As the citizen of the nation becomes the consumer of the multinational corporation, our roles as inhabitants of space become increasingly complicated. Our literature, our faith, our bodies all speak to the different ways that we find to occupy the shifting territories of the postmodern landscape. Looking both to the past and future can help us to discover the real and imagined ways our cultures can develop in more richly and defined ways.
We anticipate work that looks at the connections between spatialities and a broad variety of disciplines, including feminism, sexuality, gender, literature, anthropology, philosophy, architecture, performance, political science, linguistics, history, physics, mathematics.
Possible paper topics might include, but are not limited to:
Community planning
The role of the global corporation
Reconfigured national boundaries
Real and imagined communities created by literature
Bodies, sexuality, and limits
Performance studies and the fourth wall
Disciplinary spaces of the academy
Travel narratives
Ethnic and racial boundaries
Topologies