[ecrea] Call For Papers: Crossroads In Cultural Studies, 2016

*UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS: CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES, 2016*

*PROPOSALS DUE April 30th, 2016!*

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For the first time in its history, /Crossroads in Cultural Studies/ is
coming to the southern hemisphere. Hosted by the University of Sydney
and Western Sydney University, the 11th International Conference
/Crossroads in Cultural Studies/ will be held in Sydney, Australia from
*December 14^th  to 17^th  2016. *Scholars from around the world will
come together in the beautiful summertime setting of Sydney University
to engage with the past, present and future of cultural studies scholarship.


*Keynote Speakers: *Ghassan Hage, Audra Simpson, Kamala Visweswaran.


*Other Plenary and Featured Spotlight Speakers Will Include: *Paula
Banerjee, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Alison Bashford, Amita Baviskar, Jean
Burgess, John Erni, Martin Fredriksson, Steve Kinnane, Denisa Kera,
Maria Lugones, Mark McLelland, Cecilia Mariz, Aileen Moreton-Robinson,
Kado Muir, Laikwan Pang, Susanna Paasonen, Elizabeth Povinelli, Cristina
Rocha, Evelyn Ruppert, Rachel Silvey, Gavin Smith, Maristella Svampa,
Imre Szeman, Martina Tazzioli, Irene Watson, Brenda Weber, Nira Yuval-Davis.


*Stay tuned for the announcement of more speakers!*

The /Crossroads in Cultural Studies/ Conference has played an important
role in the creation of a global discussion of Cultural Studies. It has
become a major international conference where scholars from all five
continents gather regularly to exchange research, views, and insights.
Organized by the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS), the Crossroads
conference is held every other year in different parts of the world.
Previous conferences have taken place in Birmingham (United Kingdom),
Urbana-Champaign (USA), Istanbul (Turkey), Kingston (Jamaica), Hong Kong
(China), Paris (France), and Tampere (Finland).

A day-long postgraduate/graduate research student conference will
precede the main conference (on 13 December, 2016) – this event will be
held at Western Sydney University.

  * *Submit your proposal using the online forms* before *April 30th,
    2016: *The call for both paper and pre-organised panel proposals is
    now open. Submission guidelines and forms can be accessed through
    our website:<http://www.crossroads2016.org/>www.crossroads2016.org
  * *ACS Assistance Fund for Crossroads 2016. *The Association for
    Cultural Studies will offer a small number of grants to assist
    participants from ACS under-represented regions with travel,
    accommodation and/or registration expenses. Find more information on
    the website here:

<http://crossroads2016.org/register/>http://crossroads2016.org/register/
  * Information on registration and accommodation, and on the student
    pre-conference will follow soon, along with more confirmed speakers.
  * *Spread the news!* Please forward this message to your colleagues
    and friends – we look forward to seeing you in Sydney in our summer
    2016!

*Possible topics*

The conference is open to all topics relevant to cultural studies. Here
are some suggested topics as food for thought, drawing on the work of
our invited keynote, plenary and spotlight speakers, and on more general
themes in cultural studies research. However, all contemporary cultural
studies research is welcome at this conference:

  * Diversity, culture, governance
  * Indigenous knowledge and politics
  * Borders and mobilities
  * Culture, gender and decolonisation
  * Data cultures
  * Extraction: cultures and industries
  * Media regulation: from censorship to piracy
  * Popular affect online
  * Transforming christianities
  * Who counts in the anthropocene? gender, sexuality, race and class
  * Securitization
  * Australasian cultural studies
  * Consumption and everyday life
  * Critical and cultural theory
  * Digital infrastructure
  * Culture, gender and sexuality
  * Globalisation and culture
  * Human/non-human relations
  * Inter-Asian cultural studies
  * Managing cities
  * Migrant cultural studies
  * Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies
  * Popular cultures and genres
  * Public culture and cultural policy
  * Race and racism
  * Rethinking the human
  * Rural cultural studies
  * Screen and media culture
  * Transforming/Globalising universities

*Steering Committee: *Professor Catherine Driscoll (USyd), Professor
Tony Bennett (WSU), Associate Professor Tess Lea (USyd), Professor Brett
Nielsen (WSU), Professor Elspeth Probyn (USyd), Associate Professor Kane
Race (USyd), Dr Guy Redden (USyd), Dr Shanthi Robertson (WSU).

Web: <http://www.crossroads2016.org/>www.crossroads2016.org
Email: <mailto:(acs.2016 /at/ sydney.edu.au)>(acs.2016 /at/ sydney.edu.au)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/XR2016/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/XR_2016
Hashtag: #XR2016

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