Metropolitan Cultures
University of Manchester, 3-6 September 2001, part of Made in
Manchester Conference in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the
foundation of Owens College.
Please submit proposals for panels or papers on the following areas by
31 October 2000:
1. Writing the City: How has city life shaped and defined literary
culture, and how has literary culture shaped or mapped cultural
responses to urban experience(s)? Topics might include the early modern,
the modern(ist) and postmodern(ist) city, gendered city space and
literary culture/literary representation, or, more generally,
representations of metropolitan experience.
2. Queer Life and the City: Topics might address queer capitalism, urban
queer spaces, representations of queer city life.
3. (Post)colonialism and the City: Topics might include the continuing
legacies of colonialism, the relationships between ethnic and urban
identities, multiculturalism, city space(s) and cultural belonging.
4. Popular Culture(s) and City Life: Topics might include the pleasures,
ethnics and politics of popular cultural production and consumption,
theoretical developments in subcultural and popular cultural analyses in
a postmodern context, representations of urban spaces, experiences and
identities in popular cultural texts, the ways in which popular cultural
forms address and identify their audience(s)
Proposals should include a brief synopsis (no more than 2 pages) and a
short CV.
Enquiries and proposals to: Dr David Alderson, Department of English and
American Studies, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13
9PL, e-mail: D.Alderson@man.ac.uk
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