CALL FOR PAPERS

The University and the City: Urban Education and the Liberal Arts

The Program Committee invites proposals for sessions, single papers and panels on the theme, "The University and the City: Urban Education and the Liberal Arts," for an interdisciplinary conference to be held March 4-7, 1999, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

We seek proposals using theoretical, applied, comparative, or critical approaches that will explore the liminal space between ideal and practice in liberal arts education while problematizing the market-model "logic" of current efforts to legitimate liberal arts training. We aim not only to revisit the well-traveled terrain of class, race, ethnicity and gender, but also to explore how language, space and political economy shape (or can be made to shape) the relationships between cities and universities, how urbanists know cities and urbanites experience the university, what knowledges the liberal arts produce about cities and their people(s), and what effects urban settings have on liberal arts practice.

Some possible topics include:

• Historical and Contemporary Examples of Substantive City-University
• Collaborations and Conflicts
• Cities and Universities as "Contact Zones": Field Work in Cities and Universities
• The Liberal Arts as/and Social Capita
• Corporate Campuses, Smokestack Cities, and Ivory Towers: The University as Knowledge Factory
• Political Economy, the University, and the State
• New Roles for Scholars: Re-examining University Research, Teaching and Service Missions
• Dialogism as a De-Authorization of Scholarly Privilege
• Critical Pedagogy and the Materiality of Teaching in Urban Sites
• The Importance of the Liberal Arts in the De-Instrumentalization of Higher Education
• The University in the Global Era
• Urban University Encounters of Local and Mass Culture(s) with the Cosmopolitan (Urbane) Ideal
• Languages and Codes of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Contemporary Urban Universities
• Collaborative Research: Beyond the Dyad of Scholar-Subject and Urban-Object
• Urban Universities: Centers of Multi- and Intercultural Discourse
• The Information Age and Its Implications for the Liberal Arts in the Urban University

We encourage a broad interpretation of the conference theme and encourage submissions from scholars representing all arts and humanities disciplines and practices. Pending funding, it is possible that modest travel subventions might be available to participants. Because we seekto publish a volume of conference essays, papers should not have been previously published.

Please send proposals/abstracts, accompanied by a one-page c.v. of all participants by September 15, 1998 to:

The conference is supported by grants from the WSU College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs; the WSU Humanities Center; the WSU Academy of Scholars; WSU College Of Education; and the WSU Department of History.

Conference Committee:

John J. Bukowczyk (History), Chair; Alfred L. Cobbs (German); Lisa Gurr (Anthropology); Sheila Lloyd (English); Julie Longo (History)

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Subject: Call for Papers -- The University and the City: Urban Education and the Liberal Arts
Date: 23.7.1998

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