???? Read paragraph.
At 10:42 AM 12/8/98 +0100, Otfried Lieberknecht wrote:
>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])
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>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.
Huh? Broad reflection what means?
What about the reality of culture in the lives of citizens? Send Joe Blow to
Britain -- what is it that he really has trouble with, the language, or the
culture? What about subcultures? Send Joe Blow to a faculty meeting of the
English dept in his flagship state U.
Whose modern idea of culture is a legacy of western anthropology? At the
pretheoretical level, is it not an observation of reality? Reinforced as
national and statist, yes (all the way down to ignoring Canada and Mexico in
US-based weather broadcasts, for example), but thus conceived? Is the
reality of El Paso - Juarez a legacy of modern antropology, or is modern
anthropology just the field most directly charged with taking notice of it?
Which leads to the culture of the university, and the nationalist
(=departmentalist) construct of boundaries in learning/teaching...
>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)
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>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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