[csaa-forum] Extended deadline for CSAA Conference 2011

[Amanda Third]

Dear CSAA-ers

Please find below an extended call for papers for this year's CSAA conference to be held in Adelaide.

Abstracts are now due the 31st August.

The conference organising committee is accepting general cultural studies papers as well as those that specifically address the conference theme.

Please circulate this CFP as widely as possible… And I look forward to seeing you there!

Best

Amanda
(President, CSAA)

On 27/07/11 2:38 PM, "Gilbert Caluya" <Gilbert.Caluya at unisa.edu.au<mailto:Gilbert.Caluya at unisa.edu.au>> wrote:

Please distribute as widely as possible...

******* CSAA 2011: EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS, 31st AUGUST *******

Due to interest, the Organising Committee have extended the call for papers for the CSAA Annual Conference 2011 until the 31st of August, 2011.

Firstly, we wanted to thank everyone who has already submitted. We already have an exciting collection of papers, mainly from a postcolonial perspective. However, we are particularly interested in more non-postcolonial approaches to the theme of ‘Cultural ReOrientations’. For example:

• How might the work of cultural studies be characterised by disorientation (spatial, temporal, political, intellectual)?

• How is culture being re-orientated to respond to recent financial, security and environmental crises (eg. ‘Climate change’, ‘Global Financial Crisis’, ‘War on Terror’, ‘Refugee Crisis’)? Does ‘clean energy future’ actually signal a reorientation of public energy flows? Is the 'Global Financial Crisis' a failure of our economic orientation to finance or our cultural orientation to economics? How might we view the ‘Pacific Solution’ and the Malaysian refugee exchange program not as the demise of territorial borders but its reorientation in a globally connected world?

• How are new media technologies reorientating everyday epistemologies, ontologies and cultural practices? Are new media actually ‘new’ or are they simply a reorientation of existing media? Do social networking sites actually reorientate our relationships with others?

• How are new biotechnologies reorganising bodies, capital and technology and how do we reorientate our politics and ethics in relation to these flows? How do biotechnologies reorientate our media and art? Are biotechnologies reorientating our relationship to life or to death?

• What does it mean to be sexually orientated? Is desire really an orientation to a sex object? Can desire disorientate sexual subjects?

• Can we re-locate the specificity of Australasian cultural studies in its orientation rather than its locality? How have changes to research funding reorientated cultural studies research? In what ways has ‘cultural research’ reorientated cultural studies? Does cultural studies need to reorientate itself (theoretically, politically) to be involved in interdisciplinary work with fields outside the humanities and social sciences?

• How are our teaching practices being reorientated in the contemporary higher education context? How do we reorientate tertiary teaching in an international student market where we sell ‘citizenship’ as well as ‘education’? Is it useful to think of teaching in terms of reorientating students to their world?

We are accepting abstracts for papers for all kinds of cultural studies work - including those that do not directly address the conference theme. And of course, we are still interested in work drawing on a postcolonial perspective. The original CFP is attached to this e–mail with the new deadline.

We also still have postgraduate bursaries available. Please note, the selection process for a postgraduate bursary is based on the quality of the abstract, not necessarily on how well it relates to the conference theme.

Kind regards,
Gilbert
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Dr. Gilbert Caluya
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding
University of South Australia
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