Friday, February 24, 2006

Engendering Public Space

Engendering Urban Public Space

The Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research (PUKAR) Gender and Space project has been researching the relationship between women and public space for the last two and a half years. We are currently at the writing stage of our research and would like to share our observations and analysis as well as receive inputs from the experiences of others who have been working on similar lines. To that end, we invite researchers, activists, advocates, journalists, architects, pedagogues and others working in the area of gender in relation to urban public space to a roundtable discussion of questions of engendering safety, infrastructure and citizenship.

We refer to public space as a part of the public sphere. Public spaces for the purposes of this roundtable refers to streets, market places (across class contexts - that is including bazaars and malls); recreational spaces such as parks, theatres, restaurants, coffee shops; infrastructure such as subways, foot-over-bridges and public toilets; and modes of public transport including railway stations and bus stops.

What we are looking for are presentations of research papers / studies / explorations that have engaged with questions of gender in relation to space, particularly urban public space. Each presentation is intended to be not longer than 15 minutes to leave more time for discussion. Presenters will receive an honorarium but the costs of travel and boarding will have to be covered by participants themselves.

Please mail queries and abstracts of presentations to genderspace@pukar.org.in by March 10th, 2006.

Date: 12 April 2006
Location: Mumbai, India

Potential areas of focus could include:
a.. Shrinking Public Spaces
b.. Safety
c.. Questions of Morality and Culture-policing
d.. Sexuality and the City
e.. Woman-friendly design
f.. Legal concerns
g.. Policy related matters
h.. Infrastructure

For more information on the PUKAR Gender and Space project please see:
www.pukar.org.in

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research)

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

DoubleTake Magazine

DoubleTake magazine is back, with the same superb narrative writing, photography, fiction and poetry that made it a most original and significant magazine.
Take a look inside!

It's back as a bi-annual with its highly respected editor, Dr. Robert Coles, and its mission to pursue a kind of serious, patient consideration of the perspectives, visions and concerns of others.

It's back, now as DoubleTake/Points of Entry, housed in a university editorial office and distributed by a prestigious university press.

DoubleTake / Points of Entry has the look, feel and high printing quality of the old DoubleTake, and the premiere issue—Spring 2006—is available now from The Johns Hopkins University Press. (Table of Contents.)

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Bootstrap Press Tour in Bay Area

Bootstrap Press is holding three events in the bay area.


SUNDAY
2-19-2006
David Michalski and Andrew Shelling
Moe's Book's 7:30PM
2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, CA
510-849-2087

MONDAY
2-20-2006
Derek Fenner and Ryan Gallagher
Pegasus Books 7:30PM
2349 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA
510-649-1320

TUESDAY
2-21-2006
Open Forum on Small Press Publishing
Iron Springs Pub and Brewery 4-6PM
765 Center Blvd., Fairfax, CA
415-485-1005



please join us.

Loggernaut Reading Series / Updates

Visit the Loggernaut site. New interviews for Winter include:

* Journalist, critic, and novelist Pankaj Mishra appreciates Buddhism in the West, despises public intellectuals, and is heading to China.
* Novelists Sam Lipsyte and Gary Shteyngart meet for a beer in Queens and share their thoughts on historical novels, video games, anti-Faulkner snark, and that speech at the end of every high school movie.
* Genre bender David Shields assesses risk, hungers for "reality," and offers a taste of a forthcoming manifesto.




Loggernaut Reading Series