Popular Culture/American Culture Association 
What does it mean to be an American? At this conference in Mexico, you will learn that it means living in our hemisphere, not just in one of its nations! Presenters come from all over Latin American, the United States and Canada, and from Europe and Asia. There are important panels on a whole range of economic, political, social, and cultural topics. This is a multidisciplinary meeting which considers North America in all its aspects, as a glance at past programs will show.

WEB SITE FOR MEXICO MEETING OF PCA/ACA, FALL 2001
http://www.udlap.mx/congress/5/index.html

Are we living in a late modern planet? Have we moved into the postmodern universe? In what ways have globalization and diaspora changed culture and society and when did this begin? How are shifts in technology, international politics, or transnational economics registered as changes in art, identity or other cultural forms? Activist, empirical, and theoretical papers welcome. We encourage papers from any historical period.

Keynote Speakers:

*LAN CAO, Author of  "Monkey Bridge," Co-editor of
"Everything You Need to Know About Asian American
History," and Professor of international trade law at
William and Mary School of Law.

*BRUCE ROBBINS, Author of  "Feeling Global:
Internationalism in Distress,"  "Secular Vocations:
Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture", and  "The
Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below";
Co-editor of  "Social Text"; and Professor of English at
Rutgers University.

*LAWRENCE GROSSBERG, Author of  "We Gotta Get Out of This
Place",  "Bringing it all Back Home", and  "Dancing in Spite
of Myself"; Co-Editor of  "Cultural Studies"; and Morris
Davis Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural
Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

*AMITAVA KUMAR, Author of "Passport Photos", Script-Writer
for "Pure Chutney", and Associate Professor of English at
Penn State University.

Possible Topics:
 * Early and Late Modernity
* "World Music"
* Diaspora and Immigration
* From Nation to Corporation
* Hollywood's International Markets
* World Wide Webs
* Colonization, Empire, and Modernity
* Transnational Communities
* "Discovering" New Worlds
* International Intellectuals
* World Bank / IMF
* Migrant Labor
* Asylum Seekers and Refugees
 

Mail or email one-page abstracts for papers or panels to:
Michele Janette
Director, Program in Cultural Studies
English Department
Kansas State University
106 Denison Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-0701

email: janette@ksu.edu

Deadline for proposals: Oct. 20, 2001.
CFP also available online: www.ksu.edu/english/symposium