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1. CFP-Cultural Studies Assoc. in Portland - Susan Squier 


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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:21:42 -0400
From: Susan Squier 
Subject: CFP-Cultural Studies Assoc. in Portland



Call for Papers for the Cultural Studies Association's Fifth Annual 
Conference, April 19-21, 2007, Portland, Oregon
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>	  Seminar: Why We Need AgriCultural Studies
>	  Contact:  Susan Squier, Penn State University sxs62@psu.edu 
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>	  "Culture in all its early uses was a noun of process: the 
> tending of something, basically crops or animals." (Raymond 
> Williams)  Yet though cultural studies is linked ideologically as 
> well as etymologically to agriculture, the field has been 
> remarkably uninterested in that original meaning of 
> culture.  Instead, perhaps because of a long-standing metropolitan 
> bias, cultural studies has concentrated on the production of the 
> individual subject in practically every other institutional 
> sense--scientifically, technologically, politically, medically, 
> socially, religiously, and reproductively--while giving scant 
> attention to culture in its original rural sense. This session 
> invites participants to come together for a seminar that will 
> explore the significance for cultural studies of the forgotten, 
> deeply material means of producing individuals: the institution of 
> agriculture.
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>This small group discussion session will admit only fifteen people. 
>Participants will be asked to write brief 'position papers' that 
>will be circulated prior to the conference.  If you are interested 
>in submitting a proposal for this seminar, please e-mail a 500 word 
>abstract for your position paper, a short c.v., and your 
>institutional affiliation (if applicable) to Susan Squier, at 
>sxs62@psu.edu, by December 15.  Please feel free to forward this 
>message to people who might be interested.  The Cultural Studies 
>Association's Fifth Annual Conference will take place in Portland, 
>Oregon from April 19-21, 2007.
>For more information on the conference itself, visit 
>http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm.
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Susan Squier
Brill Professor of Women's Studies, English, and STS
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Office: 814-863-3604 Home 466-7626
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/s/x/sxs62/ 

Home address:
211 Miller Lane
PO Box 557
Boalsburg, PA 16827
(phone: 814-466-7626)


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