Roundtable on Capitalism, Affect, and the “Culture in the Age of Mass Debt”

Extended deadline: Jan 9, 2017

The Critical Feminist Studies Working Group [CFSWG] of the Cultural Studies Association [www.culturalstudiesassociation.org] is pleased to invite submissions for one roundtable and one panel to be presented at the 2017 conference:

• Roundtable on Capitalism, Affect, and the “Culture in the Age of Mass Debt”
  • What cultural spaces/cultural products/case studies illustrate the connections between capitalism and affect through an intersectional lens of Critical Feminist Studies?
  • How does debt, both theoretically and practically, disproportionally impact the lives of women and girls globally and locally?
  • What are the gendered, racialized, classed, and disabling effects of capitalism and debt in both theory and in practice?
  • What popular and contemporary authors on capitalism, affect, and the ‘Culture of Mass Debt’ beg for a dialogically thorough Critical Feminist critique?
• Panel on Critical Feminist Studies and Social Justice
  • What is the future of social justice advocacy under Trump’s presidency? 
  • Should we continue to imagine ‘feminist utopias’, or are there other productive conceptions to focus our efforts towards?
  • What Critical Feminist pedagogical strategies could be developed in the name of Social Justice advocacy?

CFSWG is also organizing a panel at the philoSOPHIA: A Society for Continental Feminism conference, which will take place at Florida Atlantic University from March 30 - April 2, 2017.

* Panel on Affect Theory and Social Justice

We encourage papers that draw from diverse fields including but not limited to: women's and gender studies, sexuality studies, feminist philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political economy, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, media studies, critical disability studies, and/or cultural studies. 

Please indicate which of the above (roundtable, panels) you would like to apply for with an abstract of your paper/presentation (500-700 words) and a short bio (100 words or less). Use the EasyChair submission platform for the CSA calls. Email submissions directly to CSA.CFSWG@gmail.com for the philoSOPHIA call.

Questions about our CSA Working Group can be directed to Dara Persis Murray (dara.murray@mville.edu) and Jennifer Scuro (jscuro@cnr.edu).

Jennifer Scuro

Associate Professor of Philosophy

The College of New Rochelle, NY