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Call for Papers "Culture and Citizenship" International Conference Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), University of Manchester St Hugh's College, University of Oxford Oxford (UK) 3-5 September 2008 __________________________________________________ Citizenship and Culture represent two of the most central concepts in contemporary social thought and, over the last decade, the relationships between them have been highly contested. Debates on citizenship have shifted from a focus on democracy, political rights and responsibilities and questions of belonging to a concern with culture, both formally and informally inscribed. The focus of citizenship historically tended more toward universalistic issues, with the realm of culture assigned to the particular, and to questions of difference and meaning. The interconnections between these approaches have become of growing academic interest on the one hand, as well as being of crucial significance in the political realm on the other. Thus claims for citizenship rights are increasingly required to consider the more culturally defined questions of identity, gender, sexuality, race, that are typically the concern of the new social and political movements. At the same time the issues of emancipation, responsibility and freedom remain key questions for debates concerning citizenship and culture. This conference seeks to explore the inter-relationships between citizenship and culture and their contemporary social, cultural and political significance in a number of different contexts. The themes proposed for the conference are as follows: - Cultural Diversity/After Multiculturalis - Cities and Citizenship - The Politics of Citizenship - Liberal government and the citizen: histories and trajectories - Arts and cultural policies and citizenship - Cultures of collecting and citizenship - Science, technology and citizenship - Europe and the citizen - The relationships between religious and secular conceptions of citizenship - Culture, citizenship and transnationalism - The media and citizenship - Post-colonialism and Citizenship - Sexual Citizenship Confirmed plenary and keynote speakers include: Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam) Nina Glick Schiller (University of Manchester) Engin Isin (Open University) Ghassan Hage (University of Melbourne) Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimblett (University of New York) Michael Keith / Scott Lash (Goldsmith, University of London) Mary Poovey (New York University) Nick Stevenson (University of Nottingham) Contact: CRESC Conference Administration 178 Waterloo Place University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL UK Tel: +44(0)161 275 8985 Fax: +44(0)161 275 8985 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/conference2008/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
