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[Commlist] cfp: CSAA 2025 conference - Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
Tue Jul 22 12:04:35 GMT 2025
*/CSAA 2025 conference call for papers due 25 July/*
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*So hot right now: Cultures in rising temperatures*
/Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference
<https://csaa.asn.au/csaa-conference-2025/>/
/25-28 November 2025 // University of Melbourne campus as part of the
Congress of HASS/
/(Conveners: Rebecca Olive, Gilbert Caluya, Holly Randell-Moon, Andrew
Hutcheon)/
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*CSAA 2025 call for papers and sessions
<https://csaa.asn.au/csaa-conference-2025/>: *CSAA 2025 aims to look at
intersections, divergences, conflicts, and convergences of ‘heat’ in
cultures, practices, media, environments, and forms of governance.
Together, we will explore how our relations to each other are heating up
across political, environmental and cultural challenges and to explore
what rising temperatures might help us imagine or foreclose into the future.
Keynote sessions will include an In Conversation between Professor Irene
Watson & Professor Mary Graham, as well as presentations by Emeritus
Professor Baden Offord, Professor Emily Potter and Associate Professor
Elizabeth Stephens.
To help spark some ideas, submissions for panels or presentations could
include topics such as:
* *Cultures of Heat*: representing heat/fire in everyday cultures; the
rhetoric of fire/heat/temperatures and its effects on culture,
politics, society, identity, practice or praxis; theorising ‘slow
burn’ in literature and film.
* *Hot as Hell*: heat/fire in religious and spiritual cultures; the
cultural politics of hell.
* *Heated media*: revisiting McLuhan’s hot and cool media theory;
fiery social media communities and cultures; the media of outrage
and panic; reporting on/in hot conflict zones; mediated hate speech
against women and minorities; toxic fandom in entertainment media.
* *Hot bodies*: the body politics of heat; screen representations of
sex; the gendered and racialised politics of attractiveness; cooling
off dating; hot flashes/hot flushes; heatstroke.
* *Taking the temperature of technological developments*:
technological contributions to carbon emissions; AI and climate
change; technology’s connections to social and political conflicts.
* *Fiery emotions*: affects of ‘passion’; passionate debates; the uses
and abuses of anger; lust and desire; the politics of passionate
‘races’; the gendered politics of passion.
* *Geographies of heat*: the geopolitics of climate change; the urban
politics of overheating; access to heating/coolness as a right; heat
in rural and regional studies; ‘race’, empire and heat vulnerability
* *Managing fire*: governance and governmentality of heat/climate
change/fires; Indigenous approaches to using fire as an
environmental management tool; cladding and the cultural politics of
building codes; managing fires in the culture of construction
industries
* *Cultural politics of climate change*: the effects of global warming
on leisure and recreation industries and cultures; non-humans and
more-than-human worlds in climate change; movement, physical
activities and sport under global warming; rethinking health and
wellness in the context of climate change.
* *Critical reflections on ‘the Anthropocene’*: the theory of ‘climate
change’ or ‘the Anthropocene’; new methodologies for the
Anthropocene; the connections between humans, non- humans, and
more-than-human worlds in the Anthropocene.
* *Creative Arts in heat*: creative artist responses to climate
change; the role of the arts and craft in climate change politics;
sustainability in arts and craft practices.
* *Theories, ethics and practices of care in global warming*: what are
our responsibilities under climate change? What kind of care does
the planet need? And how do we enact such care under global warming?
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*Colonialities of heat*: the geopolitics of race and coloniality in
rising temperatures; environmental racism; Indigenous sovereignties
and sciences
These are just some provocations to ignite your own ideas with this
year’s theme. As always, the CSAA annual conference is open to
any hot topics in cultural studies. We’re excited to hear your
ideas so fire away!
*Email submissions to (csaaconference2025 /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(csaaconference2025 /at/ gmail.com)> by _25 July 2025._*
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