Photography and the City

Photography and the City

Conference
29th June - 1 July 2006
Call for Papers

The Clinton Institute for American Studies invites single paper and panel proposals for a three-day international conference examining the relationship between the city and photography. The Institute welcomes proposals analysing historical, cultural, socio-economic, and technical aspects of this relationship. Practising photographers are encouraged to submit proposals. The conference will bring together academics and practitioners to examine and illustrate the role of photography in representing urban life and landscapes, and in shaping urban ways of seeing.

Plenary Speakers include: William J. Mitchell (Head of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT, and author of The Reconfigured Eye and City of Bits)

Topics to be addressed might include one or more of the following themes:

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The technologisation of urban vision
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Photography and urban change
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Urban destruction and aesthetics of urban ruin
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Genre (landscape, advertising, street, architectural, etc)
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Space, place and identity
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Sexualising and racialising of urban vision
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Documentary approaches to the 'urban real'
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Voyeurism and urban spectatorship
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Urban surveillance
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The role of photographic images in urban environment
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The photographic imagineering of city identities



Please send one-page proposals with a brief CV by 31 March 2006 to:

Catherine Carey, Clinton Institute for American Studies, William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

Tel: 353 1 7161560 Fax: 01 7161562
Email: Catherine.Carey@ucd.ie

Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and Transformation

Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and Transformation

1st CALL FOR PAPERS

Sheffield, June 29th - July 2nd 2006

Steel and Tourism

The steel rails of the world's railways provided the basic infrastructure
for early modern tourism. Today, old iron and steel works provide
sites for leisure tourism. Steel as both a fundamental, functional, interior
fabric and a symbolic, highly visible substance permeates the structures,
flows, practices and narratives of contemporary tourism. Indeed steel,
though not exclusively, can be viewed as a pre-condition for modern
international tourism.

As part of the wider programme of the Steel Cities Conference - see
below - we invite researchers from all disciplines to reflect upon the
function, form and emblematic nature of steel within tourism in past,
present and future contexts. Indicative themes of interest include:

* Material diasporas: trade, tourism and the diffusion of material culture
* Tourism and imaginaries of steel making: Between nostalgia and fantasy
* Technological innovation in the structures and mobilities of international
tourism and hospitality
* Steel 'works' - tourism and the problems and possibilities of urban
regeneration
* Alchemists, Blacksmiths and Magicians: Travel and the diffusion of
knowledge
* Excalibur or the metaphorical journey from stone to iron: Travel,
popular culture and pragmatic narratives of iron and steel

Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words by January 13th 2006
to: mike.robinson@shu.ac.uk

Professor Mike Robinson
Director, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
(www.channelviewpublications.com)
Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street
Sheffield
S1 1WB, UK

Please visit Please visit: http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/natcect/steelcities
and www.tourism-culture.com

Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and Transformation

For nearly two centuries steel has been the fundamental building block
of modernity, revolutionising the lives of millions. From its use in
building
and construction, in weapons production, to its role in the home kitchen,
the transformative power of steel is undeniable. At all stages of its
life-cycle, steel impacts upon communities, regions and nations. As
China and India race to modernise their economies with imported steel,
many cities across Europe and North America are still struggling to cope
with the transition from productive to consumptive economies. The focus
of this conference is upon the ways in which economies and societies,
lives, landscapes and relationships have been, and continue to be,
transformed by steel.

The 'Steel Cities' conference will bring together academics and
professionals from a wide range of disciplines to explore the
ways by which steel has impacted upon people, places and pasts and
how it continues to shape lives and relationships in the context of local
and global change. It will take place in Sheffield, England's most famous
'Steel City', and will be led by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield
Hallam University in collaboration with a number of partners who are
interested in discussing their research and sharing and disseminating good
practice. The conference will be multi-disciplinary drawing from
architecture,
history, sociology, anthropology, ethnology, cultural studies, geography,
tourism studies, museum studies, ethnology, linguistics, economics etc.

Themes of interest to the conference include:

* Labour relations and working environments in the steel sector
* The uses of steel in contemporary life
* Histories and ethnographies of steel communities
* Identity and belonging in 'steel cities'
* Representations of steel and the steel industry in the 'popular' media
* The role of the cultural industries (arts, sport, tourism, etc.) in the
regeneration of 'steel cities'
* The languages of steel cities
* Heritages of the steel industry
* Symbolic economies of steel - iconography, art and design

Dr David Picard
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
Owen Building, Howard Street
Sheffield S1 1WB
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0) 114 225 3973
E-mail: d.picard@shu.ac.uk
Web: www.tourism-culture.com

Indigenous Americas: Poetry by Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere

In the spirit of sister nations, of brotherly alliance, in inclusiveness, in the shared principles of possibility and of sheltering relations during a time when our peoples to the south are still enduring odious onslaught of genocidal resource wars and to the north facing impending catastrophic change from global warming, in this time of uniting and reuniting, in the memory of the vast trade routes which thoroughly connected the intact Western Hemisphere pre-contact with European peoples, in the realization of roads that trail their existence even today, in the presence of resistance, reclamation, and renaissance, in the stories, the music, ceremonies, songs?language-- Aboriginal North, Central and South American and surrounding island poets are welcome to submit work to be included in this unique tribal representation of poetry of the Western Hemisphere. Inviting submissions of Native Peoples from the Inuit Village of Resolute Bay, Canada, to Mapuche Pueblo in Chile and everywhere in between.

Click here for submission instructions.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Huron and Cherokee author of Dog Road Woman; Rock, Ghost, Willow Deer; Off-Season City Pipe;and Blood Run, winner of the American Book Award, is the guest editor for this theme. Hedge Coke is a faculty member of the English Department and MFA program in writing at Northern Michigan University.




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AMERICA INDIGENA:
POESIA DE AUTORES INDIGENAS DEL HEMISFERIO OCCIDENTAL


Con esp�ritu de fraternidad, alianza y acercamiento entre naciones hermanas, compartiendo principios de posibilidad y de uni�n en estos tiempos en los que nuestra gente, hacia el sur, es aun v�ctima de la guerra genocida por los recursos, y hacia el norte, se enfrenta a la cat�strofe inminente del calentamiento global, en estos tiempos de uni�n y reencuentro, con la memoria viva de las grandes rutas de intercambio que conectaban el intacto hemisferio occidental precolombino, en la construcci�n de carreteras que aun hoy recuperan sus huellas, en presencia de la resistencia, la reclamaci�n y el renacimiento, en las historias, la m�sica, las ceremonias y el lenguaje-canci�n�?se invita a poetas ind�genas del norte, centro, sur e islas aleda�as de Am�rica, a que env�en su trabajo y participen en esta representaci�n �nica de poes�a tribual en el hemisferio occidental. Se solicitan contribuciones desde el pueblo Inuit de Resolute Bay, Canad�, hasta el pueblo Mapuche en Chile incluyendo a todos los pueblos que se encuentren en el camino.



Allison Adelle Hedge Coke es una escritora Hur�n y Cherokee. Autora de Dog Road Woman; Rock Ghost, Willow Deer, Off-Season City Pipe; y Blood Run, ganadora del premio American Book Award y editora invitada para este volumen. Hedge Coke hace parte del departamento de ingl�s y del programa de maestr�a para escritores de Northern Michigan University.

Crossing America’s Internal Borders

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Crossing America’s Internal Borders: The 41st Annual International Conference of the American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK), Oct. 27-28, 2006 in Seoul

U.S. imperialism has been the object of study and criticism by scholars of many disciplines and, especially since the start of the Iraqi war, U.S. imperialism and militarism have been examined and severely criticized by scholars and activists both inside and outside the U.S. Alongside this scrutiny of U.S. imperialism, recent trends in American Studies or, all across the board in the Humanities and Social Sciences, have reflected various ways in which the intersection of gender, race and class have changed the way we view the U.S. both synchronically and diachronically.

The 2006 ASAK conference committee seeks to shift the current scholarly concerns to the “internal borders” within the U.S.

The catastrophic events brought on by Hurricane Katrina have exposed and lay bare in the eyes of the world not only the actual material consequences of racial and class divides in the U.S. but also of the complex workings of other less visible internal borders within the U.S. Some of the questions that might be raised may be: Do regional differences still exist in the U.S.

How are the questions of race and class interrelated with economic and regional divides? How has the traditional notion of “class” changed in terms of everyday life of Americans? How is the regional or geographical divide related to issues of race and gender?
The committee invites papers from all disciplines and in the spirit of the tradition of past ASAK conferences, welcomes new, innovative interdisciplinary approaches, but this year, the committee would like to especially encourage papers from various disciplines in the Social Sciences and from scholars with diverse background and training. The conference committee hopes to foster a productive and rewarding dialogue among the scholars of the Humanities and the Social Sciences, carefully seeking to go beyond the discursive realm and find possibilities of intervening in the social processes. Rather than viewing the U.S.
as a monolithic superpower, locating the real or imagined “third worlds” within the U.S. may transform the way we imagine the future world.

