Association for Cultural Studies

• Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.)
  April 19-21, 2007, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
  
  The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its Fifth Annual Meeting from all areas and topics of relevance to Cultural Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology, geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, performance and visual arts studies.For more information, visit the website!


• Inter: A European Cultural Studies Conference in Sweden 2007
  June 11-13, 2007, Louis De Geer Congress and Concert Hall/Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden.
  
  The Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS) will organise “Inter: A European Cultural Studies Conference in Sweden”, in collaboration with the European branch of the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS). The conference theme “inter” is meant to summarise a series of challenges and opportunities for cultural research, each of which will be in focus one of the three days: spatial internationalisation with a focus on European borders and links in political, economic, social and cultural processes as well as in academic practice; temporal interepochality in historical processes of culturalisation; and organisational interdisciplinarity in cultural research. The conference aims to offer a broad picture of current cultural studies in Europe. For more information, visit the website!


• Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Shanghai Conference, Conditions of Knowledge and Cultural Production
  June 15-17, 2007, Shanghai University , Shanghai , China.
  
  The process of globalization has generated an expected but equally unexpected new intermediary condition of knowledge production: regionalization. In Asia , the intermediary can be perceived in the context of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies movements, for instance. This new set of trend has profound impacts on the present and future intellectual work. The purpose of the conference is to reflexively investigate the emerging conditions of knowledge on all levels and sites of intellectual productions.
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• Theory Faith Culture — an international interdisciplinary conference
  July 4-6, 2007, Cardiff University
  
  Religion is one of the most contested aspects of twenty-first century life. How can we understand and theorise the power of religion in the constitution of subjects and in its social, cultural and political manifestations? This conference will look at the interface between Theory, Faith and Culture. It will explore a range of theoretical approaches to the subject and attempt to further our understanding of some of the most important and pressing issues of the day. Papers are welcomed from all relevant disciplines. For more information, visit the website!


• Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations
  July 13-16, 2007, Tokyo University Hongo Campus, Tokyo, Japan
  
  To theorize about today's world, we evidently need to theorize media. Yet to theorize media also means we need to focus on how technological media are used in everyday practices. Not least, we need to address the question of the relationship of media practices to politics. This opens up questions about the formation of informed publics, new social movements and media events, not just the alleged need to combat media terrorism, nationalism and crime. Suggesting further questions about the power and influence of transnational media, intellectual property rights and openness of access. Raising issues of generativity, creativity and critical intervention. For more information, visit the website!


• Cultural Studies Now - An International Conference
  July 19-22, 2007, University of East London (UeL), Docklands Campus
  
  Cultural Studies Now is a major international conference organised by the School of Social Sciences, Media & Cultural Studies (SSMCS) at the University of East London.
  Cultural Studies, as the paradigmatic interdisciplinary project, has always been defined by its relationships to proximate sets of ideas, practices and institutions. As Cultural Studies has grown and matured, its borders have multiplied. The question now is: has Cultural Studies been expanded, relocated and disseminated to the point where it no longer has a coherent identity? Is there a future for Cultural Studies as such?
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• Women,Gender and the Cultural Production of Knowledge
  Conference of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History
  August 8-12, 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria
  
  Cultural history deals with various ‘artefacts’ produced by human activity throughout history: with both practices and representations, with written and visual texts. It is interested in both written and oral (but also visual) aspects of culture. We welcome interdisciplinary contributions (coming from fields as diverse as history and literary studies, cultural studies, art history, media studies, anthropology, history of philosophy, historiography) dealing with historical aspects of production, signification and reception of culture – all from a gender perspective. We aim to bring together scholars at different stages of their careers from all over the world.For more information, visit the website!


• CRESC Annual Conference 2007, Re-thinking cultural economy
  September 5-7, 2007, University of Manchester
  
  The term 'cultural economy' is deployed as part of a claim about the importance of culture both to understanding what is happening to economic and organisational life, and to effective practical interventions in the worlds of production and consumption. This Conference seeks to assess where the various debates about culture and economy and cultural economy have got to, and to explore where they may be going in the future.For more information, visit the website!


• E/Im/Migration and Culture
  September 15-17, 2007, Isik University, Sile, Istanbul, Turkey
  
  Seeking to explore the topic from a wide range of scholarly viewpoints by focusing on issues of migration in its multiple relationships with various facets of culture, the inter/multidisciplinary conference aims to interrogate established notions of migration both in Turkey and outside of Turkey. We welcome proposals for papers that break new ground in generating theory, or constitute innovative critical or comparative work that would lead to theoretical formulations and methodology, as well as for papers on specific cases. The conference intends to examine issues of migration in Turkey, among the peoples in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire, among the Euro-Turks (and Turkish Americans, Australasian Turks, etc.), among the Turcophone peoples in countries and regions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Russian Federation) and those Turcophone minorities in such countries as Iran and China. Fourth Cultural Studies Conference is co-organized by the Cultural Studies Association (Turkey) and the Department of International Relations of Isik University. For more information, visit the website!


• The Plots of History
  12th International Conference Culture & Power
  September 26-28, 2007, University of Oviedo, Spain
  
  Cultural theory at the end of the 20th Century claimed that there would be an end to all metanarratives. That end does not seem to be forthcoming in the present age, as new and old forms of manufacturing truth and emplotting history continue to affect our representations of the world. For more information, visit the website!


• Narrating the Nation
  Television Narratives and National Identities
  October 4-5, 2007, Reus, Catalonia
  
  Narration is a powerful tool for the definition of reality and television remains even today the medium that has the most pervasive presence in everyday life. Many authors have noted the importance of television in the construction of collective identities and more specifically in the definition of national communities. However, less work has focused on television narratives in fictional and reality programs (drama, comedy, documentary, reality shows, entertainment, current affairs and news, even adverts) and their implications for the changing processes of national identity formation.
  Narrating the Nation: Television Narratives and National Identities aims to bring together scholars researching the processes of national identity building in relation to television narratives and the ways in which national identity is reflected in and itself influences television programs in content and form. Thus, this event will be an opportunity to strengthen international relations in a field in which scholars often work solely or primarily within their own national social, political and media contexts. For more information, visit the website!


• ECREA-Symposium
  With the support of the European Journalism Centre and Vesalius College
  October 11-12, 2007, Residence Palace, Brussels, Belgium
  
  This Symposium aims to assess the roles of media and communication in fostering equal opportunities, civic participation and diversity in Europe, as well as its potentials for addressing the European democratic deficit, particularily the perceived disconnection between the economic and political elites and large parts of EU citizens. In this Symposium we aim to critically discuss and interrogate the role of media and communication relating to issues of equality, diversity, civic participation and democracy beyond the nation state, on the basis of theoretical and/or empirical research. Media and communication can be seen to fulfill different roles in this regard; as a medium (information provision), as a mediator (deliberative processes, activism), as a political actor (the media and media-professionals), as a citizenship right (communication rights), as a tool for or indicator of enhancing equal opportunities, but also as a battlefield for meaning on what it entails to be a European citizen or what Europe means. For more information, visit the website!


• Sixteenth International Conference of the Council for European Studies
  March 5 – 8, 2008, Drake Hotel, Chicago
  
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