*The School of Arts and Social Sciences and Centre for Peace and Social Justice
Southern Cross University
proudly hosting
*the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia' s Annual Conference 'A Scholarly Affair'
Byron Bay
7-9 December 2010
This conference focuses on the contribution that Cultural Studies makes as an interdisciplinary space for reflexive, critical and empirically based research to the project of higher education, pedagogy and social justice. Susan Giroux and Norman Denzin have recently argued that the work of the scholar is to subject structures of power, knowledge, and practice to critical scrutiny, what Paul Gilroy has referred to as principled exposure. In contrast, it is salient to recall Toni Morrison's view that 'racism is a scholarly affair.'
This inherent tension about what a scholar does - and what is expected of/from them - goes to the heart and relevance of Cultural Studies scholarship. Given the present instrumentalised and corporate university environment with its dominant values of standardisation and emphasis on an audit-based culture - there is a compelling and urgent need to re-imagine the space/place of the contemporary scholar and their role in society. In the age of Obama and Rudd, Cultural Studies, as a discipline that uniquely responds to the pull of the relevant, the imperatives of socially inclusive practices and communities of engagement, needs, as Catherine Burnheim puts it, to go 'beyond corporatism into the wilds of the knowledge economy.'
*Confirmed Speakers so far include:
*Professor Vinay Lal, UCLA and New Delhi University
Professor Gerard Goggin, UNSW
Professor Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney
Melissa Lucashenko, author
Dr Catherine Manathunga, University of Queensland
Professor Deborah Bird-Rose, Macquarie University
Professor Trevor Gale, University of South Australia
Some of the key issues to be considered:
o new qualities of scholarly enquiry
o cultural studies scholarship in the 21st century
o discovering and sustaining ethical space in higher education
o innovative relationships between scholar and community
o sustaining healthy, creative and principled scholarship
o cultural studies as ethical foundation
o relevance scholarship (such as ecocultural studies)
o pedagogy as an affair to remember
o negotiating the audit-based culture
o scholarship on the margins
o scholarship and diversity
o disciplining innovations: TEQSA and ERA
o scholarship and its relationship to discovery
o new media, digital communication and the borderlands of scholarship
o responding to an ethics of scholarship
o socially and culturally inclusive practices
o research/writing/ arts as 'ethical intervention'
o new scholarship in listening, voice and participation
o media justice scholarship
o engaging with indigenous and majority-world scholarship
o creative and critical knowledge production
o narrating communities through creative and critical scholarship
o value of non-corporate scholarship
*Venue
*The conference will be held at the Byron Bay Community and Cultural Centre.
http://www.byroncentre.com.au/
*Call for Papers*
Panel Proposals due: July 18
*Abstracts (250-300 words) due: September 5
*A selection of papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of*Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies* (A Ranked).
An Abstract online submission system will be available in late March 2010 (this will be announced).
*Conference Website
*This will be active from the middle of March. Please check:
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/sass/
For all other conference enquiries please contact either Julie Burton (julie.burton@ scu.edu.au), Rob Garbutt (rob.garbutt@ scu.edu.au) or Baden Offord (baden.offord@ scu.edu.au).
Please quote 10 Academic Resources Daily in your application to this opportunity!
