[csaa-forum] CSAA Conference 2004 -- CFP -- Please circulate widely

[Dr Kenneth Staples]

CSAA Conference 2004 -- CFP -- Please circulate widelyDear Mark 

I was talking to Brian Shoesmith on Wednesday, and he said that you require volunteers to help with the organising of the 2004 CSAA Conference.  I am free at present and can take up any duties which you may need doing.

Regards

Ken Staples

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Gibson 
  To: csaa-forum at darlin.cdu.edu.au 
  Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:14 AM
  Subject: [csaa-forum] CSAA Conference 2004 -- CFP -- Please circulate widely




  Everyday Transformations


  The Twenty-First Century Quotidian






  Annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia,
  Perth / Fremantle, 9-11 December 2004


  Call for Papers





  New technologies, increasing work pressures, changing gender roles and family structures, increasing flows of refugees and asylum seekers, concerns about security, environmental risks, the escalating speed and complexity of social transactions - everyday life is today a terrain of rapid and unsettling change. Yet it retains associations also with pattern, order, routine - the familiarity of a favourite soap opera or talk show, the ordinary pleasures and irritations of shopping, cooking, negotiating traffic, managing domestic life.

  How should cultural studies address questions of everyday life in the twenty-first century? The field can claim a rich tradition of work in the area, from ethnographies of street subcultures and shopping centres to writing on television and popular magazines. But everyday life has been transformed in significant ways since the time of many of the founding contributions. What remains relevant today in the study of everyday life? To what extent do we need new concepts and categories?

  Transformations have also occurred in cultural studies' motivations for engaging with everyday life. The everyday is a major point of intersection for many of its intellectual tributaries, including British cultural studies, feminism, semiotics, European surrealism, situationism, psychoanalysis and ethnomethodology. Yet the context for all of these has been affected by major shifts in the location of cultural studies, the nature and priorities of higher education, by the increasing market orientation of mainstream institutions and by conservative attempts to lay claim to the 'ordinary' and 'mainstream'. What do we seek now in engaging with the everyday? What understanding of this engagement is most appropriate for the times?

  Possible sessions/themes:

  . New technologies                      . Speed and time
  . Suburbia                      . Everyday sexualities
  . Television                    . Collections and archives
  . Food                          . Popular media
  . Magazine journalism           . Cultural geographies
  . Everyday spirituality         . Sport
  . Ordinariness                   . Music
  . Shopping                      . Tourism
  . Civility and manners          . Documentary
  . Creativity                    . Sustainability
  . Homes and gardens             . The apocalyptic and the everyday      
  . Risk and stress                       . Dance
  . Globalisation                 . Political activism in everyday life


  Abstracts of no more than 250 words for single papers, or suggestions for panel sessions, should be sent to:

  Mark Gibson - mgibson at central.murdoch.edu.au

  or :    School of Media, Communication and Culture
        Murdoch University
        South St, Murdoch
          WA 6150


  Panel proposals are particularly welcome.


  Refereed Publication Option: As an innovation on past CSAA conferences, 'Everyday Transformations' will also be offering the option of refereed publication in electronic conference proceedings. To be considered for this stream, full papers must be received by 27 August 2004.

  Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 July 2004
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  Dr Mark Gibson
  Lecturer, Cultural Studies
  School of Media Communication and Culture
  Murdoch University
  Western Australia 6150

  Editor, Continuum - Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
  http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/10304312.html
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