[Commlist] ‘Culture in Practice’ - Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) Conference 2023

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) Conference 2023 **

*‘Culture in Practice’*

*Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3), *

*University of South Australia (City West Campus), Tarntanya/Adelaide*

*December 6-8, 2023 *

*Pre-Fix, December 5*

Now more than ever ‘culture’ is a contested site of exclusion and 
possibility. The present realities of climate crisis, increasing 
inequality, multiplying communities of hate, in addition to growing 
geo-political insecurity demand cultural as well as political, social, 
and economic responses. This year's CSAA annual conference seeks to 
explore how we can create an open and inclusive cultural space for 
collaboration in a country like Australia where sovereignty of the First 
Nations peoples has never been ceded. How do we de-colonise culture? How 
do we re-create it?

Cultural studies aims for inclusivity. During this face-to-face 
gathering, we are keen to explore how cultural studies and allied 
disciplinary fields might examine the potential of culture in practice 
to shed new light on local and global problems. How can we create an 
open and inclusive cultural space when Indigenous scholars remain few in 
a ‘white’ academy, where precarity and job insecurity remain endemic, 
where the lingua franca remains English and where discourses and 
practices continue to push to the margins cultural ideas, practices and 
ontologies that challenge various forms of normativity? We invite you to 
re-imagine with us how cultural studies concepts and activities can work 
pragmatically, that is, tailored to the contours of these issues.

We welcome First Nations scholars and scholars from diverse and 
subaltern groups, as well as HDR and ECR participation.

While the conference will be configured largely around a traditional 
presentation format, we welcome the chance to explore the possibility of 
including other formats (including but not limited to the presentation 
of NTROs) with potential conference contributors.

We therefore invite papers that address the following concerns, as well 
as general presentations:

- Culture in/as Practice

- Culture in/as Action/Activism

- Cultural Policy

- Cultural Studies and Practice-based Research

- Everyday Cultures

- Mediated Practices, Representation and Screened Words

- Material Cultures and Practices

- Intersectionality and Culture in Practice

- Culture in the Community

- Cultural Practice in Place

- Cultural Safety

- Culture as Power

- Ecologies of Practices

- Interacting/Learning/Knowing Through Cultural Engagement

- Community-Engaged Cultural Studies

- Cultural Research Methods

- You doing your cultural studies, whatever that may be …….

*/Organising committee/*

Susan Luckman

Prudence Black

Lia Bryant

Rupa Ghosh

Kasia Jaworski

Brydie Kosmina

Stephen Muecke

Jess Pacella

Stuart Richards

Rosie Roberts

Jon Stratton

*Contact: **(CSAA2023 /at/ unisa.edu.au) <mailto:(CSAA2023 /at/ unisa.edu.au)>***

*Conference Website: 
**https://www.unisa.edu.au/research/creative-people-products-places/events/ 
<https://www.unisa.edu.au/research/creative-people-products-places/events/>__*

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