[Commlist] Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Conference 2019 CFP

  *Annual Conference*

*2019 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Conference*

*Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (USA)*

*Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana*

*May 30-June 1, 2019*

*This Year's Theme: /Performance, Politics, Power/*

*Final Deadline for Submissions: /Friday, January 4, 2019/*

The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites proposals for 
participation in its seventeenth annual meeting. Proposals on all topics 
relevant to cultural studies will be considered, with priority given to 
proposals that engage this year's highlighted theme. Membership of the 
CSA is not required to apply for this year’s conference, but membership 
is required in order to present at the conference.

For our 2019 conference, entitled “Performance, Politics, Power,” we 
solicit proposals that focus on performance as a creative and critical 
force within contemporary culture(s) and their antecedents. Within the 
U.S. and beyond, the past few years have been a turbulent and 
reactionary period of social and political realignment. However, this 
realignment has also elicited renewed progressive political activity and 
cultural engagement, such as public performances against racial and 
gender discrimination, or overt popular protests against quietist 
notions of political “civility,” as occurred in the U.S. in response to 
the Trump Administration’s child separation policy or Executive Order 
13769, colloquially referred to as the “Muslim Ban.” Performance has 
also been central to the ongoing practice of identity politics and its 
uneasy centrality within the media industries. To this end, we encourage 
proposals that investigate and consider new forms of performance that 
have emerged as a means of pushing back against the politics of division 
and fear, and how past intersections between performance and power help 
us reconsider the politics of performance today. How, for instance, 
might already-existing forms of performance be “refunctioned” 
(/Um//funktionierung/) as strategized by German Marxist playwright and 
poet, Bertolt Brecht? This theme is especially significant while the CSA 
is in New Orleans, given the city’s unique history of using performance, 
carnival, and other forms of transculturation as a means of engaging and 
resisting colonial rule, slavery, oppression, conflict, and 
discrimination, from the city’s founding as a former French colony in 
the eighteenth century to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

While we welcome proposals concerned with all types of artistic 
performance, our interest in performance is by no means confined to 
traditional activities within the performing arts. We are also 
interested in performance as the enactment of new political personae in 
the “/theatrum mundi/” (society as theater), and the growing utility of 
all such performative gestures for fostering solidarity and democracy. 
Likewise, we welcome proposals that question the limits of performance 
as a framework for enacting politics, or those that explore the history 
of performance not only as a mode of challenging social power, but also 
as a means of expressing and consolidating power. And as with past 
conferences, we welcome proposals from all disciplines and topics 
relevant to cultural studies, including literature, history, sociology, 
geography, politics, anthropology, communications, popular culture, 
cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, 
postcolonial studies, legal studies, science studies, media and film 
studies, material culture studies, platform studies, affect studies, 
visual art and performance studies.

Thematic topics that applicants might address include, but are not 
limited to:

  * What does performance /do/?
  * Specific contemporary or historical case studies of New Orleans or
    elsewhere
  * The limitations and possibilities of performance for challenging the
    ideological and material manifestations of oppressive regimes
  * The politics of aesthetics and the aesthetics of political enactment
  * Performance as ideology
  * Dialectical theatre
  * The labor of performance, its embodiment, and political economy
  * Community engagement through the arts and activism
  * The imbrication of performance and identity politics
  * The politics of fan cultures and communities
  * Diversity and representation in film and television performance
  * Dialectics of spontaneity and organization in political performance
  * The historicization of personae, roles, subjectivity, social and
    personal identity
  * Celebrity politics and the collapse of the public/private distinction
  * Authenticity, doubt, and the fake in the public sphere
  * Affect and performance
  * Performance in or against the nation-state
  * Arts industries, art markets
  * The political performativity of higher education
  * The commodification of performance

We welcome proposals from scholars from any discipline, 
inter-discipline, or scholarly field. The 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 intervene in 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.

