Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 25-28, 2004

We are living in a time of global uncertainty when violence is
everywhere, democracy is under attack, and the United States is
engaged in a war without end, a permanent war on the world. A
politics of fear has offset a politics of hope. In light of these uncertain
and violent times, poets, writers, artists and cultural studies scholars
from across the world will gather together in common purpose to
seek a new politics of resistance and hope.

At the Fifth International
Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, we will advocate
nonviolent regimes of truth that honor culture, universal human rights
and the sacred. We will explore critical methodologies that protest,
resist and help us represent and imagine radically free utopian
spaces.The Crossroads conference, themed “Policing the Crisis,” will take
place on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus from
June 25-28, 2004. The Institute of Communications Research, in
conjunction with the Association for Cultural Studies, will host the
conference with 135 sessions covering a wide range of topics such
as critical pedagogies in the age of global empire, negotiating
research with the subaltern, and the politics of culture. The
conference is expected to draw more than 600 attendees from
various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and feature
renowned scholars from 40 countries.



The keynote speakers will be Lawrence Grossberg (UNC-Chapel
Hill), who will address the unrealized legacies of cultural studies,
and Meaghan Morris (Lingnan University, Hong Kong).

Three plenary sessions are also scheduled, and include speakers
such as:

Bryant Keith Alexander, California State University, Los Angeles;

Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago;

C.L. Cole, University of Illinois;

Christopher Dunbar, Jr., Michigan State University;

Joe L. Kincheloe, CUNY Graduate Center

Peter McLaren, University of California at Los Angeles;

Toby Miller, New York University;

Paula Saukko, University of Exeter;

Keyan G. Tomaselli, University of Natal, South Africa; and

Mary E. Weems, Ohio University.

Numerous other festivities include Spotlight Sessions on Africa in a
Global World, Sport in the Global Popular, and War, Media, and
Democracy; a special roundtable that reflects on the landmark 1990
conference “Cultural Studies Now and in the Future” organized by
Paula Treichler, Cary Nelson, and Lawrence Grossberg; a
publisher’s workshop; and an opening reception.



To register for the conference, visit our Web site at
www.crossroads2004.org. You can save up to $25 by registering
before May 15. A detailed program and information on housing and
travel can also be found on the Web site. For general inquiries,
contact us at cfp@crossroads2004.org.