NATIONALISM AND PASSING Conference 3/2; 4/17

[Colette Ingrid Brown]

Graduate students in literary, cultural, ethnic studies and related
fields are invited to share their work in progress at this annual
conference, now is its ninth year.  The Southland Graduate Student
Conference is a forum sponsored by the University of California, Los
Angeles.

This year we hope to investigate modern world systems and earlier or
smaller societal networks, and their modes and methods of ideological
formation.  In literature, we often cross traditional academic
boundaries, in order to produce animated discourse about how
nationalism, both in its political and literary manifestations has been
represented, occluded and reinscribed.

Topics of special interest:
The Spirit and cultural / national consciousness.
Religious movements and political formation.
Transnationalism, as resistance or reiteration.
Aztlan.  Diaspora.  Zion.
Ethical issues surrounding globalism and universal morality.
Formations of national ideologies in early modern literature.
The internet, electronic communities and electronic expatriates.
Millennialism.
Intersectional subjectivity and Passing.
Pan-nationalism.

Please send a one page abstract together with a separate letter which
includes your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number
and academic affliation to the address below.  Your name must not appear
on the abstract itself.  E-mail submissions are welcome.  Submissions
must be received by Monday, March 2.

Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by a committee of UCLA graduate
students.

Send abstracts, or direct questions to:
Southland Conference
c/o Colette Brown
UCLA Department of English
2225 Rolfe Hall, Box 951530
Los Angeles, CA  90095
brown at humnet.ucla.edu
(310) 825-4173 (messages only)