[eccr] CFP: Insides, Outsides and Elsewheres

>Call for Papers (please circulate):
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>"Insides, Outsides and Elsewheres"
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>Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS)
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>October 20 - 22, 2005
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>Submission Deadline: May 31, 2005
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>The Canadian Association of Cultural Studies invites you to join us at
>the University of Alberta Telus Conference Centre in Edmonton Alberta,
>October 20 - 22, 2005.
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>We are now accepting abstracts of 150 words for our conference
>entitled: "Insides, Outsides and Elsewheres". To elicit and address the
>wide range of work being done under the rubric of cultural studies, we
>are including both themed and non-themed sessions in this call for
>papers. The list of themed sessions is included below.
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>Please note that if you are submitting an abstract to a themed session
>you must submit directly to the identified session organizer by May 31,
>2005. If you are submitting an abstract to the open call for papers
>please direct them, by the same date, to: (cacs /at/ ualberta.ca) or by mail
>to:
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>Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS)
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>c/o Department of Educational Policy Studies
>7-104 Education North
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G5
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>Abstracts may not be sent to both a themed session as well as the open
>call. Electronic submissions are preferred, but hard-copy abstracts are
>also accepted. Papers should be no longer than 15-20 minutes long, and
>presenters must be members of CACS by the time of the conference.
>Membership information and registration will be available at the
>conference and is also accessible on our website at
>www.culturalstudies.ca.
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>Please send all other inquiries to CACS at (cacs /at/ ualberta.ca) or (780)
>492-0773.
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>The deadline for submission is May 31, 2005. We look forward to seeing
>you in October.
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>Themed sessions (please submit directly to session organizers
>preferably via email):
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>Screening Masculinities in Third, Diasporic and Transnational Cinemas:
>Intersections and Interrelations
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>Session Organizer: Melisa Brittain
>(brittain /at/ ualberta.ca)
>Dept. of English and Film Studies
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>3-5 Humanities Centre
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>University of Alberta
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>Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E5
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>To date, masculinity studies has largely focused on white
>masculinities. And while work on post-colonial masculinities began in
>the 1990s, there is still precious little scholarship on how
>masculinities are produced at the intersections of a range of identity
>categories and discursive regimes, such as nation, race, imperialism,
>globalization, sexuality, class, nation, ethnicity and religion, to
>name only the most obvious.
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>In light of the rising interest in both transnational media studies and
>masculinity studies, and in an effort to remedy the paucity of work on
>the interrelations among racialized communities, and the intersections
>through which masculine identities and subjectivities are produced and
>articulated, this panel seeks papers that investigate representations
>of masculinity in cinema that can be categorized as third, diasporic or
>transnational. Essays that investigate the production of masculinities
>at the intersections of nation, race, imperialism, globalization,
>sexuality, class, nation, ethnicity and/or religion in these cinemas
>are particularly welcome, as are papers that engage with an
>interdisciplinary and politically engaged approach to 'reading'
>both film and masculinity.
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>Transnational Cultural Studies in Canada
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>Session Organizer: Jenny Burman
>(jenny.burman /at/ mcgill.ca)
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>Assistant Professor in Communication Studies
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>Dept. of Art History and Communication Studies
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>McGill University
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>W-280, 853 Sherbrooke St. W.,
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>Montreal QC, H3A 2T6
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>This session invites presentations from scholars working in the area of
>transnational cultural studies, which might be described as an area
>that merges the theoretical advances of humanities-based postcolonial
>studies with a reinvigorated socioeconomic analysis of the predicaments
>of globalized spaces. Research topics might include (but are definitely
>not restricted to):
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>- Locale-specific studies and/or theories of diasporization,
>hybridization, creolization
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>- Oppositional movements that organize around questions of citizenship,
>belonging and illegality
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>- Critical readings of the 2002 Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
>(sic), the 2001 Census questionnaire or other government documents
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>- Diasporized urban cultural production
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>The Question of the Animal: Why Now?
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>Session Organizer: Dr. Jodey Castricano
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>(jcastric /at/ wlu.ca)
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>Associate Professor/Cultural Studies Series Editor
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>Department of English & Film Studies
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>Wilfrid Laurier University
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>Waterloo, ON, N2L 3C5
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>In an interview in Topia, Carey Wolfe-author of Animal Rites: American
>Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory-argues that
>"cultural studies and critical theory have really, really lagged behind
>. developments in the broader society" in dealing with what Carey
>refers to as "the question of the animal" (40). Carey maintains that
>forms of "speciesism" must be given the same critical attention that
>has been recruited against sexism and racism in critical race studies,
>feminism, and queer theory. This panel-entitled "The Question of the
>Animal: Why Now?" seeks interdisciplinary papers that critique the
>division between human and beast and address the human-animal
>relationship in the context of posthumanism.
