CFP: Who Claims the City?

Who Claims the City?: Thinking Race, Class, and Urban Place May 2-3,
2008 Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

Proposals from all disciplines are invited for a conference at Marquette
University exploring "the city" as the locus of social conflict,
representation, law, ideology, desire, policy, planning, and
imagination, all inflected by lived realities of race, class, gender,
sexuality, and movement. Possible issues for consideration include:

--How has racial discourse changed as a result of shifting patterns of
immigration and migration?

What role does foreign policy play in determining domestic urban
realities?

--How have education or the arts challenged or sustained ideologies of
privilege in American cities?

-- What is the relationship between racial politics and economic
globalization?

Please submit 250 - 500 word abstracts and a brief c.v. to
artsnscience@marquette.edu by December 1, 2007. Please include
"conference proposal" in your subject line.

Heather Hathaway, Associate Professor of English Way-Klingler College of
Arts and Sciences Marquette University P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI
53201-1881
(414) 288-5310