While the research of our invited keynotes and plenary speakers mostly gravitates around the issues of labour and precarities, decolonizing knowledge and the refugee “crisis” in the Mediterranean, the conference is open to all topics relevant to Cultural Studies. Suggested topics, drawing on the work of our invited keynote, plenary and spotlight speakers, and on more general themes in Cultural Studies research, include:
(Anti-)consumption and everyday life
Adaptation cultures
Borders and mobilities
Critical and cultural theory
Culture, gender and decolonisation
Culture, gender and sexuality
Dance cultures
Data cultures
Digital infrastructure
Diversity, culture, governance
Extraction: cultures and industries
Food cultural studies
Gender, sexuality, race and class in the Anthropocene
Globalisation and culture
Human/non-human relations
Indigenous knowledge and politics
Managing cities
Media regulation: from censorship to piracy
Migrant cultural studies
Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies
Popular affect online
Popular cultures and genres
Public culture and cultural policy
Race, racism and postcoloniality
Refugee “crisis” in the Mediterranean
Religious diversity
Rethinking the human and the post-human
Rural cultural studies
Screen and media cultures
Securitization
Transforming/globalising/decolonising universities
Urban imaginaries