We invite the artists and academics to submit a visual piece, an image, a
documentary or a short film, addressing and questioning the possibilities for
imagining Europe while representing its peripheries, either as a physical body or
as a body of knowledge.
Current Issues in European Cultural Studies 2011
June 15–17, Norrköping, Sweden
Call for contributions
Stream: Imagining Europe, Representing Periphery: The Body Language
The Berlin Wall is one of the symbolic walls that prevail in the geo-politics of
Europe, despite its physical disappearance.
A section of the Berlin Wall, now the East Side gallery, reminds us about the
political, socio-economic and cultural divide between the West and the East.
Symbolic walls are more powerful that their physical manifestations. It is being
on the ‘right’ side of the wall that determines the versions of sovereignty, the
citizenship-related entitlements, including the economy of the rights, and in a
way, of the body.
The body can be seen as one of the signifiers of the wall crossing, the border
crossing, migration routes and various diasporas.
We invite the artists and academics to submit a visual piece, an image, a
documentary or a short film, addressing and questioning the possibilities for
imagining Europe while representing its peripheries, either as a physical body or
as a body of knowledge.
Please submit your proposals including visual material AND a 200-words
abstract/description by email to both convenors.
Deadline is 14th February 2011.
Conveners
Dr Katarzyna Kosmala
Centre of Contemporary European Studies
University of the West of Scotland, UK
Email: katarzyna.kosmala@uws.ac.uk
Prof Ryszard Kluszczyński
Department of Media and Audiovisual Culture
University of Łódź, Poland
Email: rwk@uni.lodz.pl
June 15-17 2011 Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS) will
arrange its fourth biannual conference on cultural research in Norrköping,
Sweden. This will be an international conference on “Current Issues in
European Cultural Studies” that aims to provide an updated inventory of main
issues in European cultural studies and give a perspective on Europe today
through the spectrum of cultural studies.
A series of plenary sessions will deal with key current issues for cultural studies
that partly connect to European issues and partly reach beyond this geographic
scope. In addition to the plenary sessions, a set of spotlight sessions will open
up for presentations and debates on the state of cultural studies in different
regions of Europe.
The conference further includes a broad range of parallel sessions exploring
various aspects of contemporary cultural studies with a wider geographical
focus than Europe. Sessions thematically range from cosmopolitanism
to nationalism, touching on issues such as place making, recycling and
remembering.
Abstracts of all parallel session can be found on: http://www.isak.liu.se/acsis/ conference-2011/sessions-2011?l=sv
You can read the entire program at our conference site: http://www.isak.liu.se/ acsis/conference-2011?l=sv
For general questions related to the conference, please contact the conference
organisers at: acsis-konferens@isak.liu.se
