All,
This might of interest to list members. Please circulate to interested
colleagues and contact the organiser Mark Maguire ([log in to unmask]) if
you're interested,
thanks,
Rob
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Call for papers for an inter-disciplinary conference
Writing the City: Urban Life in the Era of Globalisation
Abstracts deadline: 01 May 2001
The conference will take place in LSB College, Dublin
(an affiliate of Dublin Business School)
Balfe Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
24-27 August 2001
Keynote Speakers include Edward W. Soja,
Immanuel Wallerstein and Declan Kiberd
Ireland has long had a problematic relationship with the urban life. The
city, passed over routinely by anthropologists, painters and poets in their
search for the 'real Ireland', has often been seen as an alien intrusion,
the outcrop of a foreign culture. It has, however, also been the
inspiration for some of the last century's most important artistic
achievements: the source of another, alternative construction of identity.
Globalisation and the recent in-migration of many people of diverse
cultural backgrounds bring the story of urban Ireland to a new chapter,
which requires a methodological and theoretical response. The city is at
once a strange, unattended presence in our lives and, to borrow from Roland
Barthes, "a discourse" that speaks to us and through which we speak
ourselves.
With a special, though not exclusive, emphasis on Ireland, this is a
multi-disciplinary conference that seeks to bring together contributors
from a variety of backgrounds to consider questions central to contemporary
experience of the urban: how is the increasingly global city known? In what
ways does this manifest itself in cultural artefacts? How can the human
sciences respond to and 'write' the metropolis?
This conference is organised into a series of panels intended to draw
together several dovetailing approaches. Abstracts should fit precisely
into one of the panels outlined below. It is intended that the proceedings
of this conference will be submitted to a publisher as an edited volume.
Panel 1: Social Theory and the City from Marx and the Frankfurt School to
Post-structuralism
Panel 2: Reading and Writing Urban Lives: the city in literature and
journalism
Panel 3: Whose City? A critical sociology of the city
Panel 4: The City in the era of Globalisation: theories, methods and practices
Panel 5: The Anthropology of Urban life: shifting contexts
Panel 6: Spaces of Exclusion: ethnicity, gender and difference
Please send all abstracts and suggestions for other panels to Mark Maguire
(Department of Anthropology) or Paul Hollywood (Department of English
Literature and Drama), LSB College, Balfe Street, Dublin 2, Republic of
Ireland,
Phone: +353 - 1 - 6485485 or Email: [log in to unmask]
to arrive before 01 May 2001
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