Please submit a one-page proposal and your curriculum vitae by February 28, 2006 to: Shin-wha Lee (swlee@korea.ac.kr)

Department of Political Science and International Relations
Korea University
Seoul, Korea



Or
Jee H. An


Department of English
Seoul, National University
Seoul, Korea



The conference committee will respond by April 30, 2006, by email. ASAK will provide expenses for local transportation and room and board for all participants from overseas

Collision 2006

Collision 2006
Interarts Research and Practices
September 21 - 24, 2006
University of Victoria, BC, Canada

Call for Papers, Performances, Collaborations and Workshops
Deadline for Submissions: March 1, 2006

In September 2005, the Collision Symposium brought together researchers,
performers and artists to present their work on interarts and
interdisciplinary performance and creation. Collision, a term that denotes
forceful impact of masses moving in different directions, was used as a
theme for the kind of interarts processes often used to create and merge art
forms. Often by design, and sometimes by chance, these processes do not
result in seamless integration of the arts, but instead create a friction of
disciplinarity that promotes rupture or erasure and creates detritus that
exists in liminal states. Building on some of the themes and discussion from
the previous symposium, Collision 2006 requests abstracts and proposals from
artists, researchers and performers for the following:

Performances and Creative works - gallery and performance space is available
for interarts works. Please include the specifications for presentation
(type of venue, dimensions), all the technical requirements, and an
audio-visual sample of the work along with your abstract. If the work is
performance-based, please list its duration.

Lecture-presentations - we encourage traditional lecture format
presentations as well as artist talks, dialogues and lecture-demonstrations.
These presentations will be the standard 20 minutes with 15 minutes for
discussion.

Performative Lectures - presentations that operate as an amalgamation of
art/performance and research. These presentations will be the standard 20
minutes with 15 minutes for discussion.

Workshops and Roundtable Discussions - hands-on practical topics including
but not limited to "Teaching interdisciplinary collaboration", "Methods to
merge theory and practice" and "Interarts terminologies/histories".
Workshops will be limited to 1 hour.

Collaborations and Activities - we invite you to lead a collaboration or
other activity for a mixed group of artists, researchers and performers on a
topic that relates to interarts practices. Collaborations and Activities are
limited to 1 hour and 30 minutes. For the 2006 Collision Symposium we will
have several thematic areas of focus. As well as general submissions on any
subjects of interarts and interdisciplinary creation, we also invite
submissions that address the following topics:

1. Practice and Performance as Research, Theory as Performance/Art:
Following the Art and Language group, philosopher-artists have taken an
approach to research and discourse that presents theory as a performance or
creative work. What are the current forms that these practices take?

2. Interdisciplinarity as a Social Force:
How do theories of power, legitimacy, and inclusion change when applied in
an interdisciplinary context? How is gender performed interdisciplinarily?
How does intersectional feminist theory inform interarts work? Is activist
art inherently interdisciplinary? How can interarts practice enrich or
transform community-based or site-responsive projects?

3. First Nations Interarts Creation:
What is the role of participation, interaction and community-building in
First Nations interarts practices? How are storytelling practices
transformed in interarts creation?

4. Technology:
What are the roles, potential, and dangers of technology in
interdisciplinary artworks? How do information and communications theories
intersect with artistic practices?

5. Between Architecture and the Arts:
Artistic explorations of built environments or imaginary structures. How do
artists and performers integrate architecture as a part of their practice?

6. Conscious Interdisciplinarity:
Current academic and artistic research, art production, and performance are
often interdisciplinary almost as a matter of course. So what does it mean
to refer to one's practice as 'interdisciplinary'? How is this label
strategic? Aesthetic? Fetishistic?

7. Non-Western Interdisciplinarity:
What might we learn from non-Western manifestations of interdisciplinarity
or interarts practice (or from cultures where the concept of artistic
disciplines may not even exist)?

8. Interdisciplinary Art and Spirituality:
Where does ambiguity in art intersect with spirituality? Are there parallels
between interdisciplinary creation and spiritual pursuits (eg. art as
process)? Can nonverbal artistic imagery for which no authoritative
tradition of interpretation exists become a catalyst for spirituality?

All accepted presentations from the 2005 and upcoming 2006 Symposia will be
considered for a planned publication on interarts and interdisciplinary
research and practices.

Abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length and must be sent as a
doc. or rtf. file attachment to interart@finearts.uvic.ca. Please DO NOT
send audio-visual documentation as attachment files. Instead, please send
all materials - slides, CDs, VHS video and DVDs in NTSC format only to:

Collision 2006 Organizing Committee
C/O Visual Arts Department
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria BC V8W 2Y2 Canada

Further inquiries can be addressed to: Dylan Robinson at
interart@finearts.uvic.ca

Streetnotes Winter 2006

Xcp Website is collecting STREETNOTES for its WINTER 2006 Exhibition.

Heterotopia: Festival & Disaster

Streets and public places are not always stable environments. Signals, codes, mores and customs change. Space is socially constructed. At times, extraordinary change brings cataclysmic disruption. Normalcy can be suspended and the apparent meanings of social spaces can be altered. In times of festival and other effervescent assemblies, the normative patterns of the streets can also dramatically change. New rules and new roles may appear. However, because the street is a dynamic social place, its normative patterns, and the concept of normalcy itself are always in contention and social mediated. This issue of Streetnotes looks at how disruptions and interventions can both disintegrate and renew social conceptions of public place. We are interested in accounts of slow and procedural disasters as well as the instant. We are concerned with momentary revelries and micro-social fissures in the status quo as well as the wider carnivalesque. In the Winter 2006 issue, we seek documentary, poetic, and ethnographic accounts of the “street” as heterotopia, a concept Michel Foucault described as a place "capable of juxtaposing in a real place several spaces, several sites that are incompatible." ("Of Other Spaces" Diacritics v16 n1)


About Xcp: Streetnotes:
Xcp: Streetnotes is a biannual online exhibition of the socially descriptive arts. We accept essays, experimental documentary, photography and poetry. We are especially interested in ethnographic and geographic description, interviews, and other products of field work conducted in and about the street or public places. Exhibitions of Streetnotes have been published on the internet biannually since 1998. Past exhibits have been saved and are accessible.

Guidelines:
Please send text documents as rich text format documents (*.rtf), MS Word (*.doc) or as ascii files (*.txt).
Images should be sent as jpeg file (*.jpg) set to 72 dpi and sized no larger than 800 x 600 pxls. html files are also ok, but please do not include animation, javascripts, or other programming. We are unable to publish video or sound at this time. Please visit our site to see past contributions: http://www.xcp.bfn.org or write the editor with questions, David Michalski: michalski@ucdavis.edu

Deadline: November 15, 2005.
Estimate publication date : January 1, 2006.

Please send electronic materials to:
David Michalski, michalski@ucdavis.edu
Please also place “Xcp” is the subject line.

Diskettes (PC) and Hardcopies can be sent to:

David Michalski
Humanities and Social Sciences Dept.
288 Shields Library, 100 NW Quad
University of California,
Davis, CA 95616
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Xcp: Streetnotes is part of the Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics Website.
We are hosted by the Buffalo Freenet, a not-for-profit, community based information service.

Diasporic Hegemonies Project

Diasporic Hegemonies Project

Symposium: Gendering the Diaspora, Race-ing the Transnational

Diasporic Hegemonies is a three-year scholarly and pedagogical project designed by Women’s Studies Associate Professor Tina Campt, and Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Deborah Thomasto facilitate communication between those doing transnational feminist research and feminist scholars of African Diaspora. They have developed this project in order to study with other scholars the ways transnational feminist scholarship might benefit from a more engaged dialogue with those who work on the African diaspora, and how the study of diaspora and diasporic communities might be transformed through a more directed engagement with feminist transnationalism, and particularly the work of feminists theorizing other models of diaspora (for example, South Asian or Asian American diasporas). Campt and Thomas believe a gendered transnational analysis of the relations of Diaspora could ultimately transform the ways scholars, students, and policy-makers conceptualize current processes of globalization, and could therefore help to undergird critically engaged responses to these processes.

Fall Symposium, November 17-19: Gendering Diaspora and Race-ing the Transnational
Panels and keynotes in the Richard White Auditorium on East Campus. For more information please contact Pat Hoffman at phoffman@duke.edu. Admission is free, but registration is required.

Expo for the Artist| Expo for the Musician : Sixth Annual Expo for the Artist & Musician

Sixth Annual Expo for the Artist & Musician

What?
The Sixth Annual Expo for the Artist & Musician

EXPO FOR THE ARTIST & MUSICIAN supports the arts at the community level by offering free and very-low-cost networking events, workshops, exhibitions, performances, discussion groups, community advocacy, and arts promotions via print and online resources.

Neither a job fair nor a business convention, the Expo is the only event of its kind, each year bringing together more than 90 galleries, radio stations, recording studios, performance troupes, schools, nonprofits, small businesses and service groups to meet the community, share resources, and cultivate the arts from the grassroots up.


How Much?
$2 suggested donation -- no one turned away for lack of funds.

When?
Saturday, September 10, 2005, 11:00 am-6:00 pm

Where?
SomArts Gallery, 934 Brannan St. (x 8th St.), San Francisco CA 94103

Word For/ Word: A Journal of New Writing

Please visit this important online journal for new writing...
Word for/ Word

Tout-Fait: Marcel Duchamp Studies Online journal

Tout-Fait: Marcel Duchamp Studies Online journal
In November 1999, CyberBOOK Press, the publishing arm of Art Science Research Laboratory, a 501(3)(c) not-for-profit organization, announced the arrival of Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal, the first academic journal in electronic format devoted to Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) and his peers. The term "tout fait," the standard French translation for "ready-made", was a phrase used by the French mathematician Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), whose influence on Duchamp was crucial. Thus, Tout-Fait not only represents the intersection between art and science, but serves as a site promoting the interdisciplinary study across diverse fields of scholarship.

