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FUTH 2014 - GLOBALIZATION & HEALTH: EAST AND WEST University of Pittsburgh, USA June 23-26, 2014 The Flying University of Transnational
Humanities (FUTH) is an annual summer school for graduate students and young
scholars interested in the transnational paradigm of humanistic inquiry. Each
year beginning in 2010, FUTH has gathered graduated students and young scholars
from across the globe for advanced lectures, student presentations and feedback
sessions on various 'transnational' themes. FUTH takes its name and immediate
inspiration from Poland’s Flying University, an
underground institution that offered an alternative education outside the
confines of state control and government censorship. The program is
particularly concerned with developing critical understandings that resist the
ideological and conceptual hegemony of the nation-state and the epistemological
and hermeneutic conventions that support it. This does not mean that FUTH seeks
to dispense with the “national”
and construct a reified “transnational” with which to replace it, or to foster “transnationalism” as an ideological alternative to “nationalism.” Rather, FUTH aims to free our imaginations from essentialist
approaches to the nation or the state and to offer new ways of thinking about
the political, social and cultural order of the world, both past and present. During the week of June 23-26, the
University of Pittsburgh will host the 2014 FUTH meeting, with the theme of
"Globalization & Health: East and West." The summer school will
address globalization in its socio-cultural and health dimensions. It centers
on "the East" - the various regions of Asia - in two ways. First, it
focuses on the nature and impact of globalization and health in the East,
present and past, tracing the nature of globalization in the region of densest
population. Second, it focuses on the impact of Eastern processes of
globalization on other regions in the world, notably Europe, the Americas, and
Africa. The program is to include lectures,
discussions, and panels of papers presented by participants. Distinguished
speakers include Edmund Burke Ⅲ (Univ. Cal-Santa Cruz),
Rila Mukherjee (Hyderabad Univ.), Naoki Sakai (Cornell Univ.), Joanna
Waley-Cohen (New York Univ.-Shanghai), James L.A. Webb (Colby College),
Christine Yano (Univ. of Hawai'i), and others TBA. FUTH 2014 will include up to
40 participants from around the world. Conference facilities, including food
and lodging, are on the university campus. We invite applications from graduate
students and junior scholars in all disciplines. Prospective participants
should send proposals that include a title, a 500-word abstract, a short
(2-page) CV, names of two referees to worldhis@pitt.edu
by March 31, 2014. Proposals should include a clear topic and may include
methods, temporal organization, and reference to any links between the proposal
and broader global, historical, and especially interdisciplinary approaches and
questions. Participants will be selected for paper presentations or as
discussants in transdisciplinary workshops. For more on FUTH 2014, see: http://rich.ac/bbs/admin/board.php?bo_table=flying_01_eng&wr_id=1. |
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