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:
Culture and the Welsh State
(DEADLINE January 15, 2003)
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 the theme coordinator, Huw Osborne.
Email submissions are welcome in Microsoft Word format
Theme Coordinator:
Huw Osborne
Department of English
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada, T6G 2E5
hosborne@cogeco.ca
The conference is funded by the Canada Research Chairs programme.
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