Tout-Fait brings together international scholars and writers from art and science backgrounds and many other fields of study. An interdisciplinary project, Tout-Fait is committed to presenting a variety of news features, articles, interviews, and short notes relating to Duchamp, one of modern art's most important figures, and his circle of contemporaries. Without the restrictions of the print media, Tout-Fait presents an expanded field for art and science writers, permitting a fluidity of thought as well as form, while generating a dialogue among established thinkers, young scholars and the interested public.

Tout-Fait's appearance has received worldwide attention in the fields of art history and humanities, with a four-year visitor count of 200,000, and growing. Tout-Fait has become an intellectual asset with historical value for the study of modern art and culture. Its Internet presence also has proven indispensable, with its free accessibility and scholarly excellence. Beginning in 2005, Tout-Fait has transformed into a perpetual publication; the site will be updated constantly, with each new peer-reviewed and accepted submission, as well as with newly equipped features, such as extensive Search, posted Comments, daily News Headlines, and a virtual Auditorium.

A strictly not-for-profit journal, Tout-Fait is made possible by a team effort of writers, editors, programmers and web designers. The continuation of Tout-Fait relies upon the commitment of our readers and the kind support of contributors. We welcome financial donations as well as submissions of scholarly research and creative projects. To make a donation, please visit Help Tout-Fait; Help Scholarship . For submissions, please see the Call for Papers/Submissions page for guidelines.

The Seventh Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History

The Seventh Annual Graduate Symposium
on Women's and Gender History
"Mobility"
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 9-11, 2006
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2005


The Executive Committee of the Seventh Annual Graduate
Symposium on Women's and Gender History at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announces a call for papers.
The Symposium, which is part of activities on campus in
recognition of Women's History Month, is scheduled for March
9-11, 2006. To celebrate and encourage further work in the
field of women's and gender history, we invite submissions
from graduate students from any institution or discipline on
topics in women's and gender history that address the theme
of "Mobility." Papers or panels may address, but should not
be limited to the following:

? Performativity and the Body
? Cosmopolitanisms
? Boundaries and Restraints: Material and Imagined
? Intra- and Trans-national flows of goods and ideas
? Social Mobility
? The Construction and Experience of Public and Private
Spaces
? Globalization and Feminist Theory

We welcome papers on any historical subject that might grow
out of a variety of disciplines and engage diverse
methodologies. We also invite panel submissions consisting
of three papers, although each of the three papers will be
judged on its individual merit. In addition, we encourage
papers and panels analyzing the state of the field in
women's and gender history. Preference will be given to
scholars who did not present a paper at last year's Sixth
Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History.

We are pleased to announce that Jennifer L. Morgan,
Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender
Studies at Rutgers and author of Laboring Women:
Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2004) will deliver the keynote address
on Thursday, March 9th.

Presenters at the conference will have the opportunity to
publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume.

We have limited funds available to assist with the cost of
travel for presenters who have limited conference
experience. These funds will be allocated based on the
quality of the proposal and the distance to be traveled.

All submissions must be received by November 1, 2005.

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please
send five (5) copies of a 250-word abstract AND a one-page
curriculum vitae for EACH paper presenter, commentator, or
panel chair to:
Programming Committee
Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
309 Gregory Hall, MC 466
810 South Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801

To submit a paper or panel by email, please send ONLY ONE
attachment in Word format containing all abstracts and
curriculum vitae. The subject line of the email must
read "Attn: Programming Committee" and should be sent to
gendersymp@uiuc.edu. We cannot be responsible for
submissions that do not meet these conditions.

Panel submissions are highly encouraged to find chairs and
commentators best suited to comment on the work presented
and should include a one-paragraph description of the panel
as well as curriculum vitae for all participants including
the commentator and/or chair.

We also invite graduate students to serve as commentators
and professors to serve as chairs for panels. These
individuals should submit curriculum vitae to
gendersymp@uiuc.edu with the subject line: Attn: Programming
Committee.

For more information:
Please contact Programming Committee Chair James Warren at
gendersymp@uiuc.edu
Visit our website at http://www.history.uiuc.edu/hist%20grad%
20orgs/WGHS/index.htm

CFP: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ETHNIC STUDIES

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ETHNIC STUDIES, INC.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PROPOSALS

2006 NAES CONFERENCE
34th Annual National Conference
March 30-April 1, 2006
San Francisco, California
ETHNIC COMMUNITIES IN TRANSITION
The National Association for Ethnic Studies invites abstracts/proposals for papers, panels, workshops, or media productions from people in all disciplines and interdisciplinary areas of the arts, business, social sciences, humanities, science and education.

The conference will create a lively forum for the discussion of issues related to ethnic communities, including, but not limited to the following: Race relations in the Pacific Rim, ethnic voices in literature, art and music, coalition building, allied communities, transforming communities, transnational communities, pan-ethnicity, bisexual/transgendered/gay/lesbian communities, intermarriage, language, definitions of family, interracial adoption, hybrid and biracial communities of children, scientific communities, environmental racism and city planning, housing, racially segregated families, disappearance of ethnic communities through outmarriage, ethnic business ventures, community institutions, schools, ethnic military communities, *federal communities* (Los Alamos, reservations), ethnic sex workers and mail order brides.
Two-hundred-fifty-word abstracts/proposals should be submitted by October 15, 2005, which relate to any aspect of the conference theme, with the participant*s institutional affiliation and mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The abstract/proposal must indicate whether the presentation is an individual paper or a complete panel
presentation and if a/v equipment is needed. Complete panel proposals must include abstracts for each individual presenter.
All program participants must pay full conference registration and 2006 NAES membership dues.

Send abstracts/proposals to:
Dr. Maythee Rojas
Department of Women*s Studies
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-1603
Telephone: (562) 985-2604
Fax: (562) 985-1868
E-mail: mrojas2@csulb.edu

Deadline for receipt of 250-word abstracts/proposals: October 15, 2005

Streetnote: street music and musicians

Not Streetnotes.... but an exciting web site documenting the music of the streets

Streetnote

STREETNOTE


Streetnote is interested in addressing cultural and social concerns in the musical idiom. By bringing the street to the listener, streetnote tries to encapsulate an essence... 'a hopeful slice of urban life.'


streetnote is a genuine grassroots record label which educates the general public on issues from a point of view not often shared by the mainstream media.

streetnote is an empowerment project. It helps streetmusicians achieve a measurable degree of dignity and independence by giving them personalized and mastered demos of their work. Moreover, streetnote allows their music to travel to places beyond the streets they play in.


streetnote is a showcase for music and poetry, as well as a forum for streetmusicians in which to express themselves.

Hyphen | Asian America Unabridged

What is Hyphen?

Hyphen is a news and culture magazine that illuminates Asian America through hard-hitting investigative features on the cultural and political trends shaping the fastest growing ethnic population in America. We offer in-depth profiles of change-makers in our community and a glimpse into the world of artists and writers who are re-envisioning and rewriting what it means to be Asian American. Through balanced and incisive reporting and sometimes irreverent commentary, we hold a mirror to the enormous richness, contradiction, and vitality that define the Asian American experience to stimulate debate, raise awareness, and build bridges within and beyond our community.

Hyphen | Asian America Unabridged


Submission Guidelines

We're looking for writers who can depart from the predictable daily-news structure and tell a story well, with keen observations and strict accuracy. We welcome investigative reporting as well as literary journalism, thoughtful pieces as well as tongue-in-cheek ones.

We've got a bit of a split personality, so we want both fun and serious writing. As long as it's well written and solidly reported, we're very open. Bonus points if the story takes place in the South or Midwest. Asian America doesn't exist only on the coasts, you know.

We are interested in issues that affect Asian Americans, but, please, no Asian American Studies 101. We are also interested in tangentially Asian American stories, in quirky stories, and in stories about emerging artists rather than established ones. Do not send ideas about people and events in Asia. We cover Asian America, not Asia.

Absolutely no reprints, though substantially revised or expanded stories will be considered. And please, don't send us anything that uses the phrase "East meets West."

WRITERS

Send your query letter, three clips and a resume to editorial(at)hyphenmagazine.com. Or snail mail to:

Hyphen
Editorial
P. O. Box 192002
San Francisco, CA 94119-2002

We read each and every query, but we may not be able to respond right away. Please be patient with us.

Payment: Unfortunately, we will not be able to pay contributors at this time. This nonprofit magazine is a labor of love for all of us. Please accept copies of Hyphen and our gratitude.

HYPHEN DEPARTMENTS

Features: We want substantive, solidly-reported stories. These can be investigative pieces, or cultural explorations on Asian American issues, or issues that may not be specific to Asian Americans, but affect Asian Americans significantly. We'll also consider in-depth profiles and think-pieces. Politics. Business. Culture. Ethnography. No first-person. 1,500 to 3,000 words.

Redux: See something in the media that pissed you off? An ad, magazine cover or TV show that made use of stereotypes? Sound off here on all those "American Beats Kwan" moments. Or, were you surprised by a positive portrayal? We're looking for careful analysis, not rants. 300 to 650 words.

Policy Watch: Keeping an eye on the politics and policies that shape our everyday lives. 400 to 650 words.

Matter: News items about social justice issues, politics, arts, and pop culture. Can be quirky or serious. Also, pieces that explore trends. No first-person. 200 to 750 words.

