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The 2014 Annual Global Studies Association Conference - ‘Cultural Encounters and Global Connectivity’York St John University, York, Thursday, 26 June - Saturday, 28 June, 2014Keynote speakers (confirmed): Robert J. Holton (Trinity College Dublin), Alan Rice (Central Lancashire) and Roland Robertson (University of Pittsburgh and University of Aberdeen)Cultural encounters – both as cultural phenomena and a concept – gainmomentum across the social sciences and humanities within aninterdisciplinary dialogue that calls for new analytical tools toexplain conditions of global connectivity. While there is already awell-established literature on the ways in which cultural encounterstranslate experiences of identity and difference in an interconnectedand postcolonial world, new approaches to cultural encounters inrelation to issues of power, global inequalities, cosmopolitanism,digital communication, and borders (cultural and political) foregroundnew questions and controversies in play within and across disciplinarydivisions. The 2014 Annual GSA Conference is particularly interested ingenerating lively inter-disciplinary discussions while bringing to thefore new theoretical positions and empirical analyses of culturalencounters as an analytical lens to explain current and past globalconnections. What kinds of cultural translations between western andnon- western modes of thought are made possible by cultural encounters?What is the relation between virtual, imagined and embodied encounters?What new encounters and connections are being made and how? How do ‘newdigital technologies facilitate/ hinder this ‘newness’? How adequate andvalid are theories which conceptualise cultural encounters as a type ofconnection? How useful is the notion of cultural encounter to explainnew forms of transnational socio-political struggle and politicalparticipation?We welcome contributions from members and interested participantsworking from within a variety of disciplines across the social sciencesand the humanities, such as literary studies, cultural studies, mediastudies, sociology, anthropology, IR, geography, political science, andcultural history.We welcome proposals for papers in any of the following areas:Postcolonial studiesBeyond ‘ World Literature’Food studiesMigrant identities and mobilitiesCosmopolitan encountersDigital diasporasEncountering ‘the other: Travel writingOrientalism and OccidentalismTransnational cinemaBehind the scenes at the Museum:memorializing encounter, telling of traumaDigital technologies and new forms of ’encounter’Tourism and heritage studiesNew pedagogies and the global classroomLanguage studies and linguistics : World English and beyondTranslation and cultural encountersTheology and spiritualityFrom Interdisciplinary to interplanetarity:beyond the globalEncounters and the war on terrorBorders, connectivity and transnational politicsBorders in translationNew protest movementsThe global city: urban encountersProposals for papers should take the form of a 300 word abstract. The organisers will allocate papers to an appropriate panel. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 4 April 2014. Please send to conference organizer Maria Rovisco at m.rovisco@googlemail.comFor more information visit:http://globalstudiesassoc.wordpress.com/annual-conference-2013/You can now register for the Conference at:http://store.yorksj.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&#38;modid=2&#38;deptid=7&#38;catid=6&#38;prodid=190