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Call for Papers (please forward to those who you think would be interested):

10th Annual Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

March 23-24, 2018

"Identities in Motion: Communities of Belonging and Exclusion in Diasporic Spaces"

Keynote lecture to be delivered by:
Dr. Abdourahman Waberi, George Washington University

"Here's to the security guards who maybe had a degree in another land." -Ijeoma Umebinyuo,
Immigrants. First Generation.

Is identity contingent upon space? Individuals often struggle to either maintain or alter and adapt their identities in the process of assimilating into the customs and laws of a new community. This conference seeks to question how identity is formed and informed by a change in location, whether such shifts occur through immigration, forced exile, temporal relocation, or any other means of movement. By examining these various modes of relocation and displacement, papers could explore the different avenues taken—physical, virtual, or imaginary—when attempting to form an identity within a diasporic space. In particular we seek papers which address the ways displaced people find, create, and perpetuate communities, and the ways societies at large excludes these populations.

We pose these questions specifically to fields pertaining to literature, anthropology, cultural studies, digital humanities, philosophy, art history, history, and sociology, but gladly welcome submissions from all fields pertaining to the topic of the conference.
Possible session topics include but are not limited to:

• Communities of exclusion and the formation of identity
• (Mass) migrations, diaspora, refugee crises
• Space: borders, colonization, imperialism, exile, and isolation
• External and internal displacement of populations
• Alienation and exclusion: forming (or disjuncting) identity in a diasporic space
• Communities of belonging in both physical and digital spaces, and methods within digital humanities
• Representations of communities of belonging and narratives of transition
• Sexual orientation, gender, and other identity qualifiers
• Transitional experiences: homelessness and displacement

Conference Structure: This conference/workshop will be comprised of the keynote address and panels on Friday, followed by additional panels on Saturday. Central to the conference is a graduate seminar style workshop on Saturday. This workshop is led by the keynote speaker and designed to explore the issues presented and discussed in more detail and depth. Presenters are requested to arrange their travel so that they can participate in the entire event, including the workshop. There will also be a closing reception Saturday evening, which is open to all participants and audience members.

Please send a 500 word abstract along with a brief biographical statement, in a separate document, to [email protected] by January 12, 2018. Selected participants will be notified by January 22, 2018.

Tomorrow evening:

At CNM:

Settlement Agreement Between Department of Justice and APD to be Topic of Talk April 11 at Montoya Campus

Amanda A. Bustos, community engagement specialist with the Civilian Police Oversight Agency (CPOA), will discuss the settlement agreement between the U.S. Department of Justice and the Albuquerque Police Department April 11, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Montoya Campus, H Building, Room 126. She will explain the roles that the federal monitor, CPOA and Police Oversight Board have in advancing constitutional policing and accountability for APD and the Albuquerque community. This event is open to all, with a special invitation to CNM students studying criminal justice and other social justice programs. For more information, contact Amanda Bustos at 924-3793 or [email protected].

First panel today from 3:30-5 pm in Ortega Hall 335 for "Guilty Pleasures and Confessional Spaces: Storytelling and the Digital Dionysus":

Panel I: Guilty Governance, National Legacies and Narratives of Guilt

Chair: Teresa Caprioglio, University of New Mexico

Karen de Melo: “Re-inking the nation: race in Brazilian comics and graphic novels.”

Tasawar Abbas Shah: “Religious Narratives, National identity, and Extremism & Terrorism: A case study of Pakistan.”

Alice Donahue: “The Architecture of Trauma: A Comparative Approach to the Construction of Memory in Post- Dictatorship Literature.”

Will be followed by the Keynote Address by Dr. Mona Holmlund of Dalhousie University from 5:15 pm to 6:45 pm.

This Friday and Saturday:

Tomorrow at CNM Main:

"Journalist, Author Jordan Flaherty to Discuss His New Book Friday

Acclaimed journalist and author Jordan Flaherty will discuss his new book 'No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality' on Friday, March 3, from 2-3:30 p.m. in Max Salazar Hall, Room 201. The book weaves the stories of teachers, international volunteers, s*x workers, FBI informants, indigenous organizers and prison abolitionists into a narrative of revolutionary change that travels from Alaska to Palestine, from Karl Marx to Mohammad Ali and from the documentary film 'KONY 2012' to the Red Cross."