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***CULTURAL TURN 2: POWER AND MEANING
ELECTRONIC CONFERENCES
February 2-8, 1999
WWW.CULTURALTURN.COM
-Produced by The Cultural Turn, SPEED and
University of California, Santa Barbara.
-The Cultural Turn conferences are bi-annual
meetings seeking to explore and expand the
analytic zone shared and contested between the
social sciences and the humanities.
-The Electronic Conferences will extend the
reach of interdisciplinary cultural analysis
by incorporating the perspectives of
intellectual communities spread across the
globe. Please join us.
***FEATURED PARTICIPANTS:
-Christine Boyer (Architecture, Princeton)
-Katherine Hayles (English, U.C.L.A.)
-Bruce Lincoln (History of Religions, Chicago)
-Orlando Patterson (Sociology, Harvard)
-James Scott (Political Science, Yale)
-Michael Taussig (Anthropology, Columbia)
***OTHER PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE:
-Jeffrey Alexander, Charles Bazerman, David
Brain, Ronald Breiger, Craig Calhoun, Thomas
Carlson, Swati Chattopadhyay, Jon Cruz, Avery
Gordon, Giles Gunn, Dick Hebdige, Richard Hecht,
Wolf Kittler, Chandra Mukerji, Charles Perrow,
Richard A. Peterson, Maria Pia Lara, Michael
Schudson, Margaret Somers, John Sutton, Ann
Swidler, Diane Vaughan, Robin Wagner-Pacifici
and Mayer Zald
***JOIN THE ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE:
-Those who can't make it to Santa Barbara
for the second Cultural Turn conference are
invited to participate in the electronic version
of the conference at
http://www.culturalturn.com
-Authors' texts are now available at the web site.
Linked to each is an electronic web forum where
conferencees from around the world will engage
each other and the problematics of culture signaled
by each text.
-There is no charge for joining the Electronic
Conferences, and no special software or internet
expertise is required.
-Many new texts are available exclusively to
Conferencees. Video and audio archives of main
talks, book seminars, discussion groups and
e-panels will be made available to conferencees.
-The full proceedings, including the electronic
conferences, will be published by SPEED,
the award-winning electronic journal of
media technology and social culture.
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