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

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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