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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Mark </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was talking to Brian Shoesmith on Wednesday, and
he said that you require volunteers to help with the organising of the 2004
CSAA Conference. I am free at present and can take up any duties
which you may need doing.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ken Staples</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=mgibson@central.murdoch.edu.au
href="mailto:mgibson@central.murdoch.edu.au">Mark Gibson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=csaa-forum@darlin.cdu.edu.au
href="mailto:csaa-forum@darlin.cdu.edu.au">csaa-forum@darlin.cdu.edu.au</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:14
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [csaa-forum] CSAA Conference
2004 -- CFP -- Please circulate widely</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT color=#ff0000 size=+3><I><B><BR></B></I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#ff0000 size=+3><I><B>Everyday
Transformations</B></I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#ff0000 size=+1><B><BR></B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#ff0000 size=+2><I><B>The Twenty-First Century
Quotidian</B></I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#ff0000 size=+1><I><B><BR></B></I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#ff0000><I><B><BR></B></I></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#ff0000><I><B><BR></B></I></FONT></DIV>
<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>
<DIV align=center><B><BR></B></DIV>
<DIV align=center><B>Call for Papers</B></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=-4><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=-4><BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<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><BR>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></DIV>
<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>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><BR>Possible sessions/themes:</FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Symbol color=#000000>…</FONT><FONT color=#000000> New
technologies<X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB> </X-TAB><FONT
face=Symbol>…</FONT> Speed and time</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Symbol color=#000000>…</FONT><FONT color=#000000>
Suburbia<X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB> </X-TAB><FONT
face=Symbol>…</FONT> Everyday sexualities</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Symbol color=#000000>…</FONT><FONT color=#000000>
Television<X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB> </X-TAB><FONT
face=Symbol>…</FONT> Collections and archives</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Symbol color=#000000>…</FONT><FONT color=#000000>
Food<X-TAB> </X-TAB><X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB> </X-TAB><FONT
face=Symbol>…</FONT> Popular media</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Symbol color=#000000>…</FONT><FONT color=#000000> Magazine
journalism<X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB> </X-TAB><FONT
face=Symbol>…</FONT> Cultural geographies</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Symbol color=#000000>…</FONT><FONT color=#000000> Everyday
spirituality<X-TAB> </X-TAB><X-TAB>
</X-TAB><FONT face=Symbol>…</FONT> Sport<BR><FONT face=Symbol>…</FONT>
Ordinariness<X-TAB> </X-TAB><FONT
face=Symbol><X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB> </X-TAB>…</FONT>
Music</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Symbol color=#000000>…</FONT><FONT color=#000000>
Shopping<X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB> </X-TAB><FONT
face=Symbol>…</FONT> Tourism</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Symbol color=#000000>…</FONT><FONT color=#000000> Civility and
manners<X-TAB> </X-TAB><X-TAB>
</X-TAB><FONT face=Symbol>…</FONT> Documentary</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Symbol color=#000000>…</FONT><FONT color=#000000>
Creativity<X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB> </X-TAB><FONT
face=Symbol>…</FONT> Sustainability</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Symbol color=#000000>…</FONT><FONT color=#000000> Homes and
gardens<X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB> </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>
</X-TAB><X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB> </X-TAB><FONT
face=Symbol>…</FONT> Dance</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Symbol color=#000000>…</FONT><FONT color=#000000>
Globalisation<X-TAB> </X-TAB><X-TAB>
</X-TAB><X-TAB> </X-TAB><FONT
face=Symbol>…</FONT> Political activism in everyday life</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><BR></FONT></DIV>
<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></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000>Mark Gibson -
mgibson@central.murdoch.edu.au</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><BR>or :<X-TAB> </X-TAB>School of
Media, Communication and Culture<BR><X-TAB>
</X-TAB>Murdoch University<BR><X-TAB>
</X-TAB>South St, Murdoch</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><X-TAB>
</X-TAB>WA 6150</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000>Panel proposals are particularly
welcome.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><BR></FONT></DIV>
<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></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000><B>Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 July
2004</B></FONT></DIV><X-SIGSEP><PRE>--
</PRE></X-SIGSEP>
<DIV><BR>Dr Mark Gibson<BR>Lecturer, Cultural Studies<BR>School of Media
Communication and Culture<BR>Murdoch University<BR>Western Australia
6150<BR><BR>Editor, Continuum - Journal of Media and Cultural Studies</DIV>
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