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<div align="center"><font size="+3" color="#FF0000"><i><b>Everyday
Transformations</b></i></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+2" color="#FF0000"><i><b>The
Twenty-First Century Quotidian</b></i></font></div>
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<div align="center"><b>Annual conference of the Cultural Studies
Association of Australasia,</b></div>
<div align="center"><b>Perth / Fremantle, 9-11 December 2004</b></div>
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<div align="center"><b>Call for Papers</b></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">New technologies, increasing work
pressures, changing gender roles and family structures, increasing
flows of refugees and asylum seekers, concerns about security,
environmental risks, the escalating speed and complexity of social
transactions - everyday life is today a terrain of rapid and
unsettling change. Yet it retains associations also with pattern,
order, routine - the familiarity of a favourite soap opera or talk
show, the ordinary pleasures and irritations of shopping, cooking,
negotiating traffic, managing domestic life.<br>
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How should cultural studies address questions of everyday life in the
twenty-first century? The field can claim a rich tradition of work in
the area, from ethnographies of street subcultures and shopping
centres to writing on television and popular magazines. But everyday
life has been transformed in significant ways since the time of many
of the founding contributions. What remains relevant today in the
study of everyday life? To what extent do we need new concepts and
categories?</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Transformations have also occurred in
cultural studies' motivations for engaging with everyday life. The
everyday is a major point of intersection for many of its intellectual
tributaries, including British cultural studies, feminism, semiotics,
European surrealism, situationism, psychoanalysis and
ethnomethodology. Yet the context for all of these has been affected
by major shifts in the location of cultural studies, the nature and
priorities of higher education, by the increasing market orientation
of mainstream institutions and by conservative attempts to lay claim
to the 'ordinary' and 'mainstream'. What do we seek now in
engaging with the everyday? What understanding of this engagement is
most appropriate for the times?</font></div>
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Possible sessions/themes:</font><br>
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<div><font face="Symbol" color="#000000">…</font><font
color="#000000"> New technologies<x-tab>
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color="#000000"> Suburbia<x-tab>
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</x-tab><font face="Symbol">…</font> Everyday
sexualities</font></div>
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color="#000000"> Television<x-tab>
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</x-tab><font face="Symbol">…</font> Collections and
archives</font></div>
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color="#000000"> Food<x-tab>
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</x-tab><font face="Symbol">…</font> Popular media</font></div>
<div><font face="Symbol" color="#000000">…</font><font
color="#000000"> Magazine journalism<x-tab>
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</x-tab><font face="Symbol">…</font> Cultural
geographies</font></div>
<div><font face="Symbol" color="#000000">…</font><font
color="#000000"> Everyday spirituality<x-tab>
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</x-tab><font face="Symbol">…</font> Sport<br>
<font face="Symbol">…</font> Ordinariness<x-tab>
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</x-tab>…</font> Music</font></div>
<div><font face="Symbol" color="#000000">…</font><font
color="#000000"> Shopping<x-tab>
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</x-tab><font face="Symbol">…</font> Tourism</font></div>
<div><font face="Symbol" color="#000000">…</font><font
color="#000000"> Civility and manners<x-tab>
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</x-tab><font face="Symbol">…</font> Documentary</font></div>
<div><font face="Symbol" color="#000000">…</font><font
color="#000000"> Creativity<x-tab>
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</x-tab><font face="Symbol">…</font> Sustainability</font></div>
<div><font face="Symbol" color="#000000">…</font><font
color="#000000"> Homes and gardens<x-tab>
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</x-tab><font face="Symbol">…</font> The apocalyptic and the
everyday<x-tab> </x-tab></font></div>
<div><font face="Symbol" color="#000000">…</font><font
color="#000000"> Risk and stress<x-tab>
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</x-tab><font face="Symbol">…</font> Dance</font></div>
<div><font face="Symbol" color="#000000">…</font><font
color="#000000"> Globalisation<x-tab>
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</x-tab><font face="Symbol">…</font> Political activism in everyday
life</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Abstracts of no more than 250 words for
single papers, or suggestions for panel sessions, should be sent
to:</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Mark Gibson -
mgibson@central.murdoch.edu.au</font></div>
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or :<x-tab> </x-tab>School of Media, Communication
and Culture<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Murdoch University<br>
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Murdoch</font></div>
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</x-tab>WA 6150</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Panel proposals are particularly
welcome.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><u>Refereed Publication Option</u>: As an
innovation on past CSAA conferences, 'Everyday Transformations'
will also be offering the option of refereed publication in electronic
conference proceedings. To be considered for this stream, full papers
must be received by 27 August 2004.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30
July 2004</b></font></div>
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Dr Mark Gibson<br>
Lecturer, Cultural Studies<br>
School of Media Communication and Culture<br>
Murdoch University<br>
Western Australia 6150<br>
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Editor, Continuum - Journal of Media and Cultural Studies</div>
<div>http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/10304312.html</div>
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