[csaa-forum] Call for papers: Cultural Studies and the New Uses of Literacy

[Paul Byron]

 *CSAA Intermezzo Symposium*:
*Cultural Studies and the New Uses of Literacy*
4-5 April, 2014
University of New South Wales

This symposium emerges from ongoing debates, local and international, about
the different approaches to ‘literacy’ in contemporary Cultural Studies.
According to Stuart Hall, “there would have been no Cultural Studies” were
it not for Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class
Life.  The importance of literacies emerges in Graeme Turner’s concern that
the research projects of many students (and many academics, we would add)
“are too often reduced to their topic rather than situated within the
broadest possible relation to a body of ideas, concepts and approaches”.
And David Buckingham warns that the

proliferation of literacies may be fashionable, but it raises some
significant questions. Popular discussions of “economic literacy,”
“emotional literacy,” and even “spiritual literacy” seem to extend the
application of the term to the point where any analogy to its original
meaning (that is, in relation to written language) has been lost.

Ongoing debate on the usefulness of Hoggart’s work suggests that The Uses
of Literacy is an appropriate starting point from which to explore how
academic research and teaching practices engage with cultural literacies.
So, in thinking through ‘the uses of literacy’ we return to Hoggart’s text
to (re)consider current scholarship, particularly that of scholars working
in the intersecting fields of Cultural Studies, Literacy Learning, Media
Studies, Communication Studies, Screen Studies and the Creative Industries.

Presenters are encouraged to address connections between ‘cultural
literacies’ and Cultural Studies within contemporary research and teaching.
Suggested themes for papers include but are not exclusive to:

·        Literacies of cinema, video, animation, or screen cultures

·        Digital literacy

·        Games literacies

·        Mobile phone and social media literacies

·        Literacies of sex and mediated sexual cultures

·        Religious literacies

·        Emotional literacies

·        Indigeneity literacies

·        Literacies of pedagogy and learning

·        Audio and visual literacies


*Keynote speakers and international guests include:*

·       Emeritus Professor Bill Green (Charles Sturt University), who
wishes to engage with issues relating to Cultural Studies, literacy
learning and the English curriculum;

·       Professor Lelia Green (Edith Cowan University), whose relevant
literacy relates to children's and young people's internet risk;

·       Professor Yoshikazu Shiobara (Keio University), whose
interdisciplinary research is in media literacy and citizenship in
multicultural society;

·       Associate Professor Hirotoshi Yaginuma (Niigata University), whose
current research project involves a Cultural Studies approach to visual
literacy.


*Virtual & actual participation: *We welcome virtual and actual
participation of colleagues from international, rural and regional locales.
Academics from regional, non-eastern seaboard Australian campuses are
strongly encouraged to attend, and where possible will be prioritised as
presenters in an effort to broaden and diversify this dialogue.

*Publication:* A selection of papers will be published in a special issue
of the transnational, online, peer-reviewed journal Fusion (
http://www.fusion-journal.com).

*Registration:* The symposium will be spread over two consecutive half days
(April 4-5). Registration fee is $100/$75 for both/one half days for
established academics and $50/$40 for postgraduates and early career
researchers. Postgrads and ECRs from regional or rural universities are
invited to apply for one of six $75 scholarships (plus free Symposium
dinner) to reduce attendance costs.

*Abstract submission: *Abstracts not exceeding 500 words will be accepted
until 20 January 2014 and should be emailed to paul.byron at unsw.edu.au.
Please contact Paul if you have any questions.



*This Intermezzo Symposium is an initiative of the Cultural Studies
Association of Australasia. It aims to foster collegiality amongst Cultural
Studies scholars in the region and provide the opportunity for new ideas,
developments and emerging projects to be discussed in a supportive
environment.   ***

(pdf version attached, or downloadable from http://ow.ly/d/1AJH)

-- 
Paul Byron
Research Assistant
Journalism and Media Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
paul.byron at unsw.edu.au
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