[ecrea] ACS Institute -- 7-12 Dec -- Bloemfontein, South Africa

This is a reminder that early-bird registration for the third
*Association for Cultural Studies Institute* ends on the 30th of July
2015. The Institute will be held from *7-12 December 2015* at the
University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The theme of
the 2015 Institute is “*Precarious Futures*.” For details regarding this
important event, including *an updated list of keynote and seminar
abstracts*, please check out our website at
/_http://www.acssibloemfontein2015.co.za_/

The ACS Institute will be a forum for critical discussions of important
perspectives on cultural studies today.  Our theme is intended to forge
productive and provocative conversations about how cultural studies
might help to chart less precarious and more equitable futures. As a
field that has, since its inception, been centrally concerned with the
relationship between culture and power, cultural studies can offer
unique perspectives on precariousness as not only an endemic experience
of contemporary life, but as a state increasingly anticipated for human
and non-human planetary futures. This Institute will provide a sustained
opportunity for critical reflection on the cultural, economic and
political trajectories that point to, or might alter, such futures.

The Institute will provide an intense and rewarding pedagogical
experience for postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers
(established scholars are also welcome) who will have the opportunity to
spend the week learning from lectures and seminars delivered by five
keynote speakers and a faculty staff of leading cultural studies
scholars from around the world. The following keynote speakers have been
confirmed:

•*Jean Comaroff* (Harvard University, USA)

•*John Erni* (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

•*Jo Littler* (City University London, UK)

•*Zethu Matebeni* (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

•*Handel Kashope Wright* (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Following on the great successes of the previous ACS Institutes — 2011
at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and 2013 at the Alpen-Adria
University Klagenfurt (Austria) — the 2015 edition of the Institute will
bring together people from a wide range of disciplines to explore what
it means to conduct cultural studies. We invite and encourage
participation from researchers who work in disciplines such as cultural
studies, film studies, media studies, cultural sociology, cultural
anthropology, literary theory and criticism, discourse analysis, new
literacy studies, philosophy, educational studies, rhetorical criticism,
and so forth.

Those interested in participating are invited to take notice of the
above-mentioned dates. Email inquiries can be addressed to the local
organisers at: (acsinstitute2015 /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(acsinstitute2015 /at/ gmail.com)>


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