2021 CFP
The Globalization & Culture Working Group invites submissions for the 19th annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA), to be held online June 10-12, 2021. The theme for the 2021 CSA Conference is Anti-Bodies. We welcome a wide range of papers addressing the broad nexus between globalization and culture. This year we aim to constitute at least two panels:
General Call: The first is an open call for papers for a panel on Globalization and Culture broadly conceived. We invite interdisciplinary papers that explore the relationships among circuits of production and consumption, the movement of people, social inequalities and collective identities, globalizations from “above” and “below,” new/emerging media and technologies, transnationalism, and cultural industries. In addition, proposals broadly addressing any aspect of globalization and culture are most welcome.
Theme Panel: The second will focus on the conference theme of “Anti-bodies.” We seek interdisciplinary papers that pull from philosophy, sociology, economics, political science, literature, critical pedagogy and/or cultural studies, among others. Topics could include:
Submission Process
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Tuesday, December 15, 2020. All proposals should be submitted through Easy Chair using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csa2021.
If you deferred your accepted 2020 conference paper, please resubmit to ensure it is included in this year’s conference. Please prepare all the materials required to propose your session according to the given directions before you begin electronic submission. All program information--names, presentation titles, and institutional affiliations--will be based on initial conference submissions. Please avoid lengthy presentation and session titles, use normal capitalization and standard fonts, and include your name and affiliations as you would like them to appear on the conference program schedule.
Note: you do not have to be a current member to submit. If your proposal is accepted, you must become a current member of the CSA and register for the conference. These are two separate transactions.
Travel grants are available for partial reimbursement to graduate and advanced undergraduate students who present their papers (http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/travelgrants).
Please contact the Co-Chairs of the Globalization and Culture Working Group, Cecilia “Lia” Uy-Tioco ([email protected]) and Kathalene “Katy” Razzano ([email protected]), for any questions.
General Call: The first is an open call for papers for a panel on Globalization and Culture broadly conceived. We invite interdisciplinary papers that explore the relationships among circuits of production and consumption, the movement of people, social inequalities and collective identities, globalizations from “above” and “below,” new/emerging media and technologies, transnationalism, and cultural industries. In addition, proposals broadly addressing any aspect of globalization and culture are most welcome.
Theme Panel: The second will focus on the conference theme of “Anti-bodies.” We seek interdisciplinary papers that pull from philosophy, sociology, economics, political science, literature, critical pedagogy and/or cultural studies, among others. Topics could include:
- Healthcare, epidemics, health institutions, NGOs
- Military, civil war, crisis, technology and bodies
- Immigration, transnationalism, belonging
- Environment, Paris Agreement, climate change, sustainability
- Refugees, human trafficking, human rights
- Global chains of labor, outsourcing
- Shifting and evolving conceptions of nation-state and sovereignty
- Automation, anti-bodies, labor
- Development organizations, practices, policies
- Global media, digital technologies, virtual/”real”
- Art as intervention, i.e. murals, performance, music
- Social movements and protest in the time of Covid-19
- Global discourses on personal health and hygiene
- Global experiences of masking--school, work, travel, shopping, exercise, leisure
- Immobility/mobility, anti/bodies, quarantine, isolation
- Transnational experiences of death, mourning, grieving
Submission Process
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Tuesday, December 15, 2020. All proposals should be submitted through Easy Chair using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csa2021.
If you deferred your accepted 2020 conference paper, please resubmit to ensure it is included in this year’s conference. Please prepare all the materials required to propose your session according to the given directions before you begin electronic submission. All program information--names, presentation titles, and institutional affiliations--will be based on initial conference submissions. Please avoid lengthy presentation and session titles, use normal capitalization and standard fonts, and include your name and affiliations as you would like them to appear on the conference program schedule.
Note: you do not have to be a current member to submit. If your proposal is accepted, you must become a current member of the CSA and register for the conference. These are two separate transactions.
Travel grants are available for partial reimbursement to graduate and advanced undergraduate students who present their papers (http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/travelgrants).
Please contact the Co-Chairs of the Globalization and Culture Working Group, Cecilia “Lia” Uy-Tioco ([email protected]) and Kathalene “Katy” Razzano ([email protected]), for any questions.
