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>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION
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>FOUNDING CONFERENCE
>JUNE 5-8, 2003
>PITTSBURGH, PA
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>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.
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>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.
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>Those wishing to propose a paper presentation or to propose a panel should
>send their proposals of no more than 500 words by February 15, 2003 to:.
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>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.
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>Preliminary List of Participants:
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>Jody Berland -- Richard Day  -- Arif Dirlik
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>       Michael Eric Dyson -- Rita Felski -- Judith Halberstam
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>Henry Giroux -- Larry Grossberg -- Dick Hebdige
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>       Peter Hitchcock -- Linda Kauffman -- Wahneema Lubiano
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>Kelly Oliver -- Mark Poster -- Janice Radway
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>       Bruce Robbins --  Will Straw -- Paul Theberge -- Michael Warner
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>Cultural Studies Association Organizing Committee:
>Nancy Condee, Leerom Medovoi, Sangeeta Ray, Michael Ryan, David Shumway,
>Imre Szeman
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