Dear Friends and Colleagues of the Center for Study of Working Class Life
I am pleased to circulate the call for papers for the 2007 annual
conference of the Working-Class Studies Association, which will be at
Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. next June (instead of Youngstown
State University, where odd-number-year conferences have been held in the
past). The How Class Works – 2008 conference will again be at Stony Brook
in June 2008. I hope to see you at Macalester next year, and then again
at Stony Brook. Please also consider joining the Working-Class Studies
Association if you have not already done so.
Michael Zweig
Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life
CALL FOR PAPERS
June14-17, 2007
Class Matters:
Working-Class Culture and Counter-Culture
Annual Conference of the Working-Class Studies Association
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
Dormitory housing available
This conference will explore working-class culture in all its forms –
activism, pop culture, the arts, storytelling, and more. Working-class
culture can be a source of unity as well as division, and it is
constructed in the workplace as well as in the realms of “leisure” and
popular culture. At this conference, we hope to explore the relationships
between “cultural workers” and their audiences, control over the means of
cultural production (publishers, music producers, universities, etc.), and
the commodification of working-class culture, among other issues. We are
eager to provide a venue in which scholars of working-class culture using
Humanities and Social Science frames and lenses can come together with
each other, and with creators of working-class culture.
How has working-class culture changed over time? Is there is a diasporic,
transnational, and/or global working-class culture? How do working-class
people use representations, organizations, and everyday life to resist the
dominant culture? How does working-class culture reflect divisions among
working-class people?
We invite proposals for presentations, panels, posters, roundtables, and
performances. Submit 1-page abstracts with a brief biographical statement
January 15, 2007 to:
Peter Rachleff
History Department
Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota 55105
Or by email to rachleff@macalester.edu.
For more information, contact Peter Rachleff, rachleff@macalester.edu, or
by phone at 651-696-6371.
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