[URBANTH-L]Conference announcement
Sanjay Srivastava
sanjay.srivastava at deakin.edu.au
Fri Aug 24 12:11:36 EDT 2007
Dear List Editor,
Would it be possible to submit the following
conference announcement on URBANTH? It may be of
interest to those working on urban contexts of sociality. Thank you.
Sanjay Srivastava
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In Relation To
New Cultures of Intimacy and Togetherness in Asia
New Delhi, India, May 9-10, 2008
This conference seeks to bring together scholars
working across areas such as sociology, gender
studies, film/media studies, anthropology,
popular culture, and urban studies in order to
explore emerging cultures of intimacy and
friendship in contemporary non-Western contexts.
We are particularly interested in perspectives
that relate the topic to the making of social
selves at a time great economic and cultural
change in many Asian societies. Socially,
non-Western has often been considered
synonymous with traditional, conservative, static
and illiberal, particularly in contexts of
intimate/personal relationships that are expected
to conform to certain values, norms and
expectations of heritage. However, following
modernity at large and contexts of change such as
economic liberalization, globalization and the
worldwide web, there is, increasingly, a
perception (if not a belief) that social
structures and networks have been affected, and
new cultures of intimacy and togetherness are
emergent (if not already established). There is a
decided conviction that such new structures and
networks are visible in day-to-day contexts at
work, home and leisure, and that they reflect
political, cultural, emotional and intellectual transitions and upheavals.
At this conference, we would like to explore this
notion of emergent cultures of new intimacies
and togetherness in the contemporary non-Western
world, in as varied a social and cultural register as possible.
Some Possible Themes:
Televisual/Cinematic Intimacies
New/Changing Spaces of Intimacy
New Cultures of Marriage
Intimacy, Togetherness and Class
Non-heterosexual Cultures of Intimacy
Advice Columns and the Reading Public
Intimacies and Consumer Cultures
Youth Cultures and Intimacies
The New Woman and the New Man
The Metrosexual/the Uber-sexual
Friends Transformed Intimacies in Living Spaces
Sex and the City
Intimacies and New Urban Spaces
Changing Workplace Cultures
New Lexicons of Conversation/Communication
Inquiries, abstracts (350 words), and expressions of interest to:
<mailto:intimaciesconference at yahoo.com>intimaciesconference at yahoo.com
Brinda Bose, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India
Sanjay Srivastava, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Professor Sanjay
Srivastava
School of Communication and Creative Arts
Faculty of Arts
Deakin
University
Phone: + 61-3-9244-6009
221 Burwood
Highway Fax: + 61-3-9251-7851
Melbourne 3125
Australia
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