---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 01:55:02 -0500 From: Michael D. Giardina <giardina@uiuc.edu> Reply-To: Cultural Studies <cultstud-l@mailman.acomp.usf.edu> To: cultstud-l@mailman.acomp.usf.edu Subject: [cultstud-l] Crossroads2004 - General Program Announcement (5/10/04) (Apologies for cross-postings; please circulate) General Program Announcement Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign June 25-28, 2004 We are living in a time of global uncertainty when violence is everywhere, democracy is under attack, and the United States is engaged in a war without end, a permanent war on the world. A politics of fear has offset a politics of hope. In light of these uncertain and violent times, poets, writers, artists and cultural studies scholars from across the world will gather together in common purpose to seek a new politics of resistance and hope. At the Fifth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, we will advocate nonviolent regimes of truth that honor culture, universal human rights and the sacred. We will explore critical methodologies that protest, resist and help us represent and imagine radically free utopian spaces. The Crossroads conference, themed “Policing the Crisis,” will take place on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus from June 25-28, 2004. The Institute of Communications Research, in conjunction with the Association for Cultural Studies, will host the conference with 135 sessions covering a wide range of topics such as critical pedagogies in the age of global empire, negotiating research with the subaltern, and the politics of culture. The conference is expected to draw more than 600 attendees from various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and feature renowned scholars from 40 countries. The keynote speakers will be Lawrence Grossberg (UNC-Chapel Hill), who will address the unrealized legacies of cultural studies, and Meaghan Morris (Lingnan University, Hong Kong). Three plenary sessions are also scheduled, and include speakers such as: Bryant Keith Alexander, California State University, Los Angeles; Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago; C.L. Cole, University of Illinois; Christopher Dunbar, Jr., Michigan State University; Joe L. Kincheloe, CUNY Graduate Center Peter McLaren, University of California at Los Angeles; Toby Miller, New York University; Paula Saukko, University of Exeter; Keyan G. Tomaselli, University of Natal, South Africa; and Mary E. Weems, Ohio University. Numerous other festivities include Spotlight Sessions on Africa in a Global World, Sport in the Global Popular, and War, Media, and Democracy; a special roundtable that reflects on the landmark 1990 conference “Cultural Studies Now and in the Future” organized by Paula Treichler, Cary Nelson, and Lawrence Grossberg; a publisher’s workshop; and an opening reception. To register for the conference, visit our Web site at www.crossroads2004.org. You can save up to $25 by registering before May 15. A detailed program and information on housing and travel can also be found on the Web site. For general inquiries, contact us at cfp@crossroads2004.org. NOTE FOR PRESENTERS: If you have already contacted us with corrections to the program, these may not yet be reflected on the downloadable version (our online version is updated once per week). Be assured, however, that any corrections you have requested will appear in the final version. Yours most sincerely, Michael D. Giardina (for Norman K. Denzin, Conference Director)