Culture and the Welsh State (1/15/03; 5/2/03-5/5/03)

Proposals for papers and panels are invited for a theme in the international conference on:

CULTURE AND THE STATE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
(http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/)

May 2-5, 2003

Culture and the Welsh State

This theme in "Culture and the State, Past, Present, and Future," explores the varied experience of a "nation" and a "state" that continually reinvented itself/themselves throughout centuries of conquest and exploitation, and throughout a modern era of rapid industrialization and equally rapid deindustrialization. The questions this theme poses are just as urgent today. Welsh devolution and an increasingly homogenizing European context raise complex questions concerning the internal and external "destiny" of Wales. The parameters of this theme are broad. We invite papers that explore as wide an array of concerns as possible regarding the cultures-both past and present-of the Welsh nation and the Welsh state. This conference is interdisciplinary in scope and we encourage contributions from all scholars interested in things Welsh. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Stating the Nation: cultural institutions of modern Wales
"Land of my Fathers?": Gender and the Welsh nation
Queering the nation/Welsh sexualities
Homing in on hiraeth: Welsh diasporas
Post-national Wales: questioning "history," imagining "destinies"
Internal difference: Cosmopolitan Wales

Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words for papers of 20 minutes, along with a brief CV by January 15 to:

Huw Osborne
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E6
Canada

Email submissions are encouraged, but please submit them in Microsoft Word format.

Email: mailto:huwo@cogeco.ca