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CFP: Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle

2011-04-08T00:35:00.000-07:00

Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle

Eighth Annual Historical Materialism Conference

Central London

10–13 November 2011

The ongoing popular uprisings in the Arab world, alongside intimations of a resurgence in workers' struggles against 'austerity' in the North and myriad forms of resistance against exploitation and dispossession across the globe make it imperative for Marxists and leftists to reflect critically on the meaning of collective anticapitalist action in the present.

Over the past decade, many Marxist concepts and debates have come in from the cold. The anticapitalist movement generated a widely circulating critique of capitalist modes of international 'development'. More recently, the economic crisis that began in 2008 has led to mainstream-recognition of Marx as an analyst of capital. In philosophy and political theory, communism is no longer merely a term of condemnation. Likewise, artistic and cultural practices have also registered a notable upturn in the fortunes of activism, critical utopianism and the effort to capture aesthetically the workings of the capitalist system.

The eighth annual Historical Materialism conference will strive to take stock of these shifts in the intellectual landscape of the Left in the context of the social and political struggles of the present. Rather than resting content with the compartmentalisation and specialisation of various 'left turns' in theory and practice, we envisage the conference as a space for the collective, if necessary, agonistic but comradely, reconstitution of a strategic conception of the mediations between socio-economic transformations and emancipatory politics.

For such a critical theoretical, strategic and organisational reflection to have traction in the present, it must take stock of both the commonalities and the specificities of different struggles for emancipation, as they confront particular strategies of accumulation, political authorities and relations of force. Just as the crisis that began in 2008 is by no means a homogeneous affair, so we cannot simply posit a unity of purpose in contemporary revolutions, struggles around the commons and battles against austerity.

In consideration of the participation of David Harvey, winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize, at this year's conference, we would particularly wish to emphasise the historical and geographical dimensions of capital, class and struggle. We specifically encourage paper submissions and suggested panel-themes that tackle the global nature of capitalist accumulation, the significance of anticapitalist resistance in the South, and questions of race, migration and ecology as key components of both the contemporary crisis and the struggle to move beyond capitalism.

There will also be a strong presence of workshops on the historiography of the early communist movement, particularly focusing on the first four congresses of the Communist International.

The conference will aim to combine rigorous and grounded investigations of socio-economic realities with focused theoretical reflections on what emancipation means today, and to explore – in light of cultural, historical and ideological analyses – the forms taken by current and coming struggles.

Deadline for registration of abstracts: 1 May 2011

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/8annual/submit

Preference will be given to subscribers to the journal and participants are expected to be present during the whole of the event – no tailor-made timetabling for individuals will be possible, nor will cameo-appearances be tolerated.

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CFP: “Wannabe Cities: Everyday Strivings and Emergent Urbanisms"

2011-03-19T21:10:00.000-07:00

Call For Papers
2011 American Association of Anthropology Annual Meeting
Montreal, November 16th-20th, 2011

“Wannabe Cities: Everyday Strivings and Emergent Urbanisms"

Organizers: Timothy Murphy, PhD Candidate, University of California, Davis; Bascom Guffin, PhD Candidate, University of California, Davis

Imaginaries - whether they be global, national, regional or local - always play an important role in how cities are understood and hence come into being. Hierarchies of status pervade these imaginaries, placing some cities in the limelight of social and cultural importance while leaving others to grapple with their secondary status. Saskia Sassen's rubric of "global cities," for instance, has long proved seductive both for academics seeking to classify cities and, maybe more important, for policymakers and citizens striving to elevate their cities to "world class" status.

While anthropological inquiry tends to focus on so-called "premiere" or “important” cities placed at the top of global and regional hierarchies, and rural communities relegated to the bottom, our discipline largely overlooks cities caught between these two positions. But this is where much of the world's urban growth is taking place. As such, these cities are extraordinarily dynamic fields of social and spatial change. They play host to people forging new ways of living and associating. They are spaces where people individually and collectively strive to define and achieve ideals of what it means to be urban, to be members of a modern world, and to live a good life. Some ways these aspirations manifest are how people pursue their personal visions of success, how they perform status, how they consume, and how they act out their moral visions of the way a city should be organized and its members should behave.

This session invites papers that address some of the following questions: What does it mean for a city to be considered unimportant, always emerging but not quite, caught in the middle, or even failed? How do these cities desire, aspire, and strive for recognition? What roles do residents play in a city's striving to emerge? How do the ways people live their lives affect a city's social and spatial development? How do ideas of what makes a good, successful city play out on the ground?

Deadline for abstract proposals: Thursday, March 31st

Please send paper title, abstract (no more than 250 words), affiliation, and contact information to: Timothy Murphy at temurphy@ucdavis.edu and Bascom Guffin at mbguffin@ucdavis.edu .

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Bascom Guffin
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Davis
mbguffin@ucdavis.edu
+91 95812 07179

CFP: "Critical Refusals" Conference

2011-02-01T10:02:00.000-08:00

CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION for the "Critical Refusals" Conference
https://sites.google.com/site/marcusesociety/call-for-papers-participation-2011-conference

We warmly welcome your participation:

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA / USA
27-29 October 2011

This renascence is an affirmation of negation. It is an affirmation of the relevance of critical theory – in all of its emancipatory manifestations. This conference is organized by the INTERNATIONAL HERBERT MARCUSE SOCIETY, but it is bigger than our small group, and it is about more than the important critical theorist Herbert Marcuse. With concrete hopes for what we will question, learn, imagine, struggle for, and create together, we warmly invite you to join us in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania—once the academic home of W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, Noam Chomsky, and Donald Trump; the contradictions of this place will amaze you. This conference is an affirmation of critical intellectual inquiry and an affirmation that austerity must be refused, that oppression – in all of its forms – must be resisted with radical questions, liberatory ideas, and emancipatory movements for an alternative economy and better ways of living together. Join with us on the 40th anniversary of Marcuse's speech here at Penn in 1971 —to move forward with critical visions of qualitative change. See the website above for more information!

ABSTRACTS & PROPOSALS due by 23 April 2011
email: ATLamas@sas.upenn.edu

CALL for PAPERS and PARTICIPATION

The contributions that relate to any of the conference's themes or arenas, broadly interpreted. All manner of presentation is welcome – by faculty, independent scholars, students, activists, artists, and others. Many participants will present scholarly papers, but we also encourage other kinds of contributions, e.g., a debate about Marcuse's legacy, a panel discussion on academic life today, a roundtable on future directions for Critical Theory scholarship, an open-mic forum for former students of Marcuse and Angela Davis, a late-night discussion on future directions for the Left, workshops on critical pedagogy, author-meets-critics sessions, as well as videos, music, poetry, performance art, and other alternative – even experimental – formats that provoke critical awareness and imagination, that assess the potential for critical engagements in a variety of spheres, and that enable conference participants to get to know each other better.

The 2011 conference seeks papers, panels, workshops, art, and other forms of presentation related to the following three themes and four arenas:

Critical Refusal(s) Conference Themes
Theme One: Critical Spaces--Critical Theory meets Critical Theories of Urban Space, Struggle, and Overcoming
Theme Two: Critical Intersections--Class, Race, Gender, Queer, Disability, Ethnicity, Postcolonial, Africana, Indigenous, Caste, Animal, Nature….Critical Theory / CRITICAL THEORIES / Liberation Theories
Theme Three: Critical Theories--The Frankfurt School and Its Contemporary Heirs – Legacies, Debates, Possibilities
See the CFP (website above) for more details.

Featured speakers (confirmed) include:
Angela Davis
Stanley Aronowitz
Alex Callinicos
Enrique Dussel
Andrew Feenberg
Michelle Fine
Axel Honneth
Peter-Erwin Jansen
Douglas Kellner
Heather Love
Peter Marcuse
Charles Mills
Nina Power
David Roediger

On the Commons; or, Believing-Feeling-Acting Together

2010-11-02T08:48:00.000-07:00

BANFF RESEARCH in CULTURE (BRiC) / Research Residency Program
Banff Centre for the Arts / University of Alberta

THEME: On the Commons; or, Believing-Feeling-Acting Together

Application deadline: December 1, 2010
APPLICATION AND PROGRAM INFORMATION NOW AVAILABLE AT:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1068

Guest Faculty: Lauren Berlant, Michael Hardt, Pedro Reyes
Organizers: Imre Szeman, Heather Zwicker, Kitty Scott

Program dates: May 9, 2011 - May 27, 2011
Email contact: bric@ualberta.ca

(Note: There are only 25 spots available in the residency program this year)

The commons has emerged as one of the key concepts around which
social, political, and cultural demands are being articulated and
theorized today. Harkening back to the displacement of people from
shared communal spaces and their transformation from public into
private property ? a central act in the development of European
capitalism in the 18th and 19th centuries ? the commons insists on
the fundamentally shared character of social life: that everything
from language to education, from nature to our genetic inheritance,
belongs irreducibly to all of us. As an increasingly rapacious
capitalism draws ever more elements of social life into its profit
logic and renders seemingly every activity and value into a
commodity, thinking with and through the commons has become an
important means of generating conceptual and political resistance to
the multiple new forms of enclosure that continue to take place
today, and which need to be confronted and challenged forcefully and
directly.

The commons is a concept used in analyses and interventions in popular
culture, art, new media, political philosophy, social theory, law,
literary studies, and more. The ease with which neoliberal ideology ?
which celebrates the supposed rationality of privatization and has
managed to transform taxation into an act feared above all else ? has
become embedded in the beliefs and lived structures of everyday life
demands an intensive examination of how and why we have come to
prefer enclosure to the commons in almost every area of social life.
Just as importantly, it also requires us to investigate and invent new
ways of being-in-common--ways of believing, feeling and acting
together, of creating the commons that seem everywhere to be receding
from view.

The aim of this year?s Banff Research in Culture workshop is to give
scholars, cultural producers, and artists an opportunity to explore
how we believe, feel, and act together, and the ways in which we are
prevented from doing so. How might we shape new collectivities and
communities? What are the capacities and dispositions essential to
producing new ways of being? What lessons can we learn from history as
well as contemporary struggles over the commons (from challenges to
intellectual property to indigenous struggles)? What concepts and
vocabularies might we develop to aid our critical and conceptual work
with respect to the commons (e.g. Alain Badiou?s revival of communism
or Jacque Rancière?s reconfiguration of equality and democracy)? How
does artistic and cultural production participate in the production
of new collectivities and defense of the commons? Where do we go from
here-a moment in which neoliberalism seems to have stumbled and lost
its forward momentum? We welcome projects dealing with the full range
of issues and topics related to being-believing-feeling-acting
together today.

