[csaa-forum] Making Use of Culture

[Melissa Gregg]

 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.
 
 
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 Cultural Theory Institute                       University of
Manchester
 email: cti at man.ac.uk                      web:
http://www.cti.man.ac.uk/