SENT ON BEHALF OF MAKE(R) SPACE COORDINATORS: Jodi Davis, Hilary Berwick, and Anthony Blacksher CFP: Make(r) Space Cultural Studies Association Meeting May 21 – 24, 2015 Riverside, California The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites Make(r) Space proposals for participation in its thirteenth annual meeting at the Riverside Convention Center, in Riverside, California, May 21-24, 2015. Our goal is to make space for another university – making space for art, making space for political activism, making space for new modes of knowledge exchange. It is our goal that this space will be created for those that have been historically and systemically left out of these conversations. This year’s Make(r) Space will focus on three pillars of making space: making space to create and present art, making space to share skills and strategies for activism and political engagement, and making space for both building community and supporting local community spaces. Proposals are due February 15th, 2015 to [email protected]. The goal of this year’s Make(r) Space is to incorporate artists, activists, poets, and other makers into the CSA conference. We want to create a space that helps the CSA fulfill some of the implicit praxis portion of its goals to “create and promote an effective community of cultural studies practitioners and scholars”. Building on the poets, dancers, painters, and activists already interested in the space, we welcome proposals for exhibits, performances, workshops, skill shares, story telling, and other ways of meaning-making and art-making in the world. We are particularly interested in proposals for skill shares and organizing around activism and protesting, especially in light of the nationwide unrest, protest, and organizing around #BlackLivesMatter. To that end, proposals engaging with training street medics and other support roles (like court support) for protests, cross-racial organizing strategies, and horizontal leadership are especially encouraged. Furthermore, proposals from all areas and on all topics of relevance to cultural studies are welcome, and are not limited to proposals that critically and creatively engage this years highlighted problematic.* We especially encourage submissions from individuals working beyond the boundaries of the university: artists, activists, independent scholars, professionals, community organizers, and community college educators. *This year’s theme, “Another University is Possible: Praxis, Activism, and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy,” plays on the World Social Forum’s motto, “Another World is Possible.” It expresses a commitment to the intellectual and political project of a radically different university. Moving beyond policy and pundit-driven discussions of the state and the future of higher education, we seek proposals that highlight socially-engaged scholarship and activism, and projects that explore the transformative possibilities embedded in the present. Taking up cultural studies historical commitment to the interrogation of the relations among knowledge, power, and social transformation, the 2015 CSA conference seeks to provide an insurgent intellectual space for imagining, enacting, and mapping new forms of knowledge production and scholarly communication and community. Proposals due February 15th, 2015 to [email protected].
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