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 to by February 15,
2003.

Prof. Sangeeta Ray
Department of English
University of Maryland
3191 Susquehanna Hall
College Park, MD  20742
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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, Peter
Hitchcock, Linda Kauffman, Wahneema Lubiano, Kelly Oliver, Mark Poster,
Janice Radway, Bruce Robbins, Will Straw, Paul Théberge, Michael Warner

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

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