Atypical: Brief profiles. Yes, there are Asian Americans who don't care about science and math! Interviews with artists, musicians, athletes, writers, actors, filmmakers, politicians and other people who don't have "Dr." in their names. 400 to 550 words.

Take Out: Cool stuff you want to take home. Zines, gadgets, boy bands, art projects and other stuff that rocks your world. 150 words.

Gifted: Art features and reviews. We're more interested in identifying trends and themes in books, zines, music, films, and performing arts rather than just giving a thumbs up or thumbs down. 400 to 750 words.

Sports: Searching for the next Yao Ming. Or at least the next story about our athletes, icons, personalities, trends and issues in the game. Please pitch sports that will be in season when we hit the stands. Bios, Q&As, charts, stories, news. 250 or 450-650 words.

Inner View: A personal essay. 1000 words.

Recipe: A step-by-step how-to on skills every Asian American should know. With photos or illustrations. Funny or tongue-in-cheek.

Dialects: The best in fiction, poetry and other creative writing. Contact claire(at)hyphenmagazine.com for guidelines.



PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ILLUSTRATORS

Hyphen seeks talented photographers, illustrators and digital artists to fill our pages with daring, eye-popping artwork to accompany our articles. Ideas for photo essays are welcome. Send us links to online portfolios and websites so we can view your work. Contact: design(at)hyphenmagazine.com

Or snail mail at:

Hyphen
Art
P. O. Box 192002
San Francisco, CA 94119-2002

Please note that we are an all-volunteer organization and cannot pay contributers at this time. Please accept copies of Hyphen and our gratitude.

Remain Human: The Slatter’s Court Project

Remain Human: The Slatter’s Court Project

at
Richard L. Nelson Gallery at the University California, Davis

Slatter’s Court started life as a motel serving the old Lincoln Highway. The auto camp closed and a community emerged even though (make that because) this remained a place of transition.

Slatter’s probably qualifies as a “heterotopia”—a counter-arrangement within the “normal” organization of a studiously normal town. Slatter’s accommodates people who don’t match the norms of college-town living; Slatter’s residents are pretty typical Californians.

Slatter’s Court casts a little shade in California’s sunny expanse of property development. Californians bypassed by the Equity Rush have to live somewhere, and some are comfortable with this. As the Slatter’s Court documentary project asks what criteria are employed when somewhere is officially designated “blight,” it gently levers the lid on the conservatism of a liberal town (liberal ordinariness is an exclusive commodity in California). Compassion shouldn’t come into a discussion of Slatter’s fate: cut Slatter’s, and the City of Davis cuts itself.

All representations are artificial, but I think the Slatter’s project does the most honest job possible. It avoids the “heroism” that besets many artistic adventures into urban activism. The organizers collected the pictures, thoughts and biographies of other residents as though they were postcards to send to the rest of town. Then they edged them into the public realm by opening a show (no guest list, lots of Slatter’s people) at a disused Slatter’s bike shop, co-opted for the occasion as a gallery.

To a great extent places exist through their representation. Looking at this show, even the residents of Slatter’s Court might have been startled to witness Slatter’s existence. This documentation affirms that Slatter’s Court is a close neighbor, physically and figuratively, to the center of town.

Simon Sadler is Associate Professor of Architectural and Urban History, University of California, Davis.

Richard L. Nelson Gallery

Herring Award

The PACIFIC COAST COUNCIL ON LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 2005 Conference
NOVEMBER 3-5, 2005
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Hosted by Loyola Marymount University

The Latin American Struggle for Justice:
Yesterday and Today
(La Lucha Latinoamericana por La Justicia: Ayer y Hoy)

The Hubert Herring Award
This award recognizes outstanding work on Latin America in each of the following categories:
non-fiction book
article
Ph.D. dissertation
M.A. thesis
and non-print media (such as video, film, painting, etc.)
The material must have been published between January 2003 and June 2005.
Please note that no award will be given in a category with less than three submissions. Co-awards are also possible.
Award certificates will be presented at the Conference luncheon.

The author must reside or be based in the PCCLAS geographical area that consists of the Pacific Coast states and provinces of Canada, the U.S., and Mexico, but also includes Nevada and Arizona.

Entries in all categories should be mailed no later
than September 10, 2005 to:

Dr. Robert Kirkland
Department of History
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, CA 91711-6400
Email: robert.kirkland@claremontmckenna.edu

For more information on the conference, kindly contact
Dr. Ernesto Sweeney, S.J. (esweeney@lmu.edu)

Career Waitresses - Rethinking Work and Identity

CAREER WAITRESSES: RETHINKING WORK & IDENTITY is a multimedia project that profiles some of the healthiest, most independent and vibrant women in the U.S. Most of these waitresses are 50-83 years old and have worked in the same restaurant for up to 55 years. Despite the social stigma attached to 'just being a waitress,' this project honors the hardworking women who have raced to our tables, quarreled with the cooks and brought meaning to the American Roadside dining experience.

Career Waitresses - Rethinking Work and Identity

Wiyot Sacred Site Project on Indian Island

Near Eureka, CA in 1860, whites massacred women and children of the Wiyot people in three separate incidents. Today the Wiyots are working to restore their culture and bring the world back in balance-- find out how you can help.

Wiyot Sacred Site Project

CeMoRe: Centre for Mobilities Research: Lancaster University

The study of 'mobilities' is a newly emerging interdisciplinary field in which Lancaster University is developing particular strengths. The concept of 'mobilities' encompasses both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as the more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public space, and the travel of material things within everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility, have elicited a number of new research initiatives for understanding the connections between these diverse mobilities.

CeMoRe

CFP: Asian American Lit and Postcolonial Theory

We are seeking essays for an edited collection on "Asian American Literature and Postcolonial Theory," which should be both an exploration and a mapping of the debates around these two terms and their corollaries. Such corollary debates have erupted over the use of terms such as diaspora, cultural memory, racial melancholy and trauma, nationalism, ethnicity, and hybridity in Asian American cultural critique. Essays that consider these genealogies and/or question the usefulness of theories derived from colonial and postcolonial discourse are especially welcome. Also of interest would be specific author, period, regional, national, and textual studies that appropriate the tools of postcolonial theory or consider the inadequacy of such tools for Asian American contexts. We are concerned with the interdisciplinary dimensions of these debates in Asian American literature for ethnic studies, history, other cultural production, and political activism and theory. As the revision and updating of an established project, the collection has solid publication potential and interest.

Abstracts, proposals, and inquiries are welcome asap and before Sept. 1,
2005; email preferred. Submissions of 20-30 pg. manuscripts with brief CV
by Dec. 31, 2005, via Word attachment.

Contacts:

Wenxin Li, Ph.D.
English Department
Suffolk Community College
The State University of New York
wli79@yahoo.com

Katherine Sugg
Department of English
Central Connecticut State University

Critical Realism in Contemporary Art: around Allan Sekula's photography

Critical Realism in Contemporary Art: around Allan Sekula's photography
Leuven, Belgium
2-4 September 2005

Nineteenth century social realist thought translated itself into a
figurative-realistic painting and sculpture of which Constantin Meunier was one of the greatest exponents in Belgium. The Meunier exhibition that takes place from April to September 2005 in Leuven under the title "Meunier, a dialogue. Contemporary art meets Constantin Meunier in Leuven" is open to the grand public but also has a stong research aspect [organisation Stedelijk Museum in cooperation with K.U.Leuven]. Through the confrontation
between Meuniers work and contemporary visual art this exhibition has the ambition to discover how new forms of social realism are present in the current art field. It shows that photography today has taken over several key functions from the traditional artistic disciplines. This is particularly the case for the work of the American artist and critic Allan Sekula. His body of work is widely considered the most important international representative of what can be labelled as critical realism. In 2005 Sekula exhibits on a regular basis in Leuven, next to other artists such as Sven 't Jolle and Vincent Meessen.

The symposium attempts to create a dialogue between artistic researchers and theorists. One of its most central topics will be the possibility to (re)invent a socio-critical art in a globalised visual culture. Do the visual arts still have the potential to critically question the socio-political reality of today? Allan Sekula fulfills a key role within this discussion. He and other speakers will search a middle way in this dialogue.

