[csaa-forum] Annual CSAA Conference: Doing Cultural Studies in Byron Bay:

[Baden Offord]

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
ECR and PG Pre-Conference Day 6 December


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.'

Featured Speakers:

Vinay Lal, UCLA and University of Delhi
Gerard Goggin, University of New South Wales
Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney
Melissa Lucashenko, author
Catherine Manathunga, University of Queensland
Deborah Bird-Rose, Macquarie University
Trevor Gale, University of South Australia
Katrina Schlunke, University of Technology, Sydney

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 Website:
http://www.scu.edu.au/research/cpsj/asa/index.html

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

-- 
Dr Baden Offord I Associate Professor in Cultural Studies
Co-Director, Centre for Peace and Social Justice

Southern Cross University, PO Box 157 Lismore 2480, Australia
T:: + 61 2 66203 162 I F:: + 61 2 66 221 683

Staff Page: School of Arts & Social Sciences
http://www.scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=9217

Centre for Peace and Social Justice
http://www.scu.edu.au/research/cpsj/
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