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[ecrea] CFP: Division sessions, CSA (US) 2009

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Call for papers for DIVISION SESSIONS for the 2009 Cultural Studies Association



Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference
Marriott (at the Plaza), Kansas City
April 16-18, 2009

Additional information about the CSA meetings can be found at: <http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm>http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm
Division sessions are guaranteed acceptance for the conference.
Note the specific directions and different due dates for the various divisions.




Culture and War Division



The Division on Culture and War of the Cultural Studies Association would like to invite submissions for the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) to be held in Kansas City, April 16-18, 2009.
Deadline: September 1

The CSA Division on Culture and War is dedicated to scholarly and activist work on the cultural aspects of war and militarism, encompassing rhetoric and language, news and mass media, fictional texts and representations, documentary film and video, new media and other cultural forms. The Division welcomes interventionist and critical work on wars past and present, as well as on the everyday militarization of society, from historical, theoretical, global and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Related panels will likely be organized around such themes and methodologies as claims on the real, class analysis, gender and racial politics, nationalist discourses, global audiences, and counter-hegemonic cultural production and reception.

If interested in participating in a Division-sponsored "open call" session, please submit by September 1: a. Your name, email address, phone number, department, and institutional affiliation. b. A 500-word abstract for the 20-minute paper proposed, including a paper title. c. Any needed audio-visual equipment must be noted with your proposal. No requests for AV equipment can be honored later.

Please send all required information by September 1 to both co-chairs of the Division:
Tony Grajeda, <mailto:(agrajeda /at/ pegasus.cc.ucf.edu)>(agrajeda /at/ pegasus.cc.ucf.edu)
Cynthia Fuchs, <mailto:(cfuchs /at/ gmu.edu)>(cfuchs /at/ gmu.edu)

Tony Grajeda
Associate professor of cultural studies
Department of English
Colbourn Hall, 301
University of Central Florida
PO Box 161346


Cultural Studies and Film Division
The Cultural Studies and Film division of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA) seeks participants for each of two sessions for the Seventh Annual CSA Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, April 16 to 18, 2009.

One session is a seminar on Cinema and Modernity. This seminars reading, TBA, probably will include an essay by Miriam Hansen. Prospective participants each should kindly submit, by August 15, 2008, a brief bio, plus a proposal (in the format of one?s choice) describing ones own research projects relevance to understanding cinema and modernity.

Organizer/contact: Evan Heimlich, (moderndivination /at/ gmail.com) (please begin the messages subject line with
Seminar).

For its second session, this division, in cooperation with the CSA division on Culture and War, seeks participants for a roundtable on Cinema, Culture, War. Discussion might address war-films and broadly, cinema itself as theatres of cultural war. The roundtable might particularly investigate how filmmaking has adopted rhetorics of warfare e.g., of blockbusters, guerrilla filmmaking, or of promotional campaigns.

Prospective participants each should kindly submit, by August 15, 2008, a brief bio, plus an abstract of less than 500 words, describing one?s own research projects relevance to understanding this topic: Cinema, Culture, War.

Organizer/contact: Evan Heimlich, (evan.heimlich /at/ gmail.com) (please begin the messages subject line with Roundtable).




Cultural Studies and Literature Division­Division Members only



The Cultural Studies and Literature Division (CSLD) of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA) calls for division-sponsored sessions for the Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association Meeting, 16-18 April 2009, Kansas City, MO, USA. In particular, we seek sessions that practice a reading of literature that highlights its historical engagement in the social construction of knowledge and interpretation of experience.

CSLD is looking to sponsor (1) two paper sessions, (2) two roundtables or workshops, (3) one seminar, OR (4) a combination of two of the above choices.

If interested in proposing a paper session, roundtable session or workshop session, or a seminar, please submit the following: a) The name, email address, phone number, and department and institutional affiliation of the organizer. b) The names, email addresses, and department and institutional affiliations of each participant. c) A 500-word abstract for the session, identifying the type of session (panel, roundtable, workshop, seminar) proposed. (Also include 500-word abstracts of each of the papers from each participant. Session should have only three to four papers).
d)       Any audio-visual equipment needs.

Please send all required information before 15 August 2008 to both of the CSLD co-chairs: Caroline H. Yang (Department of English, Wesleyan University) at (chy /at/ uiuc.edu) and Helen Kapstein (Department of English, John Jay College, CUNY) at (hkapstein /at/ jjay.cuny.edu).



