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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For the first time in its history,
<i>Crossroads in Cultural Studies</i><span style=""> is coming to the southern hemisphere.
</span>Hosted by the University of Sydney and Western Sydney University, the 11th International Conference
<i>Crossroads in Cultural Studies</i> will be held in Sydney, Australia from <b>December 14<sup>th</sup> to 17<sup>th</sup> 2016.
</b>Scholars from around the world will come together in the beautiful summertime setting of Sydney University to engage with the past, present and future of cultural studies scholarship.</span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ghassan Hage, Audra Simpson, Kamala Visweswaran.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Other Plenary and Featured Spotlight Speakers Will Include:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Paula Banerjee, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Alison Bashford, Amita Baviskar, Jean Burgess, John Erni, Martin Fredriksson, Steve Kinnane, Denisa Kera, Maria Lugones, Mark McLelland, Cecilia Mariz,
Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Kado Muir, Laikwan Pang, Susanna Paasonen, Elizabeth Povinelli, Cristina Rocha, Evelyn Ruppert, Rachel Silvey, Gavin Smith, Maristella Svampa, Imre Szeman, Martina Tazzioli, Irene Watson, Brenda Weber, Nira Yuval-Davis.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Stay tuned for the announcement of more speakers!</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
<i>Crossroads in Cultural Studies</i> Conference has played an important role in the creation of a global discussion of Cultural Studies. It has become a major international conference where scholars from all five continents gather regularly to exchange research,
views, and insights. Organized by the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS), the Crossroads conference is held every other year in different parts of the world. Previous conferences have taken place in Birmingham (United Kingdom), Urbana-Champaign (USA),
Istanbul (Turkey), Kingston (Jamaica), Hong Kong (China), Paris (France), and Tampere (Finland).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A day-long postgraduate/graduate research student conference will precede the main conference (on 13 December, 2016) – this event will be held at Western
Sydney University.</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Submit your proposal using the online forms</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> before
<b>April 30th, 2016: </b>The call for both paper and pre-organised panel proposals is now open. Submission guidelines and forms can be accessed through our website:
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ACS Assistance Fund for Crossroads 2016.
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Association for Cultural Studies will offer a small number of grants to assist participants from ACS under-represented regions with travel, accommodation and/or registration expenses.
Find more information on the website here: </span><a href="http://crossroads2016.org/register/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://crossroads2016.org/register/</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Information on registration and accommodation, and on the student pre-conference will follow soon, along with more confirmed speakers.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Spread the news!</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Please forward this message to your colleagues and friends
– we look forward to seeing you in Sydney in our summer 2016!</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Possible topics</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The conference is open to all topics relevant to cultural studies. Here are some suggested topics as food for thought, drawing on the work of our invited
keynote, plenary and spotlight speakers, and on more general themes in cultural studies research. However, all contemporary cultural studies research is welcome at this conference: </span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Diversity, culture, governance</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Indigenous knowledge and politics</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Borders and mobilities</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Culture, gender and decolonisation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Data cultures</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Extraction: cultures and industries</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Media regulation: from censorship to piracy</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Popular affect online</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Transforming christianities</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Who counts in the anthropocene? gender, sexuality, race and class</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Securitization</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Australasian cultural studies</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Consumption and everyday life</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Critical and cultural theory</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Digital infrastructure</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Culture, gender and sexuality</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Globalisation and culture</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Human/non-human relations</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Inter-Asian cultural studies</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Managing cities</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Migrant cultural studies</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Popular cultures and genres</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Public culture and cultural policy</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Race and racism</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Rethinking the human</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Rural cultural studies</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Screen and media culture</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Transforming/Globalising universities</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Steering Committee:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Catherine Driscoll (USyd), Professor Tony Bennett (WSU), Associate Professor Tess Lea (USyd), Professor Brett Nielsen (WSU), Professor Elspeth Probyn (USyd),
Associate Professor Kane Race (USyd), Dr Guy Redden (USyd), Dr Shanthi Robertson (WSU).</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
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