[ecrea] ACSIS conference Norrköping

ACSIS conference Norrköping 19-21 June 2017

*In 2017,* at the time of our 7th biannual conference, ACSIS takes the 
initiative to re-think and re-conceptualize what cultural research means 
in the digital and global present. Today cultural research is challenged 
to respond to global complexities in the form of human displacements, 
geopolitical restructurings, climate change and digital media. It must 
also answer to the performativity of numbers presented by digital 
humanities to investigate big data sets and the demands for producing 
knowledge with a measurable impact in society and the academic community.

*We want therefore* to take stock of the past, engage with the present, 
and even visualise the future. How can contemporary cultural research 
hold on to the inheritance from cultural studies in order to make 
critical intellectual work matter both inside and outside of the academy 
today? And how can it do so when culture is such a volatile, contested 
and moving target and concept?

*The conference addresses *the possibilities and challenges for engaged 
cultural research by an open call for sessions. The topic may be linked 
to any of the following, or other, areas. All critical cultural research 
is welcome at this conference:

  * Environmental humanities
  * Data cultures
  * The anthropocene
  * Migration and cultural change
  * Intersectionality
  * Politics of belonging
  * Digital humanities
  * Cultural studies and the arts
  * Consumption and everyday life
  * Human/non-human relations
  * Mediatisation of everyday life
  * Digital Media
  * Use and mis-use of culture

*Send a 150-word description* of your session to 
(acsis-konferens /at/ isak.liu.se) <mailto:(acsis-konferens /at/ isak.liu.se)>.

The deadline for submission of proposals is November 1, 2016. A call for 
individual papers will follow in December. For more information about 
the format of the sessions and the conference venue, please visit 
http://www.isak.liu.se/acsis/konferenser/call-for-sessions?l=en&sc=true

*Keynote speakers*

Elisabetta Costa is an anthropologist specialized in the study of media 
and digital media. She will present discoveries and insights from the 
WhyWePost project, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post, a global study on 
the consequences and impact of social media on people’s everyday life 
around the world.

Astrida Neimanis is a Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies at the 
University of Sydney. She is committed to growing a next-generation 
field of environmental humanities that integrates its own feminist, 
queer, critical race, and indigenous roots.

Nicholas de Genova, scholar of migration, borders, citizenship, race, 
and labor.  De Genova's new edited book, /The Borders of "Europe": 
Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering/ is in press with Duke 
University Press.

<http://www.isak.liu.se/acsis/konferenser/call-for-sessions?l=en&sc=true>

	
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