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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Dear Rimi and Timothy,<br> Thank you for organising this conference and for the splendid list of speakers. My apologies for not having attended the annual conferences recently. If I had I may already know the answer to my concern. It is that all the speakers, with one exception, come from universities in Sydney and Melbourne--unless there are some changes in affiliation of which I am not aware. To put it differently, there are, I think, no speakers listed from Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, or, with the very honourable exception of Graeme Turner, from Brisbane. Nor are any speakers listed from Aotearoa/New Zealand. This makes the conference appear terribly Sydney/Melbourne-centric. I am sure that the two of you, with degrees from a Perth uni and an Adelaide uni, can aapreciate how this feels to those of us who live and work outside of the traditional core nexus. This seems to me an issue of particular relevance given the exciting topic of the conference. Minor Culture, related to matters of place, identity and marginality, are of great importance to those of us in places still identified as peripheral to the old Australian core. Is there a reason that I don't know about why the conference has been configured in such a traditional and exclusive a way?<br><br>To remind list members of a small portion of a complex and diverse history; Perth figured large in the early development of Cultural Studies in Australia not least because the city's historically marginal status in Australia replicated the early concerns of Cultural Studies with marginality. The Australian Journal of Cultural Studies was founded in Perth. The journal's home subsequently shifted to the United States and it became the journal we know of as Cultural Studies. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, which I believe still has a link with CSAA, was founded in Perth and its senior editor still works in Perth.<br><br>With best wishes,<br>Jon<br><br><hr>From: timothy.laurie@unimelb.edu.au<br>To: csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au<br>Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 02:06:39 +0000<br>Subject: [csaa-forum] Call for Papers: 'Minor Culture' CSAA Conference 2015<br><br>
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<b style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">MINOR CULTURE<br>
Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Dec 1-Dec 3, 2015 </span>
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<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">Minor Culture
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">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:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman";">               
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">How are minor cultures inhabited? When do minor cultures become
uninhabitable? </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";"></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">Is the concept of minority still useful in explaining contemporary
forms of cultural marginality? </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">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?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";"></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">Who narrates experiences of minoritisation? For whom are these
narratives produced? How is minoritarianism articulated through film, music, television, literature, performance, and digital cultures?
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">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?</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">How do new minor or major cultural formations emerge? Through
which means do political practices resist or intervene in these formations?</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">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?
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">Is minority a humanist concept? What place could majority and
minority have within post-anthropocentric thinking?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";"></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">And when do minor cultures cease to be minor?</span></p>
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<b style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">Time & Location</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">Nov. 30: Prefix Postgraduate Day (incl. workshops on theory and methodology from senior cultural studies researchers)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">Dec 1-3
<i style="">Minor Culture </i>conference</span></p>
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<b style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">Keynote Speakers</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;"></span></p>
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<h1 style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal;">Distinguished Professor Ien Ang (Professor of Cultural Studies,
Institute for Culture and Society)</span></h1>
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<h1 style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal;">Professor Jose Neil C. Garcia (</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;">Professor
of English, Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City)<span style="color:black;"></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal;">Professor Meaghan Morris (</span><span class=ecxcompletetext><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-weight:normal;">Professor
of Gender & Cultural Studies, University of Sydney)<span style="color:black;"></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">Invited speakers also include
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">Dennis Altman, Tony Bennett, Catherine Driscoll, Ghassan Hage, Koichi Iwabuchi, Peter Jackson, Stephen Muecke, Greg Noble, Elspeth Probyn, Katrina Schlunke,
and Graeme Turner.</span></p>
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<b style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">Abstracts</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">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: <span class=ecxgi><b style="">csaa2015@lists.unimelb.edu.au</b></span><b style="">
</b>(both in the body of the email and as an attachment) by <span class=ecxaqj>June 1, 2015.
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<span class=ecxaqj><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">Presenters will be notified of their acceptance no later than July 1.</span></span></p>
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<b style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">Conference Co-convenors</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">Dr. Rimi Khan & Dr. Timothy Laurie (Screen & Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne)</span></p>
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<b style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">Conference Organising Committee at the University of Melbourne</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">Assoc. Prof. Chris Healy (Screen & Cultural Studies)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">Assoc. Prof. Fran Martin (Screen & Cultural Studies)<span class=ecxst></span></span></p>
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<span class=ecxst><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">Assoc. Prof. Scott McQuire (Media and Communications)</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">Professor Angela Ndalianis (Screen & Cultural Studies)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">Professor Nikos Papastergiadis (<span class=ecxst>Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures)</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";">Assoc. Prof. Audrey Yue (Screen & Cultural Studies)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">Feel free to email any questions about the conference to
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;">Website URL tbc, but for general information about CSAA, see www.csaa.asn.au</span></p>
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