This may be of interest to some.
The invitation mentioned is pasted below, rather than attached as a PDF,
and has therefore lost all formatting but I hope it's still clear. If
you are interested please contact Mark Erickson or Peter Redman, not me.
Thanks.
Alison
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Dr Alison Stenning
Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS)
University of Newcastle
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From: P.Redman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 January 2004 18:05
Subject: Critical Dialogues with CCCS
Dear Colleagues,
Please find attached [as a pdf file] an open invitation to participate
in a critical dialogue on the history and diverse impacts of the late
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University.
We would be grateful if you would circulate this invitation via your own
elists.
If you have difficulty opening this document, please let me know
With thanks
Peter Redman
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Open Invitation!
Critical Dialogues with the Birmingham CCCS
As many of you will know, in the summer of 2002, the Department of
Cultural
Studies and Sociology (DCS) at Birmingham University - the successor to
the
celebrated Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) - was
effectively
shut down. This brought to a close some 38 years of cultural studies at
Birmingham
University and marked the institutional end point of one of the most
remarkable and
influential intellectual projects of the last fifty years.
Eighteen-months later, it is time to begin documenting the history and
origins of
the CCCS; to reassess its multiple impacts, successes and failures; to
investigate
what its demise might tell us about wider changes in Higher Education
and the provision
of public services in advanced industrial economies; and to reflect
critically on where
cultural studies - in all its global diversity - has come from and where
it is going to.
As a group of former students and members of staff closely involved with
the
fight to prevent the closure of the DCS, we are now issuing an open
invitation to
join a critical dialogue around these issues. As a minimum we aim to
produce a
final, 'posthumous' edition of the online journal, Cultural Studies from
Birmingham.
However, there is obvious potential for publishing one or more edited
books and/or
special issues of journals other than/in addition to Cultural Studies
from Birmingham.
If the energy and resources are available there are further
possibilities for themed
seminar, day conferences, international conferences or exhibitions.
In this light, we invite you to submit expressions of interest in or
brief ideas and suggestions for:
* specific articles/chapters/photo-essays/interviews etc. for inclusion
in journal
special issues and/or edited collections;
* themed publications or events which you would be interested in hosting
or
co/developing.
Needless to say, if you have ideas in addition to the above, they would
also be very welcome.
The deadline is 29th February 2004 and submissions should be
returned to: [log in to unmask]
Or
Dr Mark Erickson,
School of Applied Social Science
University of Brighton
Falmer,
Brighton, BN1 9PH
Organisers: James Cooper; Mark Erickson, Stuart Hanson, Michael Green,
Peter
Redman, Deborah Steinberg, Anwar Tlili,
Possible Themes:
(1) The CCCS, cultural studies and intellectual histories
* Was there a 'Birmingham School'?
* De-centring the Centre
* Does the CCCS have any relevance for cultural studies today?
* Competing intellectual formations within the CCCS
* Critical engagement with the intellectual legacies of the CCCS
* The CCCS, cultural studies and relationships with other
disciplines/ways of
studying culture.
* Where has cultural studies come from/where is it going to?
(2) Institutional histories
* Locating the CCCS in wider educational/political histories
* Competing institutional histories of the CCCS
* The contested place of the CCCS in the development of cultural studies
as a
global (inter?)-discipline
(3) Pedagogy
* The CCCS and progressive pedagogy
(4) Methods and methodologies
* The CCCS and methods and methodology in cultural studies
(5) Changing times in Higher Education
* The demise of the DCS and what it tells about wider developments in
Higher
Education and the provision of public services in AIEs.
(6) Autobiography/memory work
* Critical autobiographies relating to the CCCS
(7) Documenting the closure of the DCS
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