Conference chairs:
Saturday: Hilde Van Gelder (K.U.Leuven)
Sunday: Jan Baetens (K.U.Leuven)


PROGRAMME

Friday September 2

18.00 World première of Allan Sekula's new film The Lottery of the Sea
[2005], accompanied by a keynote lecture by the artist


Saturday September 3

09.30-10.00 Opening Speech
Ludo Melis (Dean, Faculty of Arts, K.U.Leuven)

10.00-10.45 Postindustrial Topographics: Places of Labour in Contemporary
Urban Photography
Steven Jacobs (University of Ghent / Sint-Lukas Brussels)

10.45-11.15 Break

11.15-12.00 Photography: Seeing Time
Maarten Vanvolsem (K.U.Leuven)

12.00-12.45 "Painting through Photography". Critical reflections on the work
of Dirk Braeckman, Luc Tuymans and Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven in the early
1990s
Liesbeth Decan (K.U.Leuven / Sint-Lukas Brussels)

12.45-14.15 Lunch

14.15-15.00 Suspended Judgement: Photography in the Time of the Archive
David Green (University of Brighton)

15.00-16.30 Cloning Terror: The War of Photo Ops, 2001-2004
William J.T. Mitchell - Lieven Gevaert Chair Speaker (University of Chicago)

17.30 Official Opening of the exhibition of new photowork by Allan Sekula,
STUK by Denise Vandevoort (Alderman of Culture of the City of Leuven), Hilde
Van Gelder (K.U.Leuven) and Allan Sekula

18.00 Reception


Sunday September 4

09.30-10.15 Beyond compassion. How to escape the victim frame in social
documentary photography today. Some notes on the making of a
multi-disciplinary project on the situation of refugees in Belgium
Inge Henneman (Photomuseum Antwerp - Editor in chief Fotomuseum Magazine)

10.15-11.00 Depicting the Contemporary Artist's Studio
Wouter Davidts (University of Ghent)

11.00-11.30 Break

11.30-12.15 Against Affirmative Culture: René Block's Appropriation of
Capitalist Realism
Catharina Manchanda (CUNY)

12.15-13.00 Horizontal Montage and the Subjects of Labour
Steve Edwards (Open University)

13.00-14.15 Lunch

14.15-15.30 Plenary Session 1: Debate on the historical impact of social
realism on contemporary art
Moderator: Hilde Van Gelder (K.U. Leuven)
Discussants: Allan Sekula, Steve Edwards, Inge Henneman, Steven Jacobs, Eva
Brems (University of Ghent) and Frits Gierstberg (Photomuseum Rotterdam)

16.00-17.15 Plenary Session 2: Debate on the theoretical aspects of critical
realism today
Moderator: Jan Baetens (K.U.Leuven)
Discussants: William J.T. Mitchell, David Green, Wouter Davidts, Catharina
Manchanda, Liesbeth Decan and Maarten Vanvolsem

17.15 -17.30 Concluding remarks by Hilde Van Gelder

___________________________________________

REGISTRATION
Entrance is free. Please register by sending an e-mail to:
rein.desle@arts.kuleuven.be

CONFERENCE BROCHURE
http://www.lievengevaertcentre.be/symposium_sekula.pdf

ORGANISATION
Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography and Visual Studies
[KULeuven]. For more information: rein.desle@arts.kuleuven.be or 32 (0)16
32 48 79.

WHAT COMES AFTER: CITIES, ART AND RECOVERY

WHAT COMES AFTER: CITIES, ART AND RECOVERY
An International Summit
September 8-11, 2005

How do people make sense of their daily lives after catastrophe? How do art
and culture return meaning to places of devastation? How have artists
contributed to renewal, hope, and reconciliation while insisting on
remembrance? Over three days of roundtable discussions, performances, films,
and arts installations in all media, Cities, Art and Recovery will consider
how people remember and rebuild after tragedy and how the arts have been
crucial to such recovery.

Join Lower Manhattan Cultural Council this September 8-11 in the first of
two international summits focused on the arts and culture after catastrophe.
Artists, performers, writers, architects, lawyers, scholars, activists,
community and political leaders from a range of contexts that have been
directly affected and transformed by violence will gather in downtown
Manhattan in a public exchange of stories, strategies, ideas and memories.
Over three days of roundtable discussions, performances, films, and arts
installations in all media, Cities, Art and Recovery will consider how
people remember and rebuild after tragedy and how the arts have been crucial
to such recovery.


Roundtables:
The Design of Recovery
What are the political and aesthetic challenges of rebuilding after
disaster? How do architects and planners balance utilitarian, economic and
technological issues against those of environment, cultural heritage and
local practice?

Afterword: The Language of Recovery
What are the demands placed on language and writing by disaster? How does
writing after catastrophe work as advocacy, witness, mirror, mourning, elegy
or indictment?

The Arts of Emergency
How are artists provoked by the mechanisms of destruction and terror? How
does photography, painting and performance intervene to restore face and
voice, expose the erasures of history and demand recognition?

Revenge, Reparation, Reconciliation
How can artistic media be used by formerly hostile groups to reconcile
opposing points of view, recognize divergent historical narratives and
promote trust? What cultural strategies do advocates, jurists and activists
employ to effect accountability and foster healing?

Remembrance, Repetition, Residue
What is the relationship of memory and forgetting to the recovery of daily
life after trauma? How are the arts of memory - museums, memorials,
archives - sentinels of the future?

The Arts of Possibility
Can cultural and symbolic forms help to imagine a future while always
remembering the past and mourning loss? Can artistic strategies serve as
antidotes to revenge, sorrow and despair to restore hope, encourage safety,
and return the promise of tomorrow?


Schedule:
Thursday, September 8
6:00 pm Opening Reception
8:00 pm Performance: Diamanda Galas Defixiones (NY Premiere)

Friday, September 9
9:00 am Keynote Breakfast
10:30 am Arts Tours: What Comes After
2:00 pm Roundtable: The Design of Recovery
4:30 pm Homage to Susan Sontag
7:30 pm Film screening

Saturday, September 10
9:00 am Keynote Breakfast: United Nations speaker
10:15 am Roundtable: Afterword: The Language of Recovery
1:30 pm Roundtable: The Arts of Emergency
3:45 pm Homage to Edward Said
4:30 pm Roundtable: Revenge, Reparation, Reconciliation
7:30 pm Film screening
8:00 pm Performance: Diamanda Galas Defixiones

Sunday, September 11
9:00 am Keynote Breakfast
10:15 am Roundtable: Remembrance, Repetition, Residue
Remembrance of 9/11: Performance/Readings
3:00 pm Roundtable: The Arts of Possibility
9:00 pm Performance: Political Cabaret, Joe's Pub
11:00 pm Closing party: Joe's Pub

Registration information announced on August 22, 2005.

For details and additional programming, visit www.lmcc.net/recovery

Contact:
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
120 Broadway
31 Floor
New York NY 10271

Chris Jordan

Check out the work of Chris Jordan
He was featured this Sunday in the NYT.
ARTS / ART & DESIGN | July 24, 2005
A Great Big Beautiful Pile of Junk
By PHILIP GEFTER (NYT) News

Here is a statement from his website.

As I explore around our country’s industrial yards and waste facilities, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, I find evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress. I am appalled by these scenes, yet also drawn into them with awe and fascination. The immense scale of our consumption can appear desolate, macabre, oddly comical, full of irony, even strangely beautiful; for me its consistent feature is a staggering complexity. Perhaps our vast piles of junk can serve as visual metaphors for the difficult questions that we Americans face as the earth's most voracious resource gluttons. Chris Jordan

Tim Edensor - British Industrial Ruins

In the past three decades of the 20th century, the Western world has witnessed massive industrial restructuring. New service and information technology industries have replaced the old heavy industries which saw countries such as Britain, workshop of the world and home of the industrial revolution, export its products worldwide. The buildings which house these new industries – the large retail sheds and factory units on new industrial estates – are replacing the often capacious stone and brick-built factories and warehouses which accommodated the assembly lines of mass production. These structures, nestling alongside railways and canals, are suddenly obsolete. Very often they are quickly demolished or converted into upmarket living spaces for the new middle classes, ironically the very personnel who work in the new cultural, service and information industries which are replacing the manufacturing production which was housed in the buildings in which they now live. However, across the old industrial nations, many old factories are evacuated and then left to decay. In the old industrial districts of cities and towns, derelict mills, foundries, engineering workshops and storage depots slowly crumble into disrepair. Especially in those urban areas which lack inward investment to demolish, replace or convert such buildings, these ruins linger, thwarting the attempts of city imagineers and marketers to create new visions that might help to sell their city to potential investors.
Tim Edensor - British Industrial Ruins

AIDS in Culture

AIDS in Culture is an annual conference organised by Enkidu Magazine in Mexico City in cooperation with CENSIDA the national Mexican AIDS-organisation, CONAPRED (the national Mexican Anti-Discrimination Council) and ADETEA (the Association of Anthropology Students at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico in Toluca). In 2004 the conference was organised in CENADEH, the National Center for Human Rights in Mexico City. In 2005 the conference will be held in Puerto Vallarta on the Mexican Pacific Coast.
AIDS in Culture

E-flux

E-flux : About: "e-flux (electronic flux corporation)
is a New York-based information bureau dedicated to world wide distribution of information for contemporary visual arts institutions via the Internet."

Lineae Terrarum - Border Theory

UTEP / Research / Lineae Terrarum - Home: "Lineae Terrarum intends to bring together the most prominent scholars in border studies from around the world to converge and share their scholarship on borders. Considering that international borders, regardless of their location, share many similarities even as they maintain their peculiar idiosyncrasies, we deem that borders constitute a discrete area of scholarly and policy focus that deserves careful attention. Based on this consideration, Lineae Terrarum's fundamental focus is to examine current border research and issues within a global comparative perspective. In addition to the scholarly research stimulated by the Conference, Lineae Terrarum will offer an analysis of the policy relevance of today's border theorizing in an effort ot establish a bridge between border sholars and border policy makers.

Lineae Terrarum tiene como propósito reunir a los estudiosos más prominentes del tema de las fronteras, para generar un espacio donde se puedan exhibir los últimos trabajos de investigación sobre fronteras de todo el mundo. Considerando que las fronteras, donde quiera que se encuentren, tienen muchas similitudes, aún cuando mantienen su propia idiosincracia regional, creemos que el tema de las fronteras es una disciplina en sí y un área de investigación académica independiente de otras disciplinas. Creemos también que el tema de las fronteras merece un enfoque distinto cuando se trata de políticas públicas. Basada en estas consideraciones, la Conferencia Lineae Terrarum se enfoca principalmente en un examen general de lo último en el estudio de las fronteras dentro de un contexto global y con una perspectiva comparada. Es por esto que, además del enfoque académico que deseamos, pretendemos también construir elementos teóricos y planteamientos relacionados con las políticas públicas fronterizas para establecer un puente entre aquellos que estudian las fronteras y aquellos que hacen e implementan políticas públicas que afectan a cualquier contexto fronterizo."

