Call for papers for DIVISION SESSIONS for the
2009 Cultural Studies Association
Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference
Marriott (at the Plaza), Kansas City
April 16-18, 2009
Additional information about the CSA meetings
can be found at:
<http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm>http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm
Division sessions are guaranteed acceptance for the conference.
Note the specific directions and different due
dates for the various divisions.
Culture and War Division
The Division on Culture and War of the Cultural
Studies Association would like to invite
submissions for the Seventh Annual Meeting of
the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) to be
held in Kansas City, April 16-18, 2009.
Deadline: September 1
The CSA Division on Culture and War is dedicated
to scholarly and activist work on the cultural
aspects of war and militarism, encompassing
rhetoric and language, news and mass media,
fictional texts and representations, documentary
film and video, new media and other cultural
forms. The Division welcomes interventionist and
critical work on wars past and present, as well
as on the everyday militarization of society,
from historical, theoretical, global and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Related panels will likely be organized around
such themes and methodologies as claims on the
real, class analysis, gender and racial
politics, nationalist discourses, global
audiences, and counter-hegemonic cultural production and reception.
If interested in participating in a
Division-sponsored "open call" session, please submit by September 1:
a. Your name, email address, phone number,
department, and institutional affiliation.
b. A 500-word abstract for the 20-minute paper
proposed, including a paper title.
c. Any needed audio-visual equipment must be
noted with your proposal. No requests for AV equipment can be honored later.
Please send all required information by
September 1 to both co-chairs of the Division:
Tony Grajeda, <mailto:(agrajeda /at/ pegasus.cc.ucf.edu)>(agrajeda /at/ pegasus.cc.ucf.edu)
Cynthia Fuchs, <mailto:(cfuchs /at/ gmu.edu)>(cfuchs /at/ gmu.edu)
Tony Grajeda
Associate professor of cultural studies
Department of English
Colbourn Hall, 301
University of Central Florida
PO Box 161346
Cultural Studies and Film Division
The Cultural Studies and Film division of the
Cultural Studies Association (CSA) seeks
participants for each of two sessions for the
Seventh Annual CSA Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, April 16 to 18, 2009.
One session is a seminar on Cinema and
Modernity. This seminars reading, TBA, probably
will include an essay by Miriam
Hansen. Prospective participants each should
kindly submit, by August 15, 2008, a brief bio,
plus a proposal (in the format of one?s choice)
describing ones own research projects relevance
to understanding cinema and modernity.
Organizer/contact: Evan Heimlich,
(moderndivination /at/ gmail.com) (please begin the messages subject line with
Seminar).
For its second session, this division, in
cooperation with the CSA division on Culture and
War, seeks participants for a roundtable on
Cinema, Culture, War. Discussion might address
war-films and broadly, cinema itself as theatres
of cultural war. The roundtable might
particularly investigate how filmmaking has
adopted rhetorics of warfare e.g., of
blockbusters, guerrilla filmmaking, or of promotional campaigns.
Prospective participants each should kindly
submit, by August 15, 2008, a brief bio, plus an
abstract of less than 500 words, describing
one?s own research projects relevance to
understanding this topic: Cinema, Culture, War.
Organizer/contact: Evan Heimlich,
(evan.heimlich /at/ gmail.com) (please begin the
messages subject line with Roundtable).
Cultural Studies and Literature DivisionDivision Members only
The Cultural Studies and Literature Division
(CSLD) of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA)
calls for division-sponsored sessions for the
Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association
Meeting, 16-18 April 2009, Kansas City, MO,
USA. In particular, we seek sessions that
practice a reading of literature that highlights
its historical engagement in the social
construction of knowledge and interpretation of experience.
CSLD is looking to sponsor (1) two paper
sessions, (2) two roundtables or workshops, (3)
one seminar, OR (4) a combination of two of the above choices.
If interested in proposing a paper session,
roundtable session or workshop session, or a
seminar, please submit the following:
a) The name, email address, phone number,
and department and institutional affiliation of the organizer.
b) The names, email addresses, and
department and institutional affiliations of each participant.
c) A 500-word abstract for the session,
identifying the type of session (panel,
roundtable, workshop, seminar) proposed. (Also
include 500-word abstracts of each of the papers
from each participant. Session should have only three to four papers).
d) Any audio-visual equipment needs.
Please send all required information before 15
August 2008 to both of the CSLD co-chairs:
Caroline H. Yang (Department of English,
Wesleyan University) at (chy /at/ uiuc.edu) and Helen
Kapstein (Department of English, John Jay
College, CUNY) at (hkapstein /at/ jjay.cuny.edu).
