[csaa-forum] Final Week for Abstracts for CSAA Conference

Fri Sep 2 15:14:54 CST 2005

Dear All

Due to demand we have extended the abstract due date for Culture Fix 
until the 16th September.

Confirmed papers so far include:

Annamarie Jagose on ' The Sexual Fix'

   'The Assaults on Cultural Studies'  with Cary Nelson

Paula Treichler on  'Cultural Studies of Medicine: The Trouble with 
Culture'

and

The Return of the Dead; Australian Cultural Studies Now  with Anonymous

Please follow the process set out below (ie do NOT send them to me but 
to the email listed)

Looking forward to seeing you in November.

Katrina

Call For Papers

Culture Fix
The conference committee of the annual Australasian Cultural Studies 
Conference is now calling for offers of papers for consideration for 
the ‘Culture Fix’ conference to be held at the University of 
Technology, Sydney, Friday 25-Sunday 27 November 2005.

Focus
The themes that the conference particularly aims to address are 
outlined below. Papers that fall outside these listed themes but still 
within the broad category of cultural studies will also be considered.

An exhibition featuring the work of Australian artists Fiona Hall and 
Fiona Macdonald titled Strangely Familiar will be running in the UTS 
exhibition space as a part of this conference. This exhibition, with 
its suggestions and evocations concerning the relationship between 
comfort and terror, forms another focus of the conference and papers 
are also sought that address any part of the exhibition’s ideas or 
works. A web page featuring some of the works will be online from late 
July. Email www.utsgallery.uts.edu.au for more information.

Themes:

preFIX, sufFIX: what is happening as ‘culture’, as prefix or suffix 
multiply its attachments to words such as history, writing, science, 
Indigeneity, politics, sound, sex, race, class, bodies, ecology, 
Australia, and education? What are Cultural Histories, Cultural 
Writing, Cultural Politics, Cultural Pedagogies, Cultural 
Methodologies, Science Cultures, Film Cultures and Feminist or 
Indigenous Cultural Studies now?

getting a FIX: staving off a hunger, becoming sensation, feeding a 
craving by the imbibing of ‘cultural product’ in the shape of music, 
sex, sport, passion, the wild, theatre, film, television, celebrities, 
books, drugs, comics, love, visual arts, new media and other forms of 
popular and high culture; speaks to the ways in which ideas of 
addiction, euphoria, ecstasy and more ordinary pleasures are 
particularly conjured up by culture and the cultural.

the FIX: where culture has been proposed as the solution for business 
as well as social and political problems. But ‘fix the culture’ has 
also opened up ideas of holistic solutions in other arenas via ideas 
like sustainability, biosociality, bodywork, natural therapies, 
spirituality and intersexuality-what does the cultural offer here?

in a FIX: and yet for some, Cultural Studies continues to be understood 
as ‘in a fix’, a predicament, a dilemma -- is it? Should it be?

Panels
We particularly welcome proposals for inter-institutional panels 
addressing these and related topics.

Technical Requirements
If you are already aware that you will require particular technical 
assistance beyond the usual suspects please let us know immediately.  
All conference rooms have facilities for data projection, video, cd & 
dvd playback and overheads. Think carefully about being self sufficient 
and practised with your equipment. While some technical hands-on help 
will be available, glitches slow down the program for everyone and it 
will mean that you will have less time for your presentation as all 
sessions will be tightly chaired.

Paper Length
The emphasis at this conference will be on discussion and connection. 
We therefore believe that the body of the paper and the following 
discussion are of equal importance. Each paper is to go for twenty 
minutes with ten minutes discussion. The succinctness of your abstract 
should reflect your awareness of these time limits and the practices of 
collegiality. If you wish to present  in the form of a performance or 
audio-visual material (and experimental or alternative presentations 
are most welcome) please remember that you must still adhere to the 
twenty-minute limit and be aware of that in your abstract. We would 
like this to be a conference where everyone is heard properly.

Submission of Abstract
In an effort to create lively, connected sessions we would ask that you 
include the following with your abstract. Abstracts submitted without 
these details WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

1. Your full name and full contact details, including postal address, 
email and telephone and institutional affiliation or independent 
scholar status.
2. A two-sentence biography.
3. The titles and details of your two most relevant publications and/or 
in the case of postgraduates, your thesis title and supervisor’s name.

• Abstracts should not exceed 250 words
• Abstract must be emailed to  RRRRRRRRRR aas at uts.edu.au with CULTURE 
FIX as the subject   by September 16th

We would hope to be able to let you know whether or not your abstract 
has been accepted by the 14th of October. For general queries (but NOT 
for abstracts) please email katrina.schlunke at uts.edu.au

And Finally
Thank you for your help in making the conference organisation run as 
smoothly as possible and we look forward to welcoming you to balmy 
Sydney in late November.

Dr Katrina Schlunke
Senior Lecturer, Cultural Studies
Program Area Coordinator
Writing and Cultural Studies Program
University of Technology, Sydney

+61 2 95142294 (Int)
02 95142294 (Aust)

PO Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
Australia

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