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<div align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><b>PRE-CONFERENCE
ANNOUNCEMENT</b></font><br>
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<div align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><b>The School of Arts and
Social Sciences and Centre for Peace and Social
Justice</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><b>Southern Cross
University</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><b><br>
proudly hosting</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>the Cultural
Studies Association of Australasia's Annual Conference</b></font><br>
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<div><font size="+2">'A Scholarly Affair'<br>
</font>Byron Bay<br>
7-9 December 2010<br>
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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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<b>Confirmed Speakers so far include:<br>
</b>Professor Vinay Lal, UCLA and New Delhi University<br>
Professor Gerard Goggin, UNSW<br>
Professor Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney<br>
Melissa Lucashenko, author<br>
Dr Catherine Manathunga, University of Queensland<br>
Professor Deborah Bird-Rose, Macquarie University<br>
Professor Trevor Gale, University of South Australia<br>
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<div>Some of the key issues to be considered:<br>
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</x-tab>discovering and sustaining ethical space in higher
education<br>
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</x-tab>innovative relationships between scholar and community<br>
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healthy, creative and principled scholarship<br>
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scholarship (such as ecocultural studies)<br>
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</x-tab>negotiating the audit-based culture<br>
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</x-tab>disciplining innovations: TEQSA and ERA<br>
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</x-tab>scholarship and its relationship to discovery<br>
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digital communication and the borderlands of scholarship<br>
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</x-tab>responding to an ethics of scholarship<br>
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culturally inclusive practices<br>
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</x-tab>new scholarship in listening, voice and participation<br>
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justice scholarship<br>
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</x-tab>engaging with indigenous and majority-world scholarship<br>
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</x-tab>creative and critical knowledge production<br>
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<div><b>Venue</b></div>
<div>The conference will be held at the Byron Bay Community and
Cultural Centre.<br>
http://www.byroncentre.com.au/<br>
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<div><b>Call for Papers</b><br>
Panel Proposals due: July 18<br>
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<div><b>Abstracts (250-300 words) due: September 5</b></div>
<div>A selection of papers from the conference will be published in a
special issue of<i> Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural
Studies</i> (A Ranked).</div>
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<div>An Abstract online submission system will be available in late
March 2010 (this will be announced).</div>
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<div><b>Conference Website</b></div>
<div>This will be active from the middle of March. Please check:
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/sass/</div>
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<div>For all other conference enquiries please contact either Julie
Burton (julie.burton@scu.edu.au), Rob Garbutt (rob.garbutt@scu.edu.au)
or Baden Offord (baden.offord@scu.edu.au).</div>
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<div><font color="#0000FF">Dr Baden Offord I Associate Professor in
Cultural Studies</font></div>
<div><font color="#0000FF">Co-Director,<i> Centre for Peace and Social
Justice</i></font></div>
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