From: Sean Andrews <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:06:59 -0600

[May be of interest to those of you valiantly working in one of the
areas being challenged with sustainability.]

Call for Papers: The Working Group for Cultural Policy Studies,
Cultural Studies Association

The Working Group on Cultural Policy Studies of the Cultural Studies
Association would like to invite submissions for the 12th Annual
Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), to be held at the
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, May 29-31, 2014. Deadline for
Abstracts (500 words) is Feb. 10, 2014.

In its sixth year as a division/Working Group of the Cultural Studies
Association, the Cultural Policy Studies Working Group  welcomes a
wide range of papers addressing the nexus between culture and policy.
In the spirit of the CSA Conference theme “Ecologies:  Relations of
Culture, Matter, and Power," the Working Group is especially
interested in papers that address the intersection of ecology and
sustainability with culture, policy, and law.  However, any proposals
dealing with cultural policy studies broadly defined will be
considered.

Along with this standing, "open call", we invite papers to a panel on
the role of culture and policy in the sustainability of the university
as an institution. This panel will interrogate, complicate and
intervene in discourses of “disruption” and the (un)sustainability of
the university. Drawing on national trends, practices and discourses,
paper presentations will critically examine contemporary practices in
(higher) education in general and the university in particular. We
welcome papers that explore public and private discourses,
ethnographic studies, participant observations, critical media
studies, and other cultural studies approaches to the sustainable
university.  We also welcome papers that discuss the limits of policy
and the need for direct action.

If interested in participating in either Working Group-sponsored panel
on Cultural Policy Studies, please submit the following by Feb. 10,
2014:

a. Your name, email address, department, and institutional affiliation.

b. A 500-word (or less) abstract for the 20-minute paper proposed,
including a paper title.

c. Audio-visual equipment needs (no requests for AV equipment can be
honored later).

d. Note as to whether you are responding to the general call or the
panel on culture, policy, and the sustainability of the university.

Please send all required information to the Chair of the Working Group
on Cultural Policy Studies: Sean Johnson Andrews at
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Additional information about this call and working group, go to
http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/content.asp?contentid=32

Additional information about the CSA meetings can be found at:
http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org