The University of Lisbon and the Faculty of Letters will host in November 2003 the 9th International
‘Culture and Power’ Conference, the annual Conference of the Iberian Association for Cultural Studies. The general theme of the Conference is Cultural Studies in the World Today.

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,
relations and structures of power which make such traits effective and changeable by social practice.

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:
Professor Zygmunt Bauman (Emeritus Professor of the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw)
Professor Chantal Cornut-Gentille d’Arcy (University of Zaragoza)
Professor Lawrence Grossberg (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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.
Selections of blind-refereed, peer-reviewed papers will be published in various forms (journals or themed volumes).