The York Centre for International and Security Studies and York University
Call for Papers / Performances: Popular Culture and World Politics III
4-5 November 2010
York University
Toronto, Canada
There is a growing movement in and around the study of international
politics to think about the intersections of world politics and the
production, circulation, content and consumption of various popular
cultural forms. This burgeoning scholarship has reached a point in
which it is possible to move well beyond the important initial
forays that emphasised the content of cultural forms-as-text,
seeking metaphorical connections between the cultural and the
political, to explore the interwoven possibilities and limits of the
cultural and political.
The York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS) is
pleased to invite you to Popular Culture and World Politics III, to
be held in Toronto 4-5 November 2010. Following two successful
events, hosted by the University of Bristol in 2008 and the
University of Newcastle in 2009, Popular Culture and World Politics
III seeks to continue the growing conversation on the intersections
of various forms of popular culture and the study of world politics,
from a range of disciplines and practices in the social sciences,
humanities and the arts.
We welcome proposals for performances, screenings, panels, or
individual papers, on any aspect of world politics and popular
culture. In particular, we seek proposals which address any of the
following themes or issues:
* 'Doing' popular culture and world politics: methods, practices and
approaches.
* Popular security: exploring the intersections of popular culture
and global security.
* Using popular culture to span the disciplines: with a range of
disciplines looking at both popular culture and issues of world
politics, how can the study of pop culture and world politic work to
foster inter-disciplinary conversations?
* 'Making' popular culture and world politics: what is the politics
that is emerging at the intersection of popular cultural production,
the culture industries, and governance?
* Outside the West: exploring the intersections of non-Western
popular culture(s) and non-Western-centric world politics.
* Is anybody watching? The problem of audience in the study of
popular culture.
* Performing International Politics: rather than students of world
politics reading popular culture, how are the producers of cultural
forms making their politics? We are particularly interested in
receiving proposals for the performance, presentation, screening or
display of cultural works which seek to produce a (world) politics
in their practice.
Please submit all presentation abstracts (of no more than 250 words)
via our website by April 2: http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/conferences/pcwpIII.htm
For further information and panel submissions (panel title and
participants) please contact us at: <mailto:(pcwp /at/ yorku.ca)>(pcwp /at/ yorku.ca)
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Christina Rowley
Director, Eisenhower Research Project
(christina_rowley /at/ brown.edu)
tel: (+1) 401-863-6994
Watson Institute for International Studies
Brown University
111, Thayer Street
Box 1970
Providence
RI 02912-1970
United States
