Word on the Street: Reading, Writing & Inhabiting Public Space
Peer-reviewed Collection of Essays to be published by the IGRS in
association with the AHRC-funded Research Training Network in Modern
Languages.
As the site of everyday social interaction, the street has always
provided a source of inspiration for writers from Chaucer's pilgrims
to Baudelaire's flâneur. Moreover, it has become the focus for
critical theorists such as Michel de Certeau in an attempt to push
the limits of textual analysis beyond literature and art towards our
daily experience of the world as a form of text we simultaneously
read and write.
In compiling this collection of essays, we wish to examine the
different discourses taking place within and upon the space of the
public street. Viewing this form of discourse as an action, we hope
to include a range of discursive and artistic actions which might
include, but are certainly not limited, to: architecture, sculpture,
graffiti, skateboarding, capoeira, parkour, street theatre, and busking.
Recognising that many actions of street expression are subversive, we
also invite explorations into whom these actions involve and to whom
they are addressed. The street is the site where identity is both
established and denied. We talk of living on a street yet the street
is a place where everyone is (potentially) a stranger. Moreover, the
street is the site where cultural diversity and difference is
celebrated in the form of festivals and parades and the battleground
upon which violent social struggles are carried out in the form of
political protest, gang warfare and suicide bombings. As such the
street represents the ultimate embodiment of the Bakhtinian notion of
carnival.
We invite proposals for papers from anyone working in the field of
modern languages (any language excluding English). Topics could
include but are not restricted to:
· Literary and artistic depictions of the street
· The street as a site of artistic and cultural production
· Inhabiting the street - skateboard playgrounds, the autonomous
subject, movement
· Theorizing the street - architecture, philosophy,
psychoanalysis, film theory
· The voice of the street - languages, dialects, discourses
· The topology of the street - drawing and crossing boundaries
· Street politics and urban warfare
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted in English by
5 pm on 7 January 2008. Those shortlisted will be contacted by the
end of January and invited to submit a paper. From these a final ten
essays will be selected for inclusion in the collection. An Editorial
Workshop for all contributors will be held in early July 2008. Please
note that the final paper should be no more than 5,000 words
including notes. All quotations should be accompanied by English
translations. Obtaining permission to use images in the final
publication will be the responsibility of the author.
Please send proposals to both Sophie Fuggle (sophie.fuggle@kcl.ac.uk)
and Elisha Foust (e.foust@rhul.ac.uk). Please include your full name,
email address and any institutional affiliation.
Dr Ricarda Vidal
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study
Monday, December 03, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Thinking After Derrida: Davis Derrida Day
The conference "Thinking After Derrida: Davis Derrida Day" will take place
on Friday, November 9th, 2007 at the University Club Conference Center of
the University of California, Davis from 10:00 a.m.—6:15 p.m. Hosted by the
UC Davis Graduate Program in Critical Theory, the event will include
lectures by Karen Embry, Martin Jay, Peggy Kamuf, Gerhard Richter, Scott
Shershow, and David Simpson. The event is free and open to the public.
on Friday, November 9th, 2007 at the University Club Conference Center of
the University of California, Davis from 10:00 a.m.—6:15 p.m. Hosted by the
UC Davis Graduate Program in Critical Theory, the event will include
lectures by Karen Embry, Martin Jay, Peggy Kamuf, Gerhard Richter, Scott
Shershow, and David Simpson. The event is free and open to the public.
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
CFP: The Street
THE STREET: The 2008 UC Irvine Visual Studies Graduate Student Association Conference
February 29 - March 1
In the most literal sense, "the street" denotes a passageway that connects various points in space. However, a quick catalog of the phrase in everyday language reveals that "the street" is a dynamic social and symbolic space, an intersection of public and private interests that are often difficult to isolate. For example, "the street" does not only refer to a thoroughfare but also denotes the place where one lives. This relationship prompts the phrase "my street," which connotes a community affected through ownership, and links its author to a greater metropolis at the same time that it embeds him or her in place as owner and agent. In this sense the street also represents the confrontation of a sense of place and the codes of public policy, thereby pointing to a larger interpenetration of the public and the private that lies at the core of this elusive space. In other instances the phrase transcends space altogether, referring instead to a mode of existence that is independent of site specificity. In this capacity "the street" is used to convey authenticity as in "receiving one's education from the street" or in being "from the street," a usage that usually implies an opposition to artificial or abstract representations of reality. While these examples make clear that "the street" often functions in opposition to a privileged class, it is, in practice, precisely that space which refuses class distinction by forcing interactions among diverse social groups. This interaction is itself as diverse as the space in which it takes place as one may address the street with the apathy of the flâneur or with the fervor of political protest.
We seek papers, projects, or organized panels from a variety of disciplines and approaches all of which address and expand upon the many layers of meaning that constitute this rich object of study. Please submit abstract (250 words) and c.v. to thestreetconference@gmail.com by Dec. 1, 2007 for consideration.
Fields of interest may include:
The 40th anniversary of May '68
Limits of 'the public' in a surveillance society
Public infrastructure and urban planning
Protest on the global street
Globalization and Wall Street
Benjamin's Arcades Project
Advertising and public displays of consumption
Homelessness and nomadism
Situationism and the practice of the Derive
Public performance and the choreography of the street
GPS, G-Maps and virtual negotiations
The simulated street of the Sims and Second Life
Car crashes, accidents and public fatality
Visual Studies Graduate Student Association
University of California, Irvine
thestreetconference@gmail.com
February 29 - March 1
In the most literal sense, "the street" denotes a passageway that connects various points in space. However, a quick catalog of the phrase in everyday language reveals that "the street" is a dynamic social and symbolic space, an intersection of public and private interests that are often difficult to isolate. For example, "the street" does not only refer to a thoroughfare but also denotes the place where one lives. This relationship prompts the phrase "my street," which connotes a community affected through ownership, and links its author to a greater metropolis at the same time that it embeds him or her in place as owner and agent. In this sense the street also represents the confrontation of a sense of place and the codes of public policy, thereby pointing to a larger interpenetration of the public and the private that lies at the core of this elusive space. In other instances the phrase transcends space altogether, referring instead to a mode of existence that is independent of site specificity. In this capacity "the street" is used to convey authenticity as in "receiving one's education from the street" or in being "from the street," a usage that usually implies an opposition to artificial or abstract representations of reality. While these examples make clear that "the street" often functions in opposition to a privileged class, it is, in practice, precisely that space which refuses class distinction by forcing interactions among diverse social groups. This interaction is itself as diverse as the space in which it takes place as one may address the street with the apathy of the flâneur or with the fervor of political protest.
We seek papers, projects, or organized panels from a variety of disciplines and approaches all of which address and expand upon the many layers of meaning that constitute this rich object of study. Please submit abstract (250 words) and c.v. to thestreetconference@gmail.com by Dec. 1, 2007 for consideration.
Fields of interest may include:
The 40th anniversary of May '68
Limits of 'the public' in a surveillance society
Public infrastructure and urban planning
Protest on the global street
Globalization and Wall Street
Benjamin's Arcades Project
Advertising and public displays of consumption
Homelessness and nomadism
Situationism and the practice of the Derive
Public performance and the choreography of the street
GPS, G-Maps and virtual negotiations
The simulated street of the Sims and Second Life
Car crashes, accidents and public fatality
Visual Studies Graduate Student Association
University of California, Irvine
thestreetconference@gmail.com
Monday, October 01, 2007
John C Mohawk, His Life and Work Conference
4th Annual Storytellers Conference honoring John C. Mohawk, his life and his work
Location: New York, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2007-11-01
Date Submitted: 2007-08-26
HNET Announcement ID: 157942
From March 28 to March 30, 2008 -- The Fourth Annual Storytellers of the Americas Conference will honor the life and work of John C. Mohawk through storytelling and through academic papers relating to the many and varied fields in which Dr. Mohawk worked throughout his life. This conference will be hosted at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, New York. We seek proposals for academic papers related to John Mohawk, his life, and work. Panels include but are not limited to:
(1) Iroquois White Corn Project, including issues of slow food, contemporary cuisine, farming, and native nutrition; Indigenous Stories within their own culture, including creation stories, ceremonies, and histories (2) Environmental concerns, including historical climate change, contemporary global warming, the effects on indigenous peoples, and survival advice offered by indigenous prophecies (3) Indigenous History, including government, law, resistance, land rights, and development; Modernity and the West, including the European projects of white supremacy, colonization, and domination by the sword, by the pen, and by any means available.
As this is a Storytellers Conference, we invite you to tell stories related to the above. Stories will be told in a special session, wrapping up the conference, on Sunday, March 30, 2008.
Please feel free to suggest other panel topics.
Storytellers of Americas Conference Organizing Committee c/o Nikki Dragone (dragonnd2@gmail.com); and, Amber Adams (ambermeadowadams@verizon.net); and, Ula Piasta (ulapiasta@yahoo.com).
Email: dragonnd2@gamil.com
Location: New York, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2007-11-01
Date Submitted: 2007-08-26
HNET Announcement ID: 157942
From March 28 to March 30, 2008 -- The Fourth Annual Storytellers of the Americas Conference will honor the life and work of John C. Mohawk through storytelling and through academic papers relating to the many and varied fields in which Dr. Mohawk worked throughout his life. This conference will be hosted at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, New York. We seek proposals for academic papers related to John Mohawk, his life, and work. Panels include but are not limited to:
(1) Iroquois White Corn Project, including issues of slow food, contemporary cuisine, farming, and native nutrition; Indigenous Stories within their own culture, including creation stories, ceremonies, and histories (2) Environmental concerns, including historical climate change, contemporary global warming, the effects on indigenous peoples, and survival advice offered by indigenous prophecies (3) Indigenous History, including government, law, resistance, land rights, and development; Modernity and the West, including the European projects of white supremacy, colonization, and domination by the sword, by the pen, and by any means available.
As this is a Storytellers Conference, we invite you to tell stories related to the above. Stories will be told in a special session, wrapping up the conference, on Sunday, March 30, 2008.
Please feel free to suggest other panel topics.
Storytellers of Americas Conference Organizing Committee c/o Nikki Dragone (dragonnd2@gmail.com); and, Amber Adams (ambermeadowadams@verizon.net); and, Ula Piasta (ulapiasta@yahoo.com).
