[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Legitimating Cultures, Cultures of Legitimacy (Romania) (5/15/06; 11/23/06-11/25/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Christian Moraru C_MORARU <c_moraru@uncg.edu>

LEGITIMATING CULTURES, CULTURES OF LEGITIMACY: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Bucharest University, Romania

November 23-25, 2006

Organizers:

Mircea Martin, Bucharest University, Romania
Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro


The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for addressing issues 
related
to the notion of "legitimacy" across discourses, cultural practices, and
traditions. We are primarily interested in papers theorizing the 
construction
and representation of the ?legitimate? in particular contexts.

Presenters are encouraged to raise questions such as: How do cultures 
(specific
cultures, cultural genres, or products) legitimate themselves at one 
point or
another? How do their legitimating strategies and rhetorics change and 
why? What
are the factors involved? What is the dynamic of cognate terms such as
"legitimate," "valid," "acceptable," "relevant," and "reliable"? What 
roles have
they played historically in the manufacturing of authority, in the makeup of
power overall? How does authority legitimate?authorize?itself, and what 
are the
specific protocols in play here? Further, how does authority (political,
cultural, and otherwise)deal with de-legitimating attempts? How does it 
cover-up
its "questionable" nature and how vulnerable is it to illegitimacy charges?
How do discourses and artifacts "justify" themselves as they claim to be
"ideology-free"? How have identity and cultural studies helped complicate
"legitimate" if reductive representations of race, gender, ethnicity, and
sexuality? Why are such concerns (il)legitimate? Who decides what is
"justifiable" or "arbitrary," what "makes sense"? because it "plays by the
rules"? and what does not, who speaks "with authority" and who fails to 
do so?

Send 200-word abstracts by May 15, 2006 to:

Mircea Martin, Bucharest University (proposals from Europe), at:
mircea=5Fmartin@yahoo.com

OR

Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (proposals from
non-European countries), at: c=5Fmoraru@uncg.edu


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CHRISTIAN MORARU
Associate Professor of American Literature and Critical Theory
Director of Graduate Studies
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Department of English
132A McIver Building, UNCG, PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
Phone: (336) 334-3564
Fax: (336) 334-3281
c=5Fmoraru@uncg.edu
http://www.uncg.edu/~c=5Fmoraru/index.html


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