<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>CFP: Cultural Studies Association, Business/Economics divi</title></head><body> <div>Hello, everyone,</div> <div><br></div> <div>I am organizing a division of the Cultural Studies Association conference in Portland, Oregon (April 19-21, 2007). I thought that some of you might be interested in participating. The call for papers is pasted below.</div> <div><br></div> <div>The deadline for submitting proposals is October 16, 2006.</div> <div><br></div> <div>If you would like to submit a proposal, please e-mail me a 500-word abstract for your 20-minute paper, and include the title of your paper, your name, e-mail address, department, and institutional affiliation (if applicable). Also, in your proposal, please note any needed audio-visual equipment. (No requests for AV equipment can be honored later.)</div> <div><br></div> <div>Please feel free to forward this message to people who might be interested. For more information on the conference itself, visit http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm</div> <div><br></div> <div>Best wishes,</div> <div>Megan Brown</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000">Cultural Studies of Business and Economics</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000">Contact: Megan Brown (megan.brown@drake.edu)</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000">As Eric Guthey once asked, "Why have so many highly trained, intelligent and critical cultural scholarsŠ chosen to overlook so completely the burgeoning corporatization of American culture? Isn't this a bit like oceanographers refusing to acknowledge the existence of water?" While Guthey's concern is an important one, recently, an increasing number of cultural studies researchers have devoted time to analyzing and engaging with texts and phenomena from (and about) the business world. In this call for papers for the Cultural Studies Association's Fifth Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon from April 19-21, 2007, we invite proposals focusing on business and economics.</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000"><br> Some possible topics to consider:<br> <br> -- Practices and policies of specific corporations (for example, Enron, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble)<br> -- Policies and philosophies of specific business fields (for example, accounting, advertising, investment banking)<br> -- The concept of "corporate culture"<br> -- Gender, race, and class in the workplace<br> -- Differences in corporate practices/organizations across cultures<br> -- International economic relationships and trade organizations (WTO)<br> -- Economic and management theories</font><br> <font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000"></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000">In addition to proposing conference panels and papers, you may propose to lead a seminar or roundtable within the business and economics subject area. Seminars are small-group (maximum 15 individuals) discussion sessions for which participants write brief "position papers" that are circulated prior to the conference. Roundtables are sessions in which panelists offer brief remarks, but the bulk of the session is devoted to discussion among the panelists and audience members.</font></div> </body> </html>