The Critical Feminist Studies Working Group [CFSWG] of the Cultural Studies Association [www.culturalstudiesassociation.org] is pleased to invite submissions for one roundtable and one panel to be presented at the 2018 conference, which will take place at Carnegie Mellon University from May 31-June 2:
Roundtable on “Interventions” in Critical Feminist Theory
- What are ways to conceptualize interventions? Can they be productive, energizing forces for theory and practice or problematic obstacles to feminist progress?
- What cultural spaces/cultural products/case studies operate as a promotion and/or policing of interventional strategies? How does this limit or expand the intersectional lens of Critical Feminist Studies?
- What are the cisgendering, racializing, and disabling effects of feminist interventions? How does neoliberalism and globalization play a part in these effects?
Panel on Critical Feminist Studies and the Possibilities for Social Justice Interventions
- What is the future of social justice interventions under Trump’s administration?
- Should we continue to imagine ‘feminist utopias’ as a strategy of intervention, or are there other possible conceptions and strategies to develop and defend?
- How might new or reframed Critical Feminist Pedagogy be developed as a form of social justice intervention(s)?
- We encourage papers that draw from diverse fields including but not limited to: women's and gender studies, sexuality studies, feminist philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political economy, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, media studies, critical disability studies, and/or cultural studies.
You need to be a CSA member to submit. Please indicate which of the panels you would like to apply for with a brief abstract of your paper/presentation (500-700 words) and a short bio (in one document) to the EasyChair admission platform by February 16, 2018.
Questions about our CSA Working Group can be directed to Dara Persis Murray (dara.murray@mville.edu) and Jennifer Scuro (jscuro@cnr.edu).
