CFP: Cultural Studies in the World Today (Portugal) (5/15/03; 11/4/03-11/7/03)

Announcement and Call for Papers

9th International 'Culture and Power' Conference

Iberian Association for Cultural Studies

CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE WORLD TODAY

Lisbon, University of Lisbon and Faculty of Letters,
November 4 7, 2003

The University of Lisbon and the Faculty of Letters will host in November
2003 the 9th International 'Culture and Power' Conference, the annual
Conference of the Iberian Association for Cultural Studies. The general
theme of the Conference is Cultural Studies in the World Today.

The Conference is organised by the staff, students and associates of the
Postgraduate 'Culture and Society' Programme (Dept of English
Studies) responsible from 1997 onwards for the Lisbon Culture
Conference and by Mundiconvenius (directed by Luisa Ahrens Teixeira). This
year's Conference will be focally concerned with the world we live in, its
defining social, economic, political and cultural traits, and with how
cultural studies can contribute to a more accurate and politically relevant
knowledge of those traits and of the forces, strategies, vectors, relations
and structures of power which make such traits effective and changeable by
social practice.

The Conference is sponsored by the University of Lisbon, the Faculty of
Letters and the Department of English Studies. Other sponsors will be
announced in due course.

Three distinguished scholars of international repute have been invited and
confirmed their participation as keynote speakers:
Professor Zygmunt Bauman (Emeritus Professor of the Universities of Leeds
and Warsaw)
Professor Chantal Cornut-Gentille d'Arcy (University of Zaragoza)
Professor Lawrence Grossberg (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Papers are hereby called for, from a variety of intellectual disciplines
and practices in the fields of human and social sciences, dealing with the
general theme of the Conference or contributing to the themed sessions
articulated around it ('Citizenship, knowledge and power', 'Critical
pedagogy: Which future?', 'Cultural identities, old and new', 'A geography
of the possible: Autobiography as a knowable community', 'George Orwell's
centenary', 'Girl-hostile and girl-friendly cultures', 'Imagining
communities of identity: The aftermath of 9/11', 'Society, class,
community', and 'Utopia and cultural studies'), whose abstracts are to be
found on the Conference's webpage. Selections of blind-refereed,
peer-reviewed papers will be published in various forms (journals or themed
volumes).

Deadline for submission of 150-word abstracts <www.mundiconvenius.pt>: May
15, 2003.

For information about the Lisbon Conference (registration and fees for
delegates and accompanying persons, themed sessions and their organisers,
how to submit abstracts, hotels, etc), please refer to
<www.mundiconvenius.pt> from March 9.

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