Call for Papers: Globalization and Culture



Globalization and Culture

An Undergraduate and Graduate Student Conference

April 8-9, 2011

Nazareth College

Rochester, New York

Conference Organizers:

Dr. Clare Counihan, Dr. Otieno Kisiara, and Dr. Yamuna Sangarasivam

Call for Papers

It is our pleasure to announce a call for participants in the Globalization and Culture Conference at Nazareth College. Globalization affects our everyday lives, from the foods that we eat to the cultural products we consume, and our every day relationships, from IMing to Chat roulette. It has also become a center for critical inquiry across academic disciplines and public discourse. Our intention is to address emerging questions and concerns arising around the impact that globalization is having on culture(s), as well as the cultural responses to globalization. The Conference invites Nazareth College undergraduate and graduate students to submit abstracts considering these and other questions arising from the connections and contestations between globalization and culture(s):

• How has or does globalization change human communication across national boundaries? What are the responses to corporate and government restrictions on global communications?

• How does globalization revise, expand or challenge the notion of seeking refuge and exile, and the consequent construction of the legal and cultural category of “refugee”?

• What is the relationship between globalization and an environmentally sustainable future? What are the tensions between locavore desires and the demands (the necessity) of industrial, international food production and consumption? What are the environmental consequences of globalization? (e.g., BP, Bhopal, Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez)

• What are the possibilities of transnational cooperation and solidarity? What forms could that cooperation take? What forms of institutions and movements facilitate solidarity? (Feminist? Labor? Language? Environmentalist? Human rights?)

• How does globalization enable distinct dance movement vocabularies to intersect and transform each other? For example, what happens when hip-hop, bhangra and Bollywood come together? To what ends do they sample each other? What conversations do they invite?

• What is “world music”? How, where, and who defines it? What freedoms and constraints on cultural collaboration does the definition achieve?

• How do literary texts (including movies, films, and other web-based extended media) circulate globally? What are the effects of translation—literal and cultural?

• To what extent does globalization invite or demand addiction to social media? Is there any disconnect in the connectedness that these cyber social networks encourage?

• What are the imperatives and consequences of outsourcing? What forms does it take? (Technical and customer service? Private security industries? Surrogate motherhood and adoption?)

• What impact does globalization have on the value and exchange of national and regional currencies?

• What is the relationship between globalization and the privatization of war?

• What impact does globalization have on the delivery of and need for different kinds of health and human services? (e.g., global pandemics, cosmetic tourism, clinical trials?)

• What are the means of building the globalized self? Study abroad? Travel? Overseas volunteering?

• How has globalization impacted educational policies and/ or practices in the U.S.? Who benefits from these policies and/or practices?  Who is marginalized by these policies and/or practices?  How are ideals of democracy such as social justice evinced through these policies and/ or practices?  

• Does the U.S. educational process serve as a bridge to connect its citizens to citizens of the globe and various cultures?  In what ways do the overt and covert curricula serve this purpose?

• How has globalization redefined community? What effect does globalization have on the emergence and survival of local and other forms of community?

We welcome abstracts considering these and other questions contributing to the critical conversations about the exchanges between globalization and cultures (see attached form).

If you are organizing a panel consisting of 3-4 paper presentations, please submit a separate abstract and cover form for the panel (see attached form).

Paper and panel presentations will be limited to Nazareth College undergraduate and graduate students only.

Please submit your abstract electronically by February 15, 2011 to: globalculture@mail.naz.edu.

Globalization and Culture

An Undergraduate and Graduate Student Conference

April 8-9, 2011

Nazareth College

Rochester, New York

Paper, Poster or Performance Presentation Abstract Submission

To submit your presentation abstract electronically, please email the cover form and abstract to globalculture@mail.naz.edu; please use your name as the subject line, and “cc” the email to your faculty sponsor in lieu of the signature.

Name: .

Email address: .

Mailing Address: .

Major: Class standing: .

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Class for which this research was originally produced: .

Faculty sponsor: .

Signature of faculty sponsor: .

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Presentation title: .

Abstract (No more than 250 words): Please include an abstract of your proposed presentation, poster or performance below. If you anticipate being part of a panel, please list the other potential panel members. Please indicate if you will require any audiovisual equipment.

Globalization and Culture

An Undergraduate and Graduate Student Conference

April 8-9, 2011

Nazareth College

Rochester, New York

Panel Presentation Abstract Submission

To submit your panel presentation abstract electronically, please email the cover form and abstract to globalculture@mail.naz.edu; please use your name as the subject line, and “cc” the email to your faculty sponsor in lieu of the signature.

Name (panel organizer): ________________________________________________.

Email address: .

Mailing Address: .

Major: Class standing: .

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Class for which this research was originally produced: .

Faculty sponsor: .

Signature of faculty sponsor: .

***

Panel Presentation title: .

Abstract (No more than 250 words): Please include an abstract of your proposed panel below, with a list of panel members’ name and presentation titles of. Please indicate if you will require any audiovisual equipment.

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