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From: "Jeff Stepnisky" <jstepnisky-AT-socy.umd.edu>
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Globalizations:  Cultural, Economic, Democratic
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:32:00 -0500


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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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