Call for Papers:

Cultural Policy Studies Division
Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference
Marriott (at the Plaza), Kansas City
April 16-18, 2009

In its first year as a division of the Cultural Studies Association, the Cultural Policy Studies Division welcomes papers dealing with any aspect of the relationship between cultural policy and cultural studies, although priority will be given to topics that address some of the following issues:

• the place of cultural policy in cultural studies
• beyond governmentality; cultural policy and cultural theory
• from “cultural” to “creative” industries
• the cultural industries (popular music, film, etc.) and policy
• national cultural policies versus international policy
• national identity and globalization
• cultural policy in the age of convergence
• cultural trade and policy

Please submit via e-mail a 500-word abstract of a 15-20 minute paper proposal, including name, department, institutional affiliation, and e-mail address by September 5th to co-chairs, Joseph Terry (joseph.terry@colorado.edu) and Gunn Sara Enli (gunn.enli@media.uio.no).