On the Commons will run concurrently with the thematic residency La
Commune. The Asylum. Die Bühne led by artist Althea Thauberger,
providing opportunities for interaction and collaboration with
artists in residence.
(http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1094)

PROGRAM DETAILS
Developed by Imre Szeman, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies
and Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of
Alberta, Heather Zwicker, Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) in the
Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta, and Kitty Scott,
Director of Visual Arts at the Banff Centre, On the Commons is part of
Banff Research in Culture (BRiC), a new residency program designed for
scholars engaged in advanced theoretical research on themes and topics
in culture. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty,
and practicing artists from across Canada and beyond will convene at
The Banff Centre to pursue their work ? and, ideally, to incubate new
collaborations and creations ? for three weeks. During the residency,
participants will attend lectures, seminars, and workshops offered by
distinguished visiting faculty from around the world, each of whom
will stay at Banff for a week or more and will be available to discuss
projects and ideas. Participants will also be encouraged to present
their work to colleagues through readings, talks, and presentations
held over the course of the program.

As a residency program, BRiC is designed to allow participants to
devote an extended period of time on their own research in the company
of others with similar interests. In addition to giving researchers
and creators from different disciplinary and professional backgrounds
an opportunity to exchange opinions and ideas, it is hoped that
participants will develop new artistic, editorial, authorial, and
collective projects during their time at Banff, both individually and
in connection with others. We are especially pleased by the
opportunity that BRiC affords visual artists and researchers to work
together on issues of common interest.

APPLICATION AND PROGRAM INFORMATION NOW AVAILABLE AT:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1068

Cities & Synecdoche

2010-10-15T20:54:00.001-07:00

Call for Papers: 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers

Cities & Synecdoche

'Synecdoche', as defined by Webster's New World Dictionary, is "a figure
of speech in which a part is used for a whole, an individual for a
class, a material for a thing, or any of the reverse of these." In
Geography, we find this especially in representations and discussions of
scale where, for example, 'the city' is (mis-)represented using
phenomena and patterns better understood and analyzed at local or
regional scales ... or vice versa. Place-marketing and other
entrepreneurial endeavors - branding, for example - have made ample use
of synecdoche in the interest of economic development and investment.
'Best Places' claims and categorizations are, almost by necessity,
derived from scale-specific data that are hardly universal to the
'place' at hand. This is especially true for cities, for whom 'best' (or
'worst') place-branding (either self-generated or by others) has taken
on increasing competitive significance. To this end, it seems,
synecdoche is increasingly vital to projects of accumulation and - by
extension - uneven development and thus potentially rife with inter- or
intra-scale contradictions and the potential for conflict and injustice.

For this paper session, I invite papers that explore the complexities of
synecdoche at the Urban Scale, and that attempt to reveal its
implications (be they positive or negative) for those 'other' scales
(e.g., communities, environments, households, people, and places)
abstracted within it and from which it is emergent. I encourage
participation from a breadth of ideological and theoretical
orientations, sub-disciplinary interests, and international
perspectives.

Please send a message of intent and abstract electronically by no later
than October 18th to:

Alec Brownlow
Assistant Professor of Geography
DePaul University
Chicago, IL 60614
cbrownlo@depaul.edu
phone: 773-325-7876
fax: 773-325-4590

Race and Space: The Materiality of Difference

2010-09-27T09:16:00.001-07:00

Call For Papers: Association of American Geographers, annual meeting:
April 12-16, 2011, Seattle, WA

Race and Space: The Materiality of Difference

Co-organizers: Rachel Brahinsky (UC Berkeley Geography) and Kate
Derickson (University of Glasgow)

This session seeks to put scholars in conversation who are drawing out
the vitally important connections between racialization and the
production of space. We’re interested in these processes from a
theoretical perspective – but even more so because of the way they
play out in people’s everyday lives. Thus for this session, we are
particularly interested in papers that tease out the materiality of
space-race relationships. How do racial constructions connect to
spatial ones and vice versa – and why does it matter? If “race” makes
spaces, or if racialization occurs in and through space, then how are
these processes sedimented and resisted in everyday life?

This call for papers is devised in the spirit of drawing connections
between class- and capital-centered literatures on the production of
space and critical race literatures that aim to destabilize “race.”
This session therefore seeks both to extend the body of race-space
literature that is emergent in Geography and to open new pathways of
research and analysis, perhaps using interdisciplinary methodologies
to tease out how race and class (and other stratifications) interact
with space. Local, regional, national, and global studies are all
encouraged.

We invite scholars from across disciplines to submit abstracts that
may include (but aren’t limited to):

• Intersections of racialization with gender, class, or religion
– and space
• The ways in which financial crises are borne out through both
spatial and racialized patterns
• Ideologies and spatialities of Whiteness
• How race-space relationships play out in cities, rural spaces
or in “nature”
• Spatialities of post-racial thinking
• Race and space, post-9/11 – or in the context of the Obama presidency
• Urban (re)developments of the past and future
• Ethnographies of racialized space
• Genealogies of race-space research in the discipline
• Race and nature, in its various formulations
• Approaches for developing social justice praxis in this vein of thinking

THE URBAN CATWALK: FASHION AND STREET CULTURE

2010-08-30T08:37:00.001-07:00

THE URBAN CATWALK: FASHION AND STREET CULTURE

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
9:00am until
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Contact: madison moore (madison.moore@yale.edu)

Madison Moore (Yale), Conference Chair
Alex Tudela (Columbia), Conference Co-Chair

Point your browser to www.theurbancatwalk.com for up to the minute conference details.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY CAROLINE WEBER

What is street style, and what is the relationship between style, “the street,” and popular culture? How have the Internet, digital cameras and other technologies impacted how we understand the way we dress? Why do so many care about the way other people dress? In what ways does street style engage with broader issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality?

The Urban Catwalk: Fashion and Street Culture, a one-day symposium at Yale University, aims to investigate and discuss the relationships between street style and identity. We are interested in papers that approach street style from a contemporary lens, but also encourage papers with more of an historical perspective.

We are committed to a conference that blends the intellectual with an ear to the ground. In this way, we will hold a panel discussion with major editors and fashion designers about how they understand the intellectual work street style does. The panel discussion will focus on the editors’ real world expertise, but also on audience participation. Ideally, the conference will be attended by the Yale community as well as by people from the broader New Haven area. We close conference with a special street style fashion show at Artspace Gallery in Downtown New Haven, where real-people models will show us their street style.

These 20-minute presentations can treat any aspect of street fashion, including:

- Street style and Contemporary art
- (Black) Dandies
- Style blogs and the Internet
- Urban versus suburban style
- Hipsters and neo-bohemia
- Goth, punk, and skate culture
- Street style and hip hop culture
- Fashion magazines and the street
- Male androgyny; men in high heels
- Street style in media
- How to figure out a style persona; rules and boundaries
- Lady Gaga, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and other pop icons
- Japanese street fashion
- Street style in literature
- LGBTQ identity and street style
- Models
- Street style in the 19 th century
- Fashion designers
- Ready-to-wear
- Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, and trend spotters
- Vogueing, ball culture

- Sex and the City and street style

Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to madison.moore@yale.edu by Friday, November 26th.

Selected papers may be considered for an edited volume.

best,

madison moore

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madison moore, ph.d. candidate
yale university
american studies program
new haven, ct
cell: 212.748.9905
email: madison.moore@yale.edu
web:www.mynameismadisonmoore.com

URBAN POP CULTURES

2010-08-16T13:03:00.001-07:00

1st Global Conference

URBAN POP CULTURES

Tuesday 8th March - Thursday 10th March 2011
Prague, Czech Republic

This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues related to urban life. The project will promote the ongoing analysis of the varied creative trends and alternative cultural movements that comprise urban popultures and subcultures. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural and political contexts within which alternative urban subcultures are flourishing.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:

1. Urban Space and the Landscape of the City
Urban Aesthetics and Architecture, Creative Re-imagining and Revitalization of the City. The Metropolis and Inner City Life: Urban Boredom vs. Creativity.

2. Urban Music Cultures
Histories, Representations, Discourses and Independent Scenes. Popular Music Theory. The Visual Turn. Urban Intertextualities and Intermedialities. Postmodernity and Beyond.

3. The City as Creative Subject/Object
Urban Life and Themes Considered in Music, Literature, Art and Film, Urban Fashion, Style, and Branding.

4. Urban Codes
Urban Popular Culture and Ideology, Politics of Popcultures, D.I.Y, Alternative Ethics of the City. Urban Religion and Religious Expressions. The Avantgarde and Urban Codes.

5. The City and Cyberculture
Virtual Urbanity - Online Communities and the Impact of Social Networking. Urban Identity and Membership. Globalization/Localization of Urban Experience. Recent trends in Copyright/Copyleft. The Role of Internet in the Transformation of Music Industry. The Impact of User-generated Content.

6. The Urban Underground
The Rise and Fall of the Experimental Subcultures, Scenes and Styles. Alternative and Underground Dance, Hip Hop, and Punk Scenes. Queer Theory and Urban Cultures. Gendered Music and Fashion. Free Urban Exploration and Libertine Lifestyles.

7. Urban Activities in Massmedia
The Visual Aspects of Urban Entertainment. The Evolution of Music and Thematic Television. Media Structure of Music Video. Explicit TV and Censorship. Urban Styles and Extreme Sports.

300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st October 2010. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 4th February 2011. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs
Jordan Copeland
La Salle University,
Philadelphia, USA

Daniel Riha
Hub Leader (Cyber), Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK

The conference is part of the 'Critical Issues' programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s) or for inclusion in a new Cyber journal (launching 2011).

Style Sheets
In preparing your papers, please pay strict attention to the following style sheets

a.. Download Oxford Style Sheet - v7 (pdf)
b.. Download Oxford Reference Style Sheet 2 (pdf)
c.. Download Template document (Word)

SEE NEW XCP SITE: with fulltext excerpts and updates

2010-05-24T11:06:00.000-07:00

SEE NEW XCP SITE: with fulltext excerpts and updates
http://xcpcrossculturalpoetics.wordpress.com/

Cosmopoetics

2010-04-20T22:33:00.000-07:00

An International Conference - 8-10 September, 2010
Department of English Studies – Durham University, UK

Deadline for proposals: 15 May 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Derek Attridge (University of York)
Stephen Bann (University of Bristol)
Michael Davidson (University of California, San Diego)
Frank Lentricchia (Duke University)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cosmopoetics aims to expose an important aperture in contemporary poetry and poetics. Departing from the significant ground gained in late twentieth century poetic avant-gardism, Cosmopoetics takes up the difficult task of defining a twenty-first century poetics. Neither utopian nor dystopian, Cosmopoetics directs itself towards thinking a poetic atopia, a poetic interval within which the multiple currents of communication, mediation and influence mix; poetics as a particular border-crossing, trans-linguistic, socio-economic phenomenon. It is simultaneously sensitive to cultural and natural concepts of world or cosmos, and individual and aesthetic concepts of poesis, or the production of poetry, and seeks to re-centre contemporary poetry in its mediating capacity, as bridge between the singular and the universal, the local and the global, the creative and the critical.

