CFP: Questioning Transnationalism: Culture, Politics and Media, 17 December 2010, Royal Hollway, University of London
-A +Adeadline: 15 September 2010
Royal Holloway College, University of London
The Departments of Media Arts and Politics and International Relations (PIR)
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Thomas Diez -Political Science, University of Tbingen
Prof. Deniz Gokturk -Department of German, University of California, Berkeley
Prof. Randall Halle -Department of German, University of Pittsburgh
This interdisciplinary postgraduate conference focuses on transnationalism and securitisation, issues of increasing relevance in both Politics and International Relations, and Media and Film Studies. In both disciplines, there is currently a prevailing tendency to conceive of borders as ever increasingly permeable elements in a globalising world. The new communication technologies have certainly reinforced the image that the world becomes a single place. However, a 'borderless world' proves to be illusionary as witnessed in the global rise of securitization practices after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Since then, even a bottle of water -at the airport- has started to be perceived as a potential security threat. 'Transnationalism' thereby becomes a useful lens through which issues such as securitization, borders, legitimacy, citizenship, memory and solidarity can be re-examined from a fresh theoretical perspective.
Within this framework, the major aims of this international conference are threefold: to question the extent and limitations of transnationalism; to analyse the cultural and political functions of transnational actors and the impact of new communication technologies such as the internet in the contemporary world; and finally to encourage interdisciplinary approaches and critical perspectives in the studies of transnationalism.
This conference will be organised by and run for postgraduate students from various disciplinary backgrounds. It aims to give all participants the opportunity to develop and broaden our knowledge in this area of research. In this respect, the Departments of Media Arts and Politics and International Relations would like to collaborate to highlight the interdisciplinary character of transnationalism as a phenomenon within a context whereby a diverse range of techniques such as paper presentations, poster exhibitions and plenary discussions are combined.
In order to disseminate the research findings, selected papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, a fully peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal published by Royal Holloway, University of London.
The topics include but are not limited to:
Current restrictions over the free movement of people, goods and ideas
Border policies
Communication policies
Political freedoms and cultural diversity
National, religious, ethnic and gender issues
The role of media in framing transnational terrorism, conflicts and humanitarian crises
Power of transnational media
Power of transnational non-governmental actors
Soft/hard power
Multiculturalism, pluralism, cultural diversity
Cosmopolitanism
Post-colonial or post-national; centres versus margins/periphery
Hybridity
Glocalisation
Representation of transnational identities
Transnational cinema
Diasporas and diasporic cinema
Submission of abstracts: by 10 September 2010
Official Acceptance: by 1 October
Early registration: by 15 October 2010
For submission guidelines, registration and further details.
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