A European Cultural Studies Conference in Sweden

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From: Andreas Gunnarsson <andgu at isak.liu.se>
Date: Nov 7, 2006 6:53 PM 
Subject: [ACSMEMBERS] Extended Deadline. INTER: A European Cultural Studies
Conference in Sweden


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Extended deadline: call for sessions

 

Inter: A European Cultural Studies Conference in Sweden

Call for session proposals

 

11-13 June 2007 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 is open to advanced students and researchers committed to
cultural studies, and the number of participants is estimated to more than 300.
The event will be located at the Louis De Geer Congress & Concert Hall and
Linköping University campus in Norrköping, 1 hour 15 minutes train ride south
of Stockholm.

 

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 and organisational
interdisciplinarity. This will in turn also relate to issues of
intertextuality, intermediality, interactivity and intersectionality.

 

Plenary speakers: Regina Bendix, Tony Bennett, Georgina Born, Kirsten Drotner,
Gerard Delanty, Paul Gilroy, Annette Kuhn, Colin Mercer and Gerhard Schulze.

 

Among the 27 accepted session proposals are Archives, libraries, and women´s
collective memories, EU – EURO – EUROPE: the lived and the imagined,
Disruption, Resistance and Spatial Metaphor and Media Aesthetics.

 

Sessions can be organised on a topic of your choice. The conference aims to
offer a broad picture of current cultural studies in Sweden and Europe. Session
proposals are thus not confined only to the plenary themes, but may cover any
aspect of the field, from ongoing empirical research to issues of theory,
method or research policy.

 

Each session will last 1 hour 45 minutes and will allow for 4-5 presentations to
be made. Conference organizers will encourage participants to contribute papers
to your session by a general call for papers. Although we would like to
encourage session organizers to leave the opportunity for all scholars to
submit papers to their sessions, you could also attract presentations from
within your own circle of colleagues and send a description of your session and
a listing of all presentations to the conference organizers.

 

The plenaries and most parallel group sessions will be held in English.

 

If you wish to organise a session please send a 150-word description of your
session to conference2007 at acsis.liu.se

The deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to November 17,
2006.

General call for papers will be sent out on November 20, 2006.

For more information please visit: www.acsis.liu.se

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