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[ecrea] CfP 2015 CFP: CSA Working Group on War and Culture

Thu Oct 23 21:22:34 GMT 2014




2015 CFP: CSA Working Group on War and Culture
 Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (US)
Another University Is Possible: Praxis, Activism, and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy General Call: The Working group on War and Culture of the Cultural Studies Association invites submissions for the 13th Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S) to be held at the Riverside Convention Center, Riverside, California, 21-24 May, 2015. All papers dealing with the relation of war to culture, past, present, and future are welcome, though we are especially interested in papers that speak to the ways that the US and its allies are intensifying and extending the conflict in the Mideast. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: •The role of media and media technology in cultivating a “war imaginary,” both among civilians and those within conflict zones. •New and ongoing forms of militarization in the institutions of post-conscription societies, including police, public schools, and news media. •The role of gender in military organizations, including changes taking place as women move from support to combat and command roles. •Veterans’ issues including post-deployment experiences and programs; PTSD prevention, treatment, and representation; and the experiences of military families. Theme call: The Working Group also welcomes papers for a special panel addressing the theme of this year’s CSA Conference, “Another World is Possible: Praxis, Activism and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy.” As creators of “official” knowledge, many academics contribute to war and militarization by producing research that both informs media narratives about conflict zones and legitimates policy decisions about how to address them. Therefore, we seek papers that critically engage the role of universities in producing official knowledge that supports war and investigate anti-war strategies that we can follow in actively creating Another University. What is left out of official representations of ongoing conflicts—e.g., the traumas of those living in conflict regions, the unintended consequences of policy and new military technologies, the normalcy of events treated as aberrations? What unofficial knowledges and pedagogies might contest or reframe the official? What modes of pedagogy, activism, and coalition building have been, or should be, attempted? What audiences within and outside the university should we be addressing? Whom should we be learning about/listening to? Overall, how can we better understand—and even productively resist—the entrenchment of university/military/industrial complex?
Details:  All sessions run for 90 minutes.
If interested in participating in one of the TWO Working Group-sponsored panels on war and culture, please submit the following by February 15, 2014:
a. Your name, email address, department, and institutional affiliation.
b. A 500-word (or less) abstract for the 20-minute paper proposed, including a paper title. c. Audio-visual equipment needs (no requests for AV equipment can be honored later).
Please send all required material to (mrbrandt /at/ ucsd.edu).

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