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Proposals for papers and panels are invited for a theme in the international
conference on
CULTURE AND THE STATE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
(http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/)
May 2-5, 2003
Culture and the Welsh State
This theme in “Culture and the State, Past, Present, and Future,” explores
the varied experience of a “nation” and a “state” that continually
reinvented itself/themselves throughout centuries of conquest and
exploitation, and throughout a modern era of rapid industrialization and
equally rapid deindustrialization. The questions this theme poses are just
as urgent today. Welsh devolution and an increasingly homogenizing European
context raise complex questions concerning the internal and external
“destiny” of Wales. The parameters of this theme are broad. We invite
papers that explore as wide an array of concerns as possible regarding the
cultures—both past and present—of the Welsh nation and the Welsh state.
This conference is interdisciplinary in scope and we encourage contributions
from all scholars interested in things Welsh. Possible topics include, but
are not limited to:
Stating the Nation: cultural institutions of modern Wales
“Land of my Fathers?”: Gender and the Welsh nation
Queering the nation/Welsh sexualities
Homing in on hiraeth: Welsh diasporas
Post-national Wales: questioning “history,” imagining “destinies”
Internal difference: Cosmopolitan Wales
Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words for papers of 20 minutes,
along with a brief CV by January 15 to:
Email submissions are encouraged, but please submit them in Microsoft Word
format
Huw Osborne
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E6
Canada
Email: hosborne@cogeco.ca
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