Brujula CFP: Latin American Cities

Brujula is published annually by graduate students of the University of California at Davis, under the auspices of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, Brújula is an interdisciplinary journal with a focus on Latin American literary studies. This journal seeks to foster a dialogue between established academics and a new generation of scholars, while including original essays from a variety of fields such as linguistics, anthropology, history, native american studies, comparative literature, art, music, spanish, and sociology. With each issue, Brújula intends to highlight a theme of relevance in current debates and to create a forum that explores transnational perspectives to critical approaches.

Bajo los auspicios del Instituto Hemisférico de las Américas y con un enfoque literario nace Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos. Abierta a la discusión crítica entre diferentes generaciones y líneas de pensamiento, el objetivo de esta publicación se concentra en la articulación de un eje donde trabajen en común distintas disciplinas como son Antropología, Historia, arte, Música, Lingüística, Sociología y Estudios Indígenas. Bajo tal premisa Brújula propone dedicar cada número a un tema de destacado interés intelectual con el fin de provocar la reflexión desde diferentes perspectivas tanto teóricas como transnacionales.

Publicado anualmente por estudantes de graduação da Universidade da California Davis, sob o auspicio do Instituto Hemisferico das Americas, Brújula é um jornal interdisciplinar com enfoque em estudos literários da América Latina. Este jornal procura manter um dialogo entre acadêmicos estabelecidos e uma nova geração de “scholars”, através da inclusão de textos originais de uma variedade de disciplinas tais como a linguística, antropologia, música, historia, arte, estudos indígenas e sociologia. Em cada publicação, Brújula pretende dar ênfase a um tema de relevância em debates atuais e criar um fórum que explore perspectivas transnacionais de analise critica.

Brujula

CALL for PAPERs

LATIN AMERICAN CITIES

Call for Submissions: Latin American Cities

The fifth issue of Brújula will be devoted to the study of Latin American cities. We will consider for publication manuscripts that analyze the idea of the city from either historical, mythical or imaginary perspectives, as well as those that deal with the urban experience and its social, political, economic and cultural manifestations. Brújula is especially interested in submissions from diverse disciplines that examine the expression of the margin/periphery in the center and from pre-colonial times until today. Please submit materials to submitbrujula@ucdavis.edu by January 6, 2006.

Submissions:
Please submit your essay with a cover letter that includes a brief (50-75 word) professional statement (with your name, academic affiliation, and standing [graduate student, doctoral candidate, assistant professor], institution, research interests, and/or a few relevant publications) the title of your paper as well as a 100-word abstract.

_Brújula_ is a peer-reviewed journal that favors anonymity in the process of selection. Therefore we ask that essays be submitted without names. Names and e-mail addresses should appear on cover letter and envelopes only.

Essays may be written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese. Papers are limited to 15-20 pages, double-spaced, including endnotes and bibliography.
Send material via e-mail at: submitbrujula@ucdavis.edu. Use Microsoft Word 95 or higher. Or Mail 3.5" formatted disk (IBM or Mac) with document to: Brújula, Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8576.

We request that essay format follow the conventions of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing.

Tables, diagrams, maps, photos, and artwork may be included by arrangement with editors. Permissions to reproduce such materials will be the responsibility of the author.

_Brújula_ only accepts original contributions. Translations of articles or articles already published will not be accepted. Manuscripts will not be returned.


For more information visit us at: http://hia.ucdavis.edu/brujula

Claudia Darrigrandi
University of California, Davis
5206 Social Sciences Building
Phone: 530-7528535 or 7523046
Fax: 530-7525655
Email: submitbrujula@ucdavis.edu
Visit the website at
http://hia.ucdavis.edu/brujula/SubSections/Submissions.htm

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism - Conference 2005 - York University

Ecology, Imperialism and the Contradictions of Capitalism intends to take stock of the state-of-the-art in recent debates on the root causes of world-wide ecological degradation and the realities and possibilities of radical response. Radiating out from - but not limited to – James O'Connor's work on the second contradiction of capital and the broad range of debate in CNS, this conference wants to bring together a plurality of critical theoretical and political perspectives on the current crisis of societal relations with nature. Strictly cross-disciplinary in orientation, the conference intends to attract contributors in a variety of fields, including, but not limited to, critical theory, political economy, radical geography, environmental philosophy, and social movement theory. We welcome contributions to four broadly conceived subject areas:

1. Marxism, critical theory, and ecology
2. Ecosocialism, feminism, and environmental justice
3. Urbanization, ecological degradation and political ecology
4. Imperialism, world order, and global ecological politics

Subthemes are:
Marxism, uneven development and the contradictions of capital
Critical theory, the domination of nature, and societal relations with nature
The status of ecology and nature in Marx and marxism
Patriarchy, social reproduction and ecology
Feminist critiques of militarism, neoliberalism and colonization
Environmental racism and environmental justice, local and global
Dreams and Perils of global urbanization
Food, Hunger and urban-ecological reconstruction
Capitalist Globalization, colonialism and global pillage
War, globalization and ecological crisis
Neoliberalism, Privatization, and Green capitalism
Continental integration and comparative ecological modernization

After an opening keynote address by Maria Mies and panel on the contribution of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, and the work of James O'Connor, the conference discussions will centre on keynote speeches by invited guests and other selected participants. Activists and non-academic researchers, new scholars and graduate students are strongly invited to submit proposals. The conference will be held from July 22 to July 24 at York University, Toronto, Canada.

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism - Conference 2005 - York University

Poetry, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms:

Poetry, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms: From the Early 20th Century to the Present

This conference is part of the "Poetics, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms: From the Early 20th Century to the Present" CIRA project.
Friday, June 10, 2005
9:00 AM - 10:30 PM
UCLA
9:00 am-5:30 pm: Presentations and panels in 306 Royce Hall
7:45 pm-10:30 pm: Film Screenings in 314 Royce Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Sponsored by the UCLA Asia Institute, the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, the UCLA Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia, Chain, the UCLA International Institute, Palm Press, West Coast Line, and Xcp: Crosscultural Poetics.
9:00-9:30 Announcements and Opening Remarks (306 Royce Hall)

Prof. Walter K. Lew, English Dept., Mills College.
9:30-10:45 Translation's Role in East Asian Colonialism and Cosmopolitanism

"Heterolingual Love: Kim Ôk's International Affections" • Prof. Ann Choi, Asian Languages & Cultures Dept., Rutgers University.

"Treacherous Translation: Japanese-Language Theatrical Version of the Korean Tale Ch’unhyang-jôn (The Tale of Spring Fragrance)" • Serk-bae Suh, History Dept., UC, Los Angeles.

Moderator: Koichi Haga, Asian Languages and Cultures, UC, Los Angeles
10:45-12:00 Anarchism and Poetry in East Asia During the 1930s

"Advertising Tower: Anarchist Poetry at the Nexus of Commerce, Censorship, and Avant-Garde Art Movements in Prewar Japan" • Prof. William Gardner, Modern Languages & Literatures Dept., Swarthmore College.

"Anarchism in East Asia in the Early 20th Century" • Prof. Dongyoun Hwang, Asian Studies, Soka University, Aliso Viejo.

Moderator: Prof. Juliana Spahr, English Dept., Mills College, coeditor of Chain
Lunch
1:15-2:30 Other Internationalist Poetries of Resistance

"Apocrypha & Avant Garde: (Early) (South) American Strategies concerning 'Modernism'" • Prof. Heriberto Yepez, Philosophy, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana.

"'Blame Me on History': The Drum Generation and South African Modernism(s)" • David Buuck, History of Consciousness Dept., UC, Santa Cruz, editor of Tripwire.

Moderator: Prof. Ann Choi, Asian Languages & Cultures Dept., Rutgers University
Break
2:45-4:00 Histories of Internationalist Poetry and Reforming "Creative Writing" in the U.S.A.

"T/heres: What Pacific Poetries Might Add to the Teaching of Creative Writing" • Prof. Juliana Spahr, English Dept., Mills College, coeditor of Chain.

"Neoliberalism, Collective Action, and the American MFA Industry" • Prof. Mark Nowak, College of St. Catherine, Minneapolis, editor of Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics.

"Towards Decolonizasian: Integrating Pedagogies, Editorial Practices, and Cultural Organizing North of the Border" • Prof. Rita Wong, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (Vancouver),
editorial board member, West Coast Line.

Moderator: Prof. Walter K. Lew, Mills College
4:00-5:30 Readings of Poetry, Translations, Poetics

Nowak, Choi, Gardner, Lew, Yepez, Buuck, Spahr.
7:45-11:00 Films (314 Royce Hall)

Introduced by Prof. Vinay Lal, Dept. of History, UCLA, who will also lead a discussion session after the screenings.

A Night of Prophecy, dir. Amar Kanwar (India, 2002). 77 min. Documentary / cinematic poem.

The Poet of Linge Homeland (Penyair Negeri Linge), dir. Aryo Danusiri (Indonesia, 2000). 25 min. Documentary.

