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:
United Cultures of America?
(DEADLINE 15 January 2003)
Imagined in the long shadow of what the Bush regime terms "a distinctly
American internationalism," this theme seeks to investigate the significance
of cultural practice to the ongoing articulation of the state-form in
America. If, as David Lloyd and Paul Thomas (1998) contend, the concept of
culture serves, under liberalism, to manufacture or educe the
citizen-subject, in what ways and to what ends has this process occurred
within the U.S. context? In what ways and to what ends has it failed? How do
the workings and/or excesses of cultural practice facilitate, compromise,
disrupt the making of Americans – and of their 'others'?
We welcome proposals from all disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and
anti-disciplinary perspectives. Possible topics include, but are not limited
to:
* the exception, the rule in America
* American symptoms
* cultures of manifest destiny
* indigenous cultures and the American state
* slavery, slave culture, and the American state
* culture and class in America
* American sexualities
* American popular cultures
* cinematic subjects and celebrity cultures in America
* scandal and failure in/of America
* America and/as crisis
* Americanization – its modes, its limits
* mapping the united state/s
* Americanness beyond America
* lessons from the assembly line
* American play
* American radicalism – histories, legacies, potentialities
* the culture industry in America
* the cultural studies industry in America
* culture as/against capital
* empire/culture
* cultural practice and/as immanent critique
Please submit an abstract no longer than 300 words for a paper of 20 minutes
to the theme coordinator, Mark Simpson, by 15 January 2003. Early
submissions are encouraged and email submissions are welcome (WordPerfect or
Microsoft Word).
Theme Coordinator:
Mark Simpson
Assistant Professor
Department of English
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada, T6G 2E5
mark.simpson@ualberta.ca
The conference is funded by the Canada Research Chairs programme.
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