[ecrea] CFP: Global Conference in Honour of Stuart Hall 2017 - Jamaica

*INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STUART HALL*
*“WHITHER THE CARIBBEAN?: STUART HALL’S INTELLECTUAL LEGACY”*
*JUNE 1 – 3, 2017*

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*2nd Call for Papers*
The Institute of Caribbean Studies and Reggae Studies Unit in 
association with the Stuart Hall Foundation and the Faculty of Social 
Sciences  at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus invite 
proposals for papers in Cultural Studies or related fields for the 2017 
Stuart Hall Conference under the theme "Whither the Caribbean?: Stuart 
Hall's Intellectual Legacy".
Jamaican-born Stuart Hall can best be described as a cultural theorist 
and master intellectual. Hall is one of the founding fathers of the 
Birmingham School of Cultural Studies and by extension is credited, 
along with his contemporaries, for the genesis of the field of Cultural 
Studies. While other West Indian thinkers chose economics and 
development as their hermeneutic method, diaspora-based Stuart Hall 
turned to culture as the analytic mode of choice. For him questions of 
language, diaspora, ideology, politics, mass culture and representation 
became objects of study and analysis. Although Hall went on to become 
globally acclaimed as one of the pre-eminent public intellectuals of the 
20th century few are aware of how influential his Jamaican background 
and heritage were in formulating the heterodox positions for which he 
became known.
This conference will offer the opportunity to reflect both on how the 
Caribbean and Jamaica influenced Stuart Hall’s thought but also on how 
we might bring this unorthodox, paradigm-shifting intellectual’s work 
home as it were. How can the lens of culture offer alternative 
approaches to the study of our postcolonial present? How might cultural 
studies-inflected strategies amplify the ability of policy-makers, 
educators and technocrats to craft more people-friendly forms of 
governance? What lessons of negotiating and thinking about social 
conflict and its management might be embedded in the life and practice 
of this exemplary public intellectual?
  The Stuart Hall Conference invites academics, scholars and artists to 
honor the late cultural theorist and sociologist by contributing papers 
that will build on Hall's ground-breaking contributions. Themes to be 
explored include but are not limited to:

  * •The Caribbean Popular
  * •Exploring Stuart Hall’s Intellectual Legacy
  * •Stuart Hall in/on the Caribbean
  * •Re-Imag/in/ing Stuart Hall's Approach Today
  * •Stuart Hall and the Role of the Public Intellectual
  * •Culture, Violence and the Caribbean Present
  * •Wrestling with the Angels, Devils and Empires
  * •Nationalism and Rethinking the Caribbean
  * •Representation, the Media and Popular Culture
  * •Culture, Material Culture and the Cultural Turn
  * •State/(s) of Cultural Studies
  * •Collaborative and Collective Research Methodologies
  * •Law, Order and Policing the Present
  * •Arts Policy and Cultural Industries
  * •Race, Caribbean Identity and Globalisation
  * •Memory, Memoralising, and Remembering in the Caribbean
  * •The Mobile Caribbean: Migrations, Nations, Diasporas
  * •Rethinking Marxism, Political Action and the Left

We invite you to submit an abstract of no more than 250 words. The topic 
can fall within the broad remit of the focus areas above, or any other 
influenced by the work of Stuart Hall.
*/KEY DATES/*
*/Deadline for Submissions - February 1, 2017/*
*/Decision – February 28, 2017/*
*/Full Script - April 1, 2017/*
*/Conference – June 1-3, 2017/*

*REGISTRATION RATES*

  * •Early Bird Registration Before February 28, 2017 USD 120.00
  * •Regular Registration March 1 - April 15, 2017 USD 150.00
  * •Late Registration April 15 - May 31, 2017 USD 180.00
  * •Onsite registration June 1 - 3, 2017 USD 200.00
  * •Graduate students (with ID) USD 50.00
  * •Undergraduates (with ID) Free
  * •Publishers / Exhibitors USD 300*

*Conditions Apply

*For more information, contact the Secretariat at: *
Institute of Caribbean Studies
Faculty of Humanities and Education
University of the West Indies,
Mona, Kingston 7,
Jamaica.
Email: (stuarthallconference /at/ gmail.com) | (icsmona /at/ uwimona.edu.jm)

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