[Commlist] cfp: CSAA Conference 2019: Cultural Transformations

*CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts Due 30 April, 2019*

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The disciplinary streams for the*CSAA Conference 2019: Cultural 
Transformations, University of Queensland, Dec 4 - 6, 2019*, have now 
been released on our website:

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https://csaaconference2019.wordpress.com/conference-streams/

*All abstract submissions should nominate a potential stream for 
consideration*. Please click on the stream titles for more information 
on the focus and subject areas included in each stream. There is also a 
‘general’ stream for those whose abstracts fall outside the listed 
streams.Email all abstract and panel submissions to 
*(csaaconf2019 /at/ gmail.com)* <mailto:(csaaconf2019 /at/ gmail.com)>*_._ Please 
include**the stream title in the subject line*.

*CSAA Conference 2019: Cultural Transformations*

*University of Queensland, Dec 4 - 6, 2019*

*Confirmed Keynotes*

   *   Associate Professor Mel Chen, Associate Professor of Gender and 
Women's Studies at U.C. Berkeley and Director of the Centre for the 
Study of Sexual Culture
   *   Professor Bronwyn Carlson, Professor and Head of Indigenous 
Studies, Macquarie University
   *   Professor Jean Burgess, Director, Digital Media Research Centre, 
Queensland University of Technology

*Conference Theme: Cultural Transformations*
It now seems that the future is no longer rushing to meet us but has 
already arrived. The speed and extent of the cultural transformations 
currently taking place around us raise urgent and imperative questions. 
Cultural studies researchers have recently turned to examine these 
questions across a representatively broad range of fields, including 
gender and sexuality studies, critical race and disability studies, film 
and media studies, internet and digital cultural studies, affect studies 
and the environmental humanities. Yet significant work remains to be 
done. How are we to respond most effectively to such issues as the 
disappearance of salaried jobs and their replacement with a gig economy, 
to climate change and species extinction, to the rise of 'populism' and 
the new right, as well as the ever-worsening treatment of refugee and 
indigenous populations, to the systemic gender and sexuality-based 
disadvantage revealed by #metoo and the divisive SSM poll, to the 
emergence of AI and algorithmic logics, as well as gene-editing and 
other biomedical technologies?

The 2019 conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia 
aims to provide a forum at which both the challenges posed and the 
opportunities afforded by these transformations can be collectively 
addressed. Taking as its theme 'Cultural Transformations', the 
conference welcomes proposals for papers or panels that address this 
topic from a diverse and inclusive range of perspectives, as well as 
general papers in Cultural Studies. Although the CSAA primarily focuses 
on the Australasian community, we very much welcome multicultural and 
international submissions!

The conference will be preceded on Tuesday December 3 by a one-day 
event, 'Prefix', designed for Higher Degree Research students and Early 
Career Researchers.Further information regarding conference 
opportunities, events and travel will soon be available on this website. 
In the interim, for more information, please email the organising team here:

*(csaaconf2019 /at/ gmail.com)*

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