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<div align="center"><font face="Verdana"><b>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'</b></font><br>
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<div align="center"><font face="Verdana"><b>7-9 December
2010</b></font></div>
<div align="center">ECR and PG Pre-Conference Day 6 December</div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">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.'</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Featured Speakers:</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#122B3D">Vinay Lal</font><font
face="Verdana" color="#000000">, UCLA and University of
Delhi</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#122B3D">Gerard Goggin</font><font
face="Verdana" color="#000000">, University of New South
Wales</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#122B3D">Raewyn Connell</font><font
face="Verdana" color="#000000">, University of Sydney</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#122B3D">Melissa
Lucashenko</font><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">,
author</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#122B3D">Catherine
Manathunga</font><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">, University of
Queensland</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#122B3D">Deborah
Bird-Rose</font><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">, Macquarie
University</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#122B3D">Trevor Gale</font><font
face="Verdana" color="#000000">, University of South
Australia</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" color="#122B3D">Katrina
Schlunke</font><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">, University of
Technology, Sydney</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Some of the key issues and themes to be
considered:</b><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</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">* value of non-corporate
scholarship</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Conference Website:</b></font></div>
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face="Arial"><b>http://www.scu.edu.au/research/cpsj/asa/index.html</b></font
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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>Host<br>
</b>School of Arts and Social Sciences<br>
Southern Cross University</font></div>
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face="Verdana"><b>http://www.scu.edu.au/</b></font></a><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Dr Baden Offord I Associate
Professor in Cultural Studies</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF">Co-Director,<i> Centre for
Peace and Social Justice</i></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Southern Cross University, PO
Box 157 Lismore 2480, Australia</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">T:: + 61 2 66203 162 I F:: +
61 2 66 221 683</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Staff Page: School of Arts &
Social Sciences</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"
color="#000000"
>http://www.scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=9217</font
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Centre for Peace and Social
Justice</font></div>
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color="#000000"><b>http://www.scu.edu.au/research/cpsj/</b></font></div
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