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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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