From: "Jeff Stepnisky" <jstepnisky-AT-socy.umd.edu> Subject: SPOON-ANN: Globalizations: Cultural, Economic, Democratic Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:32:00 -0500 [Spoon-Announcements is a moderated list for distributing info of wide enough interest without cross-posting. To unsub, send the message "unsubscribe spoon-announcements" to majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu] Hello!, This is an invitation to a conference on Globalizations: Cultural, Economic, Democratic to be held April 11 - 18th at the University of Maryland in College Park. The conference, like it's theme, will be interdisciplinary and international in character and we hope to have as many different perspectives presented as possible. This includes persons both on the academic and activists fronts. Our emphasis will be on the interactions between various kinds of globalizations: cultural, economic and democratic. There has been much academic research and public discussion on the global economy, but we know much less about the emerging culture that accompanies it. The goal of this conference is to bring clarity to this and other issues. Some of the questions to be addressed are, but not limited to: -What are the implications of postmodern culture and global capitalism for each other and for a democratic life? -What are relations between emerging cultural hybrids and postindustrial economies, between post-Fordism and post-Freudianism, between flexible accumulation and flexible identities? -What is the global and social distribution of such different cultural, economic, and political forms? -How do various social and cultural theories alternately address the complex transformations, questions and problems of the present? Again, please note that this is not an exhaustive list of questions/topics to be addressed. For a more complete list, or for information on the location of the conference, registration material, on organizing a session, "things to do" while in the DC metropolitan area, how to submit papers for presentation, or more general information on the conference itself, please visit Globalizations' webpage at www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/conference. If further information or clarification is needed, please feel free to contact the conference organizer, Dr. Richard Brown at rbrown-AT-socy.umd.edu. Thank You and we look forward to seeing you, Conference Organizer Richard Brown The Conference Staff Anthony Alvarez Craig Lair Jeff Stepnisky Andrew Timleck
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