***apologies for cross-postings*** Hello, all. Here is a revised Call for Papers for the _Borderlands_ conference sponsored by the graduate students in my department. Please note that the deadline for submissions has been extended to January 1. If you have any questions, please direct them to Lynn Comella at <[log in to unmask]>. --Marty Norden ------------------------------------------------------------------ (Second) Conference Call for Papers BORDERLANDS: REMAPPING ZONES OF CULTURAL PRACTICE AND REPRESENTATION Extended Deadline: January 1, 2001 In contemporary theorizing and other areas of cultural production, the notion of Borderlands has helped to make sense of a variety of cultural processes, experiences, and practices. We take Borderlands to be those in-between places defined by the flow of people, labor, capital, information, and cultural products across borders, physical and otherwise, both within and between cultures. They are zones that are simultaneously ordered and disordered, contested and accepted, and invariably constituted byand constitutive of various communication practices and forms of identification. Because Borderlands are social scenes and places that people inhabit, they are also sites where ways of relating, feeling, and imagining are articulated into new constellations of social identities, practices and subjectivities. As a metaphor, Borderlands suggests those spaces, moments, and situations where difference becomes manifestwhere pre-existing lines of demarcation have been crossed, blurred, and disrupted and where new ones are continually being (re)mapped. The graduate students of the Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst invite you to BORDERLANDS: REMAPPING ZONES OF CULTURAL PRACTICE AND REPRESENTATION. The conference is open to graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars. We seek paper and panel submissions that interrogate how various Borderlands are produced, represented, negotiated, performed and lived. We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following: Subjectivity and Identifying practices: How are various forms of identification and embodiment (e.g. cultural identities, including hybrid, transnational, transgendered, etc.) constructed, experienced and performed? Space and Place: How are specific localities produced through both economies of exchange (e.g. market, symbolic, and political) and concrete, situated social interactions and discourse? Global Politics and Media: Questions of global audiences, media conglomerates, cultural imperialism, cultural policy, citizenship, and communal life Global/Local nexus: Explorations of belonging, displacement, personhood, and "worldhood" Aesthetics and modes of representation: How do different modes of representation (e.g. film, video, television, cyberspace, music, etc.) define, erase or recreate aesthetic spaces and experiences? Transculturalism, Multiculturalism and Cultural Hybridity: Questions of diaspora, migration, decolonization, and core/periphery relations Political intervention: How might different modes of theorizing and forms of political practice (e.g. feminist, queer, postcolonial, etc.) define borderlands as sites of cultural and political transformation? Deadline for paper and panel submissions has been extended to January 1, 2001. We are only accepting on-line submissions (www.umass.edu/commgrads). Extended paper abstracts should be 750 words maximum. For panel submissions, please include a title, a brief rationale, and a description for each of the papers on the panel (150 words each maximum). For additional information contact Lynn Comella: [log in to unmask] ******************** Lynn Comella Ph.D. Candidate Department of Communication University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst, MA 01003 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]