[Discussion] [Fwd: CFP: Culture and the State (2/1/03; 5/2/03-5/5/03)]

[Gonul Pultar]

James Gifford wrote:
> 
> Culture and the State:
> Past, Present, and Future
> Edmonton, Alberta – Canada
> May 2-5, 2003
> 
> For more details, please see:
> http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/
> 
> Call for Papers:
> 
> 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 should be addressed to the conference co-ordinators, or to
> particular theme co-ordinators (a list of theme co-ordinators is continually
> updated on the conference website).
> 
> 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>
> 
> Conference chair:
> 
> Gary Kelly
> Canada Research Chair
> Department of English, University of Alberta
> 
> http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/
> 
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