[Discussion] Fwd: CFP: Intellectuals and the Nation-State (Ireland) (8/31/05; 11/30/05-12/1/05)

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From: Liam Kennedy <liam.kennedy@ucd.ie>

Intellectuals and the Nation-State

30 November - 1st December 2005

Plenary speakers include:

Declan Kiberd (University College Dublin)
Eric Lott (University of Virginia)
Slavoj Zizek (Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana/Birkbeck College, 
University of
London).

What role and effect do intellectuals have in the making and contesting of
national identities and state policies? This conference will consider 
historical
and current implications of this question.

The critical voice of the intellectual has long been considered 
important to the
evolution of modern Western cultures. How and why was this voice so 
often tied
to the development of national identity? How have ideals of intellectual
autonomy and dissent been formulated within and across nation-states? 
What forms
of intellectual production have states acknowledged and supported? What 
remains
of the Enlightenment origins of the idea of the intellectual?

We will focus on current issues of intellectual identity and activity in the
context of global challenges to the power and authority of the nation-state.
Today, as new global networks of cultural interaction emerge and new public
spheres take shape, what is happening to the intellectual&#65533;s affective
relation to the nation-state? What is the role of critical thinking and the
value of ideas in an increasingly global "knowledge society"? What is 
the role
of intellectuals in the making of a new world order and in shaping 
responses to
international crises? What is the role of think tanks and advocacy 
intellectuals
in the formation of state policy? How have new media redefined intellectual
activity and identity?

Please send one-page proposals with a brief CV by 31 August 2005 to:

Catherine Carey, Clinton Institute for American Studies, C211 John Henry 
Newman
Building, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel: +353 1 716 8303. Fax: +353 1 716
8643. E-mail: Catherine.Carey@ucd.ie

Inquiries may be directed to the conference organiser Professor Liam 
Kennedy at
Liam.Kennedy@ucd.ie



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