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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Borders and Cultures Conference
Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University
Montreal, CANADA

21-26 Feb. 1995


We live at a moment in history when
geographic boundaries crumble under the
assault of economic requisites or mutate
under the pressure of transnational ethnic
loyalties. Politically, borders serve as a place
of division; socially and culturally, borders
have tended to serve as a kind of magnet
where cultures interact and create something
belonging to neither side of the line: border
culture. In the public sphere, borders tend to
expose certain incongruities in a state's
cultural and political life; if national culture is
the sum of a country's cultural production,
border culture is the multiplication of
disparate cultures in communication.

An international and inter-disciplinary
Conference on Borders & Cultures will be held
at McGill University, Montreal from February
21-26, 1995.

The conference organizers encourage papers
from a wide range of disciplines and
interdisciplines, from the humanities to the
health sciences, from the social sciences to
engineering and environmental studies.  Such
papers may address specific cases, or research
methods, or theories pertaining to the study
of border culture, and/or should deal with
one of four geographic areas: the borders of
Canada; the borders of Mexico; the borders of
Brazil; and other borders within the Americas.

Send titles, abstracts and a one-page c.v. in
English, French, or Spanish to:

Borders & Cultures Conference
Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University
3465, rue Peel
Montreal, QUEBEC
H3A 1W7 CANADA

Facsimile: (514) 398-4934

Deadline for receipt of abstracts:
October 20, 1994

The conference is co-sponsored by the
Graduate Program in Communications, McGill
University, and the Instituto Latinoamericano
de Estudios Transnacionales in Mexico City.
For more information call (514) 398-4935, or
E-mail: CYGS@musicA.mcgill.ca.