*_Important Dates_*:

  * Submission System Open: Monday, October 15, 2018
  * Final Deadline for Submissions: Monday, Dec 3, 2018.*/EXTENDED to
    Friday, January 4, 2019/*
  * Early Bird Registration: Monday, October 15, 2018 until Friday,
    March 1, 2019.
  * Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Notifications Sent Out
  * Friday, March 1, 2019: Early Registration Ends, Regular Registration
    Rate Begins
  * Friday, May, 3, 2019: Last day to register to participate in the
    conference. _If you do not register by this date and are not a
    current member, your name will be dropped from the program._

*LOCATION*

The 2019 conference will be held at Tulane University, New Orleans, 
Louisiana. The closest airport is Louis Armstrong International Airport 
(10 miles). See the following web link for more information about travel 
options to and from the airport as well as for travel to and from the 
French Quarter HERE. <https://admission.tulane.edu/visit/getting-here> A 
CSA hotel block for members will be announced at a later date.

*SUBMISSION PROCESS*

All proposals should be submitted through Easy Chair using the following 
link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csa2019

/You do not have to be a current member to submit. If your proposal is 
accepted, you must become a current member 
<http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/assoc_subscribe.asp>of the 
CSA and register for the conference. These are two seperate transactions. /

INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIPS include three complimentary conference 
registrations annually for students. Graduate students who wish to 
submit proposals are strongly encouraged to speak with their Department 
Chair or Program Director about institutional membership and where 
possible, make use of the complimentary registrations. Full benefits of 
institutional membership are described HERE. 
<http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/institutions>

The submission system will be open by Monday, October 15, 2018. Please 
prepare all the materials required to propose your session according to 
the given directions before you begin electronic submission. All program 
information--names, presentation titles, and institutional 
affiliations--will be based on initial conference submissions. Please 
avoid lengthy presentation and session titles, use normal 
capitalization, and include your name and affiliations as you would like 
them to appear on the conference program schedule.

*REGISTRATION:*

In order to participate in the conference and be listed in the program, 
all those accepted to participate must register before Friday, May 3, 
2019. Please note: /registration for the conference and membership in 
the CSA are separate transactions /(and both are required to present).  
You may register for the conference by logging in to your CSA membership 
account or create one HERE 
<http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/assoc_subscribe.asp>.

*TRAVEL GRANTS*

CSA offers a limited number of travel grants, for which graduate and 
advanced undergraduate students can apply./Only those who are individual 
members, have been accepted to participate, and have registered for the 
conference are eligible to apply for a travel grant/. Other details and 
criteria are listed HERE. 
<http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/prizesandgrants>

_Important Note about Technology Requests_: Accepted participants should 
send their technology requests to Michelle Fehsenfeld at 
(contact /at/ culturalstudiesassociation.org). Technology requests must be made 
by Friday, May 3, 2019.

*CONFERENCE FORMATS*

While we accept individual paper proposals, we especially encourage 
submissions of pre-constituted sessions. Proposals with participants 
from multiple institutions will be given preference.

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)

PRE-CONSTITUTED PAPER PANELS: Pre-constituted panels allow 3-4 
individuals to each offer 15-20 minute presentations, leaving 30-45 
minutes of the session for questions and discussion. Panels should have 
a chair/moderator and may have a discussant. Proposals for 
pre-constituted panels must include: the title of the panel; the name, 
title affiliation, and contact information of the panel organizer; the 
names, titles, affiliations, and email addresses of all panelists, and a 
chair and/or discussant; a description of the panel's topic (<500 
words); and abstracts for each presentation (<150 words). 
Pre-constituted panels are preferred to individual paper submissions.

INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Individuals may submit a proposal to present a 15-20 
minute paper. Selected papers will be combined into panels at the 
discretion of the Program Committee. Individual paper proposals must 
include: the title of the paper; the name, title, affiliation, and email 
address of the author; and an abstract of the paper (<500 words).