Email: dragonnd2@gamil.com
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Join Network of Concerned Anthropologists
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The Network of Concerned Anthropologists (NCA) is an independent ad hoc network of anthropologists seeking to promote an ethical anthropology. For more information, write concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
--
Pledge of Non-participation in Counter-insurgency
"We, the undersigned, believe that anthropologists should not engage in research and other activities that contribute to counter-insurgency operations in Iraq or in related theaters in the “war on terror.” Furthermore, we believe that anthropologists should refrain from directly assisting the US military in combat, be it through torture, interrogation, or tactical advice..."
--
"
The Department of Defense and allied agencies are
mobilizing anthropologists for interventions in the
Middle East and beyond. It is likely that larger,
more permanent initiatives are in the works.
Over the last several weeks, we have created an ad hoc
group, the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, with
the objective of promoting an ethical anthropology.
Working together, we have drafted a pledge of
non-participation in counter-insurgency, which we have
organized as a petition (see attachment). We invite
you to become a part of this effort by taking the
following steps:
Download and print the attached pledge (in .pdf
format). Ask your colleagues to sign the pledge, and
promptly send it to us via regular mail. Our address
is Network of Concerned Anthropologists, c/o Dept. of
Anthropology, George Mason University, 4400 University
Drive, MS 3G5, Fairfax, VA 22030 (USA). If it is more
convenient, email a .pdf copy of collected signatures
and send it to us at
concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
"
See petition and details at web site at
http://concerned.anthropologists.googlepages.com/home
for more information and updates.
Network of Concerned Anthropologists span>
The Network of Concerned Anthropologists (NCA) is an independent ad hoc network of anthropologists seeking to promote an ethical anthropology. For more information, write concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
--
Pledge of Non-participation in Counter-insurgency
"We, the undersigned, believe that anthropologists should not engage in research and other activities that contribute to counter-insurgency operations in Iraq or in related theaters in the “war on terror.” Furthermore, we believe that anthropologists should refrain from directly assisting the US military in combat, be it through torture, interrogation, or tactical advice..."
--
"
The Department of Defense and allied agencies are
mobilizing anthropologists for interventions in the
Middle East and beyond. It is likely that larger,
more permanent initiatives are in the works.
Over the last several weeks, we have created an ad hoc
group, the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, with
the objective of promoting an ethical anthropology.
Working together, we have drafted a pledge of
non-participation in counter-insurgency, which we have
organized as a petition (see attachment). We invite
you to become a part of this effort by taking the
following steps:
Download and print the attached pledge (in .pdf
format). Ask your colleagues to sign the pledge, and
promptly send it to us via regular mail. Our address
is Network of Concerned Anthropologists, c/o Dept. of
Anthropology, George Mason University, 4400 University
Drive, MS 3G5, Fairfax, VA 22030 (USA). If it is more
convenient, email a .pdf copy of collected signatures
and send it to us at
concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
"
See petition and details at web site at
http://concerned.anthropologists.googlepages.com/home
for more information and updates.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Urban History Group Annual Conference
Urban History Group Annual Conference,
27-28 March 2008, University of Nottingham
Second Call for sessions and papers:
Urban Boundaries and Margins
This conference will explore the concept of boundaries and margins in
the context of the city. The theme is interpreted broadly to encompass
not only the identification of various types of boundaries - spatial,
social, cultural, economic and political - but also the
processes that help create, sustain as well as contest the legitimacy
and practices of such boundaries. This focus draws attention to the
differences as well as the similarities between various groups and
activities in the city, and explores how these could change over time.
Themed sessions will include the following:
Age and life cycle issues in urban contexts
"Them and us"; class, race, ethnicity, culture
Transgressing norms of behaviour
Shifting concepts of day and night
Marginal groups and practices
Spatial and architectural margins in the home and the city
Administrative and political boundaries
Public and private space
The representation of boundaries
Boundaries of conflict and boundaries of order
The conference committee invites proposals for individual papers as
well as for additional sessions. Abstract of up to 500 words should be
submitted to the conference organiser and should indicate clearly how
the content of the paper addresses the broad conference theme. Those
wishing to propose additional sessions should provide a brief statement
that identifies the ways in which the session will address the
conference theme, a list of speakers and paper abstracts. The deadline
for expressions of interest for sessions and papers is 30 September
2007.
In addition, the conference will also host a new researchers forum.
This is aimed primarily at those who are at an early stage in a research
project and who wish primarily to discuss ideas rather than present
findings. New and current postgraduates working on topics unrelated to
the main theme, as well as those just embarking on new research, are
particularly encouraged to submit short papers for this forum.
Graduate students can obtain a bursary to offset some of the expenses
associated with attending the conference. Please send an e mail
application to Richard Rodger rgr@le.ac.uk and ask your PhD supervisor
to also send a message confirming your status as a registered PhD
student. The Urban History Group would like to acknowledge the Economic
History Society for its support for these bursaries.
For further details please contact:
Dr David Green (conference organiser)
Email: david.r.green@kcl.ac.uk
Department of Geography
King's College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS, UK
Tel: 44 (0) 20 7848 2721/2599
Fax:44 (0) 20 7848 2287
27-28 March 2008, University of Nottingham
Second Call for sessions and papers:
Urban Boundaries and Margins
This conference will explore the concept of boundaries and margins in
the context of the city. The theme is interpreted broadly to encompass
not only the identification of various types of boundaries - spatial,
social, cultural, economic and political - but also the
processes that help create, sustain as well as contest the legitimacy
and practices of such boundaries. This focus draws attention to the
differences as well as the similarities between various groups and
activities in the city, and explores how these could change over time.
Themed sessions will include the following:
Age and life cycle issues in urban contexts
"Them and us"; class, race, ethnicity, culture
Transgressing norms of behaviour
Shifting concepts of day and night
Marginal groups and practices
Spatial and architectural margins in the home and the city
Administrative and political boundaries
Public and private space
The representation of boundaries
Boundaries of conflict and boundaries of order
The conference committee invites proposals for individual papers as
well as for additional sessions. Abstract of up to 500 words should be
submitted to the conference organiser and should indicate clearly how
the content of the paper addresses the broad conference theme. Those
wishing to propose additional sessions should provide a brief statement
that identifies the ways in which the session will address the
conference theme, a list of speakers and paper abstracts. The deadline
for expressions of interest for sessions and papers is 30 September
2007.
In addition, the conference will also host a new researchers forum.
This is aimed primarily at those who are at an early stage in a research
project and who wish primarily to discuss ideas rather than present
findings. New and current postgraduates working on topics unrelated to
the main theme, as well as those just embarking on new research, are
particularly encouraged to submit short papers for this forum.
Graduate students can obtain a bursary to offset some of the expenses
associated with attending the conference. Please send an e mail
application to Richard Rodger rgr@le.ac.uk and ask your PhD supervisor
to also send a message confirming your status as a registered PhD
student. The Urban History Group would like to acknowledge the Economic
History Society for its support for these bursaries.
For further details please contact:
Dr David Green (conference organiser)
Email: david.r.green@kcl.ac.uk
Department of Geography
King's College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS, UK
Tel: 44 (0) 20 7848 2721/2599
Fax:44 (0) 20 7848 2287
Sunday, September 09, 2007
CFP: Who Claims the City?
Who Claims the City?: Thinking Race, Class, and Urban Place May 2-3,
2008 Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Proposals from all disciplines are invited for a conference at Marquette
University exploring "the city" as the locus of social conflict,
representation, law, ideology, desire, policy, planning, and
imagination, all inflected by lived realities of race, class, gender,
sexuality, and movement. Possible issues for consideration include:
--How has racial discourse changed as a result of shifting patterns of
immigration and migration?
What role does foreign policy play in determining domestic urban
realities?
--How have education or the arts challenged or sustained ideologies of
privilege in American cities?
-- What is the relationship between racial politics and economic
globalization?
Please submit 250 - 500 word abstracts and a brief c.v. to
artsnscience@marquette.edu by December 1, 2007. Please include
"conference proposal" in your subject line.
Heather Hathaway, Associate Professor of English Way-Klingler College of
Arts and Sciences Marquette University P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI
53201-1881
(414) 288-5310
2008 Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Proposals from all disciplines are invited for a conference at Marquette
University exploring "the city" as the locus of social conflict,
representation, law, ideology, desire, policy, planning, and
imagination, all inflected by lived realities of race, class, gender,
sexuality, and movement. Possible issues for consideration include:
--How has racial discourse changed as a result of shifting patterns of
immigration and migration?
What role does foreign policy play in determining domestic urban
realities?
--How have education or the arts challenged or sustained ideologies of
privilege in American cities?
-- What is the relationship between racial politics and economic
globalization?
Please submit 250 - 500 word abstracts and a brief c.v. to
artsnscience@marquette.edu by December 1, 2007. Please include
"conference proposal" in your subject line.
Heather Hathaway, Associate Professor of English Way-Klingler College of
Arts and Sciences Marquette University P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI
53201-1881
(414) 288-5310
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
CFP: Oral History, Mid-Atlantic Region
Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region, in partnership with the Columbia University Oral History Research Office and the New York Public Library for the Performing arts, invites proposals for papers and performances for the March 14 and 15, 2008 Oral History and Performance Conference, to be held at Columbia University in New York City.
As one of the great performing arts meccas of the world and a vital center for community-based and grassroots oral history research, New York City is an ideal place to explore the intersection of oral history and performance. The conference program committee hopes to bring together performing artists, oral historians, and other practitioners in a multi-disciplinary conference that will highlight the diversity of work centered around oral history and performance.
Where oral history and performance meet lies an important emerging field of endeavor, with rich cross-disciplinary resonances across anthropology, sociology, history, performance studies, art history, public history, arts-based education, community development and many other areas. Performances, in a variety of genres, are a powerful means for increasing access to oral history sources and engaging broad audiences with diverse historical materials. Proposals dealing with the methodological and theoretical issues around transforming interviews into performances are welcome. This conference should also provide an opportunity to examine how stories are performed, in interviews and in other contexts.
The program committee welcomes proposals using multiple approaches, media, and theoretical frameworks, falling at various points along the wide continuum of paper and performance.
The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2007. See the Call for Papers and Performances for full details, available online at
http://www.ohmar.org/pastconferences/conf2008spring.htm.
