[csaa-forum] CFP: Culture and Social Change

[Melissa Gregg]

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Dear colleagues,
Below is a call for papers for a conference in Manchester (England)
organised by the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. The
Centre started up last October, is based jointly at the Open University and
the University of Manchester, and is funded until 2009 in the first
instance. I hope the call for papers is of some interest. Best wishes, Dave
Hesmondhalgh Faculty of Social Sciences The Open University
                      

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	CALL FOR PAPERS 

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	Inaugural Conference 

	CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON SOCIO-CULTURAL 

	CHANGE (CRESC) 

	"Culture and Social Change: Disciplinary Exchanges" 

	11-13 July 2005 


	Hulme Hall, The University of Manchester, UK 


	KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 

	Craig Calhoun (Sociology, New York) 

	Veena Das (Anthropology, Johns Hopkins) 

	Ash Amin (Geography, Durham) 

	Nikolas Rose (Sociology, LSE) 

	Nigel Thrift (Geography, Oxford) 


	This conference encourages inter-disciplinary exchanges 

	on the relationship between the cultural and the social. 

	Themed sessions will bring together leading 

	anthropologists, historians, geographers, management 

	scientists, media studies researchers and sociologists to 

	present papers in areas where such debates about culture 

	and social change are especially pronounced: 


	Theme 1: Cultural Economy 

	Theme 2: Changing Media Cultures and Economies 

	Theme 3: Cultural Governance and Citizenship 

	Theme 4: Changing Cultural Values and Politics 


	Papers are encouraged from researchers with interests in 

	any of these specific fields as well as the general issues of 

	the conference. Proposals of 200 words should be 

	submitted by 28 February 2005 to cresc at manchester.ac.uk 


	Further information and booking form can be found at 

	http://www.cresc.ac.uk 

	or email 

	cresc at manchester.ac.uk 



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	Catherine Austin
	Research Centre Secretary
	ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC)
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