Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:16:09 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: Inaugural Cultural Studies Association Meeting


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CALL FOR PAPERS

CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION

FOUNDING CONFERENCE
JUNE 5-8, 2003
PITTSBURGH, PA

The Cultural Studies Association will hold its founding conference in
Pittsburgh on the weekend of June 5-8, 2003.  The CSA will be a
multicultural and multidisciplinary professional organization bringing
together scholars, teachers, and writers interested in the study of
culture.  All are welcome.

The Conference Organizers invite paper and panel proposals that deal with
culture in any of its aspects--products, works, forms, behavior,
institutions, etc.--in relation to social, aesthetic, historical,
economic, political, or semiotic conditions and issues.  Papers may be
theoretical, empirical, and/or interpretive in their approach, and may
come out of any discipline or several disciplines.

Those wishing to propose a paper presentation or to propose a panel should
send their proposals of no more than 500 words by February 15, 2003 to:.

Prof. Sangeeta Ray
Department of English
University of Maryland
3191 Susquehanna Hall
College Park, MD  20742
Sangeeta_RAY-AT-umail.umd.edu

The Cultural Studies Association will serve as the professional
organization for writers and teachers engaged in the critical analysis of
culture.  It will hold an annual conference and maintain a
membership/mailing list for the purpose of creating a community of
scholars with a shared interest in Cultural Studies. We expect that the
organization and its conference will reflect broadly the various strands
of cultural studies today.  We especially welcome people interested in
building the new organization.


Preliminary List of Participants:

Jody Berland -- Richard Day  -- Arif Dirlik

	Michael Eric Dyson -- Rita Felski -- Judith Halberstam

Henry Giroux -- Larry Grossberg -- Dick Hebdige -- Shari Huhndorf

	Peter Hitchcock -- Linda Kauffman -- Wahneema Lubiano

Kelly Oliver -- Mark Poster -- Janice Radway

	Bruce Robbins --  Will Straw -- Paul Theberge -- Michael Warner


Cultural Studies Association Organizing Committee:
Nancy Condee, Leerom Medovoi, Sangeeta Ray, Michael Ryan, David Shumway,
Imre Szeman