Conference Program Committee:
Renee Braden, National Geographic Society
Jeff Friedman, Rutgers University
Susan Kraft, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Harriet Lynn, Heritage Theatre Artists' Consortium
Amy Starecheski, Columbia University Oral History Research Office
As one of the great performing arts meccas of the world and a vital center for community-based and grassroots oral history research, New York City is an ideal place to explore the intersection of oral history and performance. The conference program committee hopes to bring together performing artists, oral historians, and other practitioners in a multi-disciplinary conference that will highlight the diversity of work centered around oral history and performance.
Where oral history and performance meet lies an important emerging field of endeavor, with rich cross-disciplinary resonances across anthropology, sociology, history, performance studies, art history, public history, arts-based education, community development and many other areas. Performances, in a variety of genres, are a powerful means for increasing access to oral history sources and engaging broad audiences with diverse historical materials. Proposals dealing with the methodological and theoretical issues around transforming interviews into performances are welcome. This conference should also provide an opportunity to examine how stories are performed, in interviews and in other contexts.
The program committee welcomes proposals using multiple approaches, media, and theoretical frameworks, falling at various points along the wide continuum of paper and performance.
The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2007. See the Call for Papers and Performances for full details, available online at
http://www.ohmar.org/pastconferences/conf2008spring.htm.
Conference Program Committee:
Renee Braden, National Geographic Society
Jeff Friedman, Rutgers University
Susan Kraft, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Harriet Lynn, Heritage Theatre Artists' Consortium
Amy Starecheski, Columbia University Oral History Research Office
Monday, August 20, 2007
CFP: New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Call for Papers for Volume 1, Issue 2.
The Editorial Collective invites submissions from politically engaged
scholars that discus the linkage between their political engagements and
their academic work.
Papers should be no more than 3,000 - 5,000 words. References and citations
are to be kept to the minimum required to advance your argument. Articles
can be based in original research, synthetic reviews, or theoretical
engagements. We look forward to -in fact expect- a diversity of
perspectives and approaches that, while they may disagree on the
particulars, they will share with the Editorial Collective a commitment to
an engaged scholarship that prioritizes social justice.
New Proposals is a transnational peer-reviewed journal hosted at The
University of British Columbia in collaboration with the UBC Library
EJournal Project.
________________________________________________________________________
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals
The Editorial Collective invites submissions from politically engaged
scholars that discus the linkage between their political engagements and
their academic work.
Papers should be no more than 3,000 - 5,000 words. References and citations
are to be kept to the minimum required to advance your argument. Articles
can be based in original research, synthetic reviews, or theoretical
engagements. We look forward to -in fact expect- a diversity of
perspectives and approaches that, while they may disagree on the
particulars, they will share with the Editorial Collective a commitment to
an engaged scholarship that prioritizes social justice.
New Proposals is a transnational peer-reviewed journal hosted at The
University of British Columbia in collaboration with the UBC Library
EJournal Project.
________________________________________________________________________
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Beyond Signification
Beyond Signification - The Return of Reality and the Crisis of Poststructuralism
Appel à contribution
Date limite : 30 août 2007
Information publiée le mercredi 8 août 2007 par Bérenger Boulay (source : Jan Wopking)
Beyond Signification (Nach den Zeichen)
On the 7th and 8th of December 2007 the Department of Philosophy at Free University Berlin will host its second International Graduate Conference for Philosophy. This year´s conference addresses the recent comeback of concepts such as substance, presence and reality in and outside the Humanities and the crisis of poststructuralism that accompanies it.
Deadline: 30th of August 2007!
conference homepage: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs/
Call for Papers
Beyond Signification. The Return of Reality and the Crisis of Poststructuralism.
Today a growing number of people in the Humanities suggest that the times of poststructuralism have come to an end. According to them we concentrated on symbols, signs and discourse for far too long. Did we not thereby forget the reality of things? How do we account for the materiality of media, experiments, and writing? What happened to reality, substantiality and presence? This conference aims at discussing contemporary critiques of poststructuralism, its historical conditions, its impact on the present, and its implications for the future. Does poststructuralism really fail to acknowledge reality? How do we evaluate the emerging new theories that challenge poststructuralism? We would like to suggest three main areas for discussion:
1. How important are concepts like “reality” and “materiality” for contemporary debates in the Humanities? On the one hand there is increasing demand for the rehabilitation of a non-discursive reality; on the other hand there is a growing scepticism towards ideas such as the worldmaking power of discourse or the “free play of the signifyer”. In recent years this led to the development of new versions of cultural materialism. How do these conceive of culture and reality, of man and the world? What are their advantages and disadvantges and how big is their impact on the humanities? Do we witness a lasting turn form poststructuralism to cultural materialism, from symbol to substance?
2. Is the return of the real limited to academia or is it part of a more general shift that affects social and politial life as a whole? Outside of university, various discourses emphasise the constraints of reality. Consider the threat of global climate change and the diagnosis of a new age of vulnerability after 9/11. Can we identify a turn to materiality in such fields as politics, society, arts, and science? Are we faced with a paradigm shift?
3. Is it true that French Theory neglects materiality, and if so, why? Critics accuse poststructuralism of having forgotten or repressed the importance of reality and of having discredited thinking and writing about it. Others claim that these theories propose extraordinarily subtle ways of conceptualizing reality which are more adequate for an understanding of the complexities of the present. We would like to discuss various poststructuralist accounts of reality and we would like to speculate on the future of Derrida, Lyotard and Deleuze. Will they play a role in the debates to come? And what role could that be?
We invite graduate students and young researchers from all faculties to submit proposals for a 30-minute presentation. Presentations can be given in English or German; at least a passive knowledge of German is recommended. Free accomodation will be provided. Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words, accompanied by some biographical information, to:
Johannes-Georg Schülein (jgs@zedat.fu-berlin.de) oder
Jan Wöpking (jan.woepking@googlemail.com)
Deadline for abstracts: 30th August 2007
For more information see http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs/
Responsable : Philosophy Department FU Berlin
Url de référence : http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs
Adresse : Jan Wöpking Institut für Philosophie Freie Universität Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 45 10957 Berlin Allemagne.
Appel à contribution
Date limite : 30 août 2007
Information publiée le mercredi 8 août 2007 par Bérenger Boulay (source : Jan Wopking)
Beyond Signification (Nach den Zeichen)
On the 7th and 8th of December 2007 the Department of Philosophy at Free University Berlin will host its second International Graduate Conference for Philosophy. This year´s conference addresses the recent comeback of concepts such as substance, presence and reality in and outside the Humanities and the crisis of poststructuralism that accompanies it.
Deadline: 30th of August 2007!
conference homepage: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs/
Call for Papers
Beyond Signification. The Return of Reality and the Crisis of Poststructuralism.
Today a growing number of people in the Humanities suggest that the times of poststructuralism have come to an end. According to them we concentrated on symbols, signs and discourse for far too long. Did we not thereby forget the reality of things? How do we account for the materiality of media, experiments, and writing? What happened to reality, substantiality and presence? This conference aims at discussing contemporary critiques of poststructuralism, its historical conditions, its impact on the present, and its implications for the future. Does poststructuralism really fail to acknowledge reality? How do we evaluate the emerging new theories that challenge poststructuralism? We would like to suggest three main areas for discussion:
1. How important are concepts like “reality” and “materiality” for contemporary debates in the Humanities? On the one hand there is increasing demand for the rehabilitation of a non-discursive reality; on the other hand there is a growing scepticism towards ideas such as the worldmaking power of discourse or the “free play of the signifyer”. In recent years this led to the development of new versions of cultural materialism. How do these conceive of culture and reality, of man and the world? What are their advantages and disadvantges and how big is their impact on the humanities? Do we witness a lasting turn form poststructuralism to cultural materialism, from symbol to substance?
2. Is the return of the real limited to academia or is it part of a more general shift that affects social and politial life as a whole? Outside of university, various discourses emphasise the constraints of reality. Consider the threat of global climate change and the diagnosis of a new age of vulnerability after 9/11. Can we identify a turn to materiality in such fields as politics, society, arts, and science? Are we faced with a paradigm shift?
3. Is it true that French Theory neglects materiality, and if so, why? Critics accuse poststructuralism of having forgotten or repressed the importance of reality and of having discredited thinking and writing about it. Others claim that these theories propose extraordinarily subtle ways of conceptualizing reality which are more adequate for an understanding of the complexities of the present. We would like to discuss various poststructuralist accounts of reality and we would like to speculate on the future of Derrida, Lyotard and Deleuze. Will they play a role in the debates to come? And what role could that be?
We invite graduate students and young researchers from all faculties to submit proposals for a 30-minute presentation. Presentations can be given in English or German; at least a passive knowledge of German is recommended. Free accomodation will be provided. Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words, accompanied by some biographical information, to:
Johannes-Georg Schülein (jgs@zedat.fu-berlin.de) oder
Jan Wöpking (jan.woepking@googlemail.com)
Deadline for abstracts: 30th August 2007
For more information see http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs/
Responsable : Philosophy Department FU Berlin
Url de référence : http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs
Adresse : Jan Wöpking Institut für Philosophie Freie Universität Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 45 10957 Berlin Allemagne.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
CFP: Behind the Scenes, Between the Lines. Dis-Membering the Dark Side of Organization
First Call for Papers: Behind the Scenes, Between the Lines.
Dis-Membering the Dark Side of Organization
June 25-27 2008, Wortley Hall, Sheffield, UK
Conference Organizers: Garance Maréchal (University of Liverpool); Hugo Letiche (UvH Utrecht); Stephen Linstead (University of York); Torkild Thanem (University of Vaxjo).
Keynotes by: Professor Gibson Burrell, University of Leicester Management School; Professor Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney and AIM
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28 November 2007 (300-500 words)
Decisions on acceptance of abstracts: 18 January 2008.
Deadline for submission of full papers : 30 April 2008
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In this two-day conference, we wish to explore, track, display and dis-member the ‘dark side’ of organization. We are interested in the perhaps instinctual, impulsive, non organized and hidden dynamics that influence organizing, and especially its ‘upsetting’ part. Our aim is to confront the potential of the dark side of organization as an alternative focus for understanding organizational life.
We invite papers that consider such questions as:
- Should we talk about a “dark side”? How can it be defined and why is it conceived of as being dark? Can and should the “dark side” be suppressed? Can it be creative as well as destructive? Is an ethics of the dark side possible? Is there also a horror of “whiteness”?
