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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Dear cultural studies colleagues<BR>
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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.<BR>
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Please find below a pre-conference announcement from conference organiser, Associate Prof. Baden Offord. Baden will be distributing more information shortly. <BR>
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In the meantime, mark the dates in your diary and we look forward to seeing you then!<BR>
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Best<BR>
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Amanda<BR>
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Cultural Studies Association of Australasia National Conference<BR>
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hosted by Southern Cross University<BR>
venue: Byron Bay Community and Cultural Centre<BR>
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'A Scholarly Affair'<BR>
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7-9 December 2010
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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.'<BR>
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Some of the key issues and themes to be considered:<BR>
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• new qualities of scholarly enquiry<BR>
• cultural studies scholarship in the 21st century<BR>
• discovering and sustaining ethical cultural space in higher education<BR>
• innovative relationships between scholar and community<BR>
• sustaining healthy, creative and principled scholarship<BR>
• cultural studies as ethical foundation<BR>
• relevance scholarship (such as ecocultural studies)<BR>
• pedagogy as an affair to remember<BR>
• negotiating the audit-based culture<BR>
• scholarship on the margins<BR>
• scholarship and diversity<BR>
• narrating communities and cultures<BR>
• disciplining innovations: TEQSA and ERA<BR>
• scholarship and its relationship to discovery<BR>
• new media, digital communication and the borderlands of scholarship<BR>
• responding to an ethics of scholarship<BR>
• socially and culturally inclusive practices<BR>
• research/writing as 'ethical intervention'<BR>
• engaging with indigenous and majority-world scholarship<BR>
• creative and critical knowledge production<BR>
• value of non-corporate scholarship<BR>
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<B>Conference Dinner<BR>
</B>'A Night to Remember'<BR>
Byron Bay Surf Life Saving Club, on the beach, Byron Bay.<BR>
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<B>Venue<BR>
</B>The conference will be held at the Byron Bay Community and Cultural Centre.<BR>
<a href="http://www.byroncentre.com.au/">http://www.byroncentre.com.au/</a><BR>
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<B>Host<BR>
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Southern Cross University<BR>
<a href="http://www.scu.edu.au/">http://www.scu.edu.au/</a><BR>
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