<html dir="ltr">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style id="owaParaStyle" type="text/css">
<!--
p
{margin-top:0;
margin-bottom:0}
-->
P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}</style>
</head>
<body ocsi="0" fpstyle="1">
<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><br>
<br>
<div style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">
<div></div>
<div>
<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Cambria" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cultural Studies Association of Australasia annual conference 2012</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hosted by the Department of Gender & Cultural Studies, University of Sydney</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dec 4<sup>th</sup>-6<sup>th</sup> (pre-fix pre-conference Dec 3<sup>rd</sup>)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><font face="Cambria" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">‘Materialities: Economies, Empiricism, & Things’</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Cambria" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Organising committee: Fiona Allon, Prudence Black, Catherine Driscoll,
<br>
Elspeth Probyn, Kane Race& Guy Redden.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><u><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Call for Papers</span></font></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cultural studies has a long history of investigating material practices – indeed it was a founding tene<a name="_GoBack"></a>t of British cultural studies – but recently a new
turn or return to materialism seems to be emerging in the field.<span style="">
</span>What this materiality now means is still open, but we suggest that it flags a renewed interest in questions of how to study cultural objects, institutions and practices (methods), what constitutes matter and materiality (empiricism), and how things (humans
and non-humans) are being reworked at a time of global economic, environmental and cultural flux.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our keynotes haveall directed critical attention to these questions – to the more-than-human, to new philosophies of matter, to the gendered material and economic circuits of
media, and to ‘the heavy materiality of language’. We have invited them to help us in reinvigorating what cultural studies can do today. They include: Ross Chambers (Michigan), Katherine Gibson (UWS), Lesley Head (UoW), Bev Skeggs (Goldsmiths, London), and
Sarah Whatmore (Oxford).</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We encourage proposed panels and individual papers that engage with the wide spectrum of issues flagged by our title, including submissions that focus on:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·</span></span></font> the crossing of science studies and cultural studies;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·</span></span></font> questions of method;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·</span></span></font>the relation between culture and economy;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·</span></span></font> cultural histories of objects and forms;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·</span></span></font> new ideas about empiricism;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·</span></span></font> placing sexuality, gender and race within the more-than-human;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·</span></span></font> the materiality of texts and genres;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·</span></span></font> the future and the past of material cultural studies;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·</span></span></font> environmental humanities and changing ecologies;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·</span></span></font> cultural studies within the anthropocene;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·</span></span></font>cultural relations with/in primary and natural resources;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><font face="Symbol" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·</span></span></font> the new materiality of globalism</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Papers and panels not focusing on the theme are also welcome.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please send submissions to csaa.2012@gmail.com by
<b style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">August 24<sup>th</sup></span></b> and include your name and affiliation. Abstracts for papers should be 250-300 words. Panel submissions must include three individual abstracts, a panel title and 100-150 word rationale
for the panel as a whole.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We will advise all proposers of accepted papers within 4 weeks of this deadline. Please note that accepted presenters will need to register before their paper will be scheduled
in the program.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There will also be a separate event, “Pre-Fix”, geared to the needs of postgraduates and early career researchers, on December 3<sup>rd</sup>. Details of this and the main conference
will be on a dedicated conference website soon. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CSAA website: http://www.csaa.asn.au/</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CSAA2012</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Cambria" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Twitter: csaa2012</span></font></p>
<div><br>
<br>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2">Associate Professor
</font><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2">Catherine Driscoll | School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry<br>
</font><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2">Postgraduate Research Coordinator |
</font><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2">Department of Gender and Cultural Studies</font><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2"><br>
</font><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2"><br>
The University of Sydney</font><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2"><br>
K4.07, Main Quadrangle A14 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 </font><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2"><br>
T +61 2 9036 9503 | F +61 2 9351 5336</font><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2"><br>
E </font><a href="mailto:catherine.driscoll@sydney.edu.au" style="font-family: Helvetica;" target="_blank"><font size="2">catherine.driscoll@sydney.edu.au</font></a><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2">
<br>
W </font><a href="http://sydney.edu.au/arts/gender_cultural_studies/staff/profiles/cdriscoll.shtml" style="font-family: Helvetica;" target="_blank"><font size="2">http://sydney.edu.au/arts/gender_cultural_studies/staff/profiles/cdriscoll.shtml</font></a><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2"><br>
</font><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2"><br>
CRICOS 00026A</font><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2"><br>
This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments.</font><font style="font-family: Helvetica;" size="2"><br>
</font></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>