[Discussion] Culture and the State -- genel

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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.
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In 1989 some proclaimed the imminent universal triumph of a particular
state
form—the modern liberal state. Since then, others proclaim the imminent
demise of the modern nation state under advancing globalization. Yet
modern
states continue to be formed—from the former Yugoslavia to the new East
Timor.

One thing is clear in these developments. Despite the global promotion
of
science and commerce, culture in various forms had and has a major if
not
central role in state formation, from ancient times to the present.

The Edmonton Conference on "Culture and the State: Past, present, and
Future" will address all these issues, and more. Organized around a set
of
flexible themes, the conference will consider the role of culture
variously
defined -- high and low, elite and popular, local and global, historical
and
contemporary -- in the creation, maintenance, transformation, and demise
of
states.

A broad range of themes will be addressed, including culture and
commerce;
the state and cultures of sexuality; indigenous and industrialized
cultures;
science and culture and cultures of science; culture and social
difference;
culture and immigration and integration; the relations of different
cultural
forms; culture and modernization, post-modern cultures and post-modern
states, and so on. Conference papers will be published.

The conference organizers invite proposals, panels, and presentations on

these or any other aspect of the relation of culture and the state, from

antiquity to the present.

The conference organizers especially encourage presentations in forms
other
than read papers, though these too are welcome.

Proposals for this general call should be addressed to the conference
co-ordinators and received no later than February 1, 2003. Submissions
may
also be made to particular theme co-ordinators (see themes for
individual
deadlines via the website above).

Conference co-ordinators:

James Gifford and Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux
Department of English
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada, T6G 2E5

gifford@ualberta.ca
gez@ualberta.ca

Conference chair:

Gary Kelly
Canada Research Chair
Department of English, University of Alberta

The conference is funded by the Canada Research Chairs programme.