For the first time in its history, Crossroads in Cultural Studies is coming to the southern hemisphere. The 11th Association for Cultural Studies “Crossroads in Cultural Studies” conference will be held in Sydney, Australia, from the 14-17 December, 2016. Hosted by the University of Sydney and Western Sydney University, Crossroads 2016 will bring scholars together in the beautiful summertime setting of Sydney University to engage with the past, present and future of cultural studies scholarship.
The Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference has played an important role in the creation of a global discussion of Cultural Studies. It has become a major international conference where scholars from all five continents gather regularly to exchange research, views, and insights. Organized by the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS), the Crossroads conference is held every other year in different parts of the world. Previous conferences have taken place in Birmingham (United Kingdom), Urbana-Champaign (USA), Istanbul (Turkey), Kingston (Jamaica), Hong Kong (China), Paris (France), and Tampere (Finland).
The conference is open to all topics relevant to cultural studies. Here are some suggested topics as food for thought, drawing on the work of our invited keynote, plenary and spotlight speakers, and on more general themes in cultural studies research. However, all contemporary cultural studies research is welcome at this conference:
* Diversity, culture, governance
* Indigenous knowledge and politics
* Borders and mobilities
* Culture, gender and decolonisation
* Data cultures
* Extraction: cultures and industries
* Media regulation: from censorship to piracy
* Popular affect online
* Transforming christianities
* Who counts in the anthropocene? gender, sexuality, race and class
* Securitization
* Australasian cultural studies
* Consumption and everyday life
* Critical and cultural theory
* Digital infrastructure
* Culture, gender and sexuality
* Globalisation and culture
* Human/non-human relations
* Inter-Asian cultural studies
* Managing cities
* Migrant cultural studies
* Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies
* Popular cultures and genres
* Public culture and cultural policy
* Race and racism
* Rethinking the human
* Rural cultural studies
* Screen and media culture
* Transforming/Globalising universities
Dec 14
2016
Dec 17
2016
Abstract Submission Deadline
Draft paper submission deadline
Registration deadline
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