Division on Culture and War of the Cultural Studies Association 8th Annual Meeting of Cultural Studies

The Division on Culture and War of the Cultural Studies Association would
like to invite submissions for the 8th Annual Meeting of Cultural Studies
Association (U.S.), to be held at the University of California, Berkeley,
March 18-20, 2010.

Deadline for Abstracts (500 words): September 1, 2009 (submission guidelines
below).

Along with our standing, general “open call” on all aspects of culture and
war with relevance to the mission of the Division, we would also like to
invite papers that address more specific areas, including the following
short list:

-the historical shift toward “Obama’s War(s),” including such angles as:
the “disappearance” of the Iraq war in the media landscape, the phasing out
of the moniker “global war on terror,” the continued use of privatized
military contractors, the “prison-industrial-complex”
(Guantanamo, prisoners of war, CIA “black sites,” etc), the representation
of torture;

-the culture of war on the homefront, including: veterans coming home
(homelessness/joblessness, trauma, medications/injuries, PTSD, families),
Michele Obama and veterans’ families, anti-war movements, don’t ask-don’t
tell, the internet and war coverage, the “popular culture” of war
(videogames, television programming, web-based and/or new media, (un)popular
music), war in movies/memoirs/theater/radical art projects, etc.

– a roundtable or workshop on the pedagogy of war (that is, teaching
war-related texts, different departments/academic fields, different
practices/strategies, etc);
If interested in participating in a Division-sponsored panel, please submit
the following by September 1:

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

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

c. Any needed audio-visual equipment must be noted with your proposal.
No requests for AV equipment can be honored later.
Please send all required information by September 1, 2009 to both co-chairs
of the Division:
Tony Grajeda, agrajeda@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
 

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