Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquium: Call for Papers

Consider submitting a paper for the second meeting of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquia series, to be held Friday, February 1 on the topic "Transnationalism." Abstracts are due by Friday, January 25 to intergradcolloquium@gmail.com. Colloquia are an informal way to present new or developing research and receive feedback from peers in a variety of disciplines. Plus, there will be wine and cheese!

GSA Interdisciplinary Graduate Colloquia
February 1, 2008

Transnationalism

According to the University of Chicago’s Transnationalism Project, “Transnational flows of capital, people, information and images are transforming our worlds; they are also challenging researchers to develop new theoretical and methodological practices to study and account for them” (http://transnationalism.uchicago.edu). A recent buzz-word among scholars in the humanities and social sciences alike, transnationalism incorporates ideas regarding globalization, migration, cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, race and gender theories, and postcolonialism. It can be conceived “as a social morphology, as a type of consciousness, as a mode of political reproduction, as an avenue of capital, as a site of political engagement, and as a reconstruction of ‘place’ or locality”[1]

We are soliciting papers for an interdisciplinary panel, to be held Friday, February 1, 2008 at 4:30 pm, location TBA, which engage with differently and broadly-conceived notions of transnationalism. We particularly encourage papers that are conscious of, and perhaps even spend some time discussing, their theoretical and methodological procedures, with the hope of contributing to the larger scholarly conversation regarding how we might approach this evolving concept.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to intergradcolloquium@gmail.com by Friday, January 25. This is a great opportunity to receive peer feedback on papers written for fall semester classes, so please interpret this topic as broadly as you like.

[1] Steven Vertovec, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1999).