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

[Mark Gibson]

Thanks Ken. We may well call on you closer to the time. Most of the 
things at present are just sorting out the general framework. Best -- 
Mark

>Dear 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: <mailto:mgibson at central.murdoch.edu.au>Mark Gibson
>To: <mailto:csaa-forum at darlin.cdu.edu.au>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
>--
>
>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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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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