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*Art of the State: Sovereignty Past and Present*
An International Conference
Organized by Douglas Howland (History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and Luise White (History, University of Florida-Gainesville)
| Location: | Wisconsin, United States |
| Conference Begins: | 2005-10-21 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2005-06-20 |
| Announcement ID: |
146644 |
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The Center for 21st Century Studies announces an international conference, *The Art of the State: Sovereignty Past and Present,* to be held October 21–22, 2005, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The conference dispenses with the idea that sovereignty accrues naturally to a state. It seeks to interrogate sovereignty as a set of practices that are historically contingent--a mix of both international and intra-national processes including self-determination, international law, and natural right. Participants examine a number of diverse contexts outside of the normative center of Western Europe in order to explore how states construct themselves and how state forms seek to be sovereign. Rather than try to find one overarching and totalizing definition of sovereignty--one that is ahistorical and transnational--the conference seeks to disclose the strategic sovereignties that have informed histories and shaped territories in the modern world. This represents an alternative to recent literature on nationalism, which too often treats nationalism as a precursor to the formation of modern states. The conference seeks to take recent debates about nations, national identity, and the political relationships between the two and relocate them in a broader history of sovereignty, territory, and legality. We hope to explore the different ways in which sovereign political forms have been defined and define themselves. The conference will be open to the public. Full details about the conference, including registration materials and information about accommodations, are available on this web site: http://www.21st.uwm.edu/conferences.shtml
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Kate Kramer, Deputy Director
Center for 21st Century Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
POB 413
Milwaukee WI 53201
t. 414.229.4141 / f. 414.229.5964
Email: ctr21cs@uwm.edu
Visit the website at http://www.21st.uwm.edu
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