[Discussion] CFP: Canadian Association of Cultural Studies Annual Conference (5/31/05;
10/20/05-10/22/05)
Sule Tarakcioglu
suletar@bilkent.edu.tr
Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:49:00 -0700
From: brittain <brittain@ualberta.ca>
Subject: CFP: Canadian Association of Cultural Studies Annual Conference
(5/31/05; 10/20/05-10/22/05)
Call for Papers:
�Insides, Outsides and Elsewheres�
Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS)
October 20 - 22, 2005
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2005
The Canadian Association of Cultural Studies invites you to join us at the
University of Alberta Telus Conference Centre in Edmonton Alberta,
October 20
- 22, 2005.
We are now accepting abstracts of 150 words for our conference entitled:
�Insides, Outsides and Elsewheres�. To elicit and address
the wide
range of
work being done under the rubric of cultural studies, we are including both
themed and non-themed sessions in this call for papers. The list of themed
sessions is included below.
Please note that if you are submitting an abstract to a themed session
you must
submit directly to the identified session organizer by May 31, 2005. If
you are submitting an abstract to the open call for papers please direct
them,
by the same date, to: cacs@ualberta.ca or by mail to:
Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS)
c/o Department of Educational Policy Studies
7-104 Education North
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G5
Abstracts may not be sent to both a themed session as well as the open call.
Electronic submissions are preferred, but hard-copy abstracts are also
accepted.
Papers should be no longer than 15-20 minutes long, and presenters must be
members of CACS by the time of the conference. Membership information and
registration will be available at the conference and is also accessible on
our website at www.culturalstudies.ca.
Please send all other inquiries to CACS at cacs@ualberta.ca or (780)
492-0773.
The deadline for submission is May 31, 2005. We look forward to seeing
you in
October.
********************
Themed sessions (please submit directly to session organizers preferably via
email):
Screening Masculinities in Third, Diasporic and Transnational Cinemas:
Intersections and Interrelations
Session Organizer: Melisa Brittain
brittain@ualberta.ca
Dept. of English and Film Studies
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E5
To date, masculinity studies has largely focused on white masculinities. And
while work on post-colonial masculinities began in the 1990s, there is still
precious little scholarship on how masculinities are produced at the
intersections of a range of identity categories and discursive regimes, such
as nation, race, imperialism, globalization, sexuality, class, nation,
ethnicity
and religion, to name only the most obvious.
In light of the rising interest in both transnational media studies and
masculinity studies, and in an effort to remedy the paucity of work on the
interrelations among racialized communities, and the intersections
through which
masculine identities and subjectivities are produced and articulated,
this panel
seeks papers that investigate representations of masculinity in cinema
that can
be categorized as third, diasporic or transnational. Essays that
investigate the
production of masculinities at the intersections of nation, race,
imperialism,
globalization, sexuality, class, nation, ethnicity and/or religion in these
cinemas are particularly welcome, as are papers that engage with an
interdisciplinary and politically engaged approach to 'reading' both
film and
masculinity.
___________________________________________________________________________
Transnational Cultural Studies in Canada
Session Organizer: Jenny Burman
jenny.burman@mcgill.ca
Assistant Professor in Communication Studies
Dept. of Art History and Communication Studies
McGill University
W-280, 853 Sherbrooke St. W.,
Montreal QC, H3A 2T6
This session invites presentations from scholars working in the area of
transnational cultural studies, which might be described as an area that
merges
the theoretical advances of humanities-based postcolonial studies with a
reinvigorated socioeconomic analysis of the predicaments of globalized
spaces.
Research topics might include (but are definitely not restricted to):
- Locale-specific studies and/or theories of diasporization, hybridization,
creolization
- Oppositional movements that organize around questions of citizenship,
belonging and illegality
- Critical readings of the 2002 Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
(sic),
the 2001 Census questionnaire or other government documents
- Diasporized urban cultural production
___________________________________________________________________________
The Question of the Animal: Why Now?
