[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Multiculturalisms and the Arts

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Lotta Kähkönen <lotkah at utu.fi>


Call for Papers: International Conference

MULTICULTURALISMS AND THE ARTS

School of Art Studies, University of Turku, Finland

August 29-30, 2008


The concept of multiculturalism has acquired many different (even 
opposite) meanings in diverse contexts since its inception in the wake 
of the social movements of the 1960s. Multifarious concepts of 
multiculturalism are reflected, reproduced or questioned in literature, 
music, the visual arts, and the media. The purpose of this conference is 
to analyze different forms of multiculturalisms and their 
representations. Workshop presentations will also address 
multiculturalisms in the Nordic countries.


Confirmed keynote speakers:

Anne-Marie Fortier, Lancaster University
Jocelyne Guilbault, University of California, Berkeley
David Leiwei Li, University of Oregon
Maria Roth-Lauret, Sussex University


Possible paper topics for twenty-minute presentations include (but are 
not limited to) the following:

- representations of multiculturalisms
- multiculturalisms in the arts
- multiculturalisms and the media
- gender, sexuality and multiculturalisms
- aesthetics, genre and multiculturalisms
- multiculturalisms in the Nordic countries


Abstracts in English of no more than 250 words should be received by the
Conference Secretary, Outi Hakola (outi.hakola at utu.fi) by May 15, 2008.
Acceptance messages will be sent by the end of May 2008.

The conference is being organized by the School of Art Studies (Art 
History, Comparative Literature, Finnish Literature, Media Studies, 
Musicology and Women's Studies), the International Institute for Popular 
Culture at the University of Turku, and the Department of Musicology, 
Åbo Akademi University.

*Lotta Kähkönen*
<lotkah at utu.fi>