2007 Annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia

Sustaining Culture

UniSA, Adelaide

6-8 December 2007

In 2007 the School of Communication at UniSA celebrates its 30th anniversary of the accreditation of the first Australian BA degree in Communications in 1977. As part of our celebrations we are proud to host the CSAA Annual conference and invite attendees to consider what the future holds for cultural research; how can we ensure our own survival and how can we better contribute to the pressing debates of our time about environmental and social sustainability? To this end, we invite contributions which address these issues directly or which present examples of current work in the field. Some of the key issues to be considered:

• sustaining cultural diversity
• culture and a sustainable environment
• sustaining healthy societies
• sources of sustenance
• planning sustainable spaces
• social and cultural inclusion and reconciliation
• next generation sustainability
• sustaining cultural research

Plenary speakers will include:

Associate Professor Julian Agyeman, Tufts University, USA
Professor Tony Bennett, Open University, UK
Professor Stuart Cunningham, Director, QUT
Steve Hemming, Flinders University
Professor Celia Lury, Goldsmiths, UK
Professor Stephen Muecke, University of Technology, Sydney
Associate Professor Daryle Rigney (Ngarrindjeri), Flinders University
Associate Professor Julian Sefton-Green, UniSA
Dr Zoe Sofoulis, University of Western Sydney
Professor Graeme Turner, University of Queensland

We welcome proposals for papers and panel presentations engaging with the full range of current themes and issues in contemporary cultural studies, cultural theory, cultural research and cultural production. Panels will normally consist of three twenty-minute presentations.

Please note, general papers are also most welcome.

Abstracts (max 200 words) for individual papers and/or suggestions for panels or alternative formats to be sent by July 31, 2007 to csaa2007@unisa.edu.au. Include with your abstract a short biographical note (max 100 words) and which of the above themes, if appropriate, you believe the paper or panel addresses.

Visit the conference website at: http://www.unisa.edu.au/com/CSAA/default.htm