From: gary hall [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 7:53 PM
To: John Armitage
Subject: Cultural Studies Conference Announcement
John,
Here's a conference announcement for you. Should be of interest to
people on your list as one of the conference threads is the governance
of cyberspace. Also Mark Poster is giving one of the keynote addresses
on 'The Good, the Bad and the Virtual: Ethics, Media, Cyberspace'.
Selected proceedings will be published as a special issue of the journal
Culture Machine: http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk
Best, Gary
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*Apologies for cross-posting*
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Call for papers
CULTURAL STUDIES: BETWEEN POLITICS AND ETHICS
An International Interdisciplinary Conference
Bath Spa University College, UK
6-8 July 2001
Keynote speakers:
Simon Critchley
Ernesto Laclau
Angela McRobbie
Mark Poster
Lola Young
Cultural studies is often defined as a political project. But the
problem of ethics, with
rare exceptions, has generally been associated with disciplines such as
philosophy,
political theory or deconstruction-oriented literary theory. One could
argue,
however, that cultural studies - in its questioning of inherited
traditions and cultural
prejudices and its interest in marginal voices - is intrinsically
ethical. In focusing on
the interconnections between ethics and politics in cultural studies, we
want to
investigate the duties and responsibilities of cultural studies, as well
as delineate some
new ways of practising the political.
For parallel sessions we invite 20 minute papers from a variety of
disciplines and
approaches on a range of themes, including:
7 Is cultural studies political enough?
7 The spectre of Marxism in cultural studies
7 New identities, new politics
7 Respect for the other: a postcolonial perspective
7 The ethics of everyday life
7 Gender, ethics and difference
7 The governance of cyberspace
7 The politics of literature
7 Bioethics and genethics
7 Culture and ethics
7 Is there a duty in cultural studies?
Please send your proposal before 28 February 2001 to:
Dr Joanna Zylinska & Dr Mark Devenney
Bath Spa University College
School of Historical and Cultural Studies
Newton Park
Bath BA2 9BN
UK
email: [log in to unmask]
Selected proceedings from the conference will be published as a special
issue of the journal Culture Machine: http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk
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Culture Machine: Generating Research in Culture and Theory
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk
Go on, check it out. It's what your computer has been waiting for!
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