Session Organizer: Dr. Jodey Castricano
jcastric@wlu.ca
Associate Professor/Cultural Studies Series Editor
Department of English & Film Studies/Wilfrid Laurier U Press
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, ON, N2L 3C5
In an interview in Topia, Carey Wolfe-author of Animal Rites: American
Culture,
the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory-argues
that�cultural
studies and critical theory have really, really lagged behind �
developments in the broader society� in dealing with what Carey
refers to
as �the question of the animal� (40). Carey maintains that
forms
of �speciesism� must be given the same critical attention
that has
been recruited against sexism and racism in critical race studies,
feminism, and
queer theory. This panel-entitled �The Question of the Animal: Why
Now?� seeks interdisciplinary papers that critique the division
between
human and beast and address the human-animal relationship in the context of
posthumanism.
___________________________________________________________________________
(Image)ining Resistance
Session Organizers: Keri Cronin Kirsty
Robertson keri.cronin@ualberta.ca kirsty@mailodic.com
Department of Art & Design Queen�s University
3-98 Fine Arts Building 1432 Montcalm St.
University of Alberta Queen�s University
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2C9 Montreal, QC H2l 3G8
The goal of this session is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary
approaches
and critical examinations that address the use of visual imagery in
social and
activist movements throughout history. From banners embroidered for
suffragette
actions, to the impact of photographs taken in Soweto in 1976, to political
puppets created for recent global justice demonstrations, the intersections
between visual culture and activism relate a rich history with
transnational and
transideological import.
This session stems from a publication entitled (Image)ining Resistance
that we
are currently in the process of editing. We see (Image)ining Resistance as a
project that breaks the narrow boundaries of the printed word, operating
on a
number of levels, and spreading beyond the page through a series of
conference
panels, discussions and dialogues surrounding the issues raised by the
authors.
We would like to encourage this open process by inviting the authors as
well as
other scholars, activists and artists whose interests intersect with and
contribute to the theoretical underpinnings of (Image)ining Resistance to
continue these discussions. As such, we would be looking for people
whose work
interrogates the links between visual culture and activism, through
interdisciplinary approaches, from a wide range of historical periods,
geographic regions and protest actions.
____________________________________________________________________________
Comics: Mainstream or Fringe?
Session Organizer: Orion Ussner Kidder
okidder@ualberta.ca
Dept. of English and Film Studies
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E5
Comics were, undoubtedly, a mainstream medium in America, Canada, and
Britain
for most of the twentieth century. However, the readership at the
beginning of
the twenty-first is both smaller and older than it used to be. Comics, even
superhero comics, find themselves telling stories to a shrinking
audience that
wants more sophisticated material, whether it is in the form of
superheroes or
not.
This panel will explore the interplay between the narrow generic
expectations
of comics, on the one hand (I.e., superheroes or related, high-fantasy
genres),
and the growing demand for mature and politically charged content, on
the other
(eg, Art Spiegelman's _Maus_, or Marjane Satrapi's _Persepolis_). Papers
can be
on the subject of traditional superhero comics (usually Anglo-American), or
underground comics. Studies on comics from outside the Anglo-American
tradition
(Japanese 'manga,' European, etc.) are strongly encouraged, as well.
____________________________________________________________________________
Cultural Studies and Education
Session Organizer: Jennifer Kelly
jennifer.kelly@ualberta.ca
Department of Education Policy Studies
7-104 Education North
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G5
Although the links between cultural studies and education are not evident
within recent formulations of cultural studies a significant portion of the
early ethnographic research undertaken at the CCCS involved the analysis of
school and youth (Willis, Hebdige). Similarly, others (Steele) have
traced the
contested �routes� of cultural studies via post WWI adult
education and the
work of Thompson, Williams and Hoggart. The purpose of the panel is to
explore
the present day articulation of education as an area of study and cultural
studies as a framework of analysis. How might theorization within the
field of
education draw on cultural studies to develop a more complex
understanding of
issues relating directly and indirectly to the field of education. How have
education scholars dealt with the conceptual challenges that a cultural
studies
framework poses for the field of education? What forms of analysis and
perspectives can Cultural Studies contribute to broader debates in the field
(race, class, gender sexualtities). How might understandings of, youth
identities, racialization and pedagogy be enhanced through a cultural
studies
prism?
____________________________________________________________________________
People Lie. Numbers Don�t: Business Discourses and Public Culture
Session Organizer: Dr. Josephine Mills
josephine.mills@uleth.ca
University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive
Lethbridge, AB, T1K 3M4
Business discourses have become the norm for cultural institutions and arts
professionals. Whether it is using attendance figures and other numbers as a
supposedly objective measure of success or developing business plans to meet
the requirements of public granting agencies, cultural professionals now
regularly deploy business discourses as part of operating public
institutions
and accept this as an inevitable fact in our landscape. This panel will
investigate the language and assumptions involved with this trend and
propose
strategies to either outright counter or negotiate within these discourses.