A Poet, Unconcealed Poetry (Puisi tak terkuburkan), dir. Garin Nugroho (Indonesia, 1999). 50 min. excerpt. Cross-genre, historical feature film.

For notes on the participants, updated details and web links, please visit the website:: http://www.international.ucla.edu/cira/Poetics_Pedagogy.asp.

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To keep up with Asia-related events in Southern California, visit the calendar section of the Asia Institute website. If you would like to receive a weekly email newsletter listing Asia-focused events, please send your name and email address to asia@international.ucla.edu.

Cost: Free and open to the public

For more information please contact

Walter K. Lew
Lew@humnet.ucla.edu
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cira/Poetics_Pedagogy.asp


Poetry, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms: From the Early 20th Century to the Present

Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed publication that mixes traditional approaches and contemporary interventions in the interdisciplinary humanities and interpretive social sciences. IJCS is published exclusively in special issues, co-edited by faculty and advanced graduate student "pairs" from across the University. The result of our unique combination of approach and editing is that each issue serves as a conversation between established and emerging scholars; a lucid engagement of theoretical and ideological divides, and the evocation of new shared paths in cultural studies.

Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies

On Voyage: UC Berkeley Tourism Studies Working Group

On Voyage: New Directions in Tourism Theory
October 7-8, 2005, Townsend Center for the Humanities
University of California, Berkeley



Organized by an interdisciplinary committee of faculty and graduate students, this conference aims to be a benchmark event for the study of tourism and travel, bringing together scholars from around the world. It will provide a forum to challenge the theoretical framework(s) of tourism studies, with the intention that interdisciplinary discussion fostered at such an event will give rise to new theorizations of tourism as an object of academic inquiry.
On Voyage: UC Berkeley Tourism Studies Working Group

Sociological Research Online

Sociological Research Online: focuses on theoretical, empirical and methodological discussions which engage with current political, cultural and intellectual topics and debates.

Sociological Research Online

Current Issue
Volume 10, Issue 1, published on 31/5/2005, includes:

The Memory-History-Popular Culture Nexus: Pearl Harbor As a Case Study in Consumer-Driven Collective Memory
Patricia Leavy

The Geographical Mobility, Preferences and Pleasures of Prolific Punters: a Demonstration Study of the Activities of Prostitutes' Clients
Keith Soothill and Teela Sanders

The Diversity of State Benefit Dependent Lone Mothers: the Use of Type Categories As an Analytical Tool
Martina Klett-Davies

Toys for Boys? Women's Marginalization and Participation As Digital Gamers
Garry Crawford and Victoria Gosling

The Digital Revolution in Qualitative Research: Working with Digital Audio Data Through Atlas.Ti
Will Gibson, Peter Callery, Malcolm Campbell, Andy Hall and Dave Richards


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Future Trends
Current Issues and Future Trends in Sociology: Extending the Debate in Sociological Research Online
Gayle Letherby

Sociology and Its Others: Reflections on Disciplinary Specialisation and Fragmentation
John Scott


Special Issue: Working Visually
Editors: Susan Halford and Caroline Knowles

More Than Words: Some Reflections on Working Visually
Susan Halford and Caroline Knowles

Kalighat, the Home of Goddess Kali: the Place Where Calcutta is Imagined Twice: a Visual Investigation into the Dark Metropolis
Erica Barbiani

Social Life Under the Microscope?
Monika Büscher

The Fabric of Society: Using Visual Methods to Investigate the Experience of Wearing Denim Clothing
Fiona Candy

The Photograph in Theory
Elizabeth Chaplin

Photography: Making and Breaking Racialised Boundaries: an Essay in Reflexive, Radical, Visual Sociology.
Max Farrar


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Book Reviews
Cyberstalking: Harrassment in the Internet Age
Bocij, Paul
Reviewed by Jody Mellor

The Survey Methods Workbook
Buckingham, Alan and Peter Saunders
Reviewed by Iain Lang

Accomodating Diversity: National Policies That Prevent Ethnic Conflict
Deutscher, Irwin
Reviewed by Timothy J. White

Media, Politics and the Network Society
Hassan, Robert
Reviewed by Javier Alcalde

Race and Social Analysis
Knowles, Caroline
Reviewed by Samantha Holland

Social Theory: the Multicultural and Classic Readings 3rd Edition
Lemert, Charles (Editor)
Reviewed by Melissa Dearey

Looking West: Cultural Globalization and Russian Youth Cultures
Pilkington, Hilary; Elena Omel'chenko; Moya Flynn; Ul'iana Bliudina; Elena Starkova
Reviewed by Harry Blatterer

Focus Group Practice
Puchta, Claudia and Jonathan Potter
Reviewed by Rose Barbour

Race, Ethnicity and Difference
Ratcliffe, Peter
Reviewed by Bertha Yakubu

Internet in Everyday Life
Wellman, Barry and Haythornthwaite, Caroline
Reviewed by Kris Cohen

Documentary Box

Documentary Box is a journal devoted to covering recent trends in making and thinking about documentaries. Four issues are published every two years in both hard copy and internet versions in conjunction with the biennial YIDFF. Documentary Box is indexed in Film Literature Index

YIDFF: DocBox: Contents

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

Life on the Streets and Commons

Life on the Streets and Commons, 1600 to the Present
Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts
Saturday, June 18, 2005

'Life on the Streets and Commons, 1600 to the Present' is a one-day
conference on street life and places of public assembly in New England. The
conference opens Saturday morning with papers on street professions as they
were practiced in the colonial and early national period, given by
specialists in popular broadsides, religious proselytizing, law enforcement,
and outdoor or tavern medicine. It continues Saturday afternoon with the
social and religious conflict that occurred on the road and in town commons.
It concludes with an assessment of meeting halls and displays of Egyptian
artifacts.

The Seminar is designed for educators, historians, collectors, dealers,
authors, and museum curators; students and the general public are cordially
invited to attend. Past Seminar Proceedings and publications by program
speakers will be available for purchase at the conference.

Selected and edited transcripts of conference papers will appear as the 2005
Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, which
will be issued about one year after the conference.


LECTURE PROGRAM

Opening Remarks

Street Professions

Purveyor to the Peddlers: Nathaniel Coverly, Jr., Printer of Songs for the
Streets of Boston
Kate Van Winkle Keller, Society for American Music

Street Religion in Central and Eastern Massachusetts before 1830
Peter Benes, Dublin Seminar

"I Never Used to Go Out with a Weapon": Law Enforcement on the Streets of
Pre-Revolutionary Boston
J. L. Bell, Friends of the Longfellow House

Doctors in the Streets: Medicine as Public Performance in Nineteenth-Century
New England
Anú King Dudley, University of Maine

Roads and Commons

Shakers and the Public Roads: Burdens and Blessings, 1780-1875
Glendyne Wergland, Dalton, Massachusetts

Commotions on Meetinghouse Hill
W. Michael Ryan, Northampton District Court:

"Fair New England": Displaying the Region at The Eastern State Exposition
Anthony J. Antonucci, Maine Historical Society

Halls and Taverns

>From "Bolshevik Hall" to Butterfly Ballroom: The Assimilation of South
Norwood's Lithuanian Hall
Patricia J. Fanning, Bridgewater State College

Admission 25 cent, Children Half-Price: Exhibiting Egyptian Mummies in Early
Nineteenth Century New England
S. J. Wolfe, American Antiquarian Society, and Robert Singerman, University
of Florida


ADVANCE REGISTRATION
Reservations are limited and will be accepted in the order received and must
arrive on or before June 10, 2005. Advance registrations
are refundable, less $5 handling, if returned before June 10, 2005.

Mail to:
Peter Benes
Director, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Boston University Scholarly Publications
985 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston MA 02215

Phone: 978/369-7382
Fax: 978/369-5962
E-mail: dublsem@bu.edu

Society for Humanistic Anthropology

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Ghost Town Webring homepage

Looking for something to do this summer? Interested in the mobility of capital?
Visit these fascinating ghost towns...
Ghost Town Webring homepage

Glass House Refractions

Buffalo Artist exhibit at botanical gardens.


Glass House Refractions

Michael Denning: at UC Davis

> CHSC Colloquium Series: Critical Knowledges after Neoliberalism- Spring 2005 presents:
>
> Michael Denning
> American Studies Program, Yale University
>
> THE RHETORIC OF CLASS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
>
> Tuesday May 24, at 4 pm in the Andrews Conference Room
> 2203 Soc. Sci/Hum Bldg.
>
> Michael Denning is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His most recent book Culture in the Age of Three Worlds is a trenchant and far-reaching analysis of "the cultural turn" in the humanities and social sciences that was forged in New Left social movements. Recasting the legacies of British cultural studies and the radical traditions of the American studies movement in a global context, Denning reassesses the legacy of the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture and charts the lineaments of the global cultures that emerged as three worlds gave way to one.
>
> He has taught graduate courses on cultural theory, social movements, and twentieth-century cultural history, and is currently leading a working group on globalization and culture. He is also the author of the author of Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (1987); Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (1987); The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997).

EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory: "

Wecome to the EServer Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Collection.

Cultural studies and critical theory combine sociology, literary theory, film/video studies, and cultural anthropology to study cultural phenomena in industrial societies. Cultural studies researchers often concentrate on how a particular phenomenon relates to matters of ideology, race, social class, and/or gender.

