Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:42:44 +0100 From: Bernd Hamm <hamm@UNI-TRIER.DE> Subject: call for contributions Sender: World Futures Studies Federation list <WFSF-L@lists.nau.edu> To: WFSF-L@lists.nau.edu X-CC: huettel@uni-trier.de Reply-to: World Futures Studies Federation list <WFSF-L@lists.nau.edu> Priority: normal

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Dear friends, together with friends from the history of arts department I am planning an international conference on Cultural Imperialism. A call for contributions is attached for your information. We are optimistic that the European Commissioner for Culture will accept our proposal for funding and that the Commissioner herself may participate. The first half-day session (october 18, morning) will be dedicated to the history of cultural imperialism. We are planning two key lectures: Pontus Hultén, the director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Ashis Nandy. The second session will deal with cultural imperialism in our times, and one of the two key note speakers invited is Hilmar Hoffmann, president of the Goethe Institute. The second key-note speaker (invited) is Edward Said. The third session is about alternatives, with Johan Galtung as one of the two key note speakers. Please do not hesitate to distribute the announcement among interested people.

Bernd

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Conference on Cultural Imperialism October 17-20, 2002, Trier, Germany A two-day conference is being planned to be held in fall 2002 in Trier, Germany, on Cultural Imperialism. Contributions are invited from all relevant fields including history of arts, architecture, history, popular music, the media, advertising and PR, sociology, economics, political lobbying, WTO-GATS, food, education, linguistics and others. Publication of the proceedings is intended. The Conference on Cultural Imperialism (working title) will begin on Thursday october 17, 2002, with diner and perhaps a first evening session. We will have two working days, Friday 18 and Saturday 19, and participants will depart on Sunday 20 october after breakfast. The venue is Robert Schuman House, Trier, a well-equipped new conference center above the city of Trier where participants will also stay overnight. At this moment we think about a more symposium-like beginning (Friday) aiming at sorting out the multiple facets of cultural imperialism and pulling strings together, and a public event on Saturday aiming at media coverage. We will have three blocks for discussion: (1) Cultural imperialism in history,(2) present cultural imperialism, its different aspects, working mechanisms and effects, and (3) what are alternatives (including European positions in WTO, IMF etc.). Workling languages will be German, English and French, with simultaneous translation. A maximum of 50 participants are expected from all parts of the world. We will try our best to raise funds for travel refunding and for hosting participants. So if you are interested, please reserve these dates in your agenda and send in your abstract in German or English, not more than 300 words, as soon as you have made up your mind. Deadline for abstracts is end of march 2002. Please pass this information on to other people who might be interested. Bernd Hamm Jean Monnet Professor of European Studies Director, Center for European Studies University of Trier, D 54286 Trier, Germany Tel. +49-651-201.27.27, Fax 201.39.30 e-mail hamm@uni-trier.de http://www.uni-trier.de/zes/ -- Sean Cubitt Screen and Media Studies, Akoranga Whakaata Pürongo University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand T: Dept: +64 (0)7 838 4543 T: Direct: +64 (0)7 856 2289 ext 8604 F: +64 (0)7 838 4767 http://www.waikato.ac.nz/film http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/digita http://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/sean/welcome.html