[eccr] Making Use of Culture

>  Making Use of Culture
>
>        the Inaugural Conference of the Cultural Theory Institute
>                     University of Manchester
>
>                       21-23  January 2005
>
>
>     Confirmed keynote speakers include:
>
>          * Lawrence Grossberg (University of North Carolina, Chapel
>Hill)
>          * Meaghan Morris (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
>          * Peter Osborne (Middlesex University)
>          * George Yudice (New York University)
>
>  The University of Manchester is launching its new Cultural Theory
>  Institute with an international conference on Making Use of Culture.
>
>The Cultural Theory Institute (CTI) is the result of a
>cross-disciplinary
>networking initiative within the University and has by now brought
>together over fifty researchers from a growing number of disciplines
>working on issues of, or related to, Cultural Theory.
>
>The CTI's inaugural conference will address the manifold and frequently
>conflicting meanings of culture, its various deployments in academic
>theory and political practice, as well as its ever-changing role and
>image
>in an increasingly transcultural world.  "Making Use of Culture" is
>envisaged as instigating a radical rethinking of our customary ways of
>imagining, interpreting, facilitating, allocating and implementing
>culture.
>
>Of particular interest will be questions of
>
>     * cultural politics and the politics of culture
>     * culturedness and cultural crisis
>     * culture and democracy
>     * cultural territorialism
>     * culture as capital, resource or identity.
>
>  Contributors to the conference will also be encouraged to consider
>their
>  own personal as well as their discipline's or profession's past,
>present,
>  or future uses of culture as a term, tool and territory of both
>  intellectual enquiry and political agency.
>
>  The closing date for the submission of proposals for panelss or
>individual
>  papers from any disciplinary or professional background is *30 June
>2004*.
>
>  Proposals (300 words) plus a brief CV should be sent to:
>
>  The Cultural Theory Institute
>  University of Manchester
>  178 Waterloo Place
>  Manchester
>  M13 9PG
>  UK
>
>  or to (use-culture /at/ man.ac.uk).
>
>  Updated information on the conference will shortly be available from
>our
>website, www.cti.man.ac.uk.
>
>
>  --
>  Cultural Theory Institute                       University of
>Manchester
>  email: (cti /at/ man.ac.uk)                      web:
>http://www.cti.man.ac.uk/

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