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Conference Poster
Conference Update
Dear 2018 CSSA Conference Presenters.
I hope that everyone has had a restful summer. We wanted to give everyone a progress update, as we have 60 days until our conference. As of now, we have 38 confirmed presenters, with a few more still to finalize their plans with us. Consequently, we anticipate roughly 40 scholars from over a dozen different universities presenting their research at the conference. We’re also hard at work securing all of our panel chairs for the dozen or so panels that we’ll run on the 19th and 20th. Finally, we’re in advanced talks with an incredible activist scholar to come to FAU to host a keynote and roundtable workshop during our conference. We’ll be very excited to officially announce this once we dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s with this individual. Consequently, we anticipate sharing the final conference schedule and program with you in the next few weeks.
If you’ve not done so already, please send us the URL to your professional profile, website, social media page, or another public-facing page that best represents your scholarship. We’ll include this link (look to the right of this page) on this site as a way of promoting your work and as a way for you to get to know your colleagues here at the conference.
As always, please email us if there is anything that we can do for you. We’ll post conference updates to this space as soon as we have them.
Best,
Ana-Christina, Charlie, Kate, and Mitch
Executive Committee, Comparative Studies Student Association | Florida Atlantic University
Call for Papers
Submit proposals here.
While scholars and students often view imperial projects as historical, rather than contemporary conjunctures, the reality is that these projects, their effects, and their justifications remain a part of current affairs. The continued vilification, rejection and exclusion of voices which express their oppression to and resistance against colonizing powers in a supposed post-colonial age is one of the grand contributors to sustaining the idea of empire as past, but not as a present, continuing condition. This conference looks to amplify voices of dissent as a call to action, interrupting imperial projects through dialogue, learning, and collaboration.
We welcome submissions from diverse disciplines which explore themes within the context of interrupting empire. Please complete and submit the form below to participate in the conference. Your submissions should include your name, your institutional affiliation, a brief description (up to 150 words) of your intended presentation at our conference, and selection of up to three (3) conference themes that your presentation will address.
Conference Themes: African American Studies, American Studies, Asian Studies, Book History, Border Studies, Caribbean Studies, ChicanX Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Theory, Decolonization Studies, Diaspora Studies, Digital Humanities, Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies, Empire Studies, Engaged Scholarship, Hemispheric Black Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Gender Studies, Hybridity, Indigenous Studies, Latin American Studies, LatinX Studies, Linguistics and Linguicide Studies, Literary Studies, Memory Studies, Migration Studies, Narrative Studies, Popular Culture Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Print Culture, Queer Studies, Rhetorical Studies, Service Learning, Sexuality Studies, Trauma Studies, Whiteness Studies, Women’s Studies.
Please submit your proposal before the 15th of July 2018. We will notify you about the status of your proposal by the conference committee on or around 30 July 2018. We look forward to reading your submissions and to seeing you at Florida Atlantic University this fall
