You may find this useful. Things are really 'tight' with me right now. Will
let you know soon how things are getting along.
firdos
At 12:19 PM 12/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>An upcoming conference of interest to some.....
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>Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:41:54 EST
>From: Boria Sax, Mercy College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Fwd: CFP: _Researching Culture_
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>RESEARCHING CULTURE An international, multi-disciplinary conference on:
>traditions, approaches and methods for analysing culture 10/11/12
>September 1999, University of North London
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>Call for Papers
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>Today no single discipline 'owns' the study of culture. This is an
>expanding field of analysis across philosophy, anthropology, sociology,
>cultural and media studies, literary studies, film studies, gender
>studies, organisational studies, geography, history, political science,
>and economics. Each of these disciplines has contributed to the study
>of culture and in the process have produced diverse definitions and
>methods for its analysis. What does it mean to study culture in this
>multi-disciplinary environment. Indeed should there be a consensus on
>what 'culture' means?
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>This conference aims to bring together researchers from a wide range of
>backgrounds to discuss the present and future directions of cultural
>analysis. We welcome papers that explore the following questions
>either from an epistemological perspective or through current research:
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>Should we decentre the concept of culture? Are disciplinary boundaries
>useful when studying culture? Are we asking the right questions? What
>are the politics of studying culture? What is at stake in the funding
>of cultural research? Text/audience/institutions: what do we mean by
>'media culture'? What ever happened to political economy? Do new
>methods follow from new technologies? Are we living in a global
>culture? Decentring Europe: how do we ensure internationalist
>perspectives?.
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>Proposals, of 300 words maximum, are invited from academics and
>researchers in all relevant fields.
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>Please send proposals by February 8th 1999 to:
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>Jayne Morgan, 'Researching Culture' Conference Organiser
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>mail:
>School of Social Sciences,
>University of North London,
>Ladbroke House 62-66
>Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD UK
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>email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Jayne Morgan
>_Researching Culture_ Conference Organiser
>School of Social Sciences
>Faculty of Environmental and Social Studies
>University of North London
>Ladbroke House 62-66
>Highbury Grove London N5 2AD UK
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>Telephone: 01603 456239 or, 0171 753 5033 ext. 5028
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>email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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