[csaa-forum] Call for Papers: 'Minor Culture' CSAA Conference 2015

[Timothy Laurie]

Call for Papers:

MINOR CULTURE
Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Dec 1-Dec 3, 2015

Minor Culture creates a space for inter-disciplinary dialogues around the study of place, identity and marginality, and addresses research on everyday cultural productions and media texts, cultural policy and discourses of sustainability, digital life and creative industries, and public cultures in the Asia-Pacific region. The conference also invites responses to the following questions:

·                How are minor cultures inhabited? When do minor cultures become uninhabitable?
·                Is the concept of minority still useful in explaining contemporary forms of cultural marginality?
·                How do categories such as indigeneity and Aboriginality, gender and sexuality, class, disability, race and citizenship produce minoritising effects? How might these categories change when mobilised through governmental discourses, newsmedia, and everyday usage?
·                Who narrates experiences of minoritisation? For whom are these narratives produced? How is minoritarianism articulated through film, music, television, literature, performance, and digital cultures?
·                In what ways do practices of government and cultural policy shape relationships between local, national and transnational cultures? To what extent are legal regulations implicated in the formation of minoritarian practices?
·                How do new minor or major cultural formations emerge? Through which means do political practices resist or intervene in these formations?
·                Do minor cultures require novel theoretical tools or research methodologies? What do experimental approaches to cultural research look like? What alternative kinds of knowledge could such approaches make available?
·                Is minority a humanist concept? What place could majority and minority have within post-anthropocentric thinking?
·                And when do minor cultures cease to be minor?


Time & Location
University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus
Nov. 30: Prefix Postgraduate Day (incl. workshops on theory and methodology from senior cultural studies researchers)
Dec 1-3 Minor Culture conference

Keynote Speakers

Distinguished Professor Ien Ang (Professor of Cultural Studies, Institute for Culture and Society)

Professor Jose Neil C. Garcia (Professor of English, Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City)

Professor Meaghan Morris (Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies, University of Sydney)

Invited speakers also include Dennis Altman, Tony Bennett, Catherine Driscoll, Ghassan Hage, Koichi Iwabuchi, Peter Jackson, Stephen Muecke, Greg Noble, Elspeth Probyn, Katrina Schlunke, and Graeme Turner.


Abstracts
Please send an abstract (250 words max), a title for the presentation (15 min max), and a short bio (30 words max) including your name, email address, degree level and institutional affiliation to: csaa2015 at lists.unimelb.edu.au (both in the body of the email and as an attachment) by June 1, 2015.
Presenters will be notified of their acceptance no later than July 1.

Conference Co-convenors
Dr. Rimi Khan & Dr. Timothy Laurie (Screen & Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne)

Conference Organising Committee at the University of Melbourne
Assoc. Prof. Chris Healy (Screen & Cultural Studies)
Assoc. Prof. Fran Martin (Screen & Cultural Studies)
Assoc. Prof. Scott McQuire (Media and Communications)
Professor Angela Ndalianis (Screen & Cultural Studies)
Professor Nikos Papastergiadis (Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures)
Assoc. Prof. Audrey Yue (Screen & Cultural Studies)


Feel free to email any questions about the conference to csaa2015 at lists.unimelb.edu.au<mailto:csaa2015 at lists.unimelb.edu.au>

Website URL tbc, but for general information about CSAA, see www.csaa.asn.au

Dr. Timothy Laurie | Lecturer in Cultural Studies
Room 237 John Medley Building
The School of Culture and Communication
THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
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