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[ecrea] Current Issues in European Cultural Studies - Call for Sessions

Thu Sep 02 14:06:57 GMT 2010



Current Issues in European Cultural Studies: ACSIS Conference, June 2011
Call for Session Proposals
 
June 15-17 2011 Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS) will arrange its fourth biannual conference on cultural research in Norrköping, Sweden. This will be an international conference focusing on “Current Issues in European Cultural Studies” that aims to provide an updated inventory of main issues in European cultural studies and give a perspective on Europe today through the spectrum of cultural studies. A series of plenary sessions will deal with key current issues for cultural studies that partly connect to European issues and partly reach beyond this geographic scope. These four plenaries explore the construction of place and community; the disintegrating dichotomy between culture and nature; the powers of remembering and narrating and the complex of intermedial materiality and representation, featuring speakers such as John Urry, Alexandra Zavos, Gernot Böhme, Nina Witoszek, Sudeep Dasgupta and Claire Alexander. In addition to the plenary sessions, a set of spotlight sessions will open up for presentations and debates on the state of cultural studies in different regions of Europe.
But above all, cultural studies scholars from all over the world are invited to propose and organise group sessions that run in parallel throughout the conference, and may deal with any empirical, methodological or theoretical subject within a wide definition of the cultural studies field. The conference is thus not restricted to Europe (as a region or a topic) but open to perspectives on other issues and from other parts of the world as well.
Each session lasts 1 hour 45 minutes and has room for 4-5 presentations. Conference organisers will encourage participants to contribute papers to your session by a general call for papers. Although we would like to encourage session organisers to leave the opportunity for all scholars to submit papers to their sessions, you may also attract presentations from within your own circle of colleagues and send a description of your session and a listing of all presentations to the conference organisers.
The plenaries and most parallel group sessions will be held in English, but some group sessions may also be held in Swedish and have a national focus.
 
If you wish to organise a session please send a 150-word description of your session to (acsis-konferens /at/ isak.liu.se).
The deadline for submission of proposals is November 1, 2010.
 
You can read the entire program at our conference site:
http://www.isak.liu.se/acsis/english/Conference2011?l=sv
 
Martin Fredriksson
Administrator, ACSIS
http://www.isak.liu.se/acsis/english?l=sv

(+46)11 36 34 35

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