CfP: The 14th International 'Culture & Power' Conference: 'Identity & identification'

*Culture & Power Seminar*

*Under the auspices of the Iberian Association for Cultural Studies (IBACS)*

The 14th International ‘Culture & Power’ Conference: ‘IDENTITY AND
IDENTIFICATION’*

Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha,

Departamento de Filología Moderna

Facultad de Letras,

Ciudad Real, Spain
22-24 April, 2010

Questions of identity and identification are among the most important evolving concerns
of Cultural Studies today. Indeed, many thinkers, theorists and academics working in the
interdisciplinary field of cultural studies continue to wrestle with these slippery
concepts in their explorations of “the production and inculcation of culture or maps
of culture” (Chris Barker). Commonly apprehended as contingent, culturally specific
and socially produced, identity is often conceived of as the result of a whole range of
different, possible identifications linked to specific modalities of power under
specific social and historical conjunctures, hence, the unstable and fluctuating nature
of identity and identity formation. The tension between self-description and social
ascription is fundamental for individuals and groups to construct, negotiate, defend and
resist their self-understanding. Through a process of personal identification with
discursively constructed subject positions, identities emerge across a wide range of
cultural practices in the course of social interactions involving the use of language
and other semiotic systems manifested in cultural artefacts of various kinds.

This conference invites 20-minute papers addressing the topic of ‘identity’ and
‘identification’ from a wide range of perspectives within Cultural Studies. Although
other topics may be considered, we welcome papers dealing with, but not being limited
to, issues such as the following:

1. Theorizing identity construction and identification processes from a (variety of)
cultural studies perspective(s): identities as discursive-performative / unstable /
multiple / fragmented / projects / constructed and negotiated / narratives of the self /
etc.

2. Methods and perspectives for examining identity-construction and identification
processes in culture and society: post-structuralist, feminist, psychocritical,
discursive, linguistic, Marxist, Queer Theory, postmodern, ecocritic, postcolonial, etc.

3. From social and cultural identities to subjectivity and the self: dimensions of and
interrelations between identity production, consumption, commodification, regulation,
inculcation, and representation.

4. Identity and genre: identities in fiction, drama, poetry, film, television, print
media, politics, advertising, education, the institutional, the Internet, etc. The role
of cultural artefacts in identity-construction processes within circuits of culture in
society.

5. Identity at the crossroads of cultural studies with its disciplinary neighbours
(literary theory, sociology, linguistics, discourse studies, anthropology, media and
communication studies, history, geography, musicology, philosophy, etc.).

6. Challenging, questioning and subverting identities: re-constructing, -inventing,
-cycling, -visiting, -creating, -locating, -discovering, -examining, -jecting,
-producing, -thinking, -versing, -vising, -vitalising, -reading, -writing identities in
culture and cultural artefacts.

7. Gender, sex, race, ethnicity, class, age, citizenship and religion issues: identity
politics, hybridisation, border identities and subcultures.

8. The discourses of local, regional, national and trans-national identities: tensions
between globalisation and nationalisms.

9. Identity and identification across cultural practices: diasporas, memory, trauma and
body politics.

10. Identity and visual culture: intertextuality, multimodality, and the dialogue
between the arts.

11. Historicizing identities: cultural history and the criticism of historical
identities.

12. Identity and popular culture.

13. Identity in the Information and Communication society: e-identities,
cyber-identities, virtual identities.

*IMPORTANT DATES (/NB: extension of deadlines/)*

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§ *January 15th, 2010** **à ** _February 15^th , 2010_: *Submission of full papers.
Please send *FULL PAPERS* (2,500 words) together with a 200-word *ABSTRACT*. Papers may
be sent online through the conference website www.cultureandpower.org 
or directly to Eduardo.Gregorio AT uclm.es

§ *February 15th, 2010** **à ** March 15^th , 2010:* Notification of acceptance.

§ *April 22^nd , 23^rd & 24th, 2010:* Conference dates.

*PLENARY SPEAKERS:*

The following speakers have confirmed their participation at the conference:

§ *Lawrence** Grossberg* (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

§ *John Storey* (University of Sunderland)

§ *Chris Weedon *(Cardiff University)

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*PUBLICATION:*

Selected papers will be published in a volume after the conference.

*CONFERENCE LANGUAGES:*

Papers may be presented in English or Spanish.

*SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE*

*Matías Barchino Pérez* (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

*Chris Barker* (University of Wollongong, Australia)

*Susan Bassnett* (University of Warwick, UK)

*Jesús Benito Sánchez *(Universidad de Valladolid, Spain)

*Lou Charnon-Deutch* (Stony Brook University, USA)

*María José Coperías Aguilar* (Universitat de València, Spain)

*Chantal Cornut-Gentille D’Arcy* (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)

*Nick Couldry* (The London School of Business and Economics, UK)

*Paul du Gay* (Warwick Business School, UK)

*José Manuel Estévez Saá* (Universidade da Coruña, Spain)

*Fernando* *Galván Reula* (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)

*Rosa González Casademont* (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)

*Felicity Hand* (Unversitat Autònoma Barcelona, Spain)

*Phil Hubbard* (Loughborough University, UK)

*Brian Longhurst* (University of Salford, UK)

*Ana María Manzanas Calvo* (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)

*Sara Martín Alegre* (Unversitat Autònoma Barcelona, Spain)

*Scott McCracken* (Keele University, UK)

*Silvia Molina Plaza* (Universitat Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

*Susana* *Onega Jaén* (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)

*Juan Sisinio Pérez Garzón* (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

*Alvaro Pina* (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

*Inés Praga Terente* (Universidad de Burgos, Spain)

*Isabel Santaolalla* (Roehampton University, UK)

*Peter R. Sedgwick* (Cardiff University, UK)

*Greg Smith* (University of Salford, UK)

*John Storey* (University of Sunderland, UK)

*Socorro Suárez Lafuente* (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)

*Graeme* *Turner *(University of Queensland, Australia)

*Rubén Valdés Millares* (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)

*Teun van Dijk* (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

*David Walton* (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)

*CONFERENCE CONVENORS:*

Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo & Ángel Mateos-Aparicio

*LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE:*

Javier Enrique Díaz Vera

Beatriz González Moreno

Ignacio Ramos Gay

Ernesto Suárez Toste

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*ENQUIRIES** *may be sent to the conference convenors:

§ Dr. Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo: Eduardo.Gregorio AT uclm.es

§ Dr. Ángel Mateos-Aparicio: Angel.Mateos AT uclm.es

*REGISTRATION, ACCOMMODATION, SOCIAL PROGRAMME & FURTHER INFORMATION *will be updated on
this conference website: www.cultureandpower.org <http://www.cultureandpower.org/>