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

> 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