Michael Davidson speaks of the North American Free Trade Agreement as having created “a form of unheimlich reality through which subjects are produced and economic displacement is lived”. He sees the literary upshot of this is a community which operates cosmopoetically, “across national borders and cultural agendas”. Cosmopoetics amplifies the prospect of a cosmopolitics: “Cosmos protects against the premature closure of politics and politics against the premature closure of cosmos”, in the words of Bruno Latour. At the intersection of poetic form and formation, Cosmopoetics investigates the immediate forces of mediation – poetry as medium and mediator - between otherwise heterogenous ideas and concepts.

We hope that the conference will reveal some of the many ways in which contemporary poetry and poetics still has a significant role to play in forging both new worlds and new ways of relating to existing paradigms of "cosmos". As Franco Moretti wrote, “The literature around us is now unmissably a planetary system”. In this light, we propose to explore the manner in which poetry, whether by design or accident, is also capable of revealing the contemporary as an atopian paradigm, a space sans frontières, or of non-spaces which simultaneously reflects upon and makes possible the reconsideration of poetic or generative force.

Proposals are welcomed in (but not restricted to) the following areas:
Innovations and trends in c.21st poetry and poetics
Cosmopoetics and Cosmopolitics
Poetry as mediation
Communicative poetic force
Poetic atopia or cosmos
The space of poetry
Poetry and ‘World Literature’
Digital / Print culture
Poetic form today
New media poetics
Poetry between the local and the global
Relocation / dislocation of resistance
Writing across / without borders

Please send 300 word proposals for papers of 20 minutes to Marc Botha and Heather Yeung at cosmopoetics@googlemail.com by 15th May 2010.

This conference is taking place with the support of the Department of English Studies, Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Advanced Study, and Graduate School of the University of Durham.

Marc Botha and Heather Yeung
Email: cosmopoetics@googlemail.com

Blocked arteries: circulation and congestion in history

2010-04-16T21:17:00.001-07:00

Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2010-05-14 (in 27 days)

This conference, to be held on 25-26 November 2010 at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK, aims to examine the ways in which congestion has been, and continues to be, a problem as well as an inherent characteristic of the historical development of cities and regions worldwide, particularly in their relationship with commercial, financial, industrial, tourist and other networks. Our purpose is also to promote an exchange across disciplines and engage with current policy debates.

Proposals relating to any historical period and geographical area examining congestion in its broadest sense and/or focusing on one of its multiple dimensions are welcomed. Themes that might be explored include: the importance of structure and agency in the conception, planning and execution of transport infrastructures such as roads, waterways, canals, railways and airways; the use of mechanical, medical and anthropomorphic metaphors describing the circulation of information, capital, goods, waste and people and its relationship with cities and regions; the cultural, political and social reception of new transport technologies and policies; the responses to and interpretations of environmental issues; the ways in which traffic and congestion have been depicted in films and literary and other works. Papers adopting a comparative perspective are especially encouraged. Abstracts of 300 words and a brief statement outlining the institutional affiliation of the participants should be sent via email by 14 May 2010 to the conference organisers: Carlos Galviz (psv7@ymail.com) or Dhan Zunino Singh (dhan.zuninosingh@sas.ac.uk)

Carlos López Galviz
VCH, Institute of Historical Research
Senate House
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU
UK
Email: psv7@ymail.com
Visit the website at http://www.history.ac.uk/events/conferences/1160

CFP: Everyday Life in the Segmented City

2010-01-21T08:23:00.001-08:00

Everyday Life in the Segmented City
Florence Conference, July 22-25, 2010

For the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population
lives in urban areas, and by 2050 more than 2/3 will live in metropolitan
regions across the globe. At the same moment metropolitan regions confront
unprecedented economic, social, and political challenges, the meanings of
everyday life are put into question because of the changing structure and
interdependence of urban economies. North American cities register the
largest number of foreign-born persons in their history, while cities in
Europe confront issues of social integration with emergent minority
populations in the suburbs and inner city neighborhoods. The rapidly growing
urban regions in China and India confront the continuing pressures of rural
to urban migration that will produce the largest urban populations in human
history. While the focus on the global city often emphasizes similarities
in the development of metropolitan regions and neo-liberal regimes, we are
interested in better understanding how individuals and groups respond to and
create dynamic change in everyday life within the ever changing urban
environment.

We invite contributions for a conference on everyday life in the segmented
city to be held in Florence this July 22-25, 2010. The presentations will
be grouped into the following subject areas:

Cinematic urbanism: Images and representation of the segmented city;
emergent symbolic economics of consumption and production; tourism and
visual consumption of the city.

Governance and planning: Multicultural cities and ethnic spaces; strategies
to govern the multicultural city; citizenship and participation in the
segmented city.

Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Suburban growth and urban sprawl;
revolt of the banlieues; social exclusion in the inner suburbs; urbanity and
urbanism in the suburban fringe

Appropriations of urban space: Emerging patterns of social exclusion and
personal security; privatization and surveillance of urban space; reclaiming
public space

The right to the city: Migration and immigration in the 21st century
metropolis; social participation in the segmented city; contested urban
spaces.

We invite submissions for papers on these and related topics. Please send
abstract of your paper or presentation by March 15, 2010 to the address
listed below.

Papers on cinematic urbanism: Dr. Lorenzo Tripodi, Berlin
(lorenzo.tripodi@googlemail.com)

Papers on governance and planning: Dr. Camilla Perrone, Università degli
Studi di Firenze (camilla.perrone@unifi.it)

Papers on Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Dr. Gabriele Manella,
Università degli Studi di Bologna (Gabriele.manella@unibo.it)

Papers on appropriations of urban space: Dr. Circe Monteiro, Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil (monteiro.circe@gmail.com)

Papers on the right to the city: Dr. Milan Prodanovic, University of Novi
Sad (ecourban@eunet.rs) or Dr. Ray Hutchison University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay (hutchr@uwgb.edu).

Participants will be contacted with information concerning participation in
the conference by March 15th, 2010. Completed papers will be required by
May 30, 2010.

For other general inquiries concerning Everyday Life in the Segmented City,
contact Ray Hutchison, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (hutchr@uwgb.edu)

Selected papers from the conference will appear in special edited volume
titled Everyday Life in the Segmented City (a volume in the series Research
in Urban Sociology, published by Emerald Press).

Discounted hotel accommodations in Florence will be available to
participants in the conference. This conference is supported with funding
from the Del Bianco Foundation in Florence.

More information concerning conference location and lodging may be found on
the web at Everyday Life in the Segmented City. This will be updated with
additional information concerning housing and other conference details as it
becomes available.

University of Trash

2009-08-01T10:22:00.000-07:00

Conceptualizing Urban Space, Place, & Trash: academic theories for thinking on the street

Monday, August 3rd 2009
Time: 4-6pm
part of "University of Trash", an installation/ ongoing event www.universityoftrash.org or Facebook at The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, Queens (directions below)

By Aseel Sawalha, & Judith Pajo, Anthropology Faculty, Pace University, New York
Aseel Sawalha talks about the rise of academic theories of space and place in the social sciences, touching on major thinkers and key debates, illustrated by case studies in Beirut and in New York City.

**Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape

2009-05-15T23:25:00.000-07:00

**Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape
Saturday 23 May, 2009: 10am-6pm
Tate Britain, London

£25 (£15 concessions), with post-conference reception
For tickets, please book online at:
**https://tickets.tate.org.uk/performancelist.asp?ShowID=3586&Source=web** *
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or call: 020 7887 8888

This one-day symposium, organised with the Tate Britain and the Centre for
Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of London, uses the
lens of urban photography to bring together international researchers,
academics, photographers and artists, concerned with the nature of
contemporary urban spaces and cultures. It will be of particular relevance
to those engaged with urban image-making, analysis and research. *
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Following on from last year’s conference at Goldsmiths, this year’s event
will focus on photographic interpretations of urban landscapes. The three
panels will address the themes of mapping, human, and changing landscapes.
Speakers will discuss the nature of urban photography in relation to
migration and change, place, identity and the cultural geographies of city
life. The conference will facilitate an on-going interdisciplinary dialogue
about the growing field of urban visual practice, method and enquiry.

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Panel themes
* Mapping landscapes: Cartographies of looking
* Human landscapes: Place & identity
* Changing landscapes: Archives & activism

Keynote speaker: Markéta Luskačová

Speakers
Les Back Goldsmiths, University of London
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, the New School & Goldsmiths, University of London
Janet Delaney, University of California, Berkeley
Davide Deriu, University of Westminster
Tiffany Fairey, PhotoVoice
Paul Goodwin, Tate Britain
Paul Halliday, Goldsmiths, University of London
Caroline Knowles, Goldsmiths, University of London
Susan Schwartzenberg, the exploratorium
Alison Rooke, Goldsmiths, University of London
Susan Trangmar, Central Saint Martins

For more information:
**http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/17657.htm*
*https://tickets.tate.org.uk/*
*http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr/*

CFP: Post American City

2009-04-11T07:35:00.000-07:00

The New England American Studies Association has extended the CFP for its fall 2009 conference until April 10. The Conference will be Oct. 16-18 i Lowell, MA, on the topic "The Post-American City." The full call is found below.

Taking our cue from Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World, the New England American Studies Association invites submissions of individual papers and panels on historic and contemporary understandings of the city in global contexts. Our site in Lowell, Massachusetts, looks back to colonial and early national interactions of an emerging Atlantic World, and to the economic and cultural shifts of the Industrial Revolution. At the same time, our call directs us forward, to the urbanizing and globalizing forces that have brought 21st century immigrants and refugees to Lowell and other cities. This sweeping transnational topic signals our desire to bring together academics from a range of disciplines, including history, literature, economics, political science, environmental studies, urban planning, law, and film and visual cultural studies, as well as community organizers, artists, architects, teachers and policy makers. We hope that Zakaria's argument that the "rise of the rest" has left the United States less dominant provokes dialogue rather than simply agreement. At the same time, we are particularly interested in proposals which connect American urban lives, cultures, economies, policies, and spaces to the rest of the world, and consider the city, past and present, in terms of immigration, globalization, and cosmopolitanism. Questions which guide NEASA's 2009 conference call include:

* How, and to what degree, has a post-American city developed?
* How has globalization changed the city as a site for forming national identity and other kinds of identity?
* How might cities in China, India, South America, or Africa be post-American cities?
* To what extent has the U.S. city always been a hybrid and transnational site?
* How have political and cultural struggles rooted in post-American contexts transformed urban spaces and communities?
* How have shifts in American political and economic power affected particular cities or the idea of the city?
* How is the post-American model different from other models for understanding the city (multicultural, global, cosmopolitan)?
* What are key sites and texts for understanding and shaping the post-American city?
* How have American cities developed individual identities? How have those identities been represented, reified, or challenged?
* In what ways have American cities been distinct from other world metropolises? In what ways have they been similar?

