Call for Papers
“Insides, Outsides and Elsewheres”
Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS)
October 20-22, 2005
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2005
150-word abstracts may be submitted for the open call OR to particular themed sessions including:
Transnational Cultural Studies in Canada (Jenny Burman)
This session invites presentations from scholars working in the area of transnational cultural studies, which might be described as an area that merges the theoretical advances of humanities-based postcolonial studies with a reinvigorated socioeconomic analysis of the predicaments of globalized spaces.
Representing Nature/Imagining the Wild (Michael D. Pereira & Lorelei L. Hanson)
Representations of nature and the wild are frequently case as signs of authenticity with ‘wild nature situated as the locus for epic struggles that cast into the shadows other social, political and moral concerns. This session will bring together a panel of scholars who can ask a new set of questions about the relationship between humans and the natural environment.
Ritual Virtualities, Performative Materialities (Rob Shields)
To what extent can the cultural be understood as a dialectic of the material and virtual, mediated by ritual forms and performativity? What are the losses and risks in this move to a set of theorists including Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, Butler and Whitehead? What are the ethical and aesthetic gains and how might this contribute to a fleshy politics of recognition and respect? Papers combining both theory and a strong sense of embodiment(s) within the everyday are welcomed.