by "Global Studies"?
What role might a global studies program play?  What would be the
intellectual responsibility of the University in this new capacity?
What are the ontological shifts involved in the development of a global
order, and the consequences of those changes?  How do questions of
ethnicity, gender, race and class change in relation to a global order?
What would be the structure of a "global politics of gender," for
instance?  What are the consequences in shifting concepts such as
"global sisterhood" and "transnational feminism"?  Moreover, what kind
of human subjectivity is made available in this order? What are the
potentials for forming coalitions with labor unions locally and globally
when it comes to dealing with the effects of globalization?   In the
wake of organic, national identities and filiations, what is to become
of "citizenry"? How does the Global change the status of the Local, and
the nature of "local resistance"? In general, what positions are made
available for subjects and communities in a global order, and what are
the potentials for alterity and freedom?

This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Carnahan-Jackson
Humanities Fund of the SUNY Fredonia College Foundation.

--Bruce
bruce.simon@fredonia.edu
www.fredonia.edu/department/english/simon/





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