Proposals should include a one page abstract with title, as well as the author's name, address, and institutional or professional affiliation.
For panel proposals please include contact information for all participants, as well as a brief (no more than two page) description of the session. Submit proposals by April 10, 2009 to neasacouncil@gmail.com

Further information is available at our website: http://www.neasa.org

Proposals or queries may also be sent to:
Mary Battenfeld, NEASA
President

Wheelock College, 200 The Riverway
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 879-2369 (mbattenfeld@wheelock.edu)

CFP: Urban Crowds in History (and Beyond)

2009-04-03T08:59:00.000-07:00

Urban Crowds in History (and Beyond)

An international and interdisciplinary conference to be held October 15-17, 2009, University of Tours, France.

Crowds, and more specifically urban crowds, have long been a favorite topic for human and social sciences, before fading out from recent research. Is this due to the fact that we have been moving on from an 'age of the masses' to an 'age of the individual'? Indeed, if there is a wealth of studies of crowds at various turning points in history, we lack studies trying to bypass the canonical chronological boundaries and to develop a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue among the social sciences. Crowds are understood here as encompassing political, cultural and religious gatherings, either in a paroxistical form (riots, collective celebration) or in a more subdued, ordinary, form (social networks), as well as collective practices shared by a score of individuals. These collective practices bring crowds to invest the city as its major theatre; crowd action is an addition of individual gestures, postures, behaviors, slogans, cries, screams..., the modalities and temporalities of which deserve a study in their own right.

This conference is aiming at an approach which combines history, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, or literary studies of urban crowds.

Possible themes include, but are not limited to:
- theoretical approaches of 'the crowd' from the angle of various social sciences -anthropology, social psychology, political science. - or literary representations;
- when does a crowd become a 'crowd', i.e., when does a gathering of people come to be seen - and whom by ? - as a 'crowd'? Does it change in space and/or time ?
- crowds in urban environments, their means of acting, positioning in, and negociating urban space;
- the various types of crowds : sports crowd, festive crowd, protesting crowd, consumerist crowd (Christmas shopping, the sales.), etc.; their behaviour, with particular attention to chants, speeches, slogans;
- crowd leaders, their means, methods and results;
- the influence of 'populism' on the masses;
- crowd movements relate to social and political passions;
- the means of checking and controlling crowds ;
- the influence of power institutions on gathering crowds and, in return, the influence of gathered crowds on the powers that created them ;

The conference committee will be pleased to welcome 300-word abstracts no later than May 30, 2009. Please include a CV or resume. Selected applicants will be notified by June 30, 2009.

Please send abstracts to
Dr. Christine Bousquet : christinebousquet@gmail.com
Prof. Philippe Chassaigne : philchassaigne@gmail.com
Prof. Stéphane Corbin : stephmagcorbin@wanadoo.fr

A selection of papers presented during the Conference will be published in a special issue of Mana. Revue de sociologie et d'anthropologie (University of Caen, France).

Prof. Philippe Chassaigne
Dept. of History
University of Tours
3 rue des Tanneurs
37000 Tours
France
Email: philchassaigne@gmail.com

New Book: Coal Mountain Elementary

2009-04-02T11:28:00.000-07:00

Coal Mountain Elementary
Poems by Mark Nowak
photographs by Ian Teh and Mark Nowak

“Coal Mountain Elementary is an imaginative and shocking reminder of what it means, in the most human and poignant terms, to be a miner, whether in this country or in China, or for that matter anywhere in the industrial world. It is also a tribute to miners and working people everywhere. It manages, in photos and in words, to portray an entire culture. And it is a stunning educational tool.”—Howard Zinn

“Mark Nowak’s vital poetry cleaves to the hard surfaces of working lives. There is an epic quality to the voices that cannot be dismissed by corporations or the state. Coal Mountain Elementary will move readers to indignation and action.”—Aihwa Ong

A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America’s most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation’s curriculum for schoolchildren, and newspaper accounts of mining disasters in China with photographs of Chinese miners taken by renowned photojournalist Ian Teh.

Racial Formation in the 21st Century Symposium

2009-03-20T23:48:00.000-07:00

Racial Formation in the 21st Century Symposium
April 17-18, 2009
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Professors Howard Winant (UC Santa Barbara) and Michael Omi (UC Berkeley) will headline a groundbreaking symposium addressing the theories, politics and practices of racial formation. The two-day program includes a plenary session featuring Omi and Winant, keynote addresses by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Duke) and Devon Carbado (UCLA), and four other sessions which bring together 15 leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines.

The symposium is organized in anticipation of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the first publication of Omi and Winant’s landmark book
Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s.

Omi and Winant's work—influential to a generation of scholars across the social sciences and humanities—will serve as the point of departure for a series of panels and presentations exploring the past, present and future of racial formation.

The panels will examine a diverse set of locations and times: from the plantations of Colonial Virginia to the Rastafarian communities of Western Jamaica in the 1990s to the prisons of Abu Ghraib today. Speakers will explore the ways race is constructed, inhabited, and transformed and will discuss contemporary policy questions; such as conceptions of race in biomedical research. The panels will offer fresh perspectives on social movements, such as the diverse origins and membership of the United Farm Workers in the 1960s. And they will consider a range of provocative theoretical frameworks—Native studies, feminist theories, critical race studies--to depict the various ways that struggles over land, identity, bodies and nationhood articulate racial meaning and power.

The symposium is free and open to the public.
No advance registration is required.

http://www.waynemorsecenter.uoregon.edu/Racial_Formation_09/home.html

BEYOND THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE

2009-02-14T14:39:00.000-08:00

cfp: BEYOND THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE
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For the July 2009 issue, the editors of Litteraria Pragensia (journal) are seeking contributions addressing the political commitment of art and the aesthetic dimension of politics in the increasingly globalized and medialized global environment.

From Ezra Pound´s contention that "energy depends on one´s ability to make a vortex" to Youngblood’s "the new avant-garde is about creating autonomous social worlds that people can live in... what´s avant-garde is... the creation of context", the problems of artistic creation within or without the context of other, social or political, types of creation, have been of utmost concern for artistic practitioners and theorists alike, whether under the inertia of Cold-War ideological state apparatuses, in the countershock of the society of the spectacle, or born from the reconfigurations of social reality linked to the advent of cyberspace.

What strategies does or should art adopt in order to implicate itself within, or disentangle itself from, the contemporary political debates? More particularly, what future does art have in a world of instantaneous assimilation of ideas? What forms can a ppolitical-critical art assume beyond those already mapped out by the avant-garde heritage(s) in what are now seen as definitive movements (the Oulipo, the Situationists, the Nouveau Roman, the Tel Quel, Lettrism, Concrete Poetry, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E , hypertextual fiction, new media poetics, etc.). Where do the emerging boundaries of contestation lie?

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The deadline for proposals/abstracts is 15 April.
Final submissions are due by 31 May, 2009.
Papers of up to 6,000 are welcome.

Please send abstracts/queries to: litteraria@ff.cuni.cz
or: info@litterariapragensia.com

www.litterariapragensia.com
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City From Below

2008-12-13T17:42:00.000-08:00

The city from below: call for participation

March 27th-29th, 2009
Baltimore

http://cityfrombelow.org

The city has emerged in recent years as an indispensable concept for
many of the struggles for social justice we are all engaged in - it's
a place where theory meets practice, where the neighborhood organizes
against global capitalism, where unequal divisions based on race and
class can be mapped out block by block and contested, where the
micropolitics of gender and sexual orientation are subject to
metropolitan rearticulation, where every corner is a potential site
of resistance and every vacant lot a commons to be reclaimed, and,
most importantly, a place where all our diverse struggles and
strategies have a chance of coming together into something greater.
In cities everywhere, new social movements are coming into being,
hidden histories are being uncovered, and unanticipated futures are
being imagined and built - but so much of this knowledge remains, so
to speak, at street-level. We need a space to gather and share our
stories, our ideas and analysis, a space to come together and rethink
the city from below. To that end, a group of activists and
organizers, including Red Emma's, the Indypendent Reader,
campbaltimore, and the Campaign for a Better Baltimore are calling
for a conference called The City From Below, to take place in
Baltimore during the weekend of March 27,28,29, 2009 at 2640, a
grassroots community center and events venue.

Our intention to focus on the city first and foremost stems from our
own organizing experience, and a recognition that the city is very
often the terrain on which we fight, and which we should be fighting
for. To take a particularly salient example from Baltimore, it is
increasingly the case that labor struggles, especially in the service
sector, need to confront not just unfair employers, but structurally
disastrous municipal development policies. While the financial crisis
plays out in the national news and in the spectacle of legislative
action, it is at the level of the urban community where foreclosures
can be directly challenged and the right to a non-capitalist relation
to housing can be fought for. Our right to an autonomous culture, to
our freedom to dissent, to public spaces and to public education all
hinge increasingly on our relation to the cities in which we live and
to the people and forces in control of them. And our cities offer
some truly inspiring and creative examples of resistance - from the
community garden to the neighborhood assembly.

We are committed in organizing this conference to a horizontal
framework of participation, one which allows us to concretely engage
with and support ongoing social justice struggles. What we envision
is a conference which isn't just about academics and other
researchers talking to each other and at a passive audience, but one
where some of the most inspiring campaigns and projects on the
frontlines of the fight for the right to the city (community anti-
gentrification groups, transit rights activists, tenant unions,
alternative development advocates) will not just be represented, but
will concretely benefit from the alliances they build and the
knowledge they gain by attending.

At the same time, we also want to productively engage those within
the academic system, as well as artists, journalists, and other
researchers. It is a mistake to think that people who spend their
lives working on urban geography and sociology, in urban planning, or
on the history of cities have nothing to offer to our struggles. At
the same time, we recognize that too often the way in which academics
engage activists, if they do so at all, is to talk at them. We are
envisioning something much different, closer to the notion of
"accompaniment". We want academics and activists to talk to each
other, to listen to each other, and to offer what they each are best
able to. Concretely, we're hoping to facilitate this kind of dynamic
by planning as much of the conference as possible as panels involving
both scholars and organizers.

THEMES TO BE CONSIDERED
0. Gentrification/uneven development
0. Policing and incarceration
0. Tenants rights/housing as a right
0. Public transit
0. Urban worker's rights
0. Foreclosures/financial crisis
0. Public education
0. Slots/casionos/regressive taxation
0. Cultural gentrification
0. Underground economies
0. Reclaiming public space
0. The right to the city
0. Squatting
0. Urban sustainability

PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS

Please share with us your proposal for workshops or presentations. We
hope to host 15-25 sessions with a mixture of formats and welcome
proposals from groups and individuals. The conference is geared
towards discussion and participation. People are welcome to bring
papers andother resources with them, but this conference is not
oriented to the presentation of papers. There will be 50 and 110
minute sessions. We welcome self organized workshops but will also
work to incorporate individual proposals into panels with others. In
your proposal please indicate how your proposal relates to the themes
of the conference, expected participants, organizing partners and
session format (training, panel, open discussion, video, etc.) and
how long the session will be. We are especially interested in
proposals which combine critique of the urban environment with
discussions of new strategies for its reclamation.

