[Commlist] cfp: Cultural Studies: A Global History

Cultural Studies: A Global History


This project aims to provide the first global history of cultural 
studies as a field, with a particular focus on its institutional 
manifestations and the ways in which cultural studies has been taken up 
in different cultural and geographical settings to various ends.

Cultural studies was institutionalized as an academic discipline in many 
countries around the world in the last decades of the twentieth century, 
and continues to structure significant work in the humanities and social 
sciences to this day. It developed in tandem with and as a product of 
the fundamental reconfigurations in the function of the university, 
responding to a global era of mass higher education, and sustained 
critiques in the way traditional fields of knowledge met the social and 
political challenges of the second half of the twentieth century. 
Cultural studies has produced new disciplines and new forms of knowledge 
in locations as diverse as Africa, Australasia, Latin America and the 
Caribbean, East, South-East, and South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, 
and North America. Although disciplinary histories of cultural studies 
in various local and national contexts have existed for some years, 
there has still not been a sustained study of the world history of 
cultural studies. Such a history promises to reveal important new 
insights into the way knowledge production relates to global 
institutional structures, and how universities responded to the global 
but uneven demands produced by the social and political tumult of the 
last half century. It will also help us to understand how cultural 
studies as a discipline developed via international exchanges of knowledge.


We are seeking expressions of interest from potential collaborators with 
expertise in specific regional or national contexts, including but not 
limited to those listed above. We are looking for people who would be 
willing to develop a regionally specific history of cultural studies in 
a particular location over the course of an extended research period. At 
this stage, we do not expect the research to have been undertaken, nor 
do we ask for abstracts or completed work. We anticipate that this 
project will develop as a genuinely collaborative undertaking, in which 
different participants’ research expertise in local contexts will help 
to develop the research questions that we will collectively pursue. We 
welcome people with a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, but a 
lively interest in the history and present of cultural studies. 
Participants do not need to be historians, though they should be willing 
to conduct research in archives and use some historical methods as the 
basis for this research.


Potential collaborators should send a CV and a short expression of 
interest, explaining your:

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    regional focus, disciplinary background, and research interests;

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    specific interest in cultural studies as a disciplinary project,
    including avenues you would be keen to pursue in relation to this call;

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    interest in working as part of a collaborative and comparative
    research project with a global focus;

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    any experience working with archives in the specified region, and
    any links to cultural studies scholars or institutions in this area;

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    relevant language skills;

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    any other relevant skills, experience, or interests.


Please email expressions of interest to (culturalstudiesglobal /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(culturalstudiesglobal /at/ gmail.com)>by 21 October, 2022.Questions 
and queries can also be directed to this account before the deadline.


Alys Moody (Bard College)

Rebecca Roach (University of Birmingham)

Kaitlin Staudt (Auburn University)


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