- Are organizations no more than trembling aggregates of human flesh, violence, pain and/or desires? How can organization studies engage with the nature of the formless? Is aesthetics one way to recognise its negativity? Are there others?
- Does dis-membering mean more than taking apart? Does it require the development of new methods of study and how can they be generated?
Possible themes that papers might address could include: - Desire, sexuality, carnality, passion, sacrifice and the sacred in organization - Depravity, perversion and transgression in organization;
- Corruption, bribery, organizational crime, fraud, post-Enron issues
- Abuse of power, harassment, bullying, intimidation, extortion,bystanding, suicide, murder.
- Secrecy, espionage, disinformation, surveillance.
- The creativity of the dark side and the dark side of learning.
- Decrepitude, decay, terror and horror.
- Organized aspects of human tragedies and disasters – war, genocide, exploitation and displacement of indigenous people by “development” projects.
- Technologies of horror and the horrors of technology.
- The monstrous in organization and organization theory – including consideration of excess, waste, hybrids, chimera.
- The significance of illusion, including dreams; symbolism, artefacts and language of the dark side; simulacra, escapism, gambling, risk.
- Non-knowledge, non-being and the Inhuman.
- Phantoms, spectres, spirits and ghosts…..!
We also welcome papers that:
- Explore the potential contributions to the understanding of the dark side of organization of specific authors and movements outside the boundary of organization studies, such as: Artaud, Bataille, surrealism or recent approaches to the application of psychoanalysis (such as Zizek’s appropriation of Lacan, and the work of Laplanche).
- Develop approaches to formlessness: the rhizomatics of the dark side; architecture, thresholds, transitions, ectoplasm, clouds, mess, pneumatology; challenges of the formless to organizational philosophy.
- Attempt further to explore arguments advanced in Burrell’s Pandemonium
Papers and Proposals
We invite proposals for innovative forms of presentations as well as conventional papers; innovative forms can include performances, demonstrations of methods or techniques, and novel or unconventional utilizations of representational forms. Forms that unleash the dark side of individual or collective creativity (like the surrealists’ exquisite cadaver) and make it available for scrutiny are particularly welcome. Should your presentation require a timing or other resources outside the conventional format, please set out your requirements clearly. We hope to facilitate a wide range of approaches to the topic.
Registration
@ £275 per person (single) £220 (sharing)- includes all accommodation and meals from 2pm 25th to 2pm 27th and will cost . Accommodation and registration forms will be available in autumn 2007.
Garance Marechal
University of Liverpool Management School
Chatham Street
L69 7ZH Liverpool UK
Phone: (44) 151 795 3808
Email: g.marechal@liv.ac.uk
Email: darksideoforg@btinternet.com
Visit the website at http://slinstead.userworld.com/darkside/dsindex.html
Dis-Membering the Dark Side of Organization
June 25-27 2008, Wortley Hall, Sheffield, UK
Conference Organizers: Garance Maréchal (University of Liverpool); Hugo Letiche (UvH Utrecht); Stephen Linstead (University of York); Torkild Thanem (University of Vaxjo).
Keynotes by: Professor Gibson Burrell, University of Leicester Management School; Professor Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney and AIM
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28 November 2007 (300-500 words)
Decisions on acceptance of abstracts: 18 January 2008.
Deadline for submission of full papers : 30 April 2008
------
In this two-day conference, we wish to explore, track, display and dis-member the ‘dark side’ of organization. We are interested in the perhaps instinctual, impulsive, non organized and hidden dynamics that influence organizing, and especially its ‘upsetting’ part. Our aim is to confront the potential of the dark side of organization as an alternative focus for understanding organizational life.
We invite papers that consider such questions as:
- Should we talk about a “dark side”? How can it be defined and why is it conceived of as being dark? Can and should the “dark side” be suppressed? Can it be creative as well as destructive? Is an ethics of the dark side possible? Is there also a horror of “whiteness”?
- Are organizations no more than trembling aggregates of human flesh, violence, pain and/or desires? How can organization studies engage with the nature of the formless? Is aesthetics one way to recognise its negativity? Are there others?
- Does dis-membering mean more than taking apart? Does it require the development of new methods of study and how can they be generated?
Possible themes that papers might address could include: - Desire, sexuality, carnality, passion, sacrifice and the sacred in organization - Depravity, perversion and transgression in organization;
- Corruption, bribery, organizational crime, fraud, post-Enron issues
- Abuse of power, harassment, bullying, intimidation, extortion,bystanding, suicide, murder.
- Secrecy, espionage, disinformation, surveillance.
- The creativity of the dark side and the dark side of learning.
- Decrepitude, decay, terror and horror.
- Organized aspects of human tragedies and disasters – war, genocide, exploitation and displacement of indigenous people by “development” projects.
- Technologies of horror and the horrors of technology.
- The monstrous in organization and organization theory – including consideration of excess, waste, hybrids, chimera.
- The significance of illusion, including dreams; symbolism, artefacts and language of the dark side; simulacra, escapism, gambling, risk.
- Non-knowledge, non-being and the Inhuman.
- Phantoms, spectres, spirits and ghosts…..!
We also welcome papers that:
- Explore the potential contributions to the understanding of the dark side of organization of specific authors and movements outside the boundary of organization studies, such as: Artaud, Bataille, surrealism or recent approaches to the application of psychoanalysis (such as Zizek’s appropriation of Lacan, and the work of Laplanche).
- Develop approaches to formlessness: the rhizomatics of the dark side; architecture, thresholds, transitions, ectoplasm, clouds, mess, pneumatology; challenges of the formless to organizational philosophy.
- Attempt further to explore arguments advanced in Burrell’s Pandemonium
Papers and Proposals
We invite proposals for innovative forms of presentations as well as conventional papers; innovative forms can include performances, demonstrations of methods or techniques, and novel or unconventional utilizations of representational forms. Forms that unleash the dark side of individual or collective creativity (like the surrealists’ exquisite cadaver) and make it available for scrutiny are particularly welcome. Should your presentation require a timing or other resources outside the conventional format, please set out your requirements clearly. We hope to facilitate a wide range of approaches to the topic.
Registration
@ £275 per person (single) £220 (sharing)- includes all accommodation and meals from 2pm 25th to 2pm 27th and will cost . Accommodation and registration forms will be available in autumn 2007.
Garance Marechal
University of Liverpool Management School
Chatham Street
L69 7ZH Liverpool UK
Phone: (44) 151 795 3808
Email: g.marechal@liv.ac.uk
Email: darksideoforg@btinternet.com
Visit the website at http://slinstead.userworld.com/darkside/dsindex.html
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
CFP: Teaching the City
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE
Teaching the City
The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 - 10,000 words) and
media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. - 3,000
to 5,000 words) that explore the city in a variety of pedagogical contexts
and disciplinary perspectives-literature, women's and gender studies,
urban studies, architecture, anthropology, folklore, history, psychology,
sociology, art, photography, geography, religion, working-class studies,
ethnic studies, cultural studies, science, music, performance studies, and
others. Essays must focus on pedagogical theory and/or praxis.
Topics might include: teaching the city in K-12 and higher education;
defining urban space; gendering the city; the history and interpretation
of public space; globalization and the city; the politics of urban
education; intersections of race, class, and gender in the city; economics
and gentrification; environmental education; greening the city; community
and cultural identity in the city; representations of the city in
literature, visual, and popular culture; expressive forms and traditions;
post-industrial transformations; im/migration and transnational labor;
architecture and urban planning; building and re-building cities, public
history in/and the city; urban geography; urban sexualities, health and
the city.
Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.) and a 250-word abstract to:
Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, Transformations, New Jersey
City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey
City, NJ 07305 OR email submissions and inquiries to:
transformations@njcu.edu. Email submissions should be sent as attachments
in MS Word or Rich Text format. For submission guidelines go to
www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations.
Published semi-annually by New Jersey City University
Deadline: November 30th, 2007
Teaching the City
The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 - 10,000 words) and
media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. - 3,000
to 5,000 words) that explore the city in a variety of pedagogical contexts
and disciplinary perspectives-literature, women's and gender studies,
urban studies, architecture, anthropology, folklore, history, psychology,
sociology, art, photography, geography, religion, working-class studies,
ethnic studies, cultural studies, science, music, performance studies, and
others. Essays must focus on pedagogical theory and/or praxis.
Topics might include: teaching the city in K-12 and higher education;
defining urban space; gendering the city; the history and interpretation
of public space; globalization and the city; the politics of urban
education; intersections of race, class, and gender in the city; economics
and gentrification; environmental education; greening the city; community
and cultural identity in the city; representations of the city in
literature, visual, and popular culture; expressive forms and traditions;
post-industrial transformations; im/migration and transnational labor;
architecture and urban planning; building and re-building cities, public
history in/and the city; urban geography; urban sexualities, health and
the city.
Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.) and a 250-word abstract to:
Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, Transformations, New Jersey
City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey
City, NJ 07305 OR email submissions and inquiries to:
transformations@njcu.edu. Email submissions should be sent as attachments
in MS Word or Rich Text format. For submission guidelines go to
www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations.
Published semi-annually by New Jersey City University
Deadline: November 30th, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
CFP Perceptions of Space and the American Experience
American Studies Association of Turkey
32nd Annual American Studies Conference
Perceptions of Space and the American Experience
November 7 – 9, 2007
Hacettepe University
Ankara, Turkey
According to Michel Foucault, "space itself has a history in Western
experience…Our epoch is one in which space takes for us the form of
relations among sites." However, "despite the whole network of
knowledge that enables us to delimit or formalize it, contemporary
space is still not entirely desanctified…[it is] still nurtured by the
hidden presence of the sacred." Foucault's argument suggests the
intractable aspect of the concept of "space," which is constantly
eluding our grasp, and reverting back into the realm of nature and the
"natural." This conference seeks to fill the scholarly vacuum that
continues to exist with respect to space by removing it from the
domain of the sacred, questioning its conceptualization, and exposing
its manifestations within American Studies. We hope such a focus will
advance the interaction between scholars who have conflicting
historical and spatial epistemologies regarding the American
experience.
