Xcp panel at the Cultural Studies Association Conference

Please join us FRIDAY, APRIL 20
5:45pm-7:15pm

at the
FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.)
Portland, Oregon (Portland State University) April 19-21, 2007:

for a Xcp panel presentation....

I2
Cross-Cultural Poetics: Embodied Practices and Global Circuits
Journal Salon—Cross-Cultural Poetics
Chair: David Michalski, Cultural Studies, University of California-Davis
Jules Boykoff, Political Science, Pacific University and Kaia Sand, English, Willamette
University
"Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and the Politicization of Public Space"
Jeff Derksen, English, Simon Fraser University
“On Globalization and Cultural Practices”
Adam Siegel, University Library, University of California-Davis
“Imprimaturs: How Knowledge Gets Done Inside the Academy (and Elsewhere)”

---
Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics began publishing biannually in 1997 to expand the discursive boundaries of academic poetics and anthropology. Using a recipe that combined poetry and art, with critical essays, and substantial book reviews, Xcp staged an intervention into the fields of literature and the social sciences by publishing multi- lingual poetry, experimental documentary, and critical scholarly essays. With thematic issues entitled Fieldnotes & Notebooks, Writing (Working) Class, and Dia/logos: Speaking Across, Xcp has sought to assemble descriptive art and critique born of cultural contacts and the collisions of values.

After ten years of cultural engagement, this panel brings together important contributors, to speak about their work in relation to the Xcp's publishing goals. Through their writing, these authors have opened a number of intellectual spaces to make visible the embodied processes of subjectification, across institutions, classes, economies, and nations. Here they will address the current challenges of poetry, performance studies, and the ethnographic imagination vis-à-vis today's global circuitry of information and cultures. Joining them, will be bibliographer and literary translator, Adam Siegel, who will contextualize these changes within the global political economies of knowledge through a presentation of international publishing trends in academic and arts circles.