[ecrea] CFP 10th Annual Critiquing Culture Conference - Deadline Extended

Please see our CFP below and at: 
http://culturalstudies.gmu.edu/articles/9622 and please note that we 
have extended the submission deadline to *July 15, 2016*.

The Student Organizing Committee
Cultural Studies
George Mason University


Critiquing Culture

The Cultural Studies Graduate Conference at George Mason University

2016

The Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee (SOC) at George Mason 
University invites paper proposals for our 10^th  annual Cultural 
Studies Graduate Student Conference. The conference will take place on 
Saturday, October 1^st  2016 at George Mason University in Fairfax, 
Virginia.

This year’s conference will feature a plenary panel on “The Uses and 
Abuses of Neoliberalism” with scholars from several departments at 
George Mason University.

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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

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The Cultural Studies program at George Mason University is committed to 
the analysis and critique of culture. Cultural Studies examines cultural 
objects as products of the wider social, historical, economic and 
political conditions. Thus its interests lay both in understanding 
processes of cultural production as well as discovering the effects of 
culture at sites of reception. In particular, Cultural Studies focuses 
on power relations and inequalities, which shape the horizon of 
possibilities for any cultural object at hand, be it a political 
discourse, an economic model, or a mass cultural product. Towards this 
project, we recognize the value of a range of critical approaches 
including Marxist political economy, poststructuralism, feminism, 
critical theory and postcolonial studies. While the objects of Cultural 
Studies vary widely, the field aims at political relevance and efficacy.

In an attempt to broaden the community of scholars working in precisely 
this interdisciplinary vein, the Cultural Studies Student Organizing 
Committee at George Mason University invites graduate students to submit 
research papers for a conference specifically oriented toward the 
examination of cultural objects, whether through Marxist, 
structuralist/poststructuralist, feminist, or other critical lenses. We 
encourage the submission of papers related to the following broad themes:

●Political Economy

●Mass & Popular Culture

●Gender & Sexuality

●Race & Ethnicity

●Visual Culture

We strongly encourage submissions that address, critique, or otherwise 
analyze issues of neoliberalism.

*Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a current CV should be sent to 
(critiquing.culture /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(critiquing.culture /at/ gmail.com)> by 
June 30^th , 2016. Please include presentation title, presenter's name, 
institutional affiliation, contact information, A/V requests, and any 
special needs required in the email. Abstracts should be sent as .doc or 
.rtf file attachments.*



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