Space is difficult to quantify because it eludes quantification: it
comprises the celestial and the terrestrial, the infinite and the
infinitesimal, and being and nothingness, all at once. Despite its
indefinable framework, it has been a perpetual theme within the
American context. For example, in Call Me Ishmael, Charles Olson
takes "SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America, from
Folsom cave to now," and he "spell[s] it large because it comes large
here. Large and without mercy." On the other hand, it can also be
large enough "for all modes of love and fortitude," as Ralph Waldo
Emerson posits. Above all, it has a multitude of meanings,
encompassing unlimited progress and its discontents; the visual and
the invisible; the present and the absent; and as Foucault maintains,
the sacred and the desanctified.
The American Studies Association of Turkey invites proposals that
consider space, broadly conceived. We particularly encourage
proposals which incorporate transdisciplinary explorations of space,
and welcome proposals from any field of study.
Possible themes include, but are not limited to:
• Spatial Boundaries/Spatial Relations
• Outer Space/Inner Space/Interspace/Interstitial Space
• Walking Space/Living Space/Lebensraum
• Psychological/Mental/Physical/Space
• Private/Public/(Inter)Personal Space
• Environmental/Ecological Space
• Marginal Space and Agency
• Landscapes/Terrains/Regional Space
• Technoscapes/Cyberspace/MySpace.com
• Real/Virtual Spaces
• Urban Space/Cityscapes/Walking Space
• Commercial(ized) Space/(Over)used Space
• Heartland/Hinterland
• Theatrical/Dramatic/Performance/Performative Space
• Space, Time and Memory
• Travel Narratives/Space-phobias
• Sites/Countersites/Utopias/Heterotopias
• Subversive/Resistive Space
• (Non)violent Space
• Active/Activist Space
• Chaotic/Ordered Space
• Liminal Space/Zones/Boundaries
• Poetics of Space/Textual/Linguistic Space
• Space and the Body/Gendered Space
• Racial/Ethnic/Political Space
• Imaginary/Imagined Spaces/Geographies
• Museums/Ethnographic/Indigenous Space
• Classroom/Educational Space
• Modern/Postmodern Spaces
• Mythic/Sacred/Symbolic/Religious Spaces
• (Anti)Social Space
• (Sub)Cultural/Traditional/Spiritual Space
• Artistic/Musical Space
• Pioneering/Exploration Space
• Expansionism/Manifest Destiny/Imperialism
The time allowance for all presentations is 20 minutes. An additional
10 minutes will be provided for discussion.
We also invite submissions for an undergraduate student panel.
Proposals for papers, panels, performances, exhibits, and other modes
of creative expression should be sent to Tanfer Emin Tunc
(asat2007@gmail.com) and Bilge Mutluay Cetintas
(mutluay@hacettepe.edu.tr) and should consist of a 250 – 300 word
abstract in English, as well as a 1 – 2 paragraph c.v./biographical
description for each participant.
• Deadline for submission of proposals: August 15, 2007.
• Notification for acceptance of proposals: September 1, 2007.
More information (e.g., on accommodation and registration) are
posted on our conference website:
http://www.ake.hacettepe.edu.tr/ASAT2007
Tanfer Emin
32nd Annual American Studies Conference
Perceptions of Space and the American Experience
November 7 – 9, 2007
Hacettepe University
Ankara, Turkey
According to Michel Foucault, "space itself has a history in Western
experience…Our epoch is one in which space takes for us the form of
relations among sites." However, "despite the whole network of
knowledge that enables us to delimit or formalize it, contemporary
space is still not entirely desanctified…[it is] still nurtured by the
hidden presence of the sacred." Foucault's argument suggests the
intractable aspect of the concept of "space," which is constantly
eluding our grasp, and reverting back into the realm of nature and the
"natural." This conference seeks to fill the scholarly vacuum that
continues to exist with respect to space by removing it from the
domain of the sacred, questioning its conceptualization, and exposing
its manifestations within American Studies. We hope such a focus will
advance the interaction between scholars who have conflicting
historical and spatial epistemologies regarding the American
experience.
Space is difficult to quantify because it eludes quantification: it
comprises the celestial and the terrestrial, the infinite and the
infinitesimal, and being and nothingness, all at once. Despite its
indefinable framework, it has been a perpetual theme within the
American context. For example, in Call Me Ishmael, Charles Olson
takes "SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America, from
Folsom cave to now," and he "spell[s] it large because it comes large
here. Large and without mercy." On the other hand, it can also be
large enough "for all modes of love and fortitude," as Ralph Waldo
Emerson posits. Above all, it has a multitude of meanings,
encompassing unlimited progress and its discontents; the visual and
the invisible; the present and the absent; and as Foucault maintains,
the sacred and the desanctified.
The American Studies Association of Turkey invites proposals that
consider space, broadly conceived. We particularly encourage
proposals which incorporate transdisciplinary explorations of space,
and welcome proposals from any field of study.
Possible themes include, but are not limited to:
• Spatial Boundaries/Spatial Relations
• Outer Space/Inner Space/Interspace/Interstitial Space
• Walking Space/Living Space/Lebensraum
• Psychological/Mental/Physical/Space
• Private/Public/(Inter)Personal Space
• Environmental/Ecological Space
• Marginal Space and Agency
• Landscapes/Terrains/Regional Space
• Technoscapes/Cyberspace/MySpace.com
• Real/Virtual Spaces
• Urban Space/Cityscapes/Walking Space
• Commercial(ized) Space/(Over)used Space
• Heartland/Hinterland
• Theatrical/Dramatic/Performance/Performative Space
• Space, Time and Memory
• Travel Narratives/Space-phobias
• Sites/Countersites/Utopias/Heterotopias
• Subversive/Resistive Space
• (Non)violent Space
• Active/Activist Space
• Chaotic/Ordered Space
• Liminal Space/Zones/Boundaries
• Poetics of Space/Textual/Linguistic Space
• Space and the Body/Gendered Space
• Racial/Ethnic/Political Space
• Imaginary/Imagined Spaces/Geographies
• Museums/Ethnographic/Indigenous Space
• Classroom/Educational Space
• Modern/Postmodern Spaces
• Mythic/Sacred/Symbolic/Religious Spaces
• (Anti)Social Space
• (Sub)Cultural/Traditional/Spiritual Space
• Artistic/Musical Space
• Pioneering/Exploration Space
• Expansionism/Manifest Destiny/Imperialism
The time allowance for all presentations is 20 minutes. An additional
10 minutes will be provided for discussion.
We also invite submissions for an undergraduate student panel.
Proposals for papers, panels, performances, exhibits, and other modes
of creative expression should be sent to Tanfer Emin Tunc
(asat2007@gmail.com) and Bilge Mutluay Cetintas
(mutluay@hacettepe.edu.tr) and should consist of a 250 – 300 word
abstract in English, as well as a 1 – 2 paragraph c.v./biographical
description for each participant.
• Deadline for submission of proposals: August 15, 2007.
• Notification for acceptance of proposals: September 1, 2007.
More information (e.g., on accommodation and registration) are
posted on our conference website:
http://www.ake.hacettepe.edu.tr/ASAT2007
Tanfer Emin
Friday, June 29, 2007
Visualizing the City Resources
Visualizing the City Resources
Following the Visualising the City conference held in June 2005 in Manchester, we are now developing a series of resources relevant to this growing area of study. Information provided will include conferences, symposia, special research projects, key texts and other resources.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/film/city-resources.shtml
This site will be continually expanded and updated.
Alan Marcus
Reader in Film and Visual Culture
University of Aberdeen
Following the Visualising the City conference held in June 2005 in Manchester, we are now developing a series of resources relevant to this growing area of study. Information provided will include conferences, symposia, special research projects, key texts and other resources.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/film/city-resources.shtml
This site will be continually expanded and updated.
Alan Marcus
Reader in Film and Visual Culture
University of Aberdeen
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
RESEARCHING NEW YORK 2007
RESEARCHING NEW YORK 2007
University at Albany, SUNY
November 15 & 16, 2007
This annual conference on the history of New York State is an excellent
forum for scholars to present their work on any aspect of NY history in any
time period. This year work that examines the political history of New York
-- and it's influence beyond New York State is especially encouraged.
CALL FOR PAPERS -- Submission deadline extended to July 8, 2007
The organizers of the 9th Annual Researching New York Conference invite
proposals for papers, panels, workshops, roundtables, exhibits, documentary,
and media or multi-media presentations on any facet of the history of New
York State-from settlement to the present. Researching New York brings
together historians, researchers, public historians, archivists, museum
curators, librarians, graduate students, teachers, Web site creators,
filmmakers, and documentarians to share their work on New York State
history. The conference will be held at the University at Albany, State
University of New York on November 15th and 16th, 2007.
Full panel proposals, workshops, roundtables, exhibits, and media
presentations are encourages. Partial panels and individual submissions will
be considered. For panels and full proposals, please submit a one-page
abstract of the complete session, a one page abstract for each paper or
presentation, and a one-page curriculum vita for each participant.
Individual submissions should include a one-page abstract and one-page
curriculum vita. All submissions must include name, address, telephone
number, and e-mail address. All proposals must include any anticipated audio
visual needs.
For Researching New York 2007 we especially encourage proposals that explore
the varied and complex role New York State has played in American political
life. From the days of Newcastle's New York, when the colony was at the
center of imperial ambitions to the present when commentators are
forecasting a presidential race in 2008 between two --- possibly 3 -- New
York politicians, New York has profoundly influenced American political
identity. New York State and its people have helped set the tone for
political leadership and the development of public policy nationwide. We
invite paper and panel submissions that explore this rich and diverse
history from any perspective and in any period.
We prefer electronic submission to resrchny@albany.edu. Further details at
http://nystatehistory.org/researchny/rsny.html. Please contact us at
resrchny@albany.edu with any questions.
University at Albany, SUNY
November 15 & 16, 2007
This annual conference on the history of New York State is an excellent
forum for scholars to present their work on any aspect of NY history in any
time period. This year work that examines the political history of New York
-- and it's influence beyond New York State is especially encouraged.
CALL FOR PAPERS -- Submission deadline extended to July 8, 2007
The organizers of the 9th Annual Researching New York Conference invite
proposals for papers, panels, workshops, roundtables, exhibits, documentary,
and media or multi-media presentations on any facet of the history of New
York State-from settlement to the present. Researching New York brings
together historians, researchers, public historians, archivists, museum
curators, librarians, graduate students, teachers, Web site creators,
filmmakers, and documentarians to share their work on New York State
history. The conference will be held at the University at Albany, State
University of New York on November 15th and 16th, 2007.
