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Subject: CFP: Cultural Studies (Summer 98)
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CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES
Second International Conference
June 28 - July 1, 1998, Tampere, Finland
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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
In the midst of all virtual communities and realities with abstract
bodyless persons, we still need to meet each other in flesh and blood. The
great success of the first Crossroads conference in 1996, with over 500
participants from all continents, proved that a meeting point like that is
greatly needed in international cultural studies. Let us therefore invite
you to the Second International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference!
The special theme of the conference will be borders and border-crossings,
but we also provide an open forum for all topics that interest the diverse
international cultural studies community; to make contacts, exchange views
and gain inspiration from each other. This time there will be more
parallel sessions, which allows a little more time for discussion in the
sessions. We encourage international participation from different
countries, disciplines and cultural backgrounds, and from a wide range of
research areas.
We assume that concepts such as
* gender * power and knowledge
* ethnicity * traditions today
* identity * nation-states
* body * globalization
* otherness * culture and economy
* age * centre and periphery
* media * new information technology
will be tackled in the sessions and plenaries, but again it is up to you
to make this a conference that will show where cultural studies is going=
next.
To make sure you'll receive the registration form well on time in
November, you may just fill in the reply form (attatched), perhaps along
with a preliminary paper title, but better still, we hope you will
subscribe to the crossroads MAILING list, where you can find other people
interested in the same topic and maybe organize a session for yourselves!
Or if you already know others who share your interests, you may just
volunteer to organize a session.
I hope to see you all in Tampere!
Yours sincerely,
Pertti Alasuutari
Chair of the Organizing Committee
SPEAKERS
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In the first Crossroads conference, the plenary speakers included Ien Ang,
Antony Easthope, Jostein Gripsrud, Lawrence Grossberg, Joke Hermes, Eeva
Jokinen, Sonia Livingstone, George Ritzer, Soile Veijola, Philip Wexler,
Paul Willis, and Handel K. Wright, and a great deal of key figures in the
field of cultural studies gave their papers in the sessions. It is
premature to announce what the names will be in 1998, but we will again do
our best to introduce to you the current and most interesting people and
themes.
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE CROSSROADS LIST?
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To subscribe, e-mail the following message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
subscribe crossroads "firstname" "lastname"
(Please note that the line above must be the=20
very first line of your message)
HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR OWN SESSION?
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If you would like to organize a session, just send us a title and an up to
150 words description of the theme (a session abstract), along with your
complete contact information. Session proposals must be sent to us by
September 30. Names of the sessions that are accepted by the conference
organizer will be listed in the Invitation Programme published in November
1997. You may also want to look for others sharing your areas of interest
in the crossroads list. The acceptance of a session in the final programme
is provisional until the session organizer has sent us the abstracts and
registration forms of at least five participants, and made sure that they
have paid their registration fees. In November, the session organizers
will be sent a session organizer's manual to inform them about the details.
ORGANIZERS
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Like the first time, the conference is organized by the Department of
Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Tampere, and Network
Cultural Studies, supported by a cross- disciplinary organizing committee.
However, after 1998 we will be happy to send the crossroads conference "on
the road".
CONFERENCE TOWN AND VENUE
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Located between two large lakes, Tampere is a beautiful city situated 180
kilometres north of Finland's capital, Helsinki. Tampere, with its 190
000 inhabitants, is home to two universities as well as various branches
of industry. In fact, the city is renowned for its wide variety of
educational institutions such as the University of Tampere, the University
of Technology, the University Hospital and the Technical Research Center
of Finland, as well as its versatile cultural services, sports facilities
and other attractions for visitors. The conference will be held at Tampere
Hall, which is located in the city centre. It is a modern conference
centre with state-of-the-art facilities. Participants will be
accommodated in a wide range of hotels within walking distance of the
conference venue.
At this stage we assume that the conference fee including lunches and
refreshments daily will be about FIM 1000-1200 (approx. $ 200-240) and
hotel accommodation FIM 260-550 (approx. $ 52-110) per person in a single
room, FIM 148-335 (approx. $ 30-67) per person in a double room (breakfast
included).
INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET
The Conference Home Page with several useful links to other websites:
http://www.uta.fi/crossroads/
To receive the Invitation Program, please complete the following form and
return it (preferably by email) to:=20
Crossroads in Cultural Studies
Tampere Conference Service
P.O.Box 32 (Pyh=E4j=E4rvenkatu 1 A)
33201 Tampere
Finland
tel: +358-3-3664400
fax: +358-3-2226440
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Name:
Organization:
Postal address:
City:
Country:
email:
tel:
fax:
Title of paper:
I am willing to organize a session called (title of the session):
Description of the session (of up to 150 words):
If you would like to receive a provisional letter of acceptance to help
you to get a travel grant from your institution, tick here:=20
PRE & POST CONGRESS TOURS
Spend some extra days in Finland and enjoy the possibilities your host
country can offer. Or why not visit one of the neighbouring countries. Pre
and post conference tours need a minimum number of participants. For
planning purposes, please tick if you are interested in any of the tours.
I am interested in a pre- or post conference tour to:=20
( ) Lapland (artic northern Finland)
( ) Cruise to Stockholm, Sweden
( ) Tallinn, Estonia
( ) St.Petersburg, Russia
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Stefanie S. Rixecker
Department of Resource Management
Lincoln University, Canterbury
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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