Culture and the State: Past, Present, and Future
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
May 2-5, 2003
Most plenary speakers are now confirmed for this conference, including Len
Findlay, Isobel Findlay, Rahim Jaffer MLA, Norman Nawrocki, Raj Pannu MLA,
and Jerry Zaslove, among others. Deadlines for individual themes vary, but
general submission under the conference's overall CFP are accepted until
February 1, 2003 (see link above for this general CFP).
THEME:
Labour Culture – Union Culture – and the Culture of Resistance
(DEADLINE January 15, 2003)
The advance of the labour and trade union movement has contributed an
enduring legacy to the quality of life for all people in the modern age.
Yet, the relation of this contribution has to date not been well articulated
by social and cultural scholars.
Previous generations of working people involved in such mass movements as
the Chartist and Syndicalist movements in England and France of the
nineteenth century fought bitter struggles with state and capitalist
authorities to gain social rights and working standards often taken for
granted.
The political implications of these movements mark the wider social
expression of working class interest, manifesting of a culture of organized
resistance. This culture of resistance acts directly as the engine of
labouring peoples' political interests world wide, forming the
anarcho-syndicalist and non-market socialist movements of the nineteenth,
twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
This series of panels and events explores the broad relational themes of
these movements, providing a forum for the interchange of ideas and
histories of the diverse range of working class culture and working class
politics. We invite both academic and non-academic presentations on all
aspects of trade union and labour culture, including their political and
economic relation to past and present anarchist and socialist movements.
Question periods and further on and off-campus discussion and educational
forums will ensue.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Chartism, Syndicalism, and Wage-Work
* Labour, Fabianism, and the Left
* Radical-Reform Politics of the Late-Eighteenth, Early-Nineteenth Centuries
* The Franchise and "Eight Hour Day"
* Literature and Anarchism/Socialism
* Rosa Luxembourg – "Reform or Revolution"
* Labour Precedents – Contemporary Role(s) of The Canadian Labour Congress
and Alberta Federation of Labour
* Women, Work, and Politics
* Robert Owen/Saint-Simon - French and English Utopian Socialism and Labour
* Levellers, Diggers, & "The Norman Yoke" Theory – Early Foundations of
Labour-Politics
* Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Bakunin – Anarchist & Socialist Thought
* Art, Labour, & Socialism – William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood
* Working Class Co-Operatives in Canada and the United States
* Young Workers & the Labour Movement
* Music, Film, & the Labour Movement
* Industrial Workers of the World, The Impossibilists, and One Big Union
* Canada, the United States, and Twentieth Century Working Class Realities
Please send a 200 - 300 word abstract for a 15 – 20 minute paper (7-10
pages) and a brief CV by January 15, 2003 to the theme coordinator, John
Ames.
Theme Coordinator:
John Ames
Department of English
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada, T6G 2E5
ames@ualberta.ca
The conference is funded by the Canada Research Chairs programme.
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