Association For Cultural Studies

Crossroads 2010: Call for Session Proposals

Apr 16, 09:41 AM

Dear colleagues,

The 8th Crossroads Conference in Cultural Studies will be hosted by the Department of Cultural Studies jointly with Kwan Fong Cultural Research & Development Programme of Lingnan University in HONG KONG during June 17 -21, 2010. Please check the details at our conference website: http://www.crossroads2010.org

This year we are very pleased to have invited the following keynote and plenary speakers:

Katherine GIBSON (Australia)
Tony BENNETT (UK/Australia)
Anne BALSAMO (US)
Nilufer GOLE (Turkey/France)
Josephine HO (Taiwan)
Sandro MEZZADRA (Italy)
PUN Ngai (China)
Vinod RAINA (India)
Andrew ROSS (US)
Catherine WALSH (Ecuador)

As always, we are open to all innovative topics in Cultural Studies. There is certainly no boundary of your scholarly thinking; however, we do have some suggested topics listed in the section Topic Suggestions in the conference website as food for thoughts. Please also refer to the section on Panels and Proposals in the conference website for the submission guidelines.

Please submit your proposals by December 31st, 2009 to the Academic Programme Sub-committee at: xroads(at)LN.edu.hk

We look forward to receiving your proposals soon!

Crossroads 2010
Academic Programme Sub-committee

Academic Director:

Professor Meaghan MORRIS, Dept of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University

Committee Members:

Professor Stephen Ching-kiu CHAN, Dept of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
Professor John Nguyet ERNI, Dept of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
Dr Helen GRACE, Dept of Cultural & Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor Mette Anne HJORT, Dept of Philosophy, Lingnan University
Dr Po-keung HUI, Dept of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
Dr Wing-sang LAW, Dept of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
Dr Angel LIN, Dept of English, City University of Hong Kong
Dr Shuang SHEN, Dept of Chinese, Lingnan University
Dr Ching YAU, Dept of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University

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