[eccr] Fwd: RE: FW: Critical Dialogues with CCCS

>Open Invitation!
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>Critical Dialogues with the Birmingham CCCS
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>As many of you will know, in the summer of 2002, the Department of 
>Cultural Studies and Sociology (DCS) at Birmingham University - the 
>successor to the celebrated Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies 
>(CCCS) ­ was effecctively shut down.  This brought to a close some 38 
>years of cultural studies at Birmingham University and marked the 
>institutional end point of one of the most remarkable and influential 
>intellectual projects of the last fifty years.
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>Eighteen-months later, it is time to begin documenting the history and 
>origins of the CCCS; to reassess its multiple impacts, successes and 
>failures; to investigate what its demise might tell us about wider changes 
>in Higher Education and the provision of public services in advanced 
>industrial economies; and to reflect critically on where cultural studies 
>­ in all its global diverrsity - has come from and where it is going to.
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>As a group of former students and members of staff closely involved with 
>the fight to prevent the closure of the DCS, we are now issuing an open 
>invitation to join a critical dialogue around these issues.  As a minimum 
>we aim to produce a final, â¬Üposthumousâ¬" edition of the online journal, 
>Cultural Studies from Birmingham.  However, there is obvious potential for 
>publishing one or more edited books and/or special issues of journals 
>other than/in addition to Cultural Studies from Birmingham.  If the energy 
>and resources are available there are further possibilities for themed 
>seminar, day conferences, international conferences or exhibitions.
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>In this light, we invite you to submit expressions of interest in or brief 
>ideas and suggestions for:
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>·        specific articles/chapters/photo-essays/interviews etc. for 
>inclusion in journal special issues and/or edited collections;
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>·        themed publications or events which you would be interested in 
>hosting or co/developing.
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>Needless to say, if you have ideas in addition to the above, they would 
>also be very welcome.
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>The deadline is 31st January 2004 and submissions should be returned to: 
>(dcss-l /at/ brighton.ac.uk)
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>Or
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>Dr Mark Erickson,
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>School of Applied Social Science
>University of Brighton
>Falmer,
>Brighton, BN1 9PH
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>Organisers: James Cooper; Mark Erickson, Stuart Hanson, Michael Green, 
>Peter Redman, Deborah Steinberg, Anwar Tlili,
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>Possible Themes:
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>(1) The CCCS, cultural studies and intellectual histories
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>·        Was there a â¬ÜBirmingham Schoolâ¬"?
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>·        De-centring the Centre
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>·        Does the CCCS have any relevance for cultural studies today?
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>·        Competing intellectual formations within the CCCS
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>·        Critical engagement with the intellectual legacies of the CCCS
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>·        The CCCS, cultural studies and relationships with other 
>disciplines/ways of studying culture.
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>·        Where has cultural studies come from/where is it going to?
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>(2) Institutional histories
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>·        Locating the CCCS in wider educational/political histories
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>·        Competing institutional histories of the CCCS
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>·        The contested place of the CCCS in the development of cultural 
>studies as a global (inter?)-discipline
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>(3) Pedagogy
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>·        The CCCS and progressive pedagogy
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>(4) Methods and methodologies
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>·        The CCCS and methods and methodology in cultural studies
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>(5) Changing times in Higher Education
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>·        The demise of the DCS and what it tells about wider developments 
>in Higher Education and the provision of public services in AIEs.
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>(6) Autobiography/memory work
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>·        Critical autobiographies relating to the CCCS
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>(7) Documenting the closure of the DCS
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