The Ninth Annual Cultural Studies Symposium, March 9-11,
2000, Kansas State University , Manhattan, KS
*Who Counts? What Counts and How?*
The Topic: The Year 2000 census in the U.S., with its debate about
"sampling," raises important issues specific to the historical moment,
but also broader cultural issues as well. The invisibility of the
homeless or of minorities, for instance, may occur at the levels of both
literal representation or of political discourse, with important effects
from either. The conference will explore the policies and practices of
the culture of counting in all its forms, exploring who counts and how,
who's counting and why.
Plenary Speakers:
Peter Linebaugh, author of THE LONDON HANGED: CRIME AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN
THE 18TH CENTURY
Jamie Owen Daniel, co-editor, NOT YET: RECONSIDERING ERNST BLOCH
The Conference: The Kansas State University Program in Cultural Studies
invites paper or panel proposals for its annual symposium, the longest
continuing cultural studies conference in the nation. (But who's
counting?) All disciplinary perspectives, including both the empirical
and the theoretical, all historical topics and periods, and all subjects
artistic and nonartistic, are welcome. A special invitation is extended
to interdisciplinary work and innovative formats.
Suggested topics or areas:
- the census, sampling, representation, political boundaries, population &
growth
- polling, voting, opinion weighing, media representation, market
surveying
- ideological assumptions in empirical research & investigation,
statistical study & measurement
- civic development, housing, transportation, construction
- recovered histories, peoples, narratives, testimony
- homelessness, immigration, spectacular vs. unspectacular violence
- business and corporate culture, efficiency and downsizing, the
workplace, affirmative action, quotas
- invisibility, marginality, valued and unvalued experience
- alternative music, art, literature, awards, honors, censorship & self
censorship
- invisible sexuality, transgender, nontraditional families
- canonicity debates, ratings, "top" lists, the artworld
- beans in academia: grades, tests, merit, evaluation, tenure, rank,
stratification, institutional prestige
- unequal "globalization" and "periphery," worthy and unworthy victims,
trade wars
- the public intellectual vs. the rest of us
Abstracts for papers or panels, DEADLINE: October 11, 1999:
Proposals should be limited to one page, single-spaced abstracts, which
should be sent to the Director of the Program in Cultural Studies,
Department of English, Denison Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan,
KS 66506 FAX: 785-532-2192. Inquiries by email [csdirector@ksu.edu]. See
our website: http://www.ksu.edu/english/culturalstudies
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