The Working Group on Environment, Space, and Place of the Cultural Studies Association would like to invite submissions for the 13th Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), to be held at the Riverside Convention Center, Riverside, Greater Los Angeles Area, California, 21-24 May 2015. We welcome a wide range of papers addressing environment, space, and place. This year we will be constituting two panels on the topic of “Possible Worlds.”

We seek papers on spatial practices and formations that challenge the global neo-liberal identity-forming structures and open possibilities or actualizing alternative realities of human liberation and actualization.  Papers might consider situations or possibilities for providing insurgent intellectual spaces for imagining and enacting, and/or mapping new forms of knowledge production and scholarly communication and community, or spaces and places that facilitate insurgent practices.  Research projects based in community engagement and activism are particularly (but not exclusively) encouraged, in which students, staff, faculty, administrators, and community partners are responding to the current social, legal, economic, financial, political, cultural, institutional, and intellectual challenges and possibilities. The conference’s overall theme looks at the space of the university, and this too is welcome for these sessions, provided the focus is on some aspect of environment, space and/or place with actual practice, rather than on pedagogy per se.

If interested in participating in either Working Group-sponsored panels on Environment, Space, and Place, please submit the following:

  1. Your name, email address, department, and institutional affiliation.
  2. A 500-word (or less) abstract for the 20-minute paper proposed, including a paper title.
  3. Audio-visual equipment needs (no requests for AV equipment can be honored later).

Please send all required information to the leadership of the Working Group on Environment, Space, and Place: Daniel Gustav Anderson (danielgustavanderson[at]yahoo.com).