Please send proposals to:

cityfrombelow -at- redemmas.org

Email is preferred, but you can also send a proposal to:

City from Below
c/o Red Emma's
800 St Paul St.
Baltimore MD 21202

Nutopia : Exploring The Metropolitan Imagination

2008-11-30T16:47:00.001-08:00

Nutopia : Exploring The Metropolitan Imagination
2/3 April 2009

Call for speakers
Deadline for application 30th November 2008

"Each epoch dreams the one to follow"
Michelet, Avenir! Avenir!

A multi disciplinary platform for artists/ archaeologists/ social scientists/
architects/ urban planners/ developers/ environmentalists/ activists and
regeneration/ housing, to meet and make visible their perspectives on the 21c
city; the nature of community, the human narrative, the new - utopia's which
we may be able to find present amongst contemporary town planning and
architecture.

The symposium will be set in Cardiff's Victorian and Edwardian Arcades, home
to a host of independent shops and against the backdrop of Saint Davids 2,
the city's under- construction shopping centre, which has been designed for
larger retailers, primarily multi + national chains. Both architectural
manifestations speak variously of social, economic and cultural shifts and
provide a lens through which to explore a multiplicity of perspectives, framing
our position as individuals and communities within the model of the 'global'
or 'regenerated' city. The aim of the symposium is to create a map of
perspectives revealing our thoughts on the 21c metropolitan 'imagination'.

Submissions are invited for a 20 minute paper / to host a break out discussion
or run a workshop or event in response to the above. Please feel free to
respond with a short abstract outlining an area of research or as a project
which befits the idea or possibility or new- utopia's.

Symposium Format: Working in response to submitted abstracts/ proposals,
your presentations will be located in different places in the city eg. Floor 5 of
NCP Carpark, Arcade basement, in a cafe/ pub, or in shopping centre's/
arcades/ office spaces etc in order to contextualise the discussion and to
create a dynamic between what is being discussed and a physical place. The
audience will be small and all presentations will be documented in location then
made available online please state in your proposal if you need to show images.

Please send 1 side of A4 outlining your responses in relation to your practice/
field, a CV and links to website/ blogs.

All speakers will have the option of having their paper included in the Museum
Of The Moment Archive* and also be featured in "The Arcades Project: A 3D
Documentary" Publication (Jan 2010).

UK travel costs will be covered/ free entrance and lunch provided during the
event participation fee to be agreed.

To make a submission email jennie@arcadesproject.org
To find out more about The Arcades Project : A 3D Documentary go to
www.arcadesproject.org

*The Museum Of The Moment Archive will be a multi media archive which will
be installed in the city centre as 'permanent' legacy of the project.

Dreamland Pavilion

2008-11-09T13:47:00.000-08:00

Conference - The Dreamland Pavilion: Brooklyn and Development
October 2-3, 2009, Kingsborough Community College, The City University
of New York
CALL FOR PAPERS

How has Brooklyn become what it is—a place of nostalgia, imagination,
or fantasy as much as a territorial space, an "outer borough" of New
York City? Isn't it time to assess critically the rapid changes in
the borough over the last decade? With tremendous growth comes
certain costs, but how do we evaluate the present moment, poised
between Brooklyn past and Brooklyn future? How is "development"
defined differently by different groups in different contexts?
Finally, how do Brooklyn's diverse localities and populations reflect
or even shape the future of New York, a global metropolis? This
conference aims to be a space within which these and other questions
will be addressed, discussed, even answered. The two-day gathering
will combine moderated panels (in both traditional academic and
roundtable formats), guided visits to local sites, artistic
performances and discussion.

We welcome proposals from all relevant academic disciplines, including
history, literary studies, political science, geography, and
sociology. We are equally interested in proposals from those outside
academia, including architects, artists, journalists, activists, urban
planners and others concerned with Brooklyn in particular and urban
space in general.

The primary areas we will focus on in the conference are:

--The Arts and Cultural Practices: the borough's relationship to film,
literature, and the performing arts.

--Development Projects: the conflicts and controversies surrounding
Brooklyn's most important contemporary development projects,

--Demographics and Diversity: the broader forces that have reshaped
Brooklynites' lives in past and present, including migration,
education, housing and urban politics.

Possible topics for panelists to address within these areas could include:

--Renters and homeowners

--Decision-making processes

--Relationship of arts and culture to neighborhood geography

--Case studies of particular neighborhoods

--The Atlantic Yards project or Coney Island redevelopment

--Dynamics of race and/or ethnicity

--Environmental impact of development

--Access to local institutions

--Privatization and public space

Proposals should be submitted by February 1, 2009 and should include:

--A one-page description of your topic

--Contact information: Name, position and affiliation, telephone
numbers (home and cellphone), mail address and e-mail.

Please email completed proposals to Dr. Rick Armstrong, Department of
English, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York,
at: stephen.armstrong@kingsborough.edu.

For more information, contact:

Dr. Eben Wood, Department of English
Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York
2001 Oriental Blvd.
Brooklyn, NY 11235
(718) 368-5229
eben.wood@kingsborough.edu

or

Dr. Libby Garland, Department of History, Philosophy, and Political Science
Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York
2001 Oriental Blvd.
Brooklyn, NY 11235
(718) 368-5624
libby.garland@kingsborough.edu

Please also visit our conference website at:
http://www.kingsborough.edu/dreamland_pavilion.

CFP: Radical History Review

2008-10-09T23:23:00.000-07:00

from HNET

"Enclosures": A call for abstracts by the Radical History Review

Publication Date: 2009-02-01
Date Submitted: 2008-10-01
Announcement ID: 164326

Call for Abstract Submissions Radical History Review Issue #108: "Enclosures"

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2009 Email: rhr@igc.org

The Radical History Review seeks submissions for an issue dedicated to the theme of “Enclosures”: a term that refers to the twin phenomenon of proprietary demarcation and dispossession that has accompanied the global transition to industrial capitalism in cities and rural areas alike. In a variety of geographical and chronological contexts, this issue will explore both the symbolic and the literal, material senses of the historical process of enclosure.

Contemporary thinkers have evoked the concept of enclosure in a vast variety of settings and across the ideological spectrum, from Garrett Hardin’s prescriptive discussion of the “tragedy of the commons” and the neoliberal doctrine of the inherent instability of the commons, to E. P. Thompson’s studies of the social and legal conflicts over the peasantry’s use of the commons in early modern England. The concept of the commons has become a generic metaphor for public property—academic disciplinary knowledge and access to the airwaves, for example—and, by extension, the commonweal. Likewise, the enclosure of the commons has taken multiple meanings that extend the idea of the fencing off of common property in the interest of private gain and liberal (or neoliberal) individual property rights. As multifarious as it is, the concept of enclosure may provide a historically coherent way of considering disparate instances of conflicts over subsistence rights in the face of the division of property.

This special issue offers an opportunity to take stock of the idea of enclosure—to explore the connections between, for example, the type of “primitive accumulation” for which the term was originally applied and its more abstract, contemporary instances, and to historicize rigorously its application. To what degree was there ever really a “commons”? How did constructions of sacrosanct public space and its privatization and dispossession become naturalized features of cultural life? By collectively publishing work on such diverse phenomena as urban squatters throughout the world, intellectual property, or social conflicts over indigenous collective property rights in colonial and post-colonial settings, the journal editors aim to explore the limits of the usefulness of the concept of enclosure as a critical paradigm for understanding modern political and social life, and to consider how to connect its manifold manifestations.

While we would welcome submissions that revisit the early modern European context to which the term enclosure has typically been applied, we strongly encourage works from any time period, especially those that critically examine the broad applicability of the term and those that venture beyond the European and North American contexts.

The range of topics might include, but is not limited to, the following:

• Enclosure of the commons and the genesis of informal economies
• The historical roots of the privatized city
• Enclosure and the politics of population control
• The political and cultural uses of nostalgia for the “commons”
• Visual culture and the process of enclosure
• Environmental politics as part, or counterweight, to the process of enclosure
• Transnational historical perspectives on political and social movements such as Brazil’s and India’s respective anti-dam movements, or the struggle over the privatization of water in Bolivia
• Successful assertions of communal rights, for example in urban shantytowns and former runaway slave communities in the Americas: have they challenged the process of enclosure?
• Artistic, cinematic, or other cultural representations of enclosure and creative responses to it—for instance, in Agnès Varda’s cinéma verité classic, The Gleaners and I, or Britain’s punk and post-punk movements as aesthetic responses to Thatcher’s sweeping politics of privatization
• Enclosure and imperialism: what is the relationship between the domestic reapportioning of property rights and the possession of overseas territories? How can we connect the enclosure of the commons in the metropole to the fate of communally owned indigenous lands and other resources under colonial rule?
• The making of modern statecraft from the perspective of the “enclosers”: the surveyors, judges, and notaries who carried out the quotidian work of enclosure
• The politics of public space and the exclusionary “public sphere”
• Enclosure of the scientific commons and the commodification of knowledge
• The human genome as private property and the ownership of self
• The intellectual commons and radical approaches to intellectual and academic life
• Innovative uses of the cartographic and judicial records that enclosure left behind
• Critical reassessments of the classic works on enclosure, particularly E. P. Thompson and his cohort of Warwick School historians of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English agrarian society.

The RHR seeks scholarly research articles as well as such non-traditional contributions as photo essays, film and book review essays, interviews, brief interventions, “conversations” between scholars and/or activists, teaching notes and annotated course syllabi, and research notes.

Procedures for submission of articles:

By February 1, 2009, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the article you wish to include in this issue as an attachment to rhr@igc.org with “Issue 108 abstract submission” in the subject line. By March 1, 2009, authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for completed drafts of articles is August 1, 2009. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 108 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Fall 2010. Articles should be submitted electronically with “Issue 108 submission” in the subject line. For artwork, please send images as high resolution digital files (each image as a separate file).

