[csaa-forum] cruising country - call for papers

[Glen Fuller]

Passing this on. 

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

Cruising Country
A symposium and film event exploring the powers of wheels, roads and 
screens in non-urban Australia
26-28 May 2005

Centre for Cross-Cultural Research
The Australian National University, Canberra 
Ursula Frederick and Lisa Stefanoff (convenors)

Since the early 20th century, motor vehicles of all descriptions have 
been central characters in the settlement, governance and 
representation of non-urban Australia. They are objects of desire and 
exchange, actors in subsistence, ceremonial and market economies and 
sites of deep projective identification. Represented in paintings, 
films, novels, music, ethnography, ceremony and other cultural media, 
vehicles communicate closely with the aesthetic spirits of modernity 
and its discontents.
Vehicles add velocity to landscape’s powers, compressing distance and 
reframing senses of place. Containing, carrying and connecting people, 
knowledge, visions and voices, motor cars are deeply phenomenological 
spaces.

Cruising Country invites speakers to explore these and other 
conjunctures of Australian automobility, intercultural exchange, power 
and social transformation through a series of presentations, panel 
discussions and film screenings.


We are inviting abstracts of no more than 300 words, outlining your 
proposed topic, approach, and the forms/media in which you intend to 
present your work.
Proposals for discussion panels are also welcome. Deadline for 
abstracts:
1 February 2005

Email your abstract to:
ursula.frederick at anu.edu.au    and/or
lisa.stefanoff at nyu.edu

Or post it to: Ursula Frederick, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, 
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 0200