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>(Image)ining Resistance
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>Session Organizers: Keri Cronin Kirsty Robertson
>(keri.cronin /at/ ualberta.ca) (kirsty /at/ mailodic.com)
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>Department of Art & Design Queen's University
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>3-98 Fine Arts Building 1432 Montcalm St.
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>University of Alberta Queen's University
>Edmonton, AB, T6G 2C9 Montreal QC, H2I 3G8
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>The goal of this session is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary
>approaches and critical examinations that address the use of visual
>imagery in social and activist movements throughout history. From
>banners embroidered for suffragette actions, to the impact of
>photographs taken in Soweto in 1976, to political puppets created for
>recent global justice demonstrations, the intersections between visual
>culture and activism relate a rich history with transnational and
>transideological import.
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>This session stems from a publication entitled (Image)ining Resistance
>that we are currently in the process of editing. We see (Image)ining
>Resistance as a project that breaks the narrow boundaries of the
>printed word, operating on a number of levels, and spreading beyond the
>page through a series of conference panels, discussions and dialogues
>surrounding the issues raised by the authors. We would like to
>encourage this open process by inviting the authors as well as other
>scholars, activists and artists whose interests intersect with and
>contribute to the theoretical underpinnings of (Image)ining Resistance
>to continue these discussions. As such, we would be looking for people
>whose work interrogates the links between visual culture and activism,
>through interdisciplinary approaches, from a wide range of historical
>periods, geographic regions and protest actions.
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>Comics: Mainstream or Fringe?
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>Session Organizer: Orion Ussner Kidder
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>(okidder /at/ ualberta.ca)
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>Dept. of English and Film Studies
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>3-5 Humanities Centre
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>University of Alberta
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>Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E5
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>Comics were, undoubtedly, a mainstream medium in America, Canada, and
>Britain for most of the twentieth century. However, the readership at
>the beginning of the twenty-first is both smaller and older than it
>used to be. Comics, even superhero comics, find themselves telling
>stories to a shrinking audience that wants more sophisticated material,
>whether it is in the form of superheroes or not.
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>This panel will explore the interplay between the narrow generic
>expectations of comics, on the one hand (I.e., superheroes or related,
>high-fantasy genres), and the growing demand for mature and politically
>charged content, on the other (eg, Art Spiegelman's _Maus_, or Marjane
>Satrapi's _Persepolis_). Papers can be on the subject of traditional
>superhero comics (usually Anglo-American), or underground comics.
>Studies on comics from outside the Anglo-American tradition (Japanese
>'manga,' European, etc.) are strongly encouraged, as well.
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>Cultural Studies and Education
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>Session Organizer: Jennifer Kelly
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>(jennifer.kelly /at/ ualberta.ca)
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>Department of Education Policy Studies
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>7-104 Education North
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>University of Alberta
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>Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G5
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>Although the links between cultural studies and education are not
>evident within recent formulations of cultural studies a significant
>portion of the early ethnographic research undertaken at the CCCS
>involved the analysis of school and youth (Willis, Hebdige). Similarly,
>others (Steele) have traced the contested "routes" of cultural studies
>via post WWI adult education and the work of Thompson, Williams and
>Hoggart. The purpose of the panel is to explore the present day
>articulation of education as an area of study and cultural studies as a
>framework of analysis. How might theorization within the field of
>education draw on cultural studies to develop a more complex
>understanding of issues relating directly and indirectly to the field
>of education. How have education scholars dealt with the conceptual
>challenges that a cultural studies framework poses for the field of
>education? What forms of analysis and perspectives can Cultural Studies
>contribute to broader debates in the field (race, class, gender
>sexualtities). How might understandings of, youth identities,
>racialization and pedagogy be enhanced through a cultural studies
>prism?
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>People Lie. Numbers Don't: Business Discourses and Public Culture
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>Session Organizer: Dr. Josephine Mills
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>(josephine.mills /at/ uleth.ca)
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>University of Lethbridge
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>4401 University Drive
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>Lethbridge, AB, T1K 3M4
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>Business discourses have become the norm for cultural institutions and
>arts professionals. Whether it is using attendance figures and other
>numbers as a supposedly objective measure of success or developing
>business plans to meet the requirements of public granting agencies,
>cultural professionals now regularly deploy business discourses as part
>of operating public institutions and accept this as an inevitable fact
>in our landscape. This panel will investigate the language and
>assumptions involved with this trend and propose strategies to either
>outright counter or negotiate within these discourses.
