*Culture & Power Seminar*
*Under the auspices of the Iberian Association for Cultural Studies (IBACS)*
*The 14th International â??Culture & Powerâ??
Conference: â??IDENTITY AND IDENTIFICATIONâ??*
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Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha,
Departamento de FilologÃa Moderna
Facultad de Letras,
Ciudad Real, Spain
22-24 April, 2010
Questions of identity and identification are
among the most important evolving concerns of
Cultural Studies today. Indeed, many thinkers,
theorists and academics working in the
interdisciplinary field of cultural studies
continue to wrestle with these slippery concepts
in their explorations of â??the production and
inculcation of culture or maps of cultureâ??
(Chris Barker). Commonly apprehended as
contingent, culturally specific and socially
produced, identity is often conceived of as the
result of a whole range of different, possible
identifications linked to specific modalities of
power under specific social and historical
conjunctures, hence, the unstable and
fluctuating nature of identity and identity
formation. The tension between self-description
and social ascription is fundamental for
individuals and groups to construct, negotiate,
defend and resist their self-understanding.
Through a process of personal identification
with discursively constructed subject positions,
identities emerge across a wide range of
cultural practices in the course of social
interactions involving the use of language and
other semiotic systems manifested in cultural artefacts of various kinds.
This conference invites 20-minute papers
addressing the topic of â??identityâ?? and
â??identificationâ?? from a wide range of
perspectives within Cultural Studies. Although
other topics may be considered, we welcome
papers dealing with, but not being limited to, issues such as the following:
1. Theorizing identity construction and
identification processes from a (variety of)
cultural studies perspective(s): identities as
discursive-performative / unstable / multiple /
fragmented / projects / constructed and
negotiated / narratives of the self / etc.
2. Methods and perspectives for examining
identity-construction and identification
processes in culture and society:
post-structuralist, feminist, psychocritical,
discursive, linguistic, Marxist, Queer Theory,
postmodern, ecocritic, postcolonial, etc.
3. From social and cultural identities to
subjectivity and the self: dimensions of and
interrelations between identity production,
consumption, commodification, regulation, inculcation, and representation.
4. Identity and genre: identities in fiction,
drama, poetry, film, television, print media,
politics, advertising, education, the
institutional, the Internet, etc. The role of
cultural artefacts in identity-construction
processes within circuits of culture in society.
5. Identity at the crossroads of cultural
studies with its disciplinary neighbours
(literary theory, sociology, linguistics,
discourse studies, anthropology, media and
communication studies, history, geography, musicology, philosophy, etc.).
6. Challenging, questioning and subverting
identities: re-constructing, -inventing,
-cycling, -visiting, -creating, -locating,
-discovering, -examining, -jecting, -producing,
-thinking, -versing, -vising, -vitalising,
-reading, -writing identities in culture and cultural artefacts.
7. Gender, sex, race, ethnicity, class, age,
citizenship and religion issues: identity
politics, hybridisation, border identities and subcultures.
8. The discourses of local, regional, national
and trans-national identities: tensions between globalisation and nationalisms.
9. Identity and identification across cultural
practices: diasporas, memory, trauma and body politics.
10. Identity and visual culture:
intertextuality, multimodality, and the dialogue between the arts.
11. Historicizing identities: cultural history
and the criticism of historical identities.
12. Identity and popular culture.
13. Identity in the Information and
Communication society: e-identities, cyber-identities, virtual identities.
*IMPORTANT DATES (/NB: extension of deadlines/)*
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§ *January 15th, 2010** **à ** _February 15^th
, 2010_: *Submission of full papers. Please send
*FULL PAPERS* (2,500 words) together with a
200-word *ABSTRACT*. Papers may be sent online
through the conference website
www.cultureandpower.org
<http://www.cultureandpower.org/> or directly to
(Eduardo.Gregorio /at/ uclm.es) <mailto:(Eduardo.Gregorio /at/ uclm.es)>
§ *February 15th, 2010** **à ** March 15^th ,
2010:* Notification of acceptance.
§ *April 22^nd , 23^rd & 24th, 2010:* Conference dates.
*PLENARY SPEAKERS:*
The following speakers have confirmed their participation at the conference:
§ *Lawrence** Grossberg* (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
§ *John Storey* (University of Sunderland)
§ *Chris Weedon *(Cardiff University)
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*PUBLICATION:*
Selected papers will be published in a volume after the conference.
*CONFERENCE LANGUAGES:*
Papers may be presented in English or Spanish.
*SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE*
*MatÃas Barchino Pérez* (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
*Chris Barker* (University of Wollongong, Australia)
*Susan Bassnett* (University of Warwick, UK)
*Jesús Benito Sánchez *(Universidad de Valladolid, Spain)
*Lou Charnon-Deutch* (Stony Brook University, USA)
*MarÃa José CoperÃas Aguilar* (Universitat de València, Spain)
*Chantal Cornut-Gentille Dâ??Arcy* (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
*Nick Couldry* (The London School of Business and Economics, UK)
*Paul du Gay* (Warwick Business School, UK)
*José Manuel Estévez Saá* (Universidade da Coruña, Spain)
*Fernando* *Galván Reula* (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)
*Rosa González Casademont* (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
*Felicity Hand* (Unversitat Autònoma Barcelona, Spain)
*Phil Hubbard* (Loughborough University, UK)
*Brian Longhurst* (University of Salford, UK)
*Ana MarÃa Manzanas Calvo* (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
*Sara MartÃn Alegre* (Unversitat Autònoma Barcelona, Spain)
*Scott McCracken* (Keele University, UK)
*Silvia Molina Plaza* (Universitat Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
*Susana* *Onega Jaén* (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
*Juan Sisinio Pérez Garzón* (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
*Alvaro Pina* (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
*Inés Praga Terente* (Universidad de Burgos, Spain)
*Isabel Santaolalla* (Roehampton University, UK)
*Peter R. Sedgwick* (Cardiff University, UK)
*Greg Smith* (University of Salford, UK)
*John Storey* (University of Sunderland, UK)
*Socorro Suárez Lafuente* (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
*Graeme* *Turner *(University of Queensland, Australia)
*Rubén Valdés Millares* (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
*Teun van Dijk* (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
*David Walton* (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)
*CONFERENCE CONVENORS:*
Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo & Ã?ngel Mateos-Aparicio
*LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE:*
Javier Enrique DÃaz Vera
Beatriz González Moreno
Ignacio Ramos Gay
Ernesto Suárez Toste
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*ENQUIRIES** *may be sent to the conference convenors:
§ Dr. Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo:
(Eduardo.Gregorio /at/ uclm.es) <mailto:(Eduardo.Gregorio /at/ uclm.es)>
§ Dr. �ngel Mateos-Aparicio:
(Angel.Mateos /at/ uclm.es) <mailto:(Angel.Mateos /at/ uclm.es)>
*REGISTRATION, ACCOMMODATION, SOCIAL PROGRAMME &
FURTHER INFORMATION *will be updated on this
conference website: www.cultureandpower.org <http://www.cultureandpower.org/>