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2009 Email: rhr@igc.org

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CFP: City at War: ACLA 2009 Convention

2008-09-29T12:37:00.000-07:00

ACLA 2009 Convention
March 26-29, 2009
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Seminar Organizers: Shawn C Doubiago, UC Davis; Susanne Hoelscher, U of San Francisco

The City at War

"The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism."
-Jean Baudrillard

This seminar explores how synthesizing notions of global cities, as expressed by Baudrillard, are disrupted by the violence of war. We invite interdisciplinary contributions that draw from a large array of genres and time periods to discuss the implications of destructive conflicts carried out on the body of the city and its inhabitants. In particular, we are interested in analyzing intersections of the spatial and social fabric in an urban environment under siege.
We seek to investigate how the aggression by external and/or internal forces disrupts and restructures urban spaces and communities, and how affected subjects react to the violations in their public and private spheres.
Topics might focus on:
- The City as Site of Contestations/Contested Sites in the City
- Victors? Claim to the City
- Penetration of Private and Public Realms
- Displacement
- Gendered Experiences
- Inner Cities and Ghettos
- Ethnic Conflicts and Colonization
- Divisions, Borders and Boundaries
- The City as Semiotic Field
- The City as Literary Figure
- The Razed City
- Topography and Architecture
- Conflicts in Historic Cities

Please submit paper proposals by Nov. 1, 2008 directly through the ACLA
website at: http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?page_id=7

Nowak on Poetry Foundation Blog

2008-07-01T17:21:00.000-07:00

Xcp Editor, Mark Nowak has entered the blog-o-sphere.
He joins Alan Gilbert and others on the Poetry Foundation blog
HARRIET
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/

CFP: "Motion in the City"

2008-07-01T17:18:00.000-07:00

Call for articles

Website has issued a call for
articles on "Motion in the City".

Motion and process modify the urban environment and provide
fascinating scope for those interested in the field of urban studies.
Both repeated and routine motion are important in understanding the
functioning principles behind single urban localities and also whole
metropolitan regions. Migration, commuting, financial flows and the
flux of ideas. All these motions are the beats of the city and in
certain sense may be seen as the substance of the urban setting.
Motion can be evaluated from the perspectives of different academic
fields; many questions about the contemporary development of the city
reveal themselves. How has urban motion changed over the last decades?
What are the effects of technological innovation, in the field of
transport and the transfer of information, on the urban milieu? What
is the progress of intra-urban, internal and international migration
into cities? How do the different parts of a city differ in terms of
the rhythms and everyday motions of its population?

Please send us an e-mail with your proposal to slamak@natur.cuni.cz
(Martin Ourednícek) until 30th August 2008. Final submissions
should be sent to europeancity@mkc.cz (Ondrej Daniel) until 15th
September 2008.

All feature articles and case studies should be either in English,
Czech or Slovak.

Original articles should be between 4,000 and 5,000 words, whilst
critical definitions should not exceed 2,000 words. Both must be
written in Microsoft Word and submitted as either *.doc or *.rtf
files. Font: Times New Roman, size:12. Line spacing: 1.5. Margins: 2.5
cm top and bottom, 3 cm left and right. Do not insert page numbers.
All references should follow the Harvard system consisting of in-text
citations [e.g. (Castles 2003)] and a full bibliography (see bellow).
Footnotes should be limited, but if included should be placed at the
foot of each page. Do not forget to list bibliography at the end of
your text. Please be consistent in your bibliography format, e.g. as
follows:

MORGAN, P. (2004). From a Death to a View: The Hunt for the Welsh past
in the Romantic Period. In: E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger, ed.: The
Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.
43-101.

MUSTERD, S. (2003). "Segregation and integration: A contested
relationship." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29 (4):
623-641.

KERYK M. (2008): "The Church and Ukrainian Immigrants in Poland."
Available at http://www.migrationonline.cz/e-library/?x=2081309
[visited 28.3. 2008].

Please also provide the following:

- Brief annotation (4 sentences maximum) and a list of keywords (5-10
most relevant keywords)

- Full contact details for the author along with email address as well
as a brief biography (3 sentences maximum).

Please submit all images as separate files, in either *.jpg or *.tif
format with reference points indicated in the text.

Authors of feature articles and case studies chosen for publication
will receive remuneration for their contribution.

--
Ondrej Daniel
Website editor

www.evropskemesto.cz
www.europeancity.cz
tel./fax: (+420) 296 325 347
e-mail : europeancity@mkc.cz

CFP: The Fall 2008 issue of Interval(le)s

2008-01-11T13:57:00.000-08:00

The Fall 2008 issue of Interval(le)s, the poetics journal from University of Liège, Belgium, will explore transcription in the humanities and social sciences.

As an aesthetic and methodological practice, transcription appears in many disciplines: poetry, anthropology, classics, performance studies, to name just a few. We seek scholarly papers and creative projects which discuss—or exemplify—particular uses of transcription. Possible topics and projects include: transcribed literary texts; transcribed anthropological fieldwork; transcribed autoethnographies; transcribed philosophical lectures.

By July 1, 2008, send your submission to Jon Cotner (j.cotner@rocketmail.com) and to Andy Fitch (professorfitch@yahoo.com). Papers/projects should follow the MLA format (if applicable) and use footnotes rather than endnotes (if necessary). Contact us in advance if your work exceeds 7,000 words, or if you have any questions. If you submit a transcription project, please provide a brief introductory note on its development.

Previous issues can be found online at:

Word on the Street

2007-12-03T09:40:00.001-08:00

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

Thinking After Derrida: Davis Derrida Day

2007-10-17T15:01:00.001-07:00

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.â€”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.

Xcp Web Offline

2007-10-17T14:58:00.000-07:00

There is a temporary problem with the Buffalo Freenet Server, which hosts the Xcp and Streetnotes site. We hope to be back online shortly. David

CFP: The Street

2007-10-14T10:50:00.000-07:00

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

John C Mohawk, His Life and Work Conference

2007-10-01T12:19:00.000-07:00

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

Join Network of Concerned Anthropologists

2007-09-30T10:15:00.000-07:00

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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.

Urban History Group Annual Conference

2007-09-12T12:38:00.000-07:00

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

CFP: Who Claims the City?

2007-09-09T12:18:00.000-07:00

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

CFP: Oral History, Mid-Atlantic Region

2007-08-22T09:35:00.000-07:00

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

CFP: New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

2007-08-20T09:24:00.000-07:00

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

Beyond Signification

2007-08-11T11:21:00.000-07:00

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.

CFP: Behind the Scenes, Between the Lines. Dis-Membering the Dark Side of Organization

2007-08-08T13:47:00.000-07:00

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

CFP: Teaching the City

2007-07-25T09:35:00.000-07:00

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

CFP Perceptions of Space and the American Experience

2007-07-11T09:28:00.000-07:00

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

Visualizing the City Resources

2007-06-29T16:33:00.000-07:00

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

RESEARCHING NEW YORK 2007

2007-06-27T08:48:00.000-07:00

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.

CFP: Urban Culture

2007-06-25T14:18:00.000-07:00

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

TOC for the journal _City_

2007-05-21T09:52:00.000-07:00

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

CFP: Common Ground , Converging Gazes

2007-05-15T09:40:00.000-07:00

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

Documentary Studies

2007-05-14T15:48:00.000-07:00

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

Urban Dystopias

2007-05-14T15:46:00.001-07:00

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

Xcp panel at the Cultural Studies Association Conference

2007-04-15T13:43:00.000-07:00

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.

CFP Out of the Ordinary

2007-02-24T12:14:00.000-08:00

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

Street Knowledge

2007-02-06T08:39:00.000-08:00

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

CFP: Black Diaspora in the South and the Caribbean

2007-01-15T13:00:00.000-08:00

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

CFP: Ethnoscapes

2006-11-15T15:42:00.000-08:00

Call for Papers

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the
Global Context

Issue One, Fall 2007
“Race and Coalition”

The editorial staff of the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An
Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context
invites submissions for its inaugural issue on the subject of “Race and
Coalition.” Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the
field of race and ethnic studies by using a “classic” piece as a point of
departure for a reconsideration of critical issues within the contemporary
economic, political, and cultural terrain.

While the classic piece establishes the thematic parameters of each issue,
authors are under no obligation to actively engage the arguments posed by
that work.

Issue one explores the subject of “Race and Coalition” with consideration
of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and Charles V. Hamilton’s “The Myths of
Coalition” from the 1967 text Black Power: The Politics of Liberation. In
this seminal essay, the authors question the viability of coalitions that
do not seek radical changes in racial hierarchy, include partners with
disparate amounts of economic and political power, and rely on
sentimentality and goodwill to build and maintain cohesiveness.

The authors argue instead that viable and productive coalitions must do
the following:

1) recognize the self-interests of the groups involved in the relationship;
2) have the capacity for realizing the self-interests of each group;
3) articulate their own “independent base of power”;
4) have specific goals.

Proceeding from this articulation of coalition politics, Ethnoscapes seeks
manuscripts that investigate the dynamics of “Race and Coalition” with
particular attention to one or more of the following themes:

A) Theoretical Foundations of Coalition. If organizing is no longer forged
on the basis of shared identity or “unity,” what serves as the
“foundation” for political mobilization? What new forms of coalition,
alliance, or issue-based organizing have emerged in the current political,
economic, and cultural context? Can these convergences operate only
temporarily or can they be more sustained? How can/must/do coalitions
negotiate differences along the lines of gender, sexuality, nationality,
religion, and class in articulating a shared platform? What productive
alliances have been or can be forged between different marginalized
groups? What makes these coalitions cohere? How do these projects
(re)shape experiences of race and ethnicity?

B) The Multicultural Terrain of Organizing in the United States. With the
rise of Asian/Pacific American and Latino/a social movements, how is the
concept of “coalition” being rearticulated today? Does the “people of
color” construct, expressing the common bonds of non-white groups, still
make sense? What new challenges to coalition-building emerge in the
context of the variable power relations of nations, economic operations,
and discourse that characterize the contemporary multiracial terrain of US
organizing? What strategies can be mobilized to negotiate these
differences? What roles are available to whites in multiracial coalitions
and in coalitions for racial justice?

C) The Global Context. What challenges and possibilities do new
communications and other technologies linking people across the globe
offer for multiracial coalitions? How do the ties of nation, state, and
culture complicate efforts to organize pan-ethnically? How can models of
organizing around race throughout the world, or on behalf of racially
identified groups and concerns, usefully inform organizing strategies in
the US context, or vice versa? What is at stake and where are we headed?

The deadline for manuscript submission is February 16, 2007. Please send
submissions to mmaltry@kirwaninstitute.org and
editors@kirwaninstitute.org. See
http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/ethnoscapes/styleguide.html to prepare your
document in accordance with the style guidelines of Ethnoscapes.

Melanie Maltry
Assistant Editor, Ethnoscapes
The Kirwan Institute
The Ohio State University

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Using diaries for social research

2006-09-22T10:40:00.000-07:00

Alaszewski, Andy.
Using diaries for social research / Andy Alaszewski.
London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, c2006.

Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-130) and index.
Subject Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
ISBN 0761972900 (cased)
0761972919 (pbk.)

Documentary Cookbook

2006-07-11T23:47:00.000-07:00

Here are some tips from the UC Berkeley School of Journalism's Documentary Cookbook. They are shooting for making a broadcast documentary for 100,000 an hour -- still its interesting.

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BASIC APPROACH
"Make films, not proposals:"

If you have lots of money, don't do this.