Full panel proposals, workshops, roundtables, exhibits, and media
presentations are encourages. Partial panels and individual submissions will
be considered. For panels and full proposals, please submit a one-page
abstract of the complete session, a one page abstract for each paper or
presentation, and a one-page curriculum vita for each participant.
Individual submissions should include a one-page abstract and one-page
curriculum vita. All submissions must include name, address, telephone
number, and e-mail address. All proposals must include any anticipated audio
visual needs.
For Researching New York 2007 we especially encourage proposals that explore
the varied and complex role New York State has played in American political
life. From the days of Newcastle's New York, when the colony was at the
center of imperial ambitions to the present when commentators are
forecasting a presidential race in 2008 between two --- possibly 3 -- New
York politicians, New York has profoundly influenced American political
identity. New York State and its people have helped set the tone for
political leadership and the development of public policy nationwide. We
invite paper and panel submissions that explore this rich and diverse
history from any perspective and in any period.
We prefer electronic submission to resrchny@albany.edu. Further details at
http://nystatehistory.org/researchny/rsny.html. Please contact us at
resrchny@albany.edu with any questions.
Monday, June 25, 2007
CFP: Urban Culture
Urban Culture Area, Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association.
In previous years, the Urban Culture area entertained the city of the past, the city of the present, and the city of the future, respectively. This year, the Urban Culture area would like to explore the intriguing and intricate relationship between the everyday and the ceremonial in the city. Presentations about mundane, extraordinary, or scheduled occurrences, histories, and places are welcome. We seek historical or ethnographic studies of cities, poetic accounts of personal geographies through cities, and explorations of highly orchestrated or surprisingly improvised events in designated areas in the city. If interested in participating in a workshop on “writing the urban,” in addition to presenting a paper, please, indicate so. Former writing workshops focused on city places, city characters, and city food.
Please, send your 1-page paper abstracts and 1-paragraph recent bios as virus-free, Word attachments to Blagovesta Momchedjikova, bmm202@nyu.edu, by June 30th, 2007. This year, the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association meets in Philadelphia, PA, November 2-4th, 2007. For more information, check: http://www.np.ncc.edu/gazette/2007cfp.htm
Blagovesta Momchedjikova, PhD
New York University
Expository Writing Program
411 Lafayette, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003
bmm202@nyu.edu
Blagovesta Momchedjikova, PhD
New York University
Expository Writing Program
411 Lafayette, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003
bmm202@nyu.edu
Email: bmm202@nyu.edu
Visit the website at http://www.np.ncc.edu/gazette/2007cfp.htm
In previous years, the Urban Culture area entertained the city of the past, the city of the present, and the city of the future, respectively. This year, the Urban Culture area would like to explore the intriguing and intricate relationship between the everyday and the ceremonial in the city. Presentations about mundane, extraordinary, or scheduled occurrences, histories, and places are welcome. We seek historical or ethnographic studies of cities, poetic accounts of personal geographies through cities, and explorations of highly orchestrated or surprisingly improvised events in designated areas in the city. If interested in participating in a workshop on “writing the urban,” in addition to presenting a paper, please, indicate so. Former writing workshops focused on city places, city characters, and city food.
Please, send your 1-page paper abstracts and 1-paragraph recent bios as virus-free, Word attachments to Blagovesta Momchedjikova, bmm202@nyu.edu, by June 30th, 2007. This year, the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association meets in Philadelphia, PA, November 2-4th, 2007. For more information, check: http://www.np.ncc.edu/gazette/2007cfp.htm
Blagovesta Momchedjikova, PhD
New York University
Expository Writing Program
411 Lafayette, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003
bmm202@nyu.edu
Blagovesta Momchedjikova, PhD
New York University
Expository Writing Program
411 Lafayette, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003
bmm202@nyu.edu
Email: bmm202@nyu.edu
Visit the website at http://www.np.ncc.edu/gazette/2007cfp.htm
Monday, May 21, 2007
TOC for the journal _City_
City analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Volume 11 Issue 1 2007
ISSN: 1470-3629 (electronic) 1360-4813 (paper)
Publication Frequency: 3 issues per year
Subjects: Social Geography; Urban & Social Geography; Urban Cultures; Urban Policy; Urban Sociology; Urban Studies;
Publisher: Routledge
Selected:
Editorials
Editorial
2 - 3
Author: Bob Catterall
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701311776
Original Articles
Cities in the bombsight, cities from below: relevance of critical theory today
Introduction
4 - 6
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200672
Philosophy in the streets
Walking the city with Engels and de Certeau
7 - 20
Author: Sharon M. Meagher
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200722
Neo-liberalism on crack
Cities under siege in Iraq
21 - 69
Author: Michael Schwartz
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200730
Squatters and the cities of tomorrow
71 - 80
Author: Robert Neuwirth
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200797
Critical theory and Katrina
Disaster, spectacle and immanent critique
81 - 99
Author: Kevin Fox Gotham
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200870
Re-thinking the urban social
100 - 114
Author: Ash Amin
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200961
Debates
Urbanization in the developing world and the acutely tenure insecure
115 - 120
Author: Jon D. Unruh
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200987
Book Reviews
Reviews
121 - 130
Authors: Christopher Baker; Rachael Unsworth; David Beer; David Bell
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701201019
Original Articles
Is it all coming together?
Further thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (10) Spectres, spectacles, actors and actions within and beyond neoliberalism
131 - 140
Author: Bob Catterall
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701315785
ISSN: 1470-3629 (electronic) 1360-4813 (paper)
Publication Frequency: 3 issues per year
Subjects: Social Geography; Urban & Social Geography; Urban Cultures; Urban Policy; Urban Sociology; Urban Studies;
Publisher: Routledge
Selected:
Editorials
Editorial
2 - 3
Author: Bob Catterall
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701311776
Original Articles
Cities in the bombsight, cities from below: relevance of critical theory today
Introduction
4 - 6
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200672
Philosophy in the streets
Walking the city with Engels and de Certeau
7 - 20
Author: Sharon M. Meagher
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200722
Neo-liberalism on crack
Cities under siege in Iraq
21 - 69
Author: Michael Schwartz
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200730
Squatters and the cities of tomorrow
71 - 80
Author: Robert Neuwirth
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200797
Critical theory and Katrina
Disaster, spectacle and immanent critique
81 - 99
Author: Kevin Fox Gotham
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200870
Re-thinking the urban social
100 - 114
Author: Ash Amin
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200961
Debates
Urbanization in the developing world and the acutely tenure insecure
115 - 120
Author: Jon D. Unruh
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701200987
Book Reviews
Reviews
121 - 130
Authors: Christopher Baker; Rachael Unsworth; David Beer; David Bell
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701201019
Original Articles
Is it all coming together?
Further thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (10) Spectres, spectacles, actors and actions within and beyond neoliberalism
131 - 140
Author: Bob Catterall
DOI: 10.1080/13604810701315785
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
CFP: Common Ground , Converging Gazes
Common Ground, Converging Gazes: Integrating the Social and Environmental in History
International Conference
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Paris, 11-12-13 September 2008
Recently, several scholarly articles have focused on the nature of environmental history, its purposes, and its relationships with other close fields of research - particularly social history. The conference aims to open up this discussion further, to demonstrate that it is both possible and necessary to cast an 'environmental gaze' on social history's growing agenda, and to make clear that social history has much to offer to environmental history.
In short, given that climate change, biodiversity loss and other ecological problems pose an enormous challenge to humanity now, and for the future, we do not think it desirable to write social and economic history which does not incorporate an environmental dimension. At a time when societies are confronted with the often dramatic consequences of past choices made in the fields of energy, technology, industry, agriculture, urbanization, consumption and other areas, we need a history that casts more light on the ways in which unsustainable human-nature relationships came into being. This means reconsidering many of the older emphases of social and economic history, and encouraging stronger connections with environmental history.
Conversely, we cannot content ourselves with an environmental history which focuses mainly on nature's agency, the evolution of human attitudes to and understandings of 'nature', or even on humankind's role in global warming or in the disappearance of species. Whatever the legitimacy of these topics may be, we also need research that takes into greater account the social and economic dimensions of environmental problems. Environmental change or pollution, for instance, does not affect people equally: men and women, young and old, white and black, low and high-income communities - all have different experiences. But how environmental issues play out along the lines of class, gender, race, and ethnicity is rarely just a matter of chance, and more often the result of long-term social, cultural, and economic forces. We still have a good deal to learn about how power, resources and risks have been distributed across both rural and urban landscapes, which calls for socio-economic
history know-how.
It is clearly time for environmental history to engage more fully with the tools, methods and concepts of social and economic history - and vice versa. This is not to say that there has been no progress in establishing common ground, but we still need to bring these fields into closer communication, for their mutual benefit.
Proposals may deal with any research area in social or environmental history, so long as they address the issue of interconnections between the two sub-disciplines. The following list gives a number of suggested topic areas, but it is not comprehensive. Themes of sessions will be defined according to received proposals.
Gender, class, race and ethnicity issues
Population and migration
Sites of resistance; struggles against environmental inequality
Landscape and memory; environment and identity
Housing, planning, sanitation and public health
Industry, consumption and business
Natural resources, energy, and transportation
Risks, catastrophes, air, water and land pollution
Labour, the workplace, and occupational illnesses
Agricultural practices, land-tenures, and enclosure of commons
Recreation and tourism
Sources and methods
New researchers and doctoral students are particularly welcome. A limited number of grants will be available to encourage their participation.
One page proposals and a brief CV should be sent by 30 September 2007 to both the conference organizers:
Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud: massard@ehess.fr
Stephen Mosley: s.mosley@leedsmet.ac.uk
Proposals will be examined by a scientific committee composed of:
Patrice Bourdelais, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Michèle Dagenais, Université de Montréal
Chloé Deligne, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Patrick Fridenson, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Marjolein 't Hart, University of Amsterdam
Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Stephen Mosley, Leeds Metropolitan University
Simone Neri Serneri, University of Siena
Richard Rodger, University of Edinburgh
Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Verena Winiwarter, University of Klagenfurt at Vienna
The conference is organised by the Centre de Recherches Historiques (unité mixte de recherche CNRS/EHESS), in partnership with the journals Les Annales des Mines and the Annales de Démographie Historique (to be confirmed), and the Association Le Mouvement Social (to be confirmed), and supported by the European Society for Environmental History and Leeds Metropolitan University.
