[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Sixth Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies: Representing Citizenship

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Matthew Davis <Matthew.Davis at uwsp.edu>


6th Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies: Representing Citizenship

Call for Papers

The Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne State University 
announces its Sixth Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies. The
conference will be held at Wayne State's Detroit campus on 26-28 March 
2009, and will focus on the Center¹s theme for the 2008-2009 academic 
year, Representing Citizenship. Distinguished philosopher Wil Kymlicka 
(Queens University, Ontario, Canada), author of _Multicultural 
Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights_, will serve as the
conference's keynote speaker.

The Center invites proposals for papers, panels, poster sessions,
artistic displays and performances that examine citizenship and
representation in many senses, from the political and legal to the
literary and artistic. Topics may include but are not limited to the
representation of political or legal interests by proxies such as
legislators, political parties, interest groups, or lawyers; the
representation of citizens in novels, plays, or print, broadcast, or
digital media and the cultural consequences of this "embodiment"; and 
the circulation of depictions and descriptions of citizenship in school 
texts, government films, or other media meant to model or critique civic 
behavior. These examples are meant to be suggestive, not to limit the 
range of potential subjects for scholarly inquiry. We invite 
presentations from any time period or geographic area from among and 
across the widest range of disciplines, including but not limited to 
literature, political science, history, anthropology, law, 
communications, sociology, economics, geography, medicine, film studies, 
and the fine arts. We welcome proposals from scholars, graduate 
students, artists, and performers and encourage those interested in 
submitting panel proposals to use H-Citizenship 
(http://www.h-net.org/~citizen/) to locate scholars with compatible 
interests. Panels will use a peer-comment format, and each panelist will 
be asked to offer five minutes of comment on a co-panelist's work.

If you would like to participate in the conference as a moderator or
commentator, rather than presenter, please indicate that along with your 
area(s) of expertise (political science, literature, etc.) and include a 
brief c.v.

The Center plans to publish a volume of papers from the conference.
Proposals should be submitted no later than Friday, 14 November 2008 
using the Center's online form. Both panel proposals and individual
submissions are welcome. Questions should be directed to Marc W. Kruman 
aa1277 at wayne.edu.

We regret that the Center does not provide funding for travel or other 
expenses.


Matthew R. Davis
Co-Editor H-Citizenship
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Matthew.Davis at uwsp.edu