For your reference, here is last year?s call for papers for a CSLD-sponsored seminar:

<http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/archive/Cultural-Historical/3152.html>http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/archive/Cultural-Historical/3152.html


Cultural Policy Studies Division
In its first year as a division of the Cultural Studies Association, the Cultural Policy Studies Division welcomes papers dealing with any aspect of the relationship between cultural policy and cultural studies, although priority will be given to topics that address some of the following issues:
v      the place of cultural policy in cultural studies
v      beyond governmentality; cultural policy and cultural theory
v      from ?cultural? to ?creative? industries
v      the cultural industries (popular music, film, etc.) and policy
v      national cultural policies versus international policy
v      national identity and globalization
v      cultural policy in the age of convergence
v      cultural trade and policy

Please submit via e-mail a 500-word abstract of a 15-20 minute paper proposal, including name, department, institutional affiliation, and e-mail address by September 5th to co-chairs, Joseph Terry and Gunn Sara Enli.

Joseph Terry
University of Colorado at Boulder
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
<mailto:(joseph.terry /at/ colorado.edu)>(joseph.terry /at/ colorado.edu)

Gunn Sara Enli
Department of Media and Communication
University of Oslo
<mailto:(gunn.enli /at/ media.uio.no)>(gunn.enli /at/ media.uio.no)




Media Interventions Division



The Media Interventions Division of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites papers and panel proposals for the Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association Meetings, April 16-18, 2009, Kansas City, MO, USA. The division welcomes submissions that examine media interventions, broadly conceived, from academic and practitioner perspectives. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
·                     DIY aesthetics
·                     Local, national and transnational media reform
·                     Grassroots cultural production
·                     Indigenous media culture
·                     Youth media form, content and practices
·                     Citizens? journalism
· Discourse analysis of public interest and advocacy campaigns
·                     Media literacy/media education
·                     Alternative and activist media
·                     New media and cultural politics
·                     Policy analysis of media regulation
· Historical and institutional analysis of alternative, community and Indy media organizations

The Media Interventions Division plans to sponsor one paper session and one roundtable/workshop session.

If you are interested in submitting a paper for consideration, please include the following: 1. The name, email address, phone number, department and institutional affiliation of the author(s);
2.                    A 500-word abstract for the paper;
3.                    A detailed list of any audio-visual equipment needs.

If you are interested in organizing a roundtable/workshop session please include the following: 1. The name, email address, phone number, department and institutional affiliation of the session organizer; 2. The names, email addresses, and department and institutional affiliations of each participant; 3. A 500-word abstract for the session. In addition, please include concise (250-300 word) abstracts of each
4.                    participant?s paper;
5.                    A detailed list of any audio-visual equipment needs.

Send inquires and completed paper/session proposals for the Media Interventions Division to:
Kevin Howley
Associate Professor of Media Studies
DePauw University
<mailto:(khowley /at/ depauw.edu)>(khowley /at/ depauw.edu)

The deadline for submissions is September 7, 2008.




Racial and Ethnic Studies Division



The Racial and Ethnic Studies Division (RESD) of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA) calls for an array of papers for the Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association Meetings, 16-18 April 2009, Kansas City, MO, USA. In specific, we seek papers that explore how race and ethnicity are discursive and performative constructs whose meaning is never fixed but is continually produced, negotiated, contested, and (re)affirmed in various social fields of unequal power distribution.

RESD is looking to sponsor (1) two paper sessions, (2) two roundtables or workshops, or (3) a paper session and a roundtable/workshop.

If interested in presenting an individual paper, please submit the following:

a) The name, email address, phone number, department and institutional affiliation of the author.

b)       A 500-word abstract for the paper.

c)       Any audio-visual equipment needs.


If interested in proposing a paper session, roundtable session or workshop session, please submit the following: e) The name, email address, phone number, and department and institutional affiliation of the proposer. f) The names, email addresses, and department and institutional affiliations of each participant. g) A 500-word abstract for the session, including identifying the type of session (panel, roundtable, workshop) proposed. (Also include 500-word abstracts of each of the papers from each participant. Session should have only three to four papers).
h)       Any audio-visual equipment needs.

