[Discussion] UPDATE: Culture & Power: Phobias (Spain) (2/14/02; 10/3/02-10/5/02)

[Gonul Pultar]

8th International Culture & Power Conference
3-5 October 2002
Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain


The 8th International Conference =93Culture & Power=94 will be hosted by th=
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Department of English & German Philology of Rovira i Virgili University,
Tarragona, Spain. The organisers seek proposals for 20-minute
presentations related to the area of Cultural Studies.
The proposed topic for the conference is =93Phobias=94, though all proposal=
s
will be considered. The events that shook the world last September and
their immediate repercussions at a domestic and an international level
have triggered a multiplicity of reactions in no way independent from
the previous cultural status quo both in and outside the
English-speaking world. Likewise, the unforseen and dramatic start of
the new millennium has reasserted or brought back to life individual
fears and uncertainties that postmodernism had persistently =96 though
vaguely =96 sketched.We are particularly interested in the conflictive
relationships between the private and public spheres, in the
intersection between freedom and security, and in the hypothetical way
those relationships might be reformulated.
Proposals are welcome on (but not restricted to) the following areas:

=B7 Cultural, linguistic and religious phobias
=B7 Race and gender phobias
=B7 Security, privacy and freedom
=B7 The cultural construction of public enemies
=B7 Advertising phobias
=B7 East-West/North-South: the geography of mistrust
=B7 I, me, myself, mine
=B7 Technophobia
=B7 Utopias and dystopias
=B7 Millenarism and end of the world

Conference Title: 8th International Culture & Power Conference
Organising Institution:  Department of English & German Philology
Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain.
Conference Dates: 3-5 October 2002
Deadline to submit title and 300-word abstracts as body text (sorry, no
attachments): 14 Feb 2002
Deadline to submit printed article: 1 June 2002
Contactpersons: Dr. Cristina Andreu  <caj@fll.urv.es>; Dr. Pere Gallardo
<pgt@fll.urv.es>
Snail mail address: Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Dept. de Filologia
Anglogermanica, Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1 - 43005 Tarragona, Spain.


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