[Dino] Current Issues in European Cultural Studies: ACSIS Conference, June 2011

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Current Issues in European Cultural Studies: ACSIS Conference, June 2011

Call for Session Proposals



June 15-17 2011 Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS)  
will arrange its fourth biannual conference on cultural research in  
Norrköping, Sweden. This will be an international conference focusing  
on “Current Issues in European Cultural Studies” that aims to provide  
an updated inventory of main issues in European cultural studies and  
give a perspective on Europe today through the spectrum of cultural  
studies. A series of plenary sessions will deal with key current  
issues for cultural studies that partly connect to European issues and  
partly reach beyond this geographic scope. These four plenaries  
explore the construction of place and community; the disintegrating  
dichotomy between culture and nature; the powers of remembering and  
narrating and the complex of intermedial materiality and  
representation, featuring speakers such as John Urry, Alexandra Zavos,  
Gernot Böhme, Nina Witoszek, Sudeep Dasgupta and Claire Alexander. In  
addition to the plenary sessions, a set of spotlight sessions will  
open up for presentations and debates on the state of cultural studies  
in different regions of Europe.

But above all, cultural studies scholars from all over the world are  
invited to propose and organise group sessions that run in parallel  
throughout the conference, and may deal with any empirical,  
methodological or theoretical subject within a wide definition of the  
cultural studies field. The conference is thus not restricted to  
Europe (as a region or a topic) but open to perspectives on other  
issues and from other parts of the world as well.

Each session lasts 1 hour 45 minutes and has room for 4-5  
presentations. Conference organisers will encourage participants to  
contribute papers to your session by a general call for papers.  
Although we would like to encourage session organisers to leave the  
opportunity for all scholars to submit papers to their sessions, you  
may 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 organisers.

The plenaries and most parallel group sessions will be held in  
English, but some group sessions may also be held in Swedish and have  
a national focus.



If you wish to organise a session please send a 150-word description  
of your session to  
acsis-konferens at isak.liu.se<mailto:acsis-konferens at isak.liu.se>.

The deadline for submission of proposals is November 1, 2010.



You can read the entire program at our conference site:

http://www.isak.liu.se/acsis/english/Conference2011?l=sv



Martin Fredriksson

Administrator, ACSIS

http://www.isak.liu.se/acsis/english?l=sv

(+46)11 36 34 35