1. As expected, most of the lessons learned so far are bone head obvious, and boil down to very disciplined, simple "preventive production." To really be serious about finding projects on which you can lower cost without lowering quality, here's what you need to do, in order of cost efficiency:

2. Choose the right story. Find stories that naturally lend themselves to low cost, not stories which will be compromised with short funding. Thin Blue Line, Gimme Shelter, , Mark Twain, The Cockettes, and Long Night's Journey Into Day will always cost at least a half million dollars.

3. Back into it. Reverse the idea/funding process. Find stories and techniques that can be done with the money readily available, not with money which might someday be available.

4. Exercise Discipline. Be extremely careful and consistent at every stage of planning and production. Make the project all muscle, no fat. Obviously, this favors pre-conceptualized projects and handicaps discovery.

5. Use small format digital video. Use DV/DVCam as starting point to reduce cost from ground up. Small format digital video is to us as 16mm was to cinema verite or 4-track recorders were to rock and roll.

6. Exercise consistent technical protocol. Get video and audio close to right in the field, and do not plan to fix anything in the mix or on-line. Small format video demands more technical care than large format.

6. Pay professionals their going rates. Control personnel costs by adjusting time, not rates. Reconfigure what you do, not how much you pay for it.

7. Use experienced craftspeople at all levels, especially in audio and assistant editing.

8. Avoid air travel. Is there no good film to be made within 100 miles of home? .

9. Make the film quickly. Production and editorial schedules that minimize person-days are big levers for cost reduction. Set rough cut and lock picture deadlines, and meet them no matter what. This favors experienced filmmakers working with strong fallback narrative structures.

10. Maintain a clear decision flow. The producer/director is in charge. The production unit must be a community, but not a democracy. Fine-tune the filtering of ideas to flow from community to director to editor in orderly fashion. Delays in executive signoff (if there is an executive) can be catastrophic.

11. "FIDO" "Fuck it and drive on." Choose a story in which a few missing pieces or clunky moments will go unnoticed, so that you can always maintain forward motion. Never bog down, and never miss a deadline, no matter what.

12. Avoid on-line assembly, out of house, by working on an editing system which directly outputs high-resolution video. Do not color correct the show yourself.

13. Use high-end facilities for sound finishing and color correction after extremely careful field origination and editorial prep.

14. Do not use outside archive material, only home movies, personal photos, documents for which you own all rights in perpetuity, and fair use material for which you can make a clearly and obviously defensible case for fair use.

15. Do not use outside music, only music internally produced, for which you own rights in perpetuity; music rights may be non-exclusive.

16. Avoid hidden administrative cost, of music, archive footage, and stills. The admin time, paperwork, research, provenance search, and E&O costs can match license fees.

17. Avoid live performance under trade union jurisdiction [sic*], where fees and hidden administrative costs may be excessive. [* Here we might wonder if this contradicts 6 and 7- DM]

Avoid fundraising, beyond the bare minimum necessary to get the project done. The fundraising process itself mounts its own enormous costs---sample reels, office expense, producer time, spun budgets, spun proposals.

These suggested methods clearly apply only to a small number of documentaries and a small number of filmmakers. And finally:

Make a high quality film, and then sell it to the highest bidder. "HBO is not going to broadcast a show simply because it cost $100,000. Nobility is not part of the mix," says Pete Nicks

Visit the DOCUMENTARY COOKBOOK for more about their project.

FILM: Urbanscapes

2006-07-05T15:51:00.000-07:00

'Urbanscapes,' a Documentary on the Decaying of Neighborhoods

NYT

By NATHAN LEE
Published: July 5, 2006

"Urbanscapes" plants a camera in neighborhoods gone to seed, cultivating a bittersweet portrait of American ruin...

A Gathering of the Tribes

2006-06-29T17:34:00.000-07:00

Visit the A Gathering of the Tribes website to see the gallery's schedule, read their online poetry journal, check out the newest publications from their press and much more...

Engaging ethnography in tourist research

2006-06-26T12:57:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue of Tourist Studies
Engaging ethnography in tourist research

For quite some time, anthropologists (and other social scientists who use qualitative methodologies) have struggled to find research strategies to deploy when studying tourists and tourism. Ethnographic methodology which relies on prolonged interaction with research participants can be problematic. How does a researcher sustain such contact with highly mobile tourists? But other problems arise as well. All too often, for example, interpretive analyses of tourism media do not take into account how tourists, locals, and others actually use the materials, or ignore the affective outcomes of tourist discourses. Nor do they acknowledge the complexities of engaging meaningfully with subjects who are both transient and reticent to be distracted from their pursuit of pleasure. Ethnographic methodology demands that the researcher make sense of these realities through painstaking attention to social and cultural context that is always complex and messy. Quick in and out won't suffice, yet nor will standard ethnographic practice. Fresh approaches must be devised. Papers could address questions such as: How does a researcher position themselves as being something other than a tourist? Does multi-sited ethnography offer a useful model here? Do the research strategies and analytical frameworks of visual anthropology offer particular guidance? Does the earnestness of ethnography need modification to fully capture the experience of 'fun' and 'leisure'? Does the experiential moment of touristic encounter provide the richest ethnographic context for research? Selected papers on ethnographic methodology and the study of tourists and tourism will be refereed for publication in a special issue of Tourist Studies. Submissions must address methodological concerns, ideally highlighting innovative and adaptive approaches, but fundamentally grounded in the basic parameters of ethnographic research. We are particularly interested in papers which highlight the tensions and linkages in such research between methodological practice, ethics and theory, and which explore the dialectic between touristic phenomenon and ethnographic praxis.

Please send a 250-word abstract to Julia Harrison (jharrison@trentu.ca) and Susan Frohlick (frohlick@ms.umanitoba.ca) by August 31, 2006. Full papers will be needed by October 15, 2006.

poetswest

2006-05-23T13:39:00.000-07:00

poetswest

PoetsWest, the gateway to on-line information about poets and poetry in the Pacific Northwest. On this site you will find a directory of Who's Who in Northwest poetry, rotating selections of poetry, reviews of poetry, information on special public poetry performances, venues with regularly scheduled poetry readings, poetry books and CDs, and links to selected poetry resources.

Another future : poetry and art in a postmodern twilight

2006-05-19T15:25:00.000-07:00

New Book from Weseleyan University Press

Another Future
Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight
Gilbert, Alan
“As the theoretical bubble bursts, Alan Gilbert brings us back to the attention poetry demands, with its local nuances, terms, and conditions. With referential breadth and political acuity, Another Future deftly traces cultures in the making within the confines of social space.” -- Ammiel Alcalay, author of From the Warring Factions

What’s next for contemporary poetry?

How do we write and think about poetry and visual art in the wake of postmodernism? Questions like this are central to poetry and art, especially when taught within an academic context. Another Future is a collection of critical essays on contemporary poetry, art, culture, and politics that investigates the current state of these fields by bringing together writings on the work of a number of poets and visual artists. Reading the social poetically and poetry socially, Gilbert illuminates poetic and artistic practices in the present and creates a new discourse for thinking beyond postmodernism. Both meticulous and comprehensive, Another Future makes an important contribution to the critical discussion of contemporary poetry and cultural aesthetics.

Essays cover authors, artists, and topics such as the Barbie Liberation Organization, Anselm Berrigan, Brenda Coultas, documentary aesthetics, Benjamin Friedlander, globalization, Andreas Gursky, Renee Gladman, Kevin Killian, David LaChapelle, Harryette Mullen, Mark Nowak, Keith Piper, pirate radio, “post-black” art, Martha Rosler, Edward Sanders, Andrew Schelling, Allan Sekula, September 11th, Prageeta Sharma, Roberto Tejada, Lorenzo Thomas, Anne Waldman, and the Zapatistas.

“Gilbert is brilliant. With a clear and intelligent prose style that is intellectually rigorous and jargon-free, he has found a vital and useful vocabulary with which to describe and investigate what's really new in North American poetry.”—Peter Gizzi, author of Some Values of Landscape and Weather

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction • PART 1: CONSIDERING HOW MATERIAL DOCUMENTS CAN BE • The Present Versus (the) Now • Sound Mappings: free103point9’s Constructive Engagement • Anne Waldman Changing the Frequency • The Information of Art: A Martha Rosler Retrospective • Fade to Black: Kevin Killian’s Argento Series • The Costs of Style: Harryette Mullen and Freestyle • Adding Up to Plural: On the Work of Roberto Tejada • Poetry As Document, or The Y2K Problem Is the Illusion of Starting at Zero • Form and Culture • PART TWO: TERRITORIES AND OTHER FORMS OF KNOWING • re:Reading the Active Reader Theory • Poetic Ethnography: Mark Nowak’s Revenants • “There’s no center where / similarity would begin”: C.S. Giscombe’s Giscome Road and Here • A Global View: Andreas Gursky at Matthew Marks Gallery • Ghost Stories: Renee Gladman’s Juice • Poetry and Reportage: Andrew Schelling’s The Road to Ocosingo • What Are the Alternatives?—Lorenzo Thomas’ Extraordinary Measures, for Example • PART THREE: MEANING POLITICS WITHOUT REGRETS • “Startling and Effective”: Writing Art and Politics after 9/11 • Countercultural Studies: Edward Sanders’ 1968: A History in Verse • Shine a Dark Light on It: Benjamin Friedlander’s A Knot Is Not a Tangle • Picking Up the Diasporic Pieces: Keith Piper at the New Museum • “How Soon Is Now?”: Anselm Berrigan, Prageeta Sharma, Greg Fuchs, Magdalena Zurawski, and the New Independents • Building Locations: Recent Work by Ben Polsky • Musical Chairs in Public Spaces: Brenda Coultas’ The Bowery Project • Acknowledgments • Bibliography • Index

CFP: Documentary

2006-04-26T12:10:00.000-07:00

Velvet Light Trap
Issue #60 Documentary Now

CFP: Documentaries have undergone significant stylistic, aesthetic,
and representational shifts from early ethnographic films and the
Griersonian tradition to contemporary work by filmmakers as varied as
Trinh T. Minh-ha and Michael Moore. Debates regarding the role of the
documentarian, ethics of production, editing, indexicality, claims to
"truth" and reality, and representations of
race/ethnicity/gender/sexuality/class have altered how audiences and
scholars consider documentaries. Issue 60 of the Velvet Light Trap
continues these dialogues by seeking essays for a special issue on
contemporary documentary. Essays examining debates in documentary
theory and criticism in light of contemporary contexts,
stylistic/textual strategies, changing patterns of distribution and
exhibition, and industrial analyses are particularly encouraged. The
editorial board is especially interested in changes in documentary
theory, practice and criticism from the 1980s-present.

