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Host: The University of Tampere
Description:
The theme of the
conference will be `Great Divides' referring to all kinds of divides within
the continent of North America. The conference welcomes proposals of individual papers, panels, and
workshops on all aspects of the theme of the conference. We anticipate the
following three broad foci to emerge, but participants are encouraged to
interpret the theme as broadly as possible:
* divides within scholarship (questions of cross-disciplinary area studies and cultural studies; the place of more traditional interpretive frameworks in the humanities and social sciences) * divides within and between cultures and societies, and within personhood and nationhood (questions of identity; gender, race, class, nation, language; self and society; the representations and manifestations of these in literature, history and sociology; research across cultural boundaries; North America in European social thought; North American societies in comparison) * divides involving regional and national borders and international relations from the cold war to globalization (globalization processes; new media flows; immigration and emigration; cold war reappraised; post-cold war transatlantic relations; North American community after NAFTA; other international political, economic, and social issues)
Date received: November 21, 2000
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