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<div>Dear Cultural Studies people,</div>
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<div>A further update on the December conference -- including
confirmed speakers (more to be added soon) and conference website.<u>
Please circulate widely through local networks.</u></div>
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<div>Apart from individual papers, we are also looking for strong
panel proposals. A number have already been received -- including
popular music, architecture and the built environment, boredom and
water use. Further ideas welcome.</div>
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<div>-- Mark Gibson</div>
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<div><font size="+1"><b>Everyday Transformations</b></font></div>
<div><font size="+1"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font size="+1"><b>The Twenty-First Century
Quotidian</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Annual conference of the Cultural
Studies Association of Australasia,</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>Perth / Fremantle, 9-11 December
2004</b></font></div>
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<div><font
size="+1">http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/cfel/csaa_conference.htm</font></div
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<div><font color="#000000">Keynote / Plenary Speakers currently
confirmed:</font><br>
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<blockquote><font color="#000000">Ben Highmore, University of the West
of England, Bristol</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#000000">Dédé Oetomo, University of
Sarabaya, Co-founder GAYa NUSANTARA</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#000000">Zoe Sofoulis, University of Western
Sydney</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#000000">Steve Kinnane, Murdoch University,
Author<i> Shadowlands</i></font></blockquote>
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<div><font color="#000000">Spotlight sessions: 'The Antipodean
Everyday', 'Media and Everyday Life'</font></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 each 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?<br>
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</i>Possible sessions/themes:</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">_ New
technologies<x-tab>
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Speed and time</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">_ Suburbia<x-tab>
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Everyday sexualities</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">_ Television<x-tab>
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Collections and archives</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">_ Food<x-tab>
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Popular media</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">_ Magazine journalism<x-tab>
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Cultural geographies</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">_ Everyday spirituality<x-tab>
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Sport</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">_ Ordinariness<x-tab>
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Music</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">_ Shopping<x-tab>
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Tourism</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">_ Civility and manners<x-tab>
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Documentary</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">_ Creativity<x-tab>
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Sustainability</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">_ Homes and
gardens<x-tab>
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The apocalyptic and the everyday<x-tab>
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<div><font color="#000000">_ Risk and
stress<x-tab>
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Dance</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">_ Globalisation<x-tab>
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Political activism in everyday life</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
Abstracts of no more than 250 words for single papers, or suggestions
for panel sessions, should be sent to:<br>
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Mark Gibson at mgibson@central.murdoch.edu.au<br>
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or :<x-tab> </x-tab>School of Media, Communication and
Culture<br>
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<x-tab> </x-tab>South St, Murdoch<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>WA 6150</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Panel proposals are particularly
welcome.</b><br>
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<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<br>
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/10304312.html</div>
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