Participants will be notified by 15th January 2008. The conference will focus on the discussion of pre-circulated papers (6,500 words or 30,000 characters) to be sent to the conference organizers in the form of email attachments by 15th June 2008. The languages of the conference will be French and English. Proposals will be accepted in either language. Pre-circulated papers in French must include a summary in English.
A preliminary programme will be produced, further practical information given and registration opened in February 2008. For any other information, please write to massard@ehess.fr or s.mosley@leedsmet.ac.uk
Stephen Mosley
Leeds Metropolitan University
England
International Conference
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Paris, 11-12-13 September 2008
Recently, several scholarly articles have focused on the nature of environmental history, its purposes, and its relationships with other close fields of research - particularly social history. The conference aims to open up this discussion further, to demonstrate that it is both possible and necessary to cast an 'environmental gaze' on social history's growing agenda, and to make clear that social history has much to offer to environmental history.
In short, given that climate change, biodiversity loss and other ecological problems pose an enormous challenge to humanity now, and for the future, we do not think it desirable to write social and economic history which does not incorporate an environmental dimension. At a time when societies are confronted with the often dramatic consequences of past choices made in the fields of energy, technology, industry, agriculture, urbanization, consumption and other areas, we need a history that casts more light on the ways in which unsustainable human-nature relationships came into being. This means reconsidering many of the older emphases of social and economic history, and encouraging stronger connections with environmental history.
Conversely, we cannot content ourselves with an environmental history which focuses mainly on nature's agency, the evolution of human attitudes to and understandings of 'nature', or even on humankind's role in global warming or in the disappearance of species. Whatever the legitimacy of these topics may be, we also need research that takes into greater account the social and economic dimensions of environmental problems. Environmental change or pollution, for instance, does not affect people equally: men and women, young and old, white and black, low and high-income communities - all have different experiences. But how environmental issues play out along the lines of class, gender, race, and ethnicity is rarely just a matter of chance, and more often the result of long-term social, cultural, and economic forces. We still have a good deal to learn about how power, resources and risks have been distributed across both rural and urban landscapes, which calls for socio-economic
history know-how.
It is clearly time for environmental history to engage more fully with the tools, methods and concepts of social and economic history - and vice versa. This is not to say that there has been no progress in establishing common ground, but we still need to bring these fields into closer communication, for their mutual benefit.
Proposals may deal with any research area in social or environmental history, so long as they address the issue of interconnections between the two sub-disciplines. The following list gives a number of suggested topic areas, but it is not comprehensive. Themes of sessions will be defined according to received proposals.
Gender, class, race and ethnicity issues
Population and migration
Sites of resistance; struggles against environmental inequality
Landscape and memory; environment and identity
Housing, planning, sanitation and public health
Industry, consumption and business
Natural resources, energy, and transportation
Risks, catastrophes, air, water and land pollution
Labour, the workplace, and occupational illnesses
Agricultural practices, land-tenures, and enclosure of commons
Recreation and tourism
Sources and methods
New researchers and doctoral students are particularly welcome. A limited number of grants will be available to encourage their participation.
One page proposals and a brief CV should be sent by 30 September 2007 to both the conference organizers:
Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud: massard@ehess.fr
Stephen Mosley: s.mosley@leedsmet.ac.uk
Proposals will be examined by a scientific committee composed of:
Patrice Bourdelais, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Michèle Dagenais, Université de Montréal
Chloé Deligne, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Patrick Fridenson, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Marjolein 't Hart, University of Amsterdam
Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Stephen Mosley, Leeds Metropolitan University
Simone Neri Serneri, University of Siena
Richard Rodger, University of Edinburgh
Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Verena Winiwarter, University of Klagenfurt at Vienna
The conference is organised by the Centre de Recherches Historiques (unité mixte de recherche CNRS/EHESS), in partnership with the journals Les Annales des Mines and the Annales de Démographie Historique (to be confirmed), and the Association Le Mouvement Social (to be confirmed), and supported by the European Society for Environmental History and Leeds Metropolitan University.
Participants will be notified by 15th January 2008. The conference will focus on the discussion of pre-circulated papers (6,500 words or 30,000 characters) to be sent to the conference organizers in the form of email attachments by 15th June 2008. The languages of the conference will be French and English. Proposals will be accepted in either language. Pre-circulated papers in French must include a summary in English.
A preliminary programme will be produced, further practical information given and registration opened in February 2008. For any other information, please write to massard@ehess.fr or s.mosley@leedsmet.ac.uk
Stephen Mosley
Leeds Metropolitan University
England
Monday, May 14, 2007
Documentary Studies
DOCS @ UC Davis is a new interdisciplinary research group just forming on campus
read below, and attached flyer). Please come to the first meeting next Wed if you are interested in hearing more about it.
Technocultural Studies Building
Wed May 16th
4-6 pm
What is documentary studies, you might ask?
For our recently formed DOCS Research Group, we're considering documentary techniques that involve text (written documents), video, photography, and/or audio recordings to support inquiry into and analysis of social life. We are especially interested in how documentary methodologies can help individuals articulate and negotiate issues of race, ethnicity, gender and social class in local and regional communities.
We've started some discussions about this kind of work and are eager to connect with other people on campus who are interested in or using documentary approaches in research, teaching, and civic engagement.
As an opportunity for networking and experience sharing, we invite you to join us on May 16h to: - Meet others doing documentary courses and projects
- Hear and share examples of documentary assignments, resources, and events
- Help inform the development of documentary studies efforts at UCD
- Enjoy late afternoon beverages and snacks!
When: Wednesday, May 16 from 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Where: TechnoCultural Studies Building (formerly The Art Annex, behind the
Art Building)
Format: Introductions, brief presentations to spark discussion, inventory
of needs and resources
Presentations by Jesse Drew, Technocultural Studies: TCS's documentary courses and
documentary speaker series
Ari Kelman, American Studies: Integrating audio documentary projects into
undergraduate course
Jay Mechling, American Studies: Integrating photo documentary projects into
undergraduate courses
jesikah maria ross, Women & Gender Studies: University-community projects
with audio documentary
Julie Wyman, Technocultural Studies: Bridging research methods & experimental documentary through mobile video
If you can not make the meeting but would like to stay informed of future DOCS Group activities send your email address to Jesse Drew (jdrew@ucdavis.edu)
) and he'll put you on our new DOCS listserv!
If you have other questions, suggestions, or documentary resources to share,
contact jesikah maria ross jmross@ucdavis.edu
read below, and attached flyer). Please come to the first meeting next Wed if you are interested in hearing more about it.
Technocultural Studies Building
Wed May 16th
4-6 pm
What is documentary studies, you might ask?
For our recently formed DOCS Research Group, we're considering documentary techniques that involve text (written documents), video, photography, and/or audio recordings to support inquiry into and analysis of social life. We are especially interested in how documentary methodologies can help individuals articulate and negotiate issues of race, ethnicity, gender and social class in local and regional communities.
We've started some discussions about this kind of work and are eager to connect with other people on campus who are interested in or using documentary approaches in research, teaching, and civic engagement.
As an opportunity for networking and experience sharing, we invite you to join us on May 16h to: - Meet others doing documentary courses and projects
- Hear and share examples of documentary assignments, resources, and events
- Help inform the development of documentary studies efforts at UCD
- Enjoy late afternoon beverages and snacks!
When: Wednesday, May 16 from 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Where: TechnoCultural Studies Building (formerly The Art Annex, behind the
Art Building)
Format: Introductions, brief presentations to spark discussion, inventory
of needs and resources
Presentations by Jesse Drew, Technocultural Studies: TCS's documentary courses and
documentary speaker series
Ari Kelman, American Studies: Integrating audio documentary projects into
undergraduate course
Jay Mechling, American Studies: Integrating photo documentary projects into
undergraduate courses
jesikah maria ross, Women & Gender Studies: University-community projects
with audio documentary
Julie Wyman, Technocultural Studies: Bridging research methods & experimental documentary through mobile video
If you can not make the meeting but would like to stay informed of future DOCS Group activities send your email address to Jesse Drew (jdrew@ucdavis.edu)
) and he'll put you on our new DOCS listserv!
If you have other questions, suggestions, or documentary resources to share,
contact jesikah maria ross jmross@ucdavis.edu
Urban Dystopias
URBAN DYSTOPIAS
A Conference at Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Princeton University, May 18-19, 2007
http://dav.princeton.edu/events/e37/conference.html
Friday, 211 Dickinson Hall
10:00-12:30
Gyan Prakash, Director, Davis Center, Introductory Comments
James Donald, University of New South Wales
Sounds like Hell: Dystopian Urban Aurality
Ruben Gallo, Princeton University
Modernist Dystopias: Mexico City, a Case Study
2:00-4:00
David Ambaras, North Carolina State University
Topographies of Distress: Tokyo, c. 1930
Ravi Sundaram, CSDS, Delhi
Imaging Urban Breakdown: Delhi in the 1990's
4:30-6:00
Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
Liberal Dystopias: Race, Class, and the Limits of Diversity in Civil Rights Era America
Saturday, 010 East Pyne
10:00-12:00
Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley
Phantasms of the Apocalypse: Metropolis and Weimar Modernity
Mark Shiel, King's College London/Davis Center Fellow
A Regional Geography of Film Noir: Urban Dystopias On- and Off-screen
1:30-3:30
Bill Tsutsui, University of Kansas
Oh No, There Goes Tokyo: Recreational Apocalypse in Postwar Japanese Popular Culture
Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Friction, Collision and the Grotesque: the Edge in Bombay Cinema
4:00-6:00
Li Zhang, University of California, Davis
Postsocialist Urban Dystopia: A View from the Margins
Jenny Robinson, The Open University, UK
Living in Dystopia: Past, Present, and Future in Contemporary Urban Development
Jennifer Houle
Davis Center
Princeton University
A Conference at Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Princeton University, May 18-19, 2007
http://dav.princeton.edu/events/e37/conference.html
Friday, 211 Dickinson Hall
10:00-12:30
Gyan Prakash, Director, Davis Center, Introductory Comments
James Donald, University of New South Wales
Sounds like Hell: Dystopian Urban Aurality
Ruben Gallo, Princeton University
Modernist Dystopias: Mexico City, a Case Study
2:00-4:00
David Ambaras, North Carolina State University
Topographies of Distress: Tokyo, c. 1930
Ravi Sundaram, CSDS, Delhi
Imaging Urban Breakdown: Delhi in the 1990's
4:30-6:00
Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
Liberal Dystopias: Race, Class, and the Limits of Diversity in Civil Rights Era America
Saturday, 010 East Pyne
10:00-12:00
Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley
Phantasms of the Apocalypse: Metropolis and Weimar Modernity
Mark Shiel, King's College London/Davis Center Fellow
A Regional Geography of Film Noir: Urban Dystopias On- and Off-screen
1:30-3:30
Bill Tsutsui, University of Kansas
Oh No, There Goes Tokyo: Recreational Apocalypse in Postwar Japanese Popular Culture
Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Friction, Collision and the Grotesque: the Edge in Bombay Cinema
4:00-6:00
Li Zhang, University of California, Davis
Postsocialist Urban Dystopia: A View from the Margins
Jenny Robinson, The Open University, UK
Living in Dystopia: Past, Present, and Future in Contemporary Urban Development
Jennifer Houle
Davis Center
Princeton University
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Xcp panel at the Cultural Studies Association Conference
Please join us FRIDAY, APRIL 20
5:45pm-7:15pm
at the
FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.)
