CFP: Defining Culture: Who, What, Why? (12/1/03; 4/1/04-4/3/04)

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research announces a call
for papers for the conference "Defining Culture: Who, What, Why?" to take
place on 1-3 April 2004 at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX.

Keynote Speakers:
Frans de Waal, C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior and Director,
Living Links Center, Emory University
John Downing, Director, Center for Global Media Research, Southern Illinois
University
Marjorie Garber, William J. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and Director,
Humanities Center, Harvard University
Ibrahim K. Sundiata, Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and
African and Afro-American Studies, Brandeis University

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research invites abstracts
that address the who, what and why of culture.Who defines, produces,
participates in, studies, and otherwise engages with culture? What are the
patterns, processes, and diverse manifestations of human (or non-human)
culture? Why are we interested in understanding culture, how does culture
come to have political significance, and how might we find ways of
understanding culture from different methodological and theoretical
perspectives?

We encourage papers that range from detailed case studies of cultural
phenomena to theoretical syntheses treating culture as a constructed
concept. The Glasscock Center particularly encourages proposals that will
appeal to an interdisciplinary humanities audience.

Abstracts of 500 words should be sent by 1 December 2003 to the following
address:
The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
Texas A&M University
4352 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4352
Phone: (979) 845-8328
Fax: (979) 458-3681
Website: http://www.tamu.edu/chr
Email: glasscock_at_tamu.edu

Jennifer L. F. McNichols
Office Associate
Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
312 Anthropology Building
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352

jmcnichols_at_tamu.edu
ph. 979.845.8328
fax 979.458.3681
mail stop 4352
http://www.tamu.edu/chr

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