Cultural studies concerns itself with the meaning and practices of everyday life. Cultural practices comprise the ways people do particular things (such as watching television, or eating out) in a given culture. Particular meanings attach to the ways people in particular cultures do things."

EServer.org: Accessible Writing

About the EServer


The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works.

In today's world of corporate publishing, value is placed on works that sell to broad markets. Quick turnover, high-visibility marketing campaigns for bestsellers, and corporate "superstore" bookstores have all made it difficult for unique and older texts to be published. (Further, the costs this marketing adds to all books discourage people from leisure reading as a common practice.) And publishers tend to encourage authors to write books with strong appeal to the current, undermining (if unknowingly) writings with longer-term implications.

The EServer (founded fifteen years ago, in 1990 at Carnegie Mellon as the English Server), attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work, particularly writings in the arts and humanities. Now based at Iowa State University, we offer 45 collections on such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues. In addition to short and longer written works, we publish hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings. Our collections grow as increased membership has new works to publish with us, and as we teach new members how to publish works to the Web and to the more than million readers who visit our site per month.

EServer.org: Accessible Writing

a "Cross-Cultural Poetics " Radio

A radio show hosted by Leonard Schwartz on KAOS 89.3FM Olympia Community -- some MP3's available as well as typescripts.


KAOS 89.3FM Olympia Community Radio

Workshop in Buffalo this Summer

UB Department of Media Study to Offer Summer Workshop on "The Poetics of Movement"

Release date: Friday, April 29, 2005
Contact: David Wedekindt, drw6@acsu.buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-645-6775
Fax: 716-645-6929
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Department of Media Study will offer a hands-on, two-week intensive workshop to teach filmmaking and digital arts as collaborative tools for exploration of movement. Although the workshop will focus on the intersection of dance, theatre and the visual arts, this class is intended for everyone interested in learning to film the moving image and these workshops are often taken by sports photographers and others concerned with recording movement. No previous media making experience is necessary.

Elliot Caplan, Director of the Center for the Moving Image in the UB Department of Media Study will instruct the workshops. An Emmy Award-winning producer, Caplan served as filmmaker in residence at the Cunningham Dance Foundation from 1983 until January 1998, collaborating with Merce Cunningham and John Cage in the production of films and videos. Together, their work has aired nationally on PBS, Bravo, A&E and internationally in 35 countries. He also served as co-director with chorographer Michael Kidd of the Dance/Film/Video Workshop at the Sundance Institute.

The workshop will meet daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from May 30 to June 12 in the Center for the Arts. Students will learn the basics of camera operation, lighting, sound and editing as well as Caplan's own innovative approach to capturing movement on film. Students will be individually guided throughout the process and their work will be critiqued daily. The cost of the workshop is $600 and advanced registration is required.

For more information please call Kate Anderson at 645-6902 ext. 1494 or email andersoc@buffalo.edu. The UB Media Study Web site is http://www.mediastudy.buffalo.edu.
UB News Services

Call For Papers on Garbage

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence
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Seeking contributions for the 5th issue (Fall 2005) issue, to be sent by September 1st, 2005 (max length 5000 words).

This issue of the Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence seeks papers that explore the dynamic relationship between garbage and culture. In what ways have different cultures responded to the accumulation of garbage? In what ways do cultures manage, recycle, reuse, or store it? What, indeed, constitutes garbage? Papers may address such topics as:

Perceptions of garbage
Rituals of waste disposal
Politics of producing/consuming/storing garbage
Aesthetics of garbage and/or its management
Ideologies of recycling
Waste management policies
Production/consumption of green products
Literary representations of waste
Appropriations of waste spaces
Garbage and the sublime

Please visit their homepage for details
The Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence

squeaky wheel

squeaky wheel

Squeaky Wheel / Buffalo Media Resources is a grassroots, artist-run, non-profit media arts center founded in 1985 to promote and support film, video, computer, digital, and audio art by media artists and community members. We provide low-cost access to video and film equipment rental, editing suites, workshops, and screenings of independent and avant-garde film and video. We are supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Fast Track Program, Buffalo and Erie County Workforce Investment Board, New York State Council on the Arts, and Erie County Cultural. Also, the American Association of University Women, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, New York Foundation for the Arts, Experimental Television Center, Righteous Babe Records, CAST Grant Program of the Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture National Peer Technical Assistance Program, local businesses, and our members.

Hours: Tue-Thurs 1-7 pm, Fri-Sat 1-5 pm
Contact

175 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14201
tel: 716.884.7172
fax: 716.886.1619
office@squeaky.org
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Membership

As a not-for-profit organization Squeaky Wheel relies on its members to keep itself alive. Benefits of membership include reduced rates on workshops, exhibitions and equipment rentals, access to fundraising and exhibition opportunities for media makers, and subscription to our newsletter and media journal, The Squealer. For more information about membership, please e-mail us at: office@squeaky.org.

Xcp editor Mark Nowak to read in Oakland

Thursday, May 12
POETRY & STRUGGLE with Mark Nowak
AT THE AK PRESS WAREHOUSE

674-A 23rd Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Voice (510) 208-1700

Poet and labor activist Mark Nowak will read from his new book of poetry Shut Up Shut Down and will discuss the relationship between his writing and his labor organizing. Mark will be joined by several Bay Area poet-activists (including David Buuck and Dennis Somera), who will also read, and then participate in a roundtable discussion of poetry's role in class, race, gender, and other struggles.

ON THE BOOK:
Shut Up Shut Down is a riveting collection of poetic plays and photo-documentary poems that exposes the human cost of corporate greed and gives voice to the growing crisis faced in communities across America. Here's what the critics say...

Amiri Baraka: "We get a sharp eye, a literary and philosophical broadening of what used to be labeled 'working class poetry'...deepened with a hard but contemporary lyric and narrative....A much needed parade."

Adrienne Rich: "Nowak is a highly gifted and conscious artist, carrying, like the oldest bards, a group narrative which must be told if his listeners are to understand who they are and on what their lives depend.--and this, in our time, means all of us."

Dave Roediger: "Elegant and inventive...Songs and statistics mix promiscuously in verses deeply informed by a knowledge of labor history and an ear for working class speech. This is a work as powerful in its hope as in its indictment of misery."

ON THE AUTHOR:
Mark Nowak is author of the critically acclaimed debut book of poems, Revenants, editor of XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, and co-editor of Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings After the Detours. He grew up in Buffalo, New York, and now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he is active in the labor movement.

Visit AK Press

Center For Documentary Studies: Exhibitions

View the current exhibition at the Center For Documentary Studies at Duke.

Now On View at CDS

The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University teaches, engages in, and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative partnerships and extended fieldwork that uses photography, film/video, audio, and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life, and culture. CDS values documentary work that balances community goals with individual artistic expression. CDS promotes documentary work that cultivates progressive change by amplifying voices, advancing human dignity, engendering respect among individuals, breaking down barriers to understanding, and illuminating social injustices.

Boston Area Poetry Event

Hello Bootstrappers!

This is just a friendly reminder of the event we are hosting April 30^th. Much of the information is the same as the 1^st email and the hyperlinks should work. Note the addition of Clark Coolidge into the line-up of readers and for those of you that will be in Lowell during the day, there is information about a one day exhibit of Kerouac’s paintings at the bottom of the email.

We are hosting a Benefit at Evos Arts for our non-profit publishing adventure and would like you to come.

Where: Evos Arts 98 Middle Street, Lowell, MA 01852 978.441.9906

When: Saturday April 30^th 2005

There will be a gallery filled with artwork for your ocular enjoyment, many pieces for sale, a silent auction of fine art and random goodies, a full bar, a raffle, and some mood music. For those of you that are thinking that this might make a great date— public displays of affection are tolerated, especially slow dancing to soul music and random high fives.

Feature Artists include: Zippy Corning, Derek Fenner, Ryan Gallagher, and Kerri McGill.

The doors will open at 3:00 p.m. Silent auction and gallery bar will start at 5:00 p.m. Silent auction will close at 9:00 p.m. Winning bids will be announced shortly after.

We are also happy to present:

Lisa Jarnot

Michael Gizzi

reading from their work from 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Tickets are 5$. All sales help support our 501©3non-profit. See website for mission.

Information that might be helpful:

Doubletree in downtown Lowell, easy walking distance to Evos Arts. Will cost between $70 - $100.

Map of Lowell

Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL)

MBTA Commuter Rail. For those of you in Boston. You can get to Lowell from North Station, but the last train to leave Lowell for Boston is at 9:00 p.m.

Diamond Yellow Taxi Cabs 978-458-6861. Will cost less than $5 from the Commuter Rail.

One-Day Exhibit of Paintings by Jack Kerouac Description: The Whistler House will host a one-day exhibit of paintings and drawings by Jack Kerouac in honor of the recently-published book by Ed Adler, entitled "Departed Angels," that examines Kerouac's visual artwork in context with his iconic prose. Location: Parker Gallery at the Whistler House, 243 Worthen Street Handicapped Accessible?: Yes Event Contact: Michele Gagnon Contact Number: 978-452-7641 Contact Email: mgagnon@whistlerhouse.org Web URL: www.whistlerhouse.org Organization: Whistler House Museum of Art

Help us rid the world of illiteracy, soporific poetry, and sentimental art.

You can always reach us at the website http://www.bootstrapproductions.org/home.html

or at our personal emails: Ryan: ryangallagher@earthlink.net 617-851-1637

or Derek: theattacheddocument@earthlink.net 617-899-1167