[Discussion] Making Use of Culture

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Conference Announcement & Call for Papers


                   Making Use of Culture

  the Inaugural Conference of the Cultural Theory Institute
                  University of Manchester

                    21-23  January 2005


Confirmed keynote speakers include:

       * Meaghan Morris (Lingan University, Hong Kong)
       * Peter Osborne (Middlesex University)
       * George Yudice (New York University)


The University of Manchester is launching its new Cultural Theory
Institute with an international conference on Making Use of Culture.

The Cultural Theory Institute (CTI) is the result of a cross-disciplinary
networking initiative within the University and has by now brought
together over fifty researchers from a growing number of disciplines
working on issues of, or related to, Cultural Theory.

The CTI's inaugural conference will address the manifold and frequently
conflicting meanings of culture, its various deployments in academic
theory and political practice, as well as its ever-changing role and image
in an increasingly transcultural world.  "Making Use of Culture" is
envisaged as instigating a radical rethinking of our customary ways of
imagining, interpreting, facilitating, allocating and implementing
culture.

Of particular interest will be questions of

  * cultural politics and the politics of culture
  * culturedness and cultural crisis
  * culture and democracy
  * cultural territorialism
  * culture as capital, resource or identity.

Contributors to the conference will also be encouraged to consider their
own personal as well as their discipline's or profession's past, present,
or future uses of culture as a term, tool and territory of both
intellectual enquiry and political agency.

The closing date for the submission of panel proposals or individual
papers from any disciplinary or professional background is *30 June 2004*.

Proposals (300 words) plus a brief CV should be sent to:

The Cultural Theory Institute
University of Manchester
178 Waterloo Place
Manchester
M13 9PG
UK

or to use-culture@man.ac.uk.

Updated information on the conference will shortly be available from our
website, www.cti.man.ac.uk.


-- Cultural Theory Institute University of Manchester email: 
cti@man.ac.uk web: http://www.cti.man.ac.uk/ 
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