____________________________________________________________________________
Representing Nature/Imagining the Wild
Session Organizers: Michael D. Pereira Lorelei L. Hanson
mp04cp@Brocku.ca lorelei.hanson@athabascau.ca
2 Brigger St. #310 Athabasca University, Edmonton Learning Centre
St. Catharines, ON 3rd Floor, N Tower, 7 Street Plaza
L2R 7J1 10030-107 Street
Edmonton, AB, T5J 3E4
Representations of nature and the wild are frequently case as signs of
authenticity with �wild nature� situated as the locus for epic
struggles that
cast into the shadows other social, political and moral concerns. This
session
will bring together a panel of scholars who can ask a new set of questions
about the relationship between humans and the natural environment. The
panelists will seek to unpack and deconstruct the ways in which Canadian
culture represents nature and/or the wild, and our relationship with
these, in
order to better understand how these representations relate to increasing
ecological, economic and social problems and to explore the consequences for
the environment of various contemporary cultural myths about nature.
____________________________________________________________________________
Ritual Virtualities, Performative Materialities
Session Organizer: Rob Shields
rshields@ualberta.ca
5-21 Tory Bldg
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB, T6G 2H4
This session considers the contribution that an understanding of the virtual
can bring to an analysis of cultural intangibles. After Proust, the virtual
is �ideal but not abstract, real but not actual�. To what
extent
can the
cultural be understood as a dialectic of the material and virtual,
mediated by
ritual forms and performativity? What are the losses and risks in this move
to a set of theorists including Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, Butler and
Whitehead?
What are the ethical and aesthetic gains and how might this contribute to a
fleshy politics of recognition and respect? Papers combining both
theory and
a strong sense of embodiment(s) within the everyday are welcomed.
____________________________________________________________________________
Visual Studies and the Ethical Imagination
Session Organizer: Sharon Sliwinski
Sharon@yorku.ca
29 High Park Blvd.
Toronto, Ontario, M6R 1M6
The influence of various theoretical models-psychoanalysis, semiotics,
structural poststructural, and postcolonial thought-has recently led to a
dismantling of traditional art history in favour of the broad and eclectic
field of visual studies. This panel seeks papers that will interrogate how
this reorientation intersects with ethical concerns. Although it was once
commonplace to assume that a single photograph may have done more to
halt the
Vietnam War than all the writings of moral philosophers of the time,
there is
also a growing archive of terrorist-made images (from the Abu Ghraib prison
photographs to home-made decapitation videos). What does this ambivalence
signal for visual studies? How do visual representations organize ethical
response, both in terms of possibilities and limits? What is the
relationship
between the faculty for telling right and wrong and the faculty of aesthetic
judgment?
Topics could include:
� New technologies and the global circulation of images
� Documentary and responsibility
� The faculty of judgment
� Bearing witness and collective/social memory
� Colonial and ethnological �views�
� News and humanitarian intervention
� Apathy and compassion fatigue
� Contemporary and historical art practices
� Disciplinary intersections/boundaries
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Unfinished Business
Session Organizer: Vivian Zenari
vzenari@ualberta.ca
PhD Candidate
Department of English and Film Studies
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB TG6 2E5
The subject of this panel is unfinished works: unfinished novels,
symphonies,
poems, buildings, films, and so on. The papers on this panel should
address in
some way the work's "unfinishedness." For example: What factors
distinguish an
unfinished project from a finished project? What roles do authorial
intention
and audience response play in determining if a project is incomplete?
Should we
theorize unfinished projects differently from finished ones? What does
it mean
when one creator completes a project begun by another (such as Stephen
Spielberg
completing Stanley Kubrick's plan for _AI_)? What are the implications of
recuperating an unfinished project for another purpose (think of Keith
Fulton
and Louis Pepe salvaging their "making-of" documentary for Terry Gilliam's
abandoned _The Man Who Killed Don Quixote_ and turning it into the
"not-making-of" documentary_Lost in La Mancha_)?
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