Portland, Oregon (Portland State University) April 19-21, 2007:
for a Xcp panel presentation....
I2
Cross-Cultural Poetics: Embodied Practices and Global Circuits
Journal Salon—Cross-Cultural Poetics
Chair: David Michalski, Cultural Studies, University of California-Davis
Jules Boykoff, Political Science, Pacific University and Kaia Sand, English, Willamette
University
"Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and the Politicization of Public Space"
Jeff Derksen, English, Simon Fraser University
“On Globalization and Cultural Practices”
Adam Siegel, University Library, University of California-Davis
“Imprimaturs: How Knowledge Gets Done Inside the Academy (and Elsewhere)”
---
Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics began publishing biannually in 1997 to expand the discursive boundaries of academic poetics and anthropology. Using a recipe that combined poetry and art, with critical essays, and substantial book reviews, Xcp staged an intervention into the fields of literature and the social sciences by publishing multi- lingual poetry, experimental documentary, and critical scholarly essays. With thematic issues entitled Fieldnotes & Notebooks, Writing (Working) Class, and Dia/logos: Speaking Across, Xcp has sought to assemble descriptive art and critique born of cultural contacts and the collisions of values.
After ten years of cultural engagement, this panel brings together important contributors, to speak about their work in relation to the Xcp's publishing goals. Through their writing, these authors have opened a number of intellectual spaces to make visible the embodied processes of subjectification, across institutions, classes, economies, and nations. Here they will address the current challenges of poetry, performance studies, and the ethnographic imagination vis-à-vis today's global circuitry of information and cultures. Joining them, will be bibliographer and literary translator, Adam Siegel, who will contextualize these changes within the global political economies of knowledge through a presentation of international publishing trends in academic and arts circles.
5:45pm-7:15pm
at the
FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.)
Portland, Oregon (Portland State University) April 19-21, 2007:
for a Xcp panel presentation....
I2
Cross-Cultural Poetics: Embodied Practices and Global Circuits
Journal Salon—Cross-Cultural Poetics
Chair: David Michalski, Cultural Studies, University of California-Davis
Jules Boykoff, Political Science, Pacific University and Kaia Sand, English, Willamette
University
"Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and the Politicization of Public Space"
Jeff Derksen, English, Simon Fraser University
“On Globalization and Cultural Practices”
Adam Siegel, University Library, University of California-Davis
“Imprimaturs: How Knowledge Gets Done Inside the Academy (and Elsewhere)”
---
Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics began publishing biannually in 1997 to expand the discursive boundaries of academic poetics and anthropology. Using a recipe that combined poetry and art, with critical essays, and substantial book reviews, Xcp staged an intervention into the fields of literature and the social sciences by publishing multi- lingual poetry, experimental documentary, and critical scholarly essays. With thematic issues entitled Fieldnotes & Notebooks, Writing (Working) Class, and Dia/logos: Speaking Across, Xcp has sought to assemble descriptive art and critique born of cultural contacts and the collisions of values.
After ten years of cultural engagement, this panel brings together important contributors, to speak about their work in relation to the Xcp's publishing goals. Through their writing, these authors have opened a number of intellectual spaces to make visible the embodied processes of subjectification, across institutions, classes, economies, and nations. Here they will address the current challenges of poetry, performance studies, and the ethnographic imagination vis-à-vis today's global circuitry of information and cultures. Joining them, will be bibliographer and literary translator, Adam Siegel, who will contextualize these changes within the global political economies of knowledge through a presentation of international publishing trends in academic and arts circles.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
CFP Out of the Ordinary
Out of the Ordinary: Urban Humdrum, Everyday Stuff, Public Things Date: Febuary 28, 2007
Oblivious to grand theories, city dwellers go about their lives simply. They gamble and pray, drive and shop, work and rest: each routine taken for granted. Out of the ordinary emerges a study of urban culture. We are seeking Sociologies of Ordinary Culture that stop to consider humdrum habits as public acts, proposing that collective life is produced through everyday things that at first seem uninteresting. Done week-in-week-out: society is built upon the leisurely plod of the workaday. The collective rites of public life are, perhaps, precariously reliant on the mundane. Directly or indirectly, papers will rescue these routines from obscurity, transforming them instead into the tools city dwellers use to craft sense out of their milieu.
Papers may include but are not limited to the following topics: - Driving and traffic - Shopping and consumption -
Scanning, browsing, reading
- Fun and free time
- Cleaning, grooming, clothing
- Neighbors and strangers
- Watches, clocks and being on time - Policing, inspecting, enforcing
- Maintenance and repair
- Garbage and recycling
- Lotteries and Prayers
- Coffee, Alcohol, and Cigarettes
Please submit your name, affiliation, paper title and a 300 word abstract to Paul Moore (psmoore@ryerson.ca) or Diego Llovet (dllovet@yorku.ca) by February 28th, 2007. Confirmations will be given by March 5th, 2007. Panels are part of the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), in conjunction with the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, in 2007 hosted by the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. The conference will take place between May 29 and June 1, 2007. Diego Llovet Culture of Cities Project and PhD Student Department of Sociology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Email: dllovet@yorku.ca
Oblivious to grand theories, city dwellers go about their lives simply. They gamble and pray, drive and shop, work and rest: each routine taken for granted. Out of the ordinary emerges a study of urban culture. We are seeking Sociologies of Ordinary Culture that stop to consider humdrum habits as public acts, proposing that collective life is produced through everyday things that at first seem uninteresting. Done week-in-week-out: society is built upon the leisurely plod of the workaday. The collective rites of public life are, perhaps, precariously reliant on the mundane. Directly or indirectly, papers will rescue these routines from obscurity, transforming them instead into the tools city dwellers use to craft sense out of their milieu.
Papers may include but are not limited to the following topics: - Driving and traffic - Shopping and consumption -
Scanning, browsing, reading
- Fun and free time
- Cleaning, grooming, clothing
- Neighbors and strangers
- Watches, clocks and being on time - Policing, inspecting, enforcing
- Maintenance and repair
- Garbage and recycling
- Lotteries and Prayers
- Coffee, Alcohol, and Cigarettes
Please submit your name, affiliation, paper title and a 300 word abstract to Paul Moore (psmoore@ryerson.ca) or Diego Llovet (dllovet@yorku.ca) by February 28th, 2007. Confirmations will be given by March 5th, 2007. Panels are part of the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), in conjunction with the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, in 2007 hosted by the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. The conference will take place between May 29 and June 1, 2007. Diego Llovet Culture of Cities Project and PhD Student Department of Sociology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Email: dllovet@yorku.ca
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Street Knowledge
Street Knowledge is a set of four photo-video journeys. This run begins at the Horniman Museum and finishes at the British Library - via Dulwich Community Hospital, Peckham Rye Station, Cuming Museum and the Imperial War Museum.
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/londoninmaps/videos.html
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/londoninmaps/videos.html
Monday, January 15, 2007
CFP: Black Diaspora in the South and the Caribbean
Fourth Annual Conference of the Program in Louisiana and Caribbean
Studies at Louisiana State University.
"Black Diaspora in the South and the Caribbean."
Mar 16-17, 2007
NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Feb. 1, 2007
Invited keynote speakers include:
-Jane Landers, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
-Francis Abiola Irele, Visiting Professor of African and African American
Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
-Ifeoma Nwanko, Associate Professor of English Vanderbilt University
The Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies at Louisiana State
University invites proposals for individual presentations at its fourth
annual conference.
Possible topics include:
-music & performance
-maroon societies
-religion
-storms and disasters
-folklore
-popular and material culture
-the plantation
-slave rebellions
1 page proposal/abstract and a CV of not more than 3 pages should be sent
by Feb. 1, 2006, to Dr. Paul E. Hoffman, Acting Director, Program for
Louisiana and Caribbean Studies, hyhoff@lsu.edu. Proposals for 3-4 person
panels welcomed.
Anthony D. Hoefer, Jr.
Coordinator, Program in Louisiana & Caribbean Studies
Louisiana State University
Studies at Louisiana State University.
"Black Diaspora in the South and the Caribbean."
Mar 16-17, 2007
NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Feb. 1, 2007
Invited keynote speakers include:
-Jane Landers, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
-Francis Abiola Irele, Visiting Professor of African and African American
Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
-Ifeoma Nwanko, Associate Professor of English Vanderbilt University
The Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies at Louisiana State
University invites proposals for individual presentations at its fourth
annual conference.
Possible topics include:
-music & performance
-maroon societies
-religion
-storms and disasters
-folklore
-popular and material culture
-the plantation
-slave rebellions
1 page proposal/abstract and a CV of not more than 3 pages should be sent
by Feb. 1, 2006, to Dr. Paul E. Hoffman, Acting Director, Program for
Louisiana and Caribbean Studies, hyhoff@lsu.edu. Proposals for 3-4 person
panels welcomed.
Anthony D. Hoefer, Jr.
Coordinator, Program in Louisiana & Caribbean Studies
Louisiana State University
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