Lisbon,
University of Lisbon and Faculty of Letters, November 4 – 7, 2003 The University of Lisbon and the Faculty of Letters will
host in November 2003 the 9th International The Conference is organised by the staff, students and
associates of the Postgraduate ‘Culture and Society’ Programme
(Dept of English Studies) – responsible from 1997 onwards for the
Lisbon Culture Conference – and by Mundiconvenius (directed by Luisa
Ahrens Teixeira). This year’s Conference will be focally concerned
with the world we live in, its defining social, economic, political and
cultural traits, and with how cultural studies can contribute to a more
accurate and politically relevant knowledge of those traits and of the
forces, strategies, vectors, The Conference is sponsored by the University of Lisbon, the Faculty of Letters and the Department of English Studies. Other sponsors will be announced in due course. Three distinguished scholars of international repute have
been invited and confirmed their participation as keynote speakers: Papers are hereby called for, from a variety of intellectual
disciplines and practices in the fields of human and social sciences,
dealing with either the general theme of the Conference or contributing
to the themed sessions articulated around it (‘Citizenship, knowledge
and power’, ‘Critical pedagogy: Which future?’, ‘Cultural
identities, old and new’, ‘A geography of the possible: Autobiography
as a knowable community’, ‘George Orwell’s centenary’,
‘Girl-hostile and girl-friendly cultures’, ‘Imagining
communities of identity: The aftermath of 9/11’, ‘Society,
class, community’, and ‘Utopia and cultural studies’),
whose abstracts are to be found on the Conference’s webpage. |
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