[ecrea] CFP for culture and war Working Group, CSA

*Culture and War*

*The Culture and War Working Group of the Cultural Studies Association 
invites both general and themed submissions for the 16th Annual Meeting 
of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), to be held at Carnegie 
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 31-June 2, 2018.*

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_General Call_: We invite interdisciplinary papers, panel proposals, and 
non-traditional forms of creative intervention that consider the 
cultural, economic and political landscape of conflict past and 
present.Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• The role of social/news media in constructing “war imaginaries,” 
national and international.

• Processes of militarization and the role of the martial in social 
institutions, including local

government, schools, popular culture, and media.

• Race, gender and sexuality in military organization, including 
recruiting, support, combat and

command roles.

• Veterans’ issues: PTSD treatment, and representation; disabilities; 
military families; veterans’

policy/history.

• The political economy of conflict: privatization/subcontracting/, 
neoliberalism and national/

international divisions of military labor; drug wars and refugees; 
sanctions, money laundering, and

weaponizing of financial institutions.

• Nationalism: its racialized resurgence in the US and Europe; response 
to refugees/immigration from

conflict zones.


_Theme Call_: Consonant with this year’s conference theme, 
“Interventions,” the Working Group also invites papers thematizing 
“intervention” in the context of culture and war. Papers might address a 
wide array of military interventions, past and present, assessing 
unforeseen consequences of technological innovation or policy shifts. 
Some examples may include the weaponization of the internet and social 
media, pre- and post-elections of 2016 in Europe and the US.We also 
welcome papers that address modes of scholarly intervention in culture 
and war: in the era of Trump—characterized by treaty dissolution and 
nuclear brinksmanship—what should be the task of scholarship which calls 
itself “Cultural Studies.” How might it effectively act/resist?


*Process of Submission:*Please submit a 300-500-word abstract no later 
than Friday, February 16, 2018. Submission is limited to current CSA 
members, but new members are welcome. Please follow the Easy Chair 
submission guidelines found on the CSA Conference Registration page: 
http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/registration2017.


*Travel Grants:*Travel grants 
<http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/travelgrants>are available 
for partial reimbursement to graduate and advanced undergraduate 
students who planning to present.


*Questions?*Contact War and Culture Working Group Chair Howard Hastings 
at (hhasting /at/ iup.edu) <mailto:(hhasting /at/ iup.edu)>.


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