Hello!
Please find attached, the CFP for our symposium, "Neoliberalism 2.0:
Technologies, Power, and Resistance Across Borders." If there are any
questions, feel free to contact us at symposium@cultural-tech.org.
Thank you,
Soo Mee Kim
www.cultural-tech.org
CFP: Neoliberalism 2.0: Technologies, Power, and Resistance Across Borders
The Focal Point project, “Transnational Communications Methods &
Practice: Mapping Technologies and Futures http://www.cultural-tech.org/,"
seeks abstracts for a symposium to be organized on our campus, April 12 -
13, 2013. We welcome papers that engage with the tension that exists
between technologies and reconfigurations of power in the contemporary
moment, not limited to but including:
· transnational studies of technology, labor
· political economy and international development
· social media, digital gaming, visual studies
· gender, race, class, sexuality, and (dis)ability in transnational context
· social movements and media
· youth studies and education
· finance and ICTs
· migration studies
· space and urban studies
Dr. McKenzie Wark (Culture and Media at The New School) and Dr. Paula
Chakravartty (Department of Communications at UMass - Amherst) will be our
keynote speakers.
Please send abstracts of 300 words to abstracts@cultural-tech.org by
December 31. Decisions will be communicated to the participants by
mid-January.
For questions, please feel free to contact the organizers at
symposium@cultural-tech.org.