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>Representing Nature/Imagining the Wild
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>Session Organizers: Michael D. Pereira Lorelei L. Hanson
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>                                   (mp04cp /at/ Brocku.ca)
>(lorelei.hanson /at/ athabascau.ca)
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>                                   2 Brigger St. #310 Athabasca
>University
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>                                   St. Catharines, ON Edmonton Learning
>Centre
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>Edmonton,
>AB, T5J 3E4
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>Representations of nature and the wild are frequently case as signs of
>authenticity with "wild nature" situated as the locus for epic
>struggles that cast into the shadows other social, political and moral
>concerns. This session will bring together a panel of scholars who can
>ask a new set of questions about the relationship between humans and
>the natural environment. The panelists will seek to unpack and
>deconstruct the ways in which Canadian culture represents nature and/or
>the wild, and our relationship with these, in order to better
>understand how these representations relate to increasing ecological,
>economic and social problems and to explore the consequences for the
>environment of various contemporary cultural myths about nature.
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>Ritual Virtualities, Performative Materialities
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>Session Organizer: Rob Shields
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>(rshields /at/ ualberta.ca)
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>5-21 Tory Bldg
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>University of Alberta
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>Edmonton AB, T6G 2H4
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>This session considers the contribution that an understanding of the
>virtual can bring to an analysis of cultural intangibles. After Proust,
>the virtual is 'ideal but not abstract, real but not actual'. To what
>extent can the cultural be understood as a dialectic of the material
>and virtual, mediated by ritual forms and performativity? What are the
>losses and risks in this move to a set of theorists including Deleuze,
>Merleau-Ponty, Butler and Whitehead? What are the ethical and aesthetic
>gains and how might this contribute to a fleshy politics of recognition
>and respect? Papers combining both theory and a strong sense of
>embodiment(s) within the everyday are welcomed.
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>Visual Studies and the Ethical Imagination
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>Session Organizer: Sharon Sliwinski
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>(Sharon /at/ yorku.ca)
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>29 High Park Blvd.
>Toronto, Ontario, M6R 1M6
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>The influence of various theoretical models-psychoanalysis, semiotics,
>structural poststructural, and postcolonial thought-has recently led to
>a dismantling of traditional art history in favour of the broad and
>eclectic field of visual studies. This panel seeks papers that will
>interrogate how this reorientation intersects with ethical concerns.
>Although it was once commonplace to assume that a single photograph may
>have done more to halt the Vietnam War than all the writings of moral
>philosophers of the time, there is also a growing archive of
>terrorist-made images (from the Abu Ghraib prison photographs to
>home-made decapitation videos). What does this ambivalence signal for
>visual studies? How do visual representations organize ethical
>response, both in terms of possibilities and limits? What is the
>relationship between the faculty for telling right and wrong and the
>faculty of aesthetic judgment?
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>Topics could include:
>. New technologies and the global circulation of images
>. Documentary and responsibility
>. The faculty of judgment
>. Bearing witness and collective/social memory
>. Colonial and ethnological "views"
>. News and humanitarian intervention
>. Apathy and compassion fatigue
>. Contemporary and historical art practices
>. Disciplinary intersections/boundaries
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>Unfinished Business
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>Session Organizer: Vivian Zenari
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>(vzenari /at/ ualberta.ca)
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>PhD Candidate
>Department of English and Film Studies
>3-5 Humanities Centre
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton, AB TG6 2E5
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>The subject of this panel is unfinished works: unfinished novels,
>symphonies, poems, buildings, films, and so on. The papers on this
>panel should address in some way the work's "unfinishedness." For
>example: What factors distinguish an unfinished project from a finished
>project? What roles do authorial intention and audience response play
>in determining if a
>project is incomplete? Should we theorize unfinished projects
>differently from finished ones? What does it mean when one creator
>completes a project begun by another (such as Stephen Spielberg
>completing Stanley Kubrick's plan for _AI_)? What are the implications
>of recuperating an unfinished project for another purpose (think of
>Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe salvaging their "making-of" documentary for
>Terry Gilliam's abandoned _The Man Who
>Killed Don Quixote_ and turning it into the "not-making-of"
>documentary_Lost in La Mancha_)?
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