ROUNDTABLES: Roundtables allow a group of participants to convene with 
the goal of generating discussion around a shared concern. In contrast 
to panels, roundtables typically involve shorter position or dialogue 
statements (5-10 minutes) in response to questions distributed in 
advance by the organizer. The majority of roundtable sessions should be 
devoted to discussion. Roundtables are limited to no more than five 
participants, including the organizer. We encourage roundtables 
involving participants from different institutions, centers, and 
organizations. Proposals for roundtables must include: the title of the 
roundtable; the name, title, affiliation, and contact information of the 
roundtable organizer; the names, titles, affiliations, and email 
addresses of the proposed roundtable participants; and a description of 
the position statements, questions, or debates that will be under 
discussion (<500 words).

PRAXIS SESSIONS: Praxis sessions allow a facilitator or facilitating 
team to set an agenda, pose opening questions, and/or organize hands-on 
participant activities, collaborations, or skill-shares. Successful 
praxis sessions will be organized around a specific objective, 
productively engage a cultural studies audience, and orient itself 
towards participants with minimal knowledge of the subject matter. 
Sessions organized around the development of ongoing creative, artistic, 
and activist projects are highly encouraged. The facilitator or team is 
responsible for framing the session, gathering responses and results 
from participants, helping everyone digest them, and (where applicable) 
suggesting possible fora for extending the discussion. Proposals for 
praxis sessions must include: the title of the session; the name, title, 
affiliation, and contact information the facilitators; a brief statement 
explaining the session’s connection to the conference theme and 
describing the activities to be undertaken (<500 words) and a short 
description of the session (<150 words) to appear in the conference 
program. Please direct any questions about praxis sessions to Michelle 
Fehsenfeld at (contact /at/ culturalstudiesassociation.org)

SEMINARS: 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 lead a seminar must 
apply to the seminar directors by March 1, 2019. 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 April 15, 2019. 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, 2019. 
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). Please direct questions about 
seminars to  (contact /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).

*MEET THE AUTHOR*

Meet the Author Sessions are designed to bring authors of recent books 
deemed to be important contributions to the field of cultural studies 
together with discussants selected to provide different viewpoints. 
Books published one to three years before the conference (for example, 
for the 2013 conference, only books published between 2010-2012 could be 
nominated) are eligible for nomination. Only CSA members may submit 
nominations. Self-nominations are not accepted.

*WORKING GROUP CALLS FOR PROPOSAL*

WORKING GROUP SESSIONS: CSA has a number of ongoing working groups. 
Working Group submissions can can either be an individual paper or 
pre-constituted panel and must be made through CSA’s online EasyChair 
submission portal. Choose either the Working Group Panel or Working 
Group Paper tracks, complete the submission information, and choose the 
appropriate working group from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the 
page. Specific themed calls for some working groups are listed below; 
check the Working Groups page of the CSA website for the most updated 
calls HERE <http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/workinggroups>. 
<http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/workinggroups.>

*MAKE(R) SPACE*

The Make(r) Space is a space for the collaborative and praxis driven 
portions of Cultural Studies – making space for art, making space for 
political activism, making space for new modes of knowledge exchange. It 
is our goal that this space will be created for those that have been 
historically and systemically left out of these conversations: artists, 
activists, poets, and other cultural critics and makers. We want to 
create a space that helps the CSA fulfill some of the implicit praxis 
portion of its goals to “create and promote an effective community of 
cultural studies practitioners and scholars.” Building on the poets, 
dancers, painters, and activists already interested in the space, we 
welcome proposals for exhibits, performances, workshops, skill shares, 
story telling, and other ways of meaning-making and art-making in the 
world that consider the theme of “Interventions.” We especially 
encourage Make(r) Space submissions from individuals working beyond the 
boundaries of the university: artists, activists, independent scholars, 
professionals, community organizers, contingent faculty, and community 
college educators. Please email Make(r)Space submissions by March 15, 
2019 to: (makerspace /at/ culturalstudiesassociation.org)

*PANEL CHAIRS*

We are always in need of people to serve as panel chairs. To volunteer 
to do so, please submit your name, title, affiliation, and email 
address, as well as a brief list of your research interests to 
(matt.s.maclellan /at/ gmail.com), Chair of the Program Committee.

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