Please send all required information before 7 September 2008 to RESD chair Matthew W. Hughey (Departments of Media Studies and Sociology, University of Virginia) at: <mailto:(mwh5h /at/ virginia.edu)>(mwh5h /at/ virginia.edu).




Technology Division
The Technology Division of the Cultural Studies Association seeks individual paper submissions, round table sessions and workshop proposals. Specifically, we seek papers that examine technocultures, historicize technologies old and new, draw on ethnographies of techno-mediated environments whether in rural, urban or digital environments. The division is interested in theory building based in the examination of technologies whether old or new, rural or urban. In addition we would also like to see papers and panel proposals that look at environmental issues around the use and distribution of a wide variety of technologies. For instance, how are our daily lives, local and global cultures impacted by the practices we engage in as we use, produce and consume various technologies in work and play? What sorts of technologies emerge as dominant within frameworks of Modernity and Development and why? What sorts of subjectivities are produced within specific techno-cultures and what sorts of bodies are permitted voice and agency through such techno-cultures.

For this division we encourage submitters to not merely think of "technology" as computer technology and digital networks - but to also engage the larger socio-economic structures within which technologies old and new occur so as to map the concept of "Technology" in relation to modernity, ideological, and in relation rural and urban landscapes. This call for papers, therefore, is seeking historical and contextual examinations of technology (defined in the broadest of senses) and its use with specific attention to practices of use and proliferation. These battles are currently visible in relation to various technologies situated within contexts of agriculture, new media, energy and ecology among others. Therefore this call encourages submitters to engage these topics.

Individual paper proposals should contain:
a) The name, email address, phone number, department and institutional affiliation of author b) A 500 to 750 word abstract clearly laying out the theoretical and empirical contexts being examined
c) Any audio-visual equipment needs

Roundtable sessions and workshop sessions should contain:
a) The name, email address, phone number, department and institutional affiliation of proposer b) The names, email addresses, phone numbers, department and institutional affiliations of all panelists c) A 500 to 750 word abstract clearly laying out the theoretical and empirical contexts being examined in the panel d) 500 word abstracts for each of the papers from each participant. It is suggested that each panel not have more than four paper presentations and one respondent and one chair.
e) Any audio-visual equipment needs

Send abstracts by September 7, 2008 to Radhika Gajjala (School of Communication Studies, Bowling Green State University) at <mailto:(radhika /at/ cyberdiva.org)>(radhika /at/ cyberdiva.org) .














Visual Culture Division





A.  Visual Culture and Affect



?A new ontology of the human? is how Michael Hardt describes the potential associated with what Patricia Clough calls the affective turn in critical theory, marking a movement from a psychoanalytically informed criticism of subject identity, representation, and trauma to engaging the complexity of open systems under far-from-equilibrium conditions, as well as the body?s capacity to act, engage and connect (Clough, 2007). While Laura Marks suggests that viewers experience the film medium as two bodies in extreme proximity through the haptic gaze, the materiality of film produces what Martine Beugnet refers to as the cinema of sensation. ?Brushing the image with the skin of my eyes? is the way that Marks describes the tactile quality that belongs to vision in the cinematic experience. By focusing on a multiplicity of forms and approaches, this session seeks papers that take up the manners in which affect is being explored in visual culture broadly defined.



B.  Pedagogies of the Visual



If visual culture studies might be said to have reached a point of institutionalization, as evidenced through the proliferation of visual culture programs, then perhaps it is time to assess the state of the field from a pedagogical perspective as well. As the field changes what are the impacts in the classroom, upon the subjects that are taught as well as our methods for teaching them. This panel session/workshop will explore the various manners in which Visual Culture Division members as teachers engage pedagogical questions, issues and challenges.

Prospective papers and proposals for panel participation may be sent to Randal Rogers, Chair, Visual Culture Division of CSA, by September 1<mailto:(radhika /at/ cyberdiva.org)>, at (Randal.Rogers /at/ uregina.ca). Please feel free to make inquiries.





Karen Lillis
CSA Administrator
Cultural Studies Association (U.S.)
(csaus /at/ pitt.edu)
Seventh Annual Meeting of the CSA (U.S.)
Marriott (at the Plaza), Kansas City
April 16-18, 2009
www.csaus.pitt.edu


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