EVENT DETAILS

Graduate Conference: Worlds Elsewhere: Globalization and Early Cultures

Keynote speaker: Alex Huang, George Washington University

For information, please contact Chris Dearner, cdearner@uci.edu.

The conference aims to expand critical understanding of issues surrounding globalization, nationality and transnationality, and cross-border considerations and encounters in the context of historical and contemporary accounts, adaptations, and considerations of Early Cultures (classical through eighteenth-century) and their literary and artistic products. Our mission is to help develop a complex narrative about cultures that crosses temporal and geographical as well as disciplinary boundaries.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

· Trade and Global Transactions

· Cosmopolitanism

· Global Order and Governance

· The Local and the Global

· Violence within and Across Borders

· Boundaries and Boundary Permeability

· Economics and Commerce

· Cultural Constructions of Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationality

· Citizenship, Broadly or Narrowly Construed

· Artistic Exchange and Global Cross-Fertilization