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4th Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference--Call for Seminar 
Participants

The CSA conference (April 19-22, 2006) will again feature a series of
seminars. Seminars are small-group (maximum 15 individuals) discussion
sessions for which participants write brief ''position" papers that are
circulated prior to the conference. Those interested in participating in
(rather than leading) a seminar should consult the list of seminars and the
instructions for signing up for them, now available at 
(http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm.), under Fourth Annual
Meeting/Call for Papers.   Deadline for signing up is November 25, 2005.

Below are the seminar descriptions:

SEMINARS FOR CSA CONFERENCE, APRIL 2006

#1 Cultural Studies as Cultural Praxis: Reshaping the Research University

Seminar Description: How can we better connect academic and community-based
cultural work?  This seminar is designed for participants interested in
discussing and critically assessing current efforts to develop and
institutionalize cultural studies curricula oriented toward diverse forms
of cultural praxis.  We are particularly interested in hearing about
initiatives aimed at building sustainable arts and cultural pathways for
campus-community partnerships ? including community and participatory
action research strategies, arts and performance-based research projects,
and service learning or other experiential pedagogies.  We are also
centrally interested in the implications of this type of activist
scholarship for the future of cultural research in (and outside of)
institutions of higher education, and in appraisals of the current
neo-liberal policy landscape that enables and encourages this institutional
shift in research and teaching priorities.

The co-moderators of this seminar are involved in developing and
institutionalizing community-based public humanities and cultural studies
graduate curricula at the University of Washington.  We envision this
seminar as an opportunity to learn more about related initiatives elsewhere
and to open a conversation about this type of work to participants who may
not be currently involved in such initiatives (and/or may be skeptical
about them).  We hope to conclude with suggestions for further
collaboration among the seminar participants, as appropriate.

Seminar Requirements: Seminar participants will be asked to read three
short essays (by Stuart Hall, Ien Ang, and Handel Wright) and to provide a
brief (2-3 page) written response in which they raise one or more central
questions or concerns.  Ideally, these responses should balance a critical
assessment of the readings and a description of the participant's
institutional experience (if any) with praxis-oriented forms of cultural
studies scholarship.  The questions and concerns raised in the responses
will serve as a jumping-off point for our discussion.

Response papers should be sent to the seminar moderators by March 21st, and
will be distributed to all seminar participants by April 1st.  The seminar
moderators will also develop and circulate a summary of key questions and
concerns raised in these response papers.

Miriam Bartha
Simpson Center for the Humanities
University of Washington

Bruce Burgett
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program
University of Washington


#2 Seminar on Biopower
The paradigm of biopower first elaborated by Michel Foucault has
gained steadily as a means for thinking simultaneously a host of
vital political and cultural issues:  race and sexuality, empire and
globalization, governmentality and the state, post-humanism and eco-
politics, technoscience and human capital.  The goal of this seminar
will be to compare different applications of, and problematics raised
by, the biopower analytics.  Participants should re-read one of the
following texts in preparation for the seminar:  Foucault's The
History of Sexuality (Volume One), Foucault's Society Must Be
Defended, Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer, or another major theoretical
statement.  Participants will also be asked to share 2-3 page
abstracts for whatever research project brings them to the question
of biopower (if they have such a project).  We will aim to move back
and forth between our theoretical readings and the research projects
with the aim of generating a deeper knowledge of what is at stake
(and also what are the risks) in bringing this model to bear on our
respective objects of critical inquiry.

Leerom Medovoi
Associate Professor of English
Portland State University


#3  Beyond Biopolitics: bodies affect and media
The seminar will explore what Michel Foucault described as 'the demonic
mix' of biopolitics and sovereignty to rethink bodies, affect and media. By
weaving together theories of 'new media' and 'biomedia' that have  been
deeply influenced by Gilles Deleuze among others, we will explore the
status of political economy, ideological analysis, semiotics, the concepts
of culture and language in and for critical theory. We will draw out the
relationship between digital video technologies (database, compositing,
surround sound, digital animation, and digital 'proprioception') and
entertainment (video games, TV shows, blockbuster cinema, websites). We
will take as a larger context the fraught connectivities developing between
homeland security, the encrypted security of biomedia, entertainment and
racism as exemplified in counter/terrorism, mass incarceration, war and
massacre.

Amit S. Rai
Department of English
Florida State University

Patricia Ticneto Clough
Sociology and Women's Studies
The Graduate Center CUNY

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