BLAB: Call for abstracts - TAMU Culture Conference

[Colin Allen]

FYI - Here's info about the event in April where Frans de Waal will be  
speaking.  You're also encouraged to submit an abstract if you'd like to  
be on the program and have something to say about the concept of culture.  
- CA

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

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