For your reference, here is last year?s call for
papers for a CSLD-sponsored seminar:
<http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/archive/Cultural-Historical/3152.html>http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/archive/Cultural-Historical/3152.html
Cultural Policy Studies Division
In its first year as a division of the Cultural
Studies Association, the Cultural Policy Studies
Division welcomes papers dealing with any aspect
of the relationship between cultural policy and
cultural studies, although priority will be
given to topics that address some of the following issues:
v the place of cultural policy in cultural studies
v beyond governmentality; cultural policy and cultural theory
v from ?cultural? to ?creative? industries
v the cultural industries (popular music, film, etc.) and policy
v national cultural policies versus international policy
v national identity and globalization
v cultural policy in the age of convergence
v cultural trade and policy
Please submit via e-mail a 500-word abstract of
a 15-20 minute paper proposal, including name,
department, institutional affiliation, and
e-mail address by September 5th to co-chairs, Joseph Terry and Gunn Sara Enli.
Joseph Terry
University of Colorado at Boulder
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
<mailto:(joseph.terry /at/ colorado.edu)>(joseph.terry /at/ colorado.edu)
Gunn Sara Enli
Department of Media and Communication
University of Oslo
<mailto:(gunn.enli /at/ media.uio.no)>(gunn.enli /at/ media.uio.no)
Media Interventions Division
The Media Interventions Division of the Cultural
Studies Association (CSA) invites papers and
panel proposals for the Seventh Annual Cultural
Studies Association Meetings, April 16-18, 2009,
Kansas City, MO, USA. The division welcomes
submissions that examine media interventions,
broadly conceived, from academic and
practitioner perspectives. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
· DIY aesthetics
· Local, national and transnational media reform
· Grassroots cultural production
· Indigenous media culture
· Youth media form, content and practices
· Citizens? journalism
· Discourse analysis of
public interest and advocacy campaigns
· Media literacy/media education
· Alternative and activist media
· New media and cultural politics
· Policy analysis of media regulation
· Historical and
institutional analysis of alternative, community and Indy media organizations
The Media Interventions Division plans to
sponsor one paper session and one roundtable/workshop session.
If you are interested in submitting a paper for
consideration, please include the following:
1. The name, email address,
phone number, department and institutional affiliation of the author(s);
2. A 500-word abstract for the paper;
3. A detailed list of any audio-visual equipment needs.
If you are interested in organizing a
roundtable/workshop session please include the following:
1. The name, email address,
phone number, department and institutional
affiliation of the session organizer;
2. The names, email
addresses, and department and institutional affiliations of each participant;
3. A 500-word abstract for
the session. In addition, please include
concise (250-300 word) abstracts of each
4. participant?s paper;
5. A detailed list of any audio-visual equipment needs.
Send inquires and completed paper/session
proposals for the Media Interventions Division to:
Kevin Howley
Associate Professor of Media Studies
DePauw University
<mailto:(khowley /at/ depauw.edu)>(khowley /at/ depauw.edu)
The deadline for submissions is September 7, 2008.
Racial and Ethnic Studies Division
The Racial and Ethnic Studies Division (RESD) of
the Cultural Studies Association (CSA) calls for
an array of papers for the Seventh Annual
Cultural Studies Association Meetings, 16-18
April 2009, Kansas City, MO, USA. In specific,
we seek papers that explore how race and
ethnicity are discursive and performative
constructs whose meaning is never fixed but is
continually produced, negotiated, contested, and
(re)affirmed in various social fields of unequal power distribution.
RESD is looking to sponsor (1) two paper
sessions, (2) two roundtables or workshops, or
(3) a paper session and a roundtable/workshop.
If interested in presenting an individual paper, please submit the following:
a) The name, email address, phone number,
department and institutional affiliation of the author.
b) A 500-word abstract for the paper.
c) Any audio-visual equipment needs.
If interested in proposing a paper session,
roundtable session or workshop session, please submit the following:
e) The name, email address, phone number,
and department and institutional affiliation of the proposer.
f) The names, email addresses, and
department and institutional affiliations of each participant.
g) A 500-word abstract for the session,
including identifying the type of session
(panel, roundtable, workshop) proposed. (Also
include 500-word abstracts of each of the papers
from each participant. Session should have only three to four papers).
h) Any audio-visual equipment needs.
