[ecrea] CFP : Seminars at the 2016 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Conference

2016 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Conference
Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (US)
Villanova University, Villanova, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2-5 June, 2016

Policing Crises Now

The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites proposals from its current
and future members for participation in its fourteenth annual meeting.
Proposals on all topics of relevance to cultural studies are welcome, with
priority given to proposals that critically and creatively engage this
year's highlighted theme.

The theme, Policing Crises Now, is prompted by and departs from the rich
and diverse innovations and provocations of Policing the Crisis (1978), a
groundbreaking work generated by a collective of scholars, including and
facilitated by Stuart Hall. Those innovations and provocations include the
collective nature of the research, the conjunctural/structural mode of
analysis, the attention given to race, gender and sexuality in
political-economic dynamics, as well as the analysis of intertwined
statistical representations, media representations, legal proceedings and,
of course, policing by police, as a response to a “crisis of hegemony.”

Taking up Policing Crises Now, in the current conjuncture, requires fresh
theorization both of policing, in light, especially, of the potential
elasticity of the metaphor, and of crisis in light of its diverse
deployments in critical analysis, dominant political-economic practice,
and popular culture. By pluralizing crises, we aim to open the scope of
inquiry at this conference to include the full range of social, cultural,
natural, political, and economic phenomena to which the term crisis has
been attached. We also aim, under this rubric, to develop conversations
engaged during our last conference about the structure of university work
and employment, the ways knowledge production is constrained and enabled
by austerity politics, neoliberal entrepreneurialism, the prominence of
debt and risk, and the university as a site of policing of thought and
political activism. It is our hope that this conference both builds from
and enables collective knowledge production and research practices.

Topics that might be addressed include but are not limited to:

Collective research methodologies
Securitization, as deployed in financial and international
relations/military/police contexts, and the relation between those uses
Risk, as deployed vis-a-vis individualized responsibility for physical
danger, “at risk” populations, and as a central component of economic
praxis
The NAACP journal, The Crisis, and its editor W.E.B. DuBois, especially
their role in broadening the struggle against racial injustices
Debt as policing practice and/or debtor as moralized subject position
Financial “crises” in the US, UK, Greece, Iceland, or other specific
locations
Precarity, its locations and impacts, ranging from the minutiae of labor
contracts to its impacts on social reproduction.
Policing of national borders against migration/refugees (in Europe now,
but also many other times and locations)
Identity formations within and among historical and contemporary migrants
as modes of subjection and resistance
Policing as a context of imperial convergence through shared strategies of
rule, policy/arms transfers (i.e. U.S.-Israel), shared contexts of
training.
Anti-Black police violence in the US (and elsewhere)
Media (old, new, social) representations of anti-Black police violence
Relation between incarceration and debt -- the revival of “debtor’s prison”
Activisms and rebellions against policing and prisons, recently in
Ferguson, Baltimore, under the rubric of Black Lives Matter as well as or
in relation to long standing efforts and organizations (especially local
to Villanova or Philadelphia)
Representational strategies and strategic representations (by the state,
by artists, by activists) of violence, debt, police.
Restructuring of universities for increased managerial control and
insecuritization of faculty, etc.
Campuses as a historical context of policing politicization in the name of
the public; the emerging context of campus privatization and
securitization; new techniques, strategies, and rationales for campus
policing.
Renewed campus regulation of sexuality, claims of sexual vulnerability,
and sexual “securitization” of students.

We welcome proposals from scholars contributing to cultural studies who
may be located in any discipline, inter-discipline, or scholarly field.
CSA aims to provide multiple and diverse spaces for the cross-pollination
of art, activism, pedagogy, design, and research by bringing together
participants from a variety of positions inside and outside the
university. Therefore, while we welcome traditional academic papers and
panels, we also encourage contributions that experiment with alternative
formats and challenge the traditional disciplinary formations and
exclusionary conceptions and practices of the academic (see session format
options listed below). We are particularly interested in proposals for
sessions designed to document and advance existing forms of collective
action or catalyze new collaborations. We encourage submissions from
individuals working beyond the boundaries of the university: artists,
activists, independent scholars, professionals, community organizers, and
community college educators. And we invite proposals that engage with the
conference location/region and its many resources.
LOCATION

The 2016 conference will be held at Villanova University, Villanova, PA.
The closest airport is Philadelphia International Airport. Lodging options
will include on-campus accommodation, and accommodation in hotels in the
surrounding Villanova locale and in Center City Philadelphia--a 20 minute
train ride from Villanova.


REGISTRATION:

In order to participate in the conference and be listed in the program,
all those accepted to participate must register before May 1, 2016.
Register here.

CONFERENCE FORMATS

All sessions are 90 minutes long. All conference formats are intended to
encourage the presentation and discussion of projects at different stages
of development and to foster intellectual exchange and collaboration.
Please feel free to adapt the suggested formats or propose others in order
to suit your session’s goals. If you have any questions, please address
them to Michelle Fehsenfeld at: (contact /at/ culturalstudiesassociation.org)

SEMINARs: The deadline for ALL seminar participation applications is March
31, 2016.

Seminars are small-group (maximum 15 individuals) discussion sessions for
which participants prepare in advance of the conference. In previous
years, preparation has involved shared readings, pre-circulated ''position
papers'' by seminar leaders and/or participants, and other forms of
pre-conference collaboration. We particularly invite proposals for
seminars designed to advance emerging lines of inquiry and
research/teaching initiatives within cultural studies broadly construed.
We also invite seminars designed to generate future collaborations among
conference attendees, particularly through the formation of working
groups. A limited number of seminars will be selected. Once the seminars
are chosen, a call for participants in those seminars will be announced on
the CSA webpage and listserv. Those who wish to participate in a
particular seminar must apply the seminar leader(s) directly by March 31,
2016. Seminar leader(s) will be responsible for providing the program
committee with a confirmed list of participants (names, affiliations, and
email addresses required) for inclusion in the conference program no later
than May 1, 2016. Seminars will be marked in the conference programs as
either closed to non-participants or open to all conference attendees.
Proposals for seminars should include: the title of the seminar; the name,
title, affiliation, and contact information of the seminar leader(s); and
a description of the issues and questions that will be raised in
discussion and an overview of the work to be completed by participants in
advance of the seminar (<500 words). Individuals interested in
participating in (rather than leading) a seminar should consult the list
of seminars and the instructions for signing up for them, to be available
on the conference website by March 1st.

Please direct questions about seminars
(seminars /at/ culturalstudiesassociation.org). Please note that for them to run
at the conference, seminars accepted for inclusion by the program
committee must garner a minimum of 8 participants, including the seminar
leader(s).




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