[ecrea] call for papers: crossroads in cultural studies, 2016

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES, 2016

For the first time in its history, Crossroads in Cultural Studies is 
coming to the southern hemisphere. Hosted by the University of Sydney 
and Western Sydney University, the 11th International Conference 
Crossroads in Cultural Studies will be held in Sydney, Australia, from 
December 14th to 17th 2016, bringing scholars together in the beautiful 
summertime setting of Sydney University to engage with the past, present 
and future of cultural studies scholarship.

The Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference has played an important 
role in the creation of a global discussion of Cultural Studies. It has 
become a major international conference where scholars from all five 
continents gather regularly to exchange research, views, and insights. 
Organized by the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS), the Crossroads 
conference is held every other year in different parts of the world. 
Previous conferences have taken place in Birmingham (United Kingdom), 
Urbana-Champaign (USA), Istanbul (Turkey), Kingston (Jamaica), Hong Kong 
(China), Paris (France), and Tampere (Finland).

A day-long postgraduate/graduate research student conference will 
precede the main conference (on 13 December, 2016).

•	Submit your proposal using the online forms before April 30th, 2016: 
The call for both paper and pre-organised panel proposals is now open. 
Submission guidelines and forms can be accessed through our website: 
www.crossroads2016.org.
•	ACS assistance scheme for Crossroads 2016: The Association for 
Cultural Studies will offer a small number of grants to assist 
participants from ACS under-represented regions with travel 
accommodation or registration expenses.
•	Information on keynote and plenary speakers, on registration and 
accommodation, and on the student pre-conference will follow soon.
•	Spread the news! Please forward this message to your colleagues and 
friends – we look forward to seeing you in Sydney in our summer 2016!

Possible topics
The conference is open to all topics relevant to cultural studies. Here 
are some suggested topics as food for thought, drawing on the work of 
our invited keynote, plenary and spotlight speakers, and on more general 
themes in cultural studies research. However, all contemporary cultural 
studies research is welcome at this conference:
•	Diversity, culture, governance
•	Indigenous knowledge and politics
•	Borders and mobilities
•	Culture, gender and decolonisation
•	Data cultures
•	Extraction: cultures and industries
•	Media regulation: from censorship to piracy
•	Popular affect online
•	Transforming christianities
•	Who counts in the anthropocene? gender, sexuality, race and class
•	Securitization
•	Australasian cultural studies
•	Consumption and everyday life
•	Critical and cultural theory
•	Digital infrastructure
•	Culture, gender and sexuality
•	Globalisation and culture
•	Human/non-human relations
•	Inter-Asian cultural studies
•	Managing cities
•	Migrant cultural studies
•	Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies
•	Popular cultures and genres
•	Public culture and cultural policy
•	Rethinking the human
•	Rural cultural studies
•	Screen and media culture
•	Transforming/Globalising universities

Steering Committee: Professor Catherine Driscoll (USyd), Professor Tony 
Bennett (WSU), Associate Professor Tess Lea (USyd), Professor Brett 
Nielson (WSU), Professor Elspeth Probyn (USyd), Dr Guy Redden (USyd), Dr 
Shanthi Robertson (WSU).

Web: www.crossroads2016.org
Email: (acs.2016 /at/ sydney.edu.au)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/XR2016/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/XR_2016

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