[Commlist] CfP Working Group on Culture and War (CSA)

***CfP Working Group on Culture and War (CSA)*

Cultural Studies Association (USA) 2020 Conference

The Working Group on Culture and War of the Cultural Studies Association 
invites both general and themed submissions for the 18th Annual Meeting 
of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.A.), to be held at Columbia 
College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois on May 28-May 30, 2020,

_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. 
Multi-/international perspectives are especially welcome. Topics may 
include, but are not limited to:

·The militarization/securitization of daily life inside/outside conflict 
zones.

·Collective resistance to militarism and militarized spaces (borders, 
cities, media).

·Cyber war/security; surveillance and drones.

·The political economy of conflict: “weaponizing” of 
financial/international institutions, sanctions, privatization of 
military services; outsourcing security from core to periphery.

·Race, gender and sexuality in war/military organization, including 
conscription/recruiting, support, combat and command roles.

·Veterans’ issues: military families; veterans’ policy/history/identity; 
veterans for and against current wars/occupations.

·Construction of civilian war imaginary in war news media and war 
gaming, as well as literature and film.

·Embodied lessons of war and culture.

_Theme Call_: Consonant with this year’s conference theme, the Working 
Group also invites papers thematizing “Bodily Sovereignty and Collective 
Action” in the context of politics, culture and war. Papers/panels could 
consider:

·Coercive sovereignty and collective/individual resistance to occupying 
powers.

·States of exception, indefinite detention, torture, and the 
re-assertion of national sovereignties in the global War on Terror.

·Surveillance and forms of sovereignty exercised within governmentality.

·Conflict and the dispersal of national sovereignty in “sovereignty 
regimes” and “sovereignty bargaining.”

*Final Deadline for Submissions: Monday, Dec 9, 2019*

Working Group submissions can either be an individual paper (15-20 
minutes) or pre-constituted panel. Selected individual 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). Both individual and panel 
submissions 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: 
http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/workinggroups.

REGISTRATION:
In order to participate in the conference and be listed in the program, 
all those accepted to participate must register before Friday, May 1, 
2020. And remember: registration for the conference and membership in 
the CSA are separate transactions (and both are required to present).
Register here.

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.

Please contact the Chair of the Culture and War Working Group, Howard 
Hastings, with any questions. (hhasting /at/ iup.edu) <mailto:(hhasting /at/ iup.edu)>.

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