Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:43:22 -0700
Subject: RE: UPDATE: Cosmopolitanism and Its Ancient Antecedents (1/11/02; 3/1/02-3/2/02)


of interest.

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>To: cfp-AT-dept.english.upenn.edu
>Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:45:34 -0500 (EST)
>From: edahab-AT-csulb.edu
>Subject: UPDATE: Cosmopolitanism and Its Ancient Antecedents (1/11/02; 3/1/02-3/2/02)
>
>
>The Department of Comparative Literature & Classics
>California State University, Long Beach
>Is Pleased to Announce its
>37th Annual Comparative Literature Conference 
>March 1-2, 2002
>
>Citizen of the World:
>Cosmopolitanism and Its Ancient Antecedents
>
>Edward Said
>keynote speaker
>
>Call for Papers
>
>Proposed topics include but are not limited to:
>
>*	redefining cosmopolitan identity
>*	The politics of cosmopolitanism
>*	citizen of the world and the end of frontiers
>*	oppositions to ethnic and cultural chauvinism
>*	cosmopolitanism and intellectual freedom
>*	ancient philosophy and the state
>*	urban odysseys
>*	redefining city walls and boundaries
>*	the image of the ancient and modern iconoclast
>*	asceticism and the cosmopolitan
>*	contemporary culture and the travel of thought
>*	information without borders
>*	cosmopolitan topography
>*	invisible cities and cosmopolitan fantasies
>*	the dandy as a cosmopolitan trope
>*	the fool in the city
>*	aesthetics of the city and the cosmos 
>*	cityscapes and escapes in art and literature
>*	celluloid cities and citizens
>*	Hotel California and nowhere man
>*	city of signs and the simulacrum
>
>Suggestions for additional session topics are invited
>
>Papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Please send a one page
>abstract postmarked by 
>January 11, 2002 to: Charles Jernigan, Chair, Comparative Literature,
>CSULB, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840-2404. Preferably e-mail
>abstract by January 11 to: jernigan-AT-csulb.edu
>
>
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