[csaa-forum] Announcement: CSAA Conference 2010!

[Amanda Third]

Dear cultural studies colleagues

It gives me great pleasure to formally announce that the School of Arts and
Social Sciences at Southern Cross University will be hosting the 2010 CSAA
National Conference from 7-9 December, 2010 in Byron Bay.

Please find below a pre-conference announcement from conference organiser,
Associate Prof. Baden Offord. Baden will be distributing more information
shortly. 

In the meantime, mark the dates in your diary and we look forward to seeing
you then!

Best

Amanda

PRE-CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia National Conference

hosted by Southern Cross University
venue: Byron Bay Community and Cultural Centre

'A Scholarly Affair'

7-9 December 2010 

This conference focuses on the contribution that Cultural Studies makes as
an interdisciplinary space for reflexive, critical and empirically based
research to the project of higher education, pedagogy and social justice.
Susan Giroux and Norman Denzin have recently argued that the work of the
scholar is to subject structures of power, knowledge, and practice to
critical scrutiny, (what Paul Gilroy has referred to as principled
exposure). In contrast, it is salient to recall Toni Morrison's view that
'racism is a scholarly affair.' This inherent tension about what a scholar
does - and what is expected of/from them - goes to the heart and relevance
of Cultural Studies scholarship. Given the present instrumentalised and
corporate university environment with its dominant values of standardisation
and emphasis on an audit-based culture  - there is a compelling and urgent
need to re-imagine the space/place of the contemporary scholar and their
role in society. In the age of Obama and Rudd, Cultural Studies, as a
discipline that uniquely responds to the pull of the relevant, the
imperatives of socially inclusive practices and communities of engagement,
needs, as Catherine Burnheim puts it, to go 'beyond corporatism into the
wilds of the knowledge economy.'

Some of the key issues and themes to be considered:
 
€   new qualities of scholarly enquiry
€   cultural studies scholarship in the 21st century
€   discovering and sustaining ethical cultural space in higher education
€   innovative relationships between scholar and community
€   sustaining healthy, creative and principled scholarship
€   cultural studies as ethical foundation
€   relevance scholarship (such as ecocultural studies)
€   pedagogy as an affair to remember
€   negotiating the audit-based culture
€   scholarship on the margins
€   scholarship and diversity
€   narrating communities and cultures
€   disciplining innovations: TEQSA and ERA
€   scholarship and its relationship to discovery
€   new media, digital communication and the borderlands of scholarship
€   responding to an ethics of scholarship
€   socially and culturally inclusive practices
€   research/writing as 'ethical intervention'
€   engaging with indigenous and majority-world scholarship
€   creative and critical knowledge production
€   value of non-corporate scholarship

Conference Dinner
'A Night to Remember'
Byron Bay Surf Life Saving Club, on the beach, Byron Bay.

Venue
The conference will be held at the Byron Bay Community and Cultural Centre.
http://www.byroncentre.com.au/

Host
School of Arts and Social Sciences
Southern Cross University
http://www.scu.edu.au/




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