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CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES THE ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL STUDIES? For quite a while there have been discussions about the possibility of establishing an international association of cultural studies. The idea comes from Pertti Alasuutari who introduced it during the Crossroads 1998 conference. Informal discussions first between Alasuutari, Ann Gray, Larry Grossberg and Joke Hermes and later with a bigger group led into a "Draft Proposal for establishing an International Association of Cultural Studies at the Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference in Birmingham", signed by Pertti Alasuutari, Ann Gray, John Hartley and Joke Hermes (in alphabetical order). A general launch meeting arranged during the Birmingham 2000 meeting then elected a larger committee to prepare a constitution for the the association, now called the "Association for Cultural Studies" (ACS). The group that eventually took part in the work consisted of the following people (in alphabetical order): Pertti Alasuutari, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Kirsten Drotner, Ann Gray, Lawrence Grossberg, Joke Hermes, Baris Kilicbay, Daniel Mato, Alan McKee, Alvaro Pina (Coordinator), M. Michael Schiff, Keyan Tomaselli and Handel K. Wright. Now the group has completed its work, and you can read the proposed CONSTITUTION OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL STUDIES here. The idea is that in the 2002 Tampere meeting there would be the official launch of the new association. The plan is that future Crossroads conferences would be the official biannual meetings of the association. |