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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> pomedeterre@gmail.com
[mailto:pomedeterre@gmail.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>theodora
danylevich<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 17, 2008 11:09 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
mindell@mit.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> CFP- ACLA 2009 - "Intertechnical
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<DIV dir=ltr><BR>Could you please circulate this cfp in your
department?<BR><BR>Thank you, and best regards,<BR>Theodora
Danylevich<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>CFP
- ACLA 2009 Seminar: "Intertechnical Bodies" (11/3/08; Harvard U,
3/26/09-3/29/09)<BR><BR>ACLA 2009 Annual Meeting: "Global Languages, Local
Cultures"<BR>March 26-29, 2009<BR>Harvard University<BR>Cambridge,
MA<BR><BR>Seminar: Intertechnical Bodies<BR><BR>Co-chairs: Theodora
Danylevich, Megan McCabe, Jed Brubaker<BR><BR>This seminar considers how the
term "local culture" relates to concepts of embodied subjectivity. We argue that
the embodied subject is a manifestation, distillation, or representation of
local culture, and subsequently ask: To what extent do global communications and
global technologies constitute a threat not only to "local cultures" but also to
individual (human) bodies? How can we re-theorize global technologies in a way
that recognizes their conduciveness to authorship, creativity, and the
expression of productive differences, rather than their purported tendency to
mistranslate, subsume or otherwise violate local cultures? The concept of the
intertechnical body thus emerges to guide our inquiry toward a co-constitutive
and co-representative relationship between the global language of technology and
the local culture of the embodied subject.<BR><BR>This seminar invites both a
literal and a broad interpretation of the term "technology," following Heidegger
and Foucault with respect to discourse and philosophical heuristics (i.e.,
"Global Languages," "World Literature" can be said to be a
"technology").<BR><BR>Questions that participants are encouraged to consider for
this panel are:<BR><BR>-How do global technologies afford us to rethink local
culture?<BR>-What are some strategies for recuperating the "autonomous self" of
Enlightenment humanism that can be called intertechnical strategies for
authoring the local self?<BR>-What are some textual or other cultural
performances of an intertechnical body?<BR>-What are some cultural or subjective
repercussions of the concept of an intertechnical body?<BR>-What happens to
gender with an intertechnical body?<BR>-Global authorships due to local readings
and local authorships due to global readings.<BR>- The phenomenology of the
subject's internalization of global discourse/technology/
<DIV dir=ltr>authorship.<BR>-Technologies of authorship of the self.<BR>-The
role of creativity in the intertechnical body.<BR><BR>***Important: 250-word
proposals must be submitted through the ACLA2009 web site website BY NOVEMBER 3,
2008: <A href="http://www.acla.org/submit/"
target=_blank>http://www.acla.org/submit/</A>. Simply choose the seminar
"Intertehnical Bodies" from the drop-down menu when submitting your
proposal.<BR><BR>***If you have any questions about the seminar, please feel
free to contact Theodora Danylevich at td87 [at] georgetown [dot] edu.
<BR><BR>The American Comparative Literature Association's 2009 annual meeting
will be held in Cambridge, MA, at Harvard University, from March 26-9, 2009.
ACLA provides a unique forum for the productive collaboration of scholars:
Seminar participants meet for two hours/day for consecutive days (1-3, depending
on the number of participants) to discuss their work. You can learn more about
ACLA and the 2009 meeting here: <A href="http://www.acla.org/acla2009/"
target=_blank>http://www.acla.org/acla2009/</A>.<BR><BR>--------------------------------------------<BR></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>