Call for Proposals: NeMLA Convention: 2/26-3/1/09 (*DATE CORRECTION))
Alexandar Mihailovic
cllazm at HOFSTRA.EDU
Fri Aug 15 14:59:06 UTC 2008
SEELANGOVtsy,
I apologize for the typo in the subject heading! The conference takes place next year.
Here is the call for papers again.
AM
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Dear SEELANGERS:
Several of you may be interested in submitting a paper proposal to the following panel at
the next Northeast Modern Language Association conference. Abstracts of roughly 250
words should be sent to me no later than September 15 (cllazm at hofstra.edu). For more
information about NEMLA's 2009 convention, consult the conference website:
http://www.nemla.org/convention/cfp08.html
Best,
Alex Mihailovic
Body Traffic: Contained Mobility and (Trans)Migrations in Cinema and Literature since
2000
The Swiss filmmaker Ursula Biemann has characterized recent demographic shifts of
labor as a contained mobility, a situation of restrictive globalization that is
characterized by authorities disciplin[ing of] movements of goods and people and
passengers attempts to outwit restrictions and achieve mobility and security. Many
literary works and films since 2000 such as Michael Hanekes Code inconnu have focused
on the ramifications of the demand for imported or migrant labor within certain corners
of the global economy. The goal of this panel is to examine the ways in which post-2000
literary and cinematic texts contemplate the dislocations of individuals from North to
South and East to West. What are the cultural consequences of illegal and legal body
trafficking in the new globalized marketplace? Do certain literary and cinematic texts
foreground the blurring of legitimate and corrupted or openly exploitive forms of labor?
Submissions may consider any of these questions in regard to portrayals of identities that
are redefined or created by the restrictive or partially regulated movement of migrant
labor.
Send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Alexandar Mihailovic (cllazm at hofstra.edu).
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