From ngross at sarahlawrence.edu Fri Nov 16 14:31:31 2012 From: ngross at sarahlawrence.edu (Natalie Gross) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:31:31 -0500 Subject: [Chas] Call for Papers: Sarah Lawrence College Postcolonial and Development Studies Conference Message-ID: <4E72C23351951E47B9FC421CD420568C08A6064276@use810n07m.admin.slc.edu> 2013 Sarah Lawrence College Undergraduate Postcolonial and Development Studies Conference Call For Papers The Second East Coast Undergraduate Postcolonial and Development Studies Conference is going to be held on Friday, March 8th, at Sarah Lawrence College. The day will provide undergraduate students with an opportunity to share their original research with peers from other institutions. The conference will also be a forum where students and academics can dialogue about the contemporary implications of development studies and development work. (Development Studies, as we are using it, refers broadly to the multidisciplinary incorporation of economics, politics, history, human rights, and gender studies. The term is typically used when referring to academic work that is concerned with developing countries.) This year the Development Studies Conference has been expanded to include a discourse on Postcolonial Studies. We hope this additional platform will serve as a way for students to engage in a discussion of post-colonial identity (cultural, national, ethnic), gender, race, and racism, and it's interactions and representations in the development of a post-colonial society. We invite papers that address how postcolonial writers and artists engage with epistemology, ethics, and politics and how they shape the sensation of temporality in the context of global capital today. How does the very notion of development, given it's connection with lived realities (modernity, history, reform, democracy, etc), stem from and perpetuate narratives of colonialism? Where do literature, cinema, art, and media fall within colonial paradigms of knowledge and power? How do these aesthetic engagements register changes in our basic understanding of history and geography? We seek the ways in which the arts, humanities, and social sciences offer different ways in articulating knowledge and relating interrogations of postcolonial and development studies. Submissions are being solicited in the following areas of study: Anthropology - Art History - Cultural Studies - Economics - Environmental Studies - Geography - Global Studies - History - Literature - Politics- Public/Global Health - Religion - Social Psychology - Sociology - Visual Arts Competitive papers are fully completed research papers. Papers should not be longer than 30 pages, including references, tables, and figures. Papers should be formatted following APA or Chicago guidelines, and must include a title page that identifies the undergraduate student author, the area of study, an e-mail address and institutional affiliation, and the name and e-mail address of a professor or advisor who supervised the completion of the paper. Panel presentations, and a moderated discussion will then be organized for each field of study. These panels will feature 3-5 fully completed research papers for each discipline (economics, literature, etc.) The moderated discussion will focus on a central theme within each discipline, and will be headed by a current Sarah Lawrence professor. To be eligible to submit a paper, participants must: 1) Send an e-mail of interest to the organizing committee: contact at slcdevconf.org no later than 5:00 p.m. on December 15th, 2012. 2) Be enrolled as an undergraduate student for the spring semester of the 2012-2013 academic year. 3) Have completed the project (i.e., paper, panel, or poster) while enrolled as an undergraduate student. 4) Commit to attending the 2013 conference if the project is accepted for presentation. Final spring submissions should be sent electronically to the organizing committee as a Microsoft Word or PDF document. They must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 15th, 2013. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: