[csaa-forum] CFP Crossroads 2006

[Melissa Gregg]

Conference Announcement and First Call for Papers for Crossroads 2006 in
Istanbul

We are pleased to announce that the Sixth International Crossroads in
Cultural Studies Conference, the official meeting of The Association for
Cultural Studies, will be held in Istanbul, sponsored by Istanbul Bilgi
University,  20-23 July 2006.

For millennia Istanbul has been a natural crossroads at which radically
different types of cultural experience have found a space to coexist and
interact. Correspondingly, rather than having a specific theme, Crossroads
2006 will aspire to construct an intellectual space for the international
cultural studies community to meet, to give voice to different cultural
orientations and researches, and to motivate each other for further
reflection.

We encourage scholars from all countries and disciplines to contribute to
the shaping of the conference program with individual session proposals
extending over a wide range of topics and addressing not only issues that
concern the practice of cultural studies, but also the current conditions,
local, regional and global, of both aggression and domination, and
cooperation and resistance. We also encourage individual paper submissions
on any topic within the broad purview of cultural studies.

Detailed information concerning participation, conference structure, travel
and accommodations will be available from August 1, 2005 on the official
website of the conference: www.crossroads2006.org and on the website of The
Association for Cultural Studies:  www.cultstud.org. We will also be
announcing a broad representative line-up of keynote speakers and invite
suggestions.

Ferda Keskin
Chair of the Organizing Committee