[ecrea] CFP The State and US Culture Industries conference,

CALL FOR PAPERS

*“The State and U.S. Culture Industries” conference*

June 25-26, 2015
United States Studies Centre
Institute Building (H03), University of Sydney

CFP deadline: 1 May, 2015

Keynotes: Tricia Jenkins (Texas Christian University); William J.
Maxwell (Washington University in St. Louis; via videolink); Jade Miller
(Wilfrid Laurier University)

Following recent scholarship (Erin G. Carlston, William J. Maxwell,
Timothy Melley) that renews questions of state power, national security,
and cultural production, this conference seeks to appraise critically,
from a range of disciplinary perspectives, the contemporary and
historical interrelations between the state and the culture industries
in the United States. Topics for exploration include:

  * the relationship between government agencies (such as the CIA, FBI,
    the Department of Homeland Security, and the Pentagon) and media
    formats (such as novels, film, video games, social media, news, and
    television series);
  * the history of representations of the state and government agencies
    in various cultural forms;
  * the historiography of critical theory (Frankfurt School, Birmingham
    School) and the US nation-state;
  * the US state as cultural critic;
  * how culture industries shape, support, or criticise US foreign policy;
  * debates around cybersecurity, diplomacy, and media.

Outstanding papers will be invited to appear in a special journal issue.

Conference registration is free.

Travel bursaries are available for strong postgraduate proposals to help
defray travel and accommodation costs.

Please email 250-word abstracts to (rodney.taveira /at/ sydney.edu.au) by May
1, 2015.

Check ussc.edu.au/state_and_us_culture_industries for further
information and updates.

Tricia Jenkins is Associate Professor of Film, TV and Digital Media at
TCU in Fort Worth, Texas. Her book, The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency
Shapes Film and Television (University of Texas Press, 2012), examines
the agency’s efforts to boost its public image in mass media. The book,
which won the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title in 2013, is
now entering its second edition and has been translated into Chinese,
Turkish and Farsi. In addition to numerous academic journals, Jenkins'
work on the intersection between media and the state has also appeared
in or been cited in the Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, the
BBC World Service, The Washington Post, FOX and others.

William J. Maxwell is Professor in the Department of English and African
and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His
scholarship addresses the ties among African American writing, political
history, and transatlantic culture.  He has published over forty
articles and reviews, and three books. His first book, the award-winning
New Negro, Old Left: African American Writing and Communism between the
Wars (Columbia University Press, 1999), traced the source of the
dialogue between literary "Blacks and Reds" to the dawning of the Harlem
Renaissance, a moment when the definition of the stridently modern New
Negro and the direction of the young Soviet Union were still up for
grabs and still imagined as related matters. His second book, an edition
of Claude McKay’s Complete Poems, was published by the University of
Illinois Press in various formats in 2004, 2008, and 2013. Maxwell’s
third book, F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African
American Literature (Princeton University Press, 2015) draws on nearly
14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, exposing the Bureau’s
“ghostreading” of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays,
and novels. F.B. Eyes reveals that FBI surveillance came to influence
the creation and public reception of African American literature in the
heart of the twentieth century. Maxwell has served on the MLA divisional
committees on black American and twentieth-century American literatures.
A former book review editor of African American Review and member of the
editorial board of American Literature, he is now a contributing editor
at American Literary History.

Jade L. Miller is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at
Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. She works on the
political economy of creative production, global media flows, and
cultural/media industry development. She is particularly interested in
creative industries in the context of urban and regional agglomeration
and the development of global cities, including studies of cultural
industries policy from the micro to macro level.  She is working on a
book project on the development of cultural industry hubs outside of
dominant global cultural industry networks, with a focus on policy, new
technologies, and alternative global connections in financing and
distribution. This book has as its key case study the development and
shifting shape of the robust Nigerian video film industry, known
popularly as Nollywood. She is also working on a research project on the
geography of Hollywood location shooting in New Orleans and the drawing
of touring networks in the North American music industry.

*Dr Rodney Taveira* | *Lecturer in American Studies
*United States Studies Centre | Institute Building (H03) | The
University of Sydney NSW 2006

T: +61 2 9114 2617| F: +61 2 9351 6877 | E:
(_rodney.taveira /at/ sydney.edu.au) <mailto:(rodney.taveira /at/ sydney.edu.au)>_

W: http://ussc.edu.au/people/rodney-taveira




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