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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Dear CSAA Members, </span></p>
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We have had a fantastic response to our conference call for papers and are already excited by the abstracts that are now flowing in. However, many of you have asked for a little more time to submit so we are happy to
<span style="color: rgb(200, 38, 19);">extend the cfp for one more week until Sunday 3 August</span>.</div>
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<b><i><u>CSAA 2025 conference call for papers due 3 August 2025</u></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;"><b>So hot right now: Cultures in rising temperatures</b></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><i><a style="margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://csaa.asn.au/csaa-conference-2025/" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Original URL: https://csaa.asn.au/csaa-conference-2025/. Click or tap if you trust this link." class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAdbdd1710-6c3d-1199-0e55-e1f1367ffbfb" target="_blank" href="https://csaa.asn.au/csaa-conference-2025/">Cultural
Studies Association of Australasia conference</a></i></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>25-28 November 2025 // University of Melbourne campus as part of the Congress of HASS</i></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>(Conveners: Rebecca Olive, Gilbert Caluya, Holly Randell-Moon, Andrew Hutcheon)</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>CSAA 2025
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call for papers and sessions</a>: </b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">CSAA 2025 aims to look at intersections, divergences, conflicts, and convergences of ‘heat’ in cultures, practices, media, environments, and forms of governance. Together,
we will explore how our relations to each other are heating up across political, environmental and cultural challenges and to explore what rising temperatures might help us imagine or foreclose into the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Keynote sessions will include an In Conversation between Professor Irene Watson & Professor Mary Graham, as well as presentations by Emeritus Professor Baden Offord, Professor Emily
Potter and Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens.</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">To help spark some ideas, submissions for panels or presentations could include topics such as:</span></p>
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<b>Cultures of Heat</b>: representing heat/fire in everyday cultures; the rhetoric of fire/heat/temperatures and its effects on culture, politics, society, identity, practice or praxis; theorising ‘slow burn’ in literature and film.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px;">
<b>Hot as Hell</b>: heat/fire in religious and spiritual cultures; the cultural politics of hell.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px;">
<b>Heated media</b>: revisiting McLuhan’s hot and cool media theory; fiery social media communities and cultures; the media of outrage and panic; reporting on/in hot conflict zones; mediated hate speech against women and minorities; toxic fandom in entertainment
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<b>Hot bodies</b>: the body politics of heat; screen representations of sex; the gendered and racialised politics of attractiveness; cooling off dating; hot flashes/hot flushes; heatstroke.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px;">
<b>Taking the temperature of technological developments</b>: technological contributions to carbon emissions; AI and climate change; technology’s connections to social and political conflicts.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px;">
<b>Fiery emotions</b>: affects of ‘passion’; passionate debates; the uses and abuses of anger; lust and desire; the politics of passionate ‘races’; the gendered politics of passion.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px;">
<b>Geographies of heat</b>: the geopolitics of climate change; the urban politics of overheating; access to heating/coolness as a right; heat in rural and regional studies; ‘race’, empire and heat vulnerability</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px;">
<b>Managing fire</b>: governance and governmentality of heat/climate change/fires; Indigenous approaches to using fire as an environmental management tool; cladding and the cultural politics of building codes; managing fires in the culture of construction industries</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px;">
<b>Cultural politics of climate change</b>: the effects of global warming on leisure and recreation industries and cultures; non-humans and more-than-human worlds in climate change; movement, physical activities and sport under global warming; rethinking health
and wellness in the context of climate change.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px;">
<b>Critical reflections on ‘the Anthropocene’</b>: the theory of ‘climate change’ or ‘the Anthropocene’; new methodologies for the Anthropocene; the connections between humans, non- humans, and more-than-human worlds in the Anthropocene.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px;">
<b>Creative Arts in heat</b>: creative artist responses to climate change; the role of the arts and craft in climate change politics; sustainability in arts and craft practices.</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px;">
<b>Theories, ethics and practices of care in global warming</b>: what are our responsibilities under climate change? What kind of care does the planet need? And how do we enact such care under global warming?</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px;">
<div style="margin: 0px;" role="presentation"><b>Colonialities of heat</b>: the geopolitics of race and coloniality in rising temperatures; environmental racism; Indigenous sovereignties and sciences</div>
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<span style="color: black;">These are just some provocations to ignite your own ideas with this year’s theme. As always, the CSAA annual conference is open to any hot topics in cultural studies. We’re excited to hear your ideas so fire away!</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Email submissions to <a style="margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="2" title="mailto:csaaconference2025@gmail.com" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA98f91151-5c8e-562f-8c12-55322af6f073" href="mailto:csaaconference2025@gmail.com">
csaaconference2025@gmail.com</a> by <u>3 August 2025.</u></b></span></p>
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<b><i>Rebecca Olive</i></b></div>
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Associate Director (<a title="https://cur.org.au/themes/regenerative-environments-climate-action/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAb528c4f7-a33a-4c53-8005-7f00635231eb" href="https://cur.org.au/themes/regenerative-environments-climate-action/">Regenerative Environments
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President: <i><a title="https://csaa.asn.au/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA21c7a042-396a-1bea-facb-b571e1b4b5e6" href="https://csaa.asn.au/">Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)</a></i></div>
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Project website: <span style="color: rgb(94, 50, 124);"><i><u><a style="color: rgb(94, 50, 124);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA2c64847a-32cf-00a3-d346-73b1ff9e51f0" href="https://swimstorymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7fca14e3147041bab5e91e3f923b61c6">Swim Melbourne</a></u></i></span></div>
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