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***** Forwarded from CULTSTUD-L by Esther-Mirjam Sent ***** 
 
             CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA 
                      International Conference 
                December 3-5, 1997, Melbourne, Australia. 
 
 
*** First Announcement and Call for Papers *** 
 
Theme: 'Subject to Change: Reorienting Cultural Studies' 
 
Now that Cultural Studies has attained the status of a recognised 
discipline in terms of the Australia Research Council and other national 
organisations,  it would seem important to ask questions about the present 
and future orientations of Cultural Studies in Australia and elsewhere. 
For example, as a consequence of such recognition, will Cultural Studies be 
able to retain its fluid and interdisciplinary focus?  What changes may 
result from economic imperatives such as the ARC preference for empirical 
research, or outcome-driven DEETYA (Dept of Education) scores? What is, or 
should be, the relationship between Cultural Studies, cultural policy and 
economics? What are the consequences for the discipline in terms of 
institutional, political and economic pressures? Has Cultural Studies been 
distracted by the need to defend itself as a form of intellectual practice 
rather than engaging with the more immediate and rapidly changing 
articulations of economics and culture in specific social contexts?  Is 
Cultural Studies keeping up with social change?  In other words, what 
should the `work' of Cultural Studies entail and is this being done? 
 
Papers are invited on any or all of the above questions addressing the idea 
of Cultural Studies as a discipline and speculations about its present and 
future role.  Papers are also invited which demonstrate and reflect on 
current research in cultural studies as examples of possibilities and 
practice within the discipline. 
 
Abstracts of no more than 200 words (preferably in e-mail form) should be 
submitted before August 30th, 1997 to: 
 
Constantine Verevis 
Department of Visual Arts 
Monash University 
Clayton VIC 3168 
email: [log in to unmask] 
tel: (03) 9905-4215 
fax: (030 9905-4209 
 
SPEAKERS 
We will confirm our keynotes speakers at a later date. 
At last year's CSAA conference speakers incuded Ernesto Laclau, 
Chantal Mouffe, John Hartley, McKenzie Wark, Ien Ang, Tom O'Regan, 
John Frow, Dana Kolar-Panov and British journalist Beatrix 
Campbell. 
 
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