2nd Announcement and Call for Proposals and Abstracts


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 Jyväskylä
Leena Kaukio, University of Jyväskylä
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 Jyväskylä
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/