[ecrea] CFP: Minor Culture 2015

2nd Call for Papers: Minor Culture 2015

Conference for the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
The University of Melbourne
Parkville Campus
w: culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/events/minor-culture-conference

November 30: Prefix Postgraduate Day
December 1-3: Minor Culture Conference

Abstract

Minor Culture creates a space for inter-disciplinary dialogues around 
the study of place, identity and marginality, and addresses research on 
everyday cultural productions and media texts, cultural policy and 
discourses of sustainability, digital life and creative industries, and 
public cultures in the Asia-Pacific region. The conference also invites 
responses to the following questions:
How are minor cultures inhabited? When do minor cultures become 
uninhabitable?
Is the concept of minority still useful in explaining contemporary forms 
of cultural marginality?
How do categories such as indigeneity and Aboriginality, gender and 
sexuality, class, disability, race and citizenship produce minoritising 
effects? How might these categories change when mobilised through 
governmental discourses, newsmedia, and everyday usage?
Who narrates experiences of minoritisation? For whom are these 
narratives produced? How is minoritarianism articulated through film, 
music, television, literature, performance, and digital cultures?
In what ways do practices of government and cultural policy shape 
relationships between local, national and transnational cultures? To 
what extent are legal regulations implicated in the formation of 
minoritarian practices?
How do new minor or major cultural formations emerge? Through which 
means do political practices resist or intervene in these formations?
Do minor cultures require novel theoretical tools or research 
methodologies? What do "experimental" approaches to cultural research 
look like? What alternative kinds of knowledge could such approaches 
make available?
Is minority a humanist concept? What place could "majority" and 
"minority" have within post-anthropocentric thinking?
And when do minor cultures cease to be minor?

Keynote Speakers

Distinguished Professor Ien Ang (University of Western Sydney)
Professor Jose Neil C. Garcia (University of the Philippines Diliman, 
Quezon City) Professor Meaghan Morris (University of Sydney & Lingnan 
University, Hong Kong) Professor Tejaswini Niranjana (Centre for the 
Study of Culture & Society, Bangalore; Tata Institute of Social 
Sciences, Mumbai; Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

Invited Speakers
Dennis Altman, Tony Bennett, Gemma Blackwood, Tony Birch, Vijay Devadas, 
Catherine Driscoll, Gilbert Caluya, Ghassan Hage, Koichi Iwabuchi, Peter 
Jackson, Sue Luckman, Mark McLelland, Stephen Muecke, Greg Noble, 
Rosemary Overell, Michelle Phillipov, Elspeth Probyn, Katrina Schlunke, 
Katsuhiko Suganuma, Graeme Turner, and Nabeel Zuberi.


Prefix Postgraduate Day
The Prefix postgraduate day in 2015 will be divided into two halves, the 
first involving seminars and workshops on publishing in Cultural Studies 
(and adjacent disciplines), and the second involving discussions of 
Cultural Studies research outside the academy. Invited speakers include 
Professor Greg Noble (University of Western Sydney) and Associate 
Professor Chris Healy (University of Melbourne), with additional 
speakers to be confirmed. These sessions will be followed by a social 
networking even, then drinks and nibbles in Carlton (near the University 
of Melbourne). Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher participants in 
‘Minor Culture’ will automatically be accepted into the Prefix day.

Abstracts
Please email (csaa2015 /at/ lists.unimelb.edu.au) by 1 June 2015 with:
An abstract (250 words max.)
A title for the presentation (15 words max.)
A short bio (30 words max.) Include your name, email address, degree 
level and institutional affiliation. This should be included both in the 
body of the email and as an attachment

Panel Proposals
Panel proposals are welcome. In addition to submitting a 250 word 
abstract for each presenter, please submit an abstract (100 words) and a 
title (15 words max.) for the panel as a whole to 
(csaa2015 /at/ lists.unimelb.edu.au). As we have a tight schedule this year, 
panels will be limited to three persons each. Presenters will be 
notified of their acceptance no later than 1 July 2015.

Postgraduate Travel Bursaries
Travel bursaries will be made available to a limited number of 
postgraduates and Early Career Researchers attending ‘Minor Culture’. 
More information will be made available shortly, but if you have any 
urgent questions about funding support for the conference, please email 
(csaa2015 /at/ lists.unimelb.edu.au).

Conference Co-convenors
Dr Rimi Khan & Dr Timothy Laurie
(Screen and Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne)

Conference Organising Committee at The University of Melbourne
Assoc. Professor Chris Healy (Screen and Cultural Studies)
Assoc. Professor Fran Martin (Screen and Cultural Studies)
Assoc. Professor Scott McQuire (Media and Communications)
Professor Angela Ndalianis (Screen and Cultural Studies)
Professor Nikos Papastergiadis (Director of the Research Unit in Public 
Cultures)
Assoc. Professor Audrey Yue (Screen and Cultural Studies)

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