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Graduate Student Conference call for papers in
Representing Culture: Methodology and Politics
While scholars would like to think that their techniques for
collecting evidence and for fashioning evidence into representations
are neutral, they are not. Inherent in methodological practices are
representational approaches that have important political
implications. The political significance of scholarly
representations extenda in two directions, backwards to the
disciplines and fileds that conventionalize specific ways of
representing, and forward to the impact of scholarly representations
on academic and nonacademic audiences, including the "subjects."
The goal of this conference is to spotlight these implications and
their consequences for understanding academic work on culture.
Preliminary questions including: How do innovations in ways of
collecting evidence and constructing representation alter the impact
of scholarly representations? How can scholarshop reflect the
researcher's conccious exploration of the appropriateness, biases,
and limitations of method? How does a researcher's positionality with
respect to subjects affect his or her methodology? ...
The conference will be held at Northwestern University in Oct. 13-15,
1995.
There will be 4-6 panels featuring presentations by graduate students
along with comments and discussion by distinguished visitors. Initial
plans call for 5 major foci:
REPRESENTING FIELD EXPERIENCE
REPRESENTING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
REPRESENTING LOCALCULTURE
REPRESENTING POPULAR CULTURE
REPRESENTING DOMINANT CULTURE
Other possible topics include: Improvisation and the problems it
poses for representation, scholarly representations of cultuer and
public policy, and the impact of representations on understandings of
human rights.
Interested students should send abstracts (1,000 words) (or for
further information) to:
Culture Conference
c/o Judith Gibson, Ass. Director
Center for International & Comparative Studies
618 Garrett Place
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
Fax: 708-467-1996
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is April 15, 1995.
---G
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