Call for Papers

Citizenship in the 21st Century

University of Pittsburgh

March 17-18 2008

Submissions: October 31 2007

Keynote speaker: Etienne Balibar

The Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh is organizing a colloquium where sessions will be shared by known scholars and graduate students working in fields related to the theme of the conference. The keynote address will be given by the noted French political philosopher Etienne Balibar.

Coherently with our focus, we are looking for papers by graduate students in the following areas of interest:

• the relationship between political participation and citizenship status in contemporary societies.
• democratic representation in media-dominated cultures.
• art and political participation in contemporary societies.
• definitions of citizenship in contemporary nations.
• cultural minorities and political representation in contemporary societies.
• citizen rights vs. universal rights.
• the uses of history in contemporary political modeling.

Graduate students whose papers are accepted will receive $400 from the Cultural Studies program as a partial reimbursement for their expenses. All additional funding should be insured by the students themselves. Non-US nationals are also responsible for the processing of their visa.

The deadline for the submission of 500-word abstracts is October 31 2007. Abstracts should be directed to Karen Lillis, at

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