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> *********CALL FOR PAPERS***********
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> GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
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> REALestate
> TRANSACTIONS IN CULTURE AND SPACE
> March 21/22, 1998
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> Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
> sponsored by the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
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>
>REALestate asks 'What are the costs of living when space becomes place?
>How does the transition from space to place affect the intersections of
>the personal, social and physical?' The conference find REALestate in
>commodified locations, personal and communal properties, as well as sacred
>domains. It will serve as a vehicle for examining spatial issues across a
>range of environments and listings, including global and local, urban and
>rural, constructed and organic, the fantastic and the imagined.
>
>Paper topics can include, but are not limited to:
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>Urban studies, nationalism, displacement, utopias, communities, diasporas,
>regionalism, architecture, travel and tourism, hyper/virtual/cyberspaces,
>media and communication, cartography, colonialism and post-colonialism,
>the environment...
>
>We also encourage film, video, music and other forms of presentation.
>(Please keep in mind, however, that all presentations will have a time
>limit of 20 minutes.)
>
>Send 250 word proposals or paper abstracts by February 1, 1998 to
>snailmail: Amy Wood
> Graduate Student Conference
> Institute of the Liberal Arts
> Emory University
> Atlanta, GA 30322
>
>or email: Amy Wood at [log in to unmask], or
> Eddie Gamarra at [log in to unmask]
>
>
>!!!!!!PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO OTHER LISTS!!!!!!
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>Visit the H-GRAD Website at http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~grad
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Geoff Stahl
Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University
Home page: http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/gstahl.htm
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-Martin Jay
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