Call for Papers: Cultural Citizenship
32nd Conference in Modern Literature, 21-23 October 1999
College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University
Organized by Program in Comparative Literature
A. C. Goodson, Director ([log in to unmask])
The modern idea of culture is a legacy of western anthropology. In social
and cultural theory of every kind, including literary and legal theory, it
has usually been deployed with one eye on a politics of citizenship. As an
elaboration of national, statist, and global ideals, the anthropological
idea of culture involves an ethics of inclusion, and of exclusion. This
conference takes cultural citizenship as the point of entry for broad
reflection on the legacy of the modern idea of culture in literature,
social science, and the arts.
Featured speakers include:
Lauren Berlant (English & Humanities, University of Chicago)
Rey Chow (English & Comparative Literature, University of California/Irvine)
Vine Deloria (History, University of Colorado/Boulder)
Paul Finkelman (Seiberling Professor of Constitutional Law, University of
Akron Law School)
Michael Paul Luetzeler (Rosa May Distinguished Professor, European Studies,
Washington U)
Paper proposals on related topics are invited for panels to be scheduled in
connection with keynotes. Electronic submissions should be directed to
[log in to unmask] by 1 March 1999, or by post to A. C. Goodson,
Director, Program in Comparative Literature, 318 Linton Hall, Michigan
State University, East Lansing 48824. Proposals should include a
prospectus of ca. 500 words and a two page resume. Topics to be considered
include, but are not limited to:
Cultural Rights
Literature & Law
Ethics after Idealism
The Canon & the State of the Nation
Politics of the Culture Concept
Counter-Culture
Histories of Cultural Citizenship: Pluralism, Relativism, Multiculturalism
Virtual Citizenship
Ethics of Recognition
Transnationalism & Citizenship
Authenticity & Empire
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