From: Asko Nieminen
Sent: 07/12/01 19:55
Subject: Crossroads2002

Dear researchers,

Just to remind to you that we are still open for new session proposals
and abstracts for the Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference to take
place June 29 to July 2, 2002 in Tampere, Finland. We invite you to
propose a session on the subject of your academic interest. Please visit

our homepage at www.crossroads2002.com to read about sessions so far
accepted and send us a proposal.

If you wish to present a paper, please send your abstract directly to
the session organiser. The list of accepted sessions will be updated
regularly. You can find more information in the First Announcement
below. I also kindly ask you to forward the First Announcement to your
colleagues and to your home university bulleting and mailing lists.

With best regards,

Pertti Alasuutari
Chair of the organizing committee

Jussi Turtiainen, Secretary General
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1st Announcement and Call for Proposals


CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES
Fourth International Conference

June 29 - July 2, 2002
Tampere, Finland


WELCOME!

The next international biannual Crossroads in Cultural Studies
conference will take place in Tampere, Finland, where it first started
in 1996. Let us therefore invite you to the Fourth International
Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference! As before, the mission of the

Crossroads conference is to provide an open forum for all topics that
interest the diverse international cultural studies community; to make
contacts, exchange views and gain inspiration from each other. We
encourage international participation from different countries,
disciplines and cultural backgrounds, and from a wide range of research
areas. It is up to you to again make this a conference that will show
where cultural studies is going next.

I hope to see you all in Tampere!

Yours sincerely,

Pertti Alasuutari
Chair of the organizing committee

Call for Proposals

The mission of the Crossroads conference is to provide an open forum for

all topics that interest the diverse international cultural studies
community. In that way, the conference will also show where cultural
studies is going next. To succeed in this, we especially encourage you
to send us session proposals. You may propose a session with a complete
list of participants, or just send us the title and session abstract, so

people can see it advertised and contact you with their paper proposals.

As said, you are free to propose sessions on any topics of interest to
the cultural studies community, but we assume that the following topics
will in one way or another be tackled in the sessions:

*       Anthropology and Cultural Studies
*       Audiences
*       Body in Society
*       Consumption and Consumer Culture
*       Cultural Policy
*       Cultural Studies and History
*       Cultural Studies, Education and Pedagogy
*       Ethnicity and Race
*       High and Low, Art and Mass Culture
*       Identity Construction
*       Material Culture
*       Media Studies
*       Methodology
*       Nationhood and Nationalism
*       New Media and Information Technology
*       Popular Culture
*       Psychological Cultural Studies
*       The Culture of Cities
*       Youth Culture

If you are interested in organizing sessions on the above listed or
other topics, please contact the organizers by filling out and sending a

session proposal form in the www-pages. You can send a paper proposal
directly to a session organizer or to the organizers. The updated list
of accepted sessions is in the conference www-page.

More information about how to send session proposals and abstracts can
be found on the conference www-page at http://www.crossroads2002.com/

Conference Organization

The Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2002 conference is organized by the
Department of Sociology and Social Psychology and the International
School of Social Sciences, University of Tampere, and the Network
Cultural Studies.

Host Organizing Committee:

Pertti Alasuutari, University of Tampere, Chair of the Organizing
Committee
Pirkko-Liisa Ahponen, University of Joensuu
Risto Heiskala, University of Helsinki
Eeva Jokinen, University of Jyvdskyld
Leena Kaukio, University of Jyvdskyld
Mikko Lehtonen, University of Tampere
Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, University of Helsinki
Iiris Ruoho, University of Tampere
Seija Tuulentie, University of Lapland
Erkki Vainikkala, University of Jyvdskyld
Soile Veijola, University of Lapland

International Advisory Board:

Ann Gray, University of Birmingham, UK
Joke Hermes, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands


CONTACT DETAILS:

Scientific Program Coordinator:

Secretary General Mr Jussi Turtiainen
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Conference Secretariat (registration, accommodation, tours etc):

Crossroads 2002 Secretariat
Tampere Conference Service Ltd
P.O. Box 630
FIN 33101-Tampere
FINLAND

tel. +358-3-366 4400
fax +358-3-222 6440
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http://www.crossroads2002.com/

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