RESEARCHING CULTURE

An international, multi-disciplinary conference on:

traditions, approaches and methods for analysing culture

10/11/12 September 1999, University of North London

Call for Papers
Today no single discipline 'owns' the study of culture. This is an expanding field of analysis across philosophy, anthropology, sociology, cultural and media studies, literary studies, film studies, gender studies, organisational studies, geography, history, political science, and economics. Each of these disciplines has contributed to the study of culture and in the process have produced diverse definitions and methods for its analysis. What does it mean to study culture in this multi-disciplinary envi This conference aims to bring together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds to discuss the present and future directions of cultural analysis. We welcome papers that explore the following questions either from an epistemological perspective or through current research:

Should we decentre the concept of culture?
Are disciplinary boundaries useful when studying culture?
Are we asking the right questions?
What are the politics of studying culture?
What is at stake in the funding of cultural research?
Text/audience/institutions: what do we mean by 'media culture'?
What ever happened to political economy?
Do new methods follow from new technologies?
Are we living in a global culture?
Decentring Europe: how do we ensure internationalist perspectives?.

Proposals, of 300 words maximum, are invited from academics and researchers in all relevant fields.

Please send proposals by February 8th 1999 to:

Jayne Morgan, 'Researching Culture' Conference Organiser

mail: School of Social Sciences, University of North London, Ladbroke
House 62-66 Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD UK
email: j.morgan@unl.ac.uk