Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:04:38 +1000
Subject: SPOON-ANN: CSAA 99 conference, December, Sydney -- SYNTHETICS


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SYNTHETICS: MAKING AND REMAKING CULTURE

   Synthetic: adj. & n. produced by synthesis, or the combination of
   elements (as opposed to analytic); a substance or material made by
   synthetic processes, especially in imitation of a natural product


****  Call for Papers ****

Cultural Studies Association of Australia Annual Conference
December 3-5, 1999, University of Western Sydney Nepean

This is a call for papers for the annual conference of the Cultural Studies
Association of Australia. We invite abstracts from academics, activists,
artists and writers whose work engages with the themes of the conference
and with the broad concerns of Cultural Studies.

This conference will reflect on the place of the synthetic in contemporary
cultural practice and its study. An emphasis on hybridity, multiplicity,
interdisciplinarity, the sub-cultural and the transgressive has long been a
concern within cultural theory, and it seems timely that we consider the
analytical, methodological and political ramifications of this orientation.

* how well have the tools of cultural analysis - bricolage, appropriation,
hybridity, and so on - captured the role of synthesis in cultural practice?

* how adequately do these tools deal with questions of power, inequality
and difference?

* to what extent has Cultural Studies synthesised and transformed research
methodologies and genres to account for the complexities of life in the
late twentieth century, and in the next?

* how well does cultural analysis engage with other knowledges and
practices - the spiritual, the scientific, the economic, the everyday?

* does Cultural Studies speak to other actors and communities, and offer
viable forms of political and cultural practice?

* Embodiment, affect and sense * Technologies and material culture * Spaces
and territories * Femininities and masculinities * National and ethnic
belongings * Sexualities and queer sensibilities * Consumption and
appropriation * Globalisation and (post)modernity * Politics, communities
and practice *

Abstract welcome on these or other topics
due by September 30

Send to:
email: rcis-AT-uws.edu.au
or
FAX: +61 2 9678 7334
or
The Convenors, Cultural Studies Conference
School of Cultural Histories and Futures
UWS Nepean
PO Box 10 Kingswood 2747

Enquiries:
rcis-AT-uws.edu.au
p.alberts-AT-uws.edu.au
g.noble-AT-uws.edu.au
ph: +61 2 9678 7388

Check the conference webpage at:
http://www.nepean.uws.edu.au/histories/csaa99


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