Please send all required information before 7
September 2008 to RESD chair Matthew W. Hughey
(Departments of Media Studies and Sociology,
University of Virginia) at: <mailto:(mwh5h /at/ virginia.edu)>(mwh5h /at/ virginia.edu).
Technology Division
The Technology Division of the Cultural Studies
Association seeks individual paper submissions,
round table sessions and workshop proposals.
Specifically, we seek papers that examine
technocultures, historicize technologies old and
new, draw on ethnographies of techno-mediated
environments whether in rural, urban or digital
environments. The division is interested in
theory building based in the examination of
technologies whether old or new, rural or urban.
In addition we would also like to see papers and
panel proposals that look at environmental
issues around the use and distribution of a wide
variety of technologies. For instance, how are
our daily lives, local and global cultures
impacted by the practices we engage in as we
use, produce and consume various technologies in
work and play? What sorts of technologies emerge
as dominant within frameworks of Modernity and
Development and why? What sorts of
subjectivities are produced within specific
techno-cultures and what sorts of bodies are
permitted voice and agency through such techno-cultures.
For this division we encourage submitters to not
merely think of "technology" as computer
technology and digital networks - but to also
engage the larger socio-economic structures
within which technologies old and new occur so
as to map the concept of "Technology" in
relation to modernity, ideological, and in
relation rural and urban landscapes. This call
for papers, therefore, is seeking historical and
contextual examinations of technology (defined
in the broadest of senses) and its use with
specific attention to practices of use and
proliferation. These battles are currently
visible in relation to various technologies
situated within contexts of agriculture, new
media, energy and ecology among others.
Therefore this call encourages submitters to engage these topics.
Individual paper proposals should contain:
a) The name, email address, phone number,
department and institutional affiliation of author
b) A 500 to 750 word abstract clearly laying out
the theoretical and empirical contexts being examined
c) Any audio-visual equipment needs
Roundtable sessions and workshop sessions should contain:
a) The name, email address, phone number,
department and institutional affiliation of proposer
b) The names, email addresses, phone numbers,
department and institutional affiliations of all panelists
c) A 500 to 750 word abstract clearly laying out
the theoretical and empirical contexts being examined in the panel
d) 500 word abstracts for each of the papers
from each participant. It is suggested that each
panel not have more than four paper
presentations and one respondent and one chair.
e) Any audio-visual equipment needs
Send abstracts by September 7, 2008 to Radhika
Gajjala (School of Communication Studies,
Bowling Green State University) at
<mailto:(radhika /at/ cyberdiva.org)>(radhika /at/ cyberdiva.org) .
Visual Culture Division
A. Visual Culture and Affect
?A new ontology of the human? is how Michael
Hardt describes the potential associated with
what Patricia Clough calls the affective turn in
critical theory, marking a movement from a
psychoanalytically informed criticism of subject
identity, representation, and trauma to engaging
the complexity of open systems under
far-from-equilibrium conditions, as well as the
body?s capacity to act, engage and connect
(Clough, 2007). While Laura Marks suggests that
viewers experience the film medium as two bodies
in extreme proximity through the haptic gaze,
the materiality of film produces what Martine
Beugnet refers to as the cinema of
sensation. ?Brushing the image with the skin of
my eyes? is the way that Marks describes the
tactile quality that belongs to vision in the
cinematic experience. By focusing on a
multiplicity of forms and approaches, this
session seeks papers that take up the manners in
which affect is being explored in visual culture broadly defined.
B. Pedagogies of the Visual
If visual culture studies might be said to have
reached a point of institutionalization, as
evidenced through the proliferation of visual
culture programs, then perhaps it is time to
assess the state of the field from a pedagogical
perspective as well. As the field changes what
are the impacts in the classroom, upon the
subjects that are taught as well as our methods
for teaching them. This panel session/workshop
will explore the various manners in which Visual
Culture Division members as teachers engage
pedagogical questions, issues and challenges.
Prospective papers and proposals for panel
participation may be sent to Randal Rogers,
Chair, Visual Culture Division of CSA, by
September 1<mailto:(radhika /at/ cyberdiva.org)>, at
(Randal.Rogers /at/ uregina.ca). Please feel free to make inquiries.
Karen Lillis
CSA Administrator
Cultural Studies Association (U.S.)
(csaus /at/ pitt.edu)
Seventh Annual Meeting of the CSA (U.S.)
Marriott (at the Plaza), Kansas City
April 16-18, 2009
www.csaus.pitt.edu
