4th Annual Conference 2008: Culture and Citizenship
Conference Announcement
3-5 September 2008
St Hugh's College, University of Oxford
This conference seeks to explore the inter-relationships between citizenship and culture and their contemporary social, cultural and political significance in a number of different contexts. The themes proposed for the conference are as follows:
- Cultural Diversity/After Multiculturalism
- Cities and Citizenship
- The Politics of Citizenship
- Liberal government and the citizen: histories and trajectories
- Arts and cultural policies and citizenship
- Cultures of collecting and citizenship
- Science, technology and citizenship
- Europe and the citizen
- The relationships between religious and secular conceptions of citizenship
- Culture, citizenship and transnationalism
- The media and citizenship
- Post-colonialism and Citizenship
- Sexual Citizenship
Plenary Speakers
Confirmed plenary and keynote speakers include:
Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam)
Nina Glick Schiller (University of Manchester)
Engin Isin (Open University)
Ghassan Hage (University of Melbourne)
Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimblett (University of New York)
Michael Keith and Scott Lash (Goldsmith, University of London)
Urbanism, citizenship, property in contemporary China
Mary Poovey (New York University)
Nick Stevenson (University of Nottingham)
Conference Organising Committee: Tony Bennett (Open University), Francis Dodsworth (Open University), Patrick Joyce (University of Manchester), Helen Rees Leahy (University of Manchester), Sophie Watson (Open University)
Conference Officers: Bussie Awosanya and Karen Ho
Conference Manager: Josine Opmeer