Possible topics for this issue inclubut are not limited to:

reality television
"reality" and hyperreality
sound style
music
documentary and transnational trade/global flows
social movements and filmmaking
production models
audiences and reading formations
distribution and technology
indexicality
technology and/or distribution
documentary theory
contemporary politics and documentary
filmmakers/movements and production philosophy
editing, style, and aesthetics
sexual/gender/racial representations
PBS/BBC/public service documentary style
News documentary
Documentaries and education
Documentaries and film festival circuits
Distribution
Cable TV and documentary texts
Case studies of particular filmmakers (e.g., Wiseman, Morris)
avant garde/experimental documentary
animation, internet, and/or new media in documentary texts
short form documentary
budgeting and financing
community organizing around the documentary

To be considered for publication, papers should be between 4,500 and
7,500 words, double-spaced, in MLA style, with the author's name and
contact information included only on the cover page. Queries regarding
potential submissions also are welcome. Authors are responsible for
acquiring related visual images and the associated copyrights. For
more information or to submit a query, please contact Kyle Conway
(krconway@wisc.edu), David Resha (djresha@wisc.edu), Charlie Michael
(camichael@wisc.edu), or Ben Aslinger (bsaslinger@gmail.com). All
submissions are due September 15, 2006.

The Velvet Light Trap is an academic, refereed journal of film and
television studies published semi-annually by University of Texas
Press. Issues are coordinated alternately by graduate students at the
University of Texas-Austin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
After a prescreening, articles are anonymously refereed by specialist
readers of the journal's Editorial Advisory Board, which includes such
notable scholars as Charles Acland, David William Foster, Sean
Griffin, Bambi Haggins, Heather Hendershot, Charlie Keil, Michele
Malach, Dan Marcus, Nina Martin, Tara McPherson, Walter Metz, Jason
Mittell, James Morrison, Steve Neale, Karla Oeler, Lisa Parks, and
Malcolm Turvey.

Please address submissions to:
Velvet Light Trap
6th Floor, Vilas Communication Hall
821 University Avenue
UW-Madison
Madison, WI 53706

Billy Vermillion

Sound As A Media Friendly Weapon:

2006-04-14T11:39:00.000-07:00

The Graduate Group in Cultural Studies invites you to join us at colloquium on Thursday, 20 April 2006, 4:00-6:00PM in 1130 Hart Hall. Sound As A Media Friendly Weapon: The S.P.I.R.A.W.L Project (Sound Proofed Institute for Acoustic Weapons Logistics) will be presented by KIT Collaboration, Battery Operated, and C0C0S0L1DC1. Please see below for more information. We hope to see you there!

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Sound As A Media Friendly Weapon: The S.P.I.R.A.W.L Project
(Sound Proofed Institute for Acoustic Weapons Logistics)

A presentation by members of KIT Collaboration, Battery Operated, and C0C0S0L1DC1

With archival footage and contemporary interviews, S.P.I.R.A.W.L.: Sound as a Media Friendly Weapon charts the camouflaged growth of sound weapons, tracking their development under the benign rubric of “non-lethal” weapons programs, since the Second World War. The filmmakers trace the success these weapons have in field ops, look at how and where these weapons have been commercialized, and at what state agencies are introducing them for civilian control. They ask how democratic nations are able to develop and introduce these weapons without regard to international law, public policy or arms control. Calls for human rights directed policies have so far fallen on deaf ears. S.P.I.R.A.W.L. speaks out against the silent spread of sonic weaponry and locates the resonant frequency of democracy.

Thursday, 20 April 2006
4:00-6:00pm, 1130 Hart Hall

KIT is a collaboration of artists, architects, programmers and writers. Working together since 1995, they have produced interactive robotic, sound, video and photographic installations, projects for architectural competitions and curated touring exhibitions. KIT projects have been realized in galleries, museums, festivals and off-site spaces across Europe, North America and Asia.

C0C0S0L1DC1 is a sound, video and Internet commissioning label. They invite artists from all of these mediums to collaborate on projects together as well as to produce their own works for release on CD/DVD and through the web.

Co-sponsored by Technocultural Studies, Film Studies, and Science and Technology Studies

PARIS IS BURNING (AGAIN)

2006-04-10T15:20:00.000-07:00

PARIS IS BURNING (AGAIN)

PARIS IS BURNING (AGAIN)
The Museum of the African Diaspora will present the first program in the MoAD Arts and Lecture Series, Paris Is Burning (Again), a critical day-long symposium focusing on the black Francophone world and celebrating the 100th anniversary ofthe birth of Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet, first Senegalese president and founder ofthe cultural/artistic movement, Negritude.

Confirmed Participants
Simon Njami, co-founder and editorof Revue Noire and curator of the upcoming 'Bamako 2007: AfricanPhotography Encounters', a biennial photographic exhibition of African photographers, is the keynote speaker. Emmanuel Dongala, author of fournovels including 'Little Boys Come From the Stars' and the recent, 'Johnny Mad-Dog' and Tyler Stovall (UC Berkeley), Janet G. Vaillant (Harvard), Trica D. Keaton (Indiana U.), Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyl
(Stanford). Louis Chude-Sokei (UC Santa Cruz) is moderator for the Symposium.

Location: Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission Street (at Third) San Francisco, California 94105
Date: Thursday, April 13, 2005
Time: 10:00-4:00 Symposium
4:30-5:30 Self-guided MoAD Tour
5:30-8:30 Reception and Book signing

Reception catered by Marco Senghor, nephew of the late President Senghor and
owner of Bissap Baobab in San Francisco.
$ 25.00 General admission
$ 20.00 Students with current ID
$ 20.00 Seniors

Ticket price includes a Continental breakfast, lunch and reception. For
further information call 415 358-7215 or purchase tickets online
www.moadsf.org .

Paris Is Burning (Again) is co-sponsored by Alliance Francaise and is made
possible through a grant from the James Irvine Foundation.

Engendering Public Space

2006-02-24T10:14:00.000-08:00

Engendering Urban Public Space

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

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

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

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

Date: 12 April 2006
Location: Mumbai, India

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

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

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research)

DoubleTake Magazine

2006-02-15T10:09:00.000-08:00

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

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

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

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

Bootstrap Press Tour in Bay Area

2006-02-02T15:44:00.000-08:00

Bootstrap Press is holding three events in the bay area.

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

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

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

please join us.

Loggernaut Reading Series / Updates

2006-02-02T15:41:00.000-08:00

Visit the Loggernaut site. New interviews for Winter include:

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

Loggernaut Reading Series

CFP: African Cities: Colonial Speculum and Post-Colonial Urbanism

2006-01-14T13:15:00.000-08:00

African Identities: Journal of Economics, Culture and Society
Call for Papers
Deadline: May 30, 2006

African Cities: Colonial Speculum and Post-Colonial Urbanism

The Editors of African Identities and the Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul University are pleased to announce a special issue of the journal devoted to exploring African Cities: Colonial Speculum and Post-Colonial Urbanism. The special issue seeks to explore the physical and social construction of African cities and the dense web of intricate social relations, flows, exchanges, appropriations and adoptions that constantly shape and reshape their diverse geographical and social spaces.

In much of the literature on African cities which was derived from the early 20th century urban theory, the primary emphasis has been to generalize about the development of cities at different stages in history as spatially bounded entities, imprinted with a particular way of life as well as a distinct spatial and social divisions of labor. Given this framework, current literature of African cities retains a focus firmly rooted in characterizing African cities as sites of urban disorder, chaos, ungovernability, poverty, physical and symbolic violence. These images of African cities are reproduced and mediated by a grid of knowledge that privileges a particular form of city building processes which developed in Europe and North America. Criticism of this form of urban representation of African cities is extensive, yet the problem of African urbanity both in its colonial and post-colonial urban forms remains under theorized. There is therefore an urgent need to explore the nature of African cities. In part, because African cities are moving away from the "nation building" project assigned to them by the colonial powers and post-colonial states, to spaces in which African inhabitants are reconfiguring and remaking urban worlds, deploying their own forms of urbanity born out of their historical and material circumstances. It is in these new dense urban spaces with all their contradictions that urban Africans are reworking their local identities, building families, and weaving autonomous communities of solidarity made fragile by neo-liberal states. Urban Africans throughout the continent are creating and recreating dense social networks, flows, exchanges, and knowledge with their own architectural and urban development imprints. 1 Indeed, the pace of the new forms of African urbanity has accelerate in recent years by the deepening political and social crisis that has engulfed African cities. We are seeking articles that examine the significance of African urbanitiy, its complexity and vitality in a single region, social or historical context. Throughout the continent, urban Africans despite diminishing resources are appropriating and transforming the colonial city and its ideal of modernity.

Submissions
Articles should be between 6500-8000 words inclusive of notes and references, accompanied by disc in Microsoft Word. Articles may include black and white images scanned to disk at 300dpi. Manuscripts MUST conform to Harvard Reference style.

They should be double-spaced throughout (including notes and references). Because manuscripts are reviewed blind, the author's name, affiliations, address, telephone and, fax numbers (should be on a seperate sheet?-DM)

The deadline for submission is May 30, 2006.

Manuscripts for the special issue of African Identities should be sent
directly to the Guest Editor:
Fassil Demissie, Guest Editor
Public Policy Studies, DePaul University
2320 North Clifton Avenue, Room 150.1
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: (773) 325-7356
Fax: (773) 325-7514
Email: fdemissi@depaul.edu

African Identities is a peer reviewed international academic journal that provides a critical forum for examination of African and diasporic expressions, representations and identities. The aim of the journal is to open up various horizons of the field through multidisciplinary approaches: to encourage the development of theory and practice on the wider spread of disciplinary approach: to promote conceptual innovation and to provide a venue for entry of new perspectives. The journal focuses on the myriad of ways in which cultural productions create zones of profound expressive possibilities by continually generating texts and contexts of reflective import. With an emphasis on gender, class, nation, marginalization, 'otherness' and difference, the journal explore how African identities, either by force or contingency, create terrains of (ex)change, decenter dominant meanings, paradigms and certainties.

Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism

2006-01-09T17:49:00.000-08:00

Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
Location: Germany
Call for Papers Deadline: 2006-03-30

21-23 June 2007
Warburg-Haus, Hamburg
Proposal deadline 30 March 2006

Research on migration, diasporas and exile suggests that the specific trans-national situation with which exiles are confronted, frequently leads to
the emergence and development of nationalist or cosmopolitan attitudes towards other ‘nations’ or ethnicities, political and social groups. Nineteenth and early twentieth-century national historiography suggests that, during the process of nation building and the formation of national identities in western Europe, tendencies to develop rival national identities in exile were much stronger than in the so-called ‘cosmopolitan age’ of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. In the case of the Italian Risorgimento exile in France reinforced those exiles’ ‘nationalism’, other groups in diaspora, including the Huguenots, who migrated to different European and overseas destinations between 1548 and 1787, are identified as ‘cosmopolitans’. However, closer assessment of diasporic groups and of exile makes evident that exiles frequently developed attitudes that would be identified as simultaneously both cosmopolitan and nationalist.

This conference seeks,

1. To discuss different forms of exile to approach a more differentiated perspective on exile and its consequences for groups living in a trans-national context. These groups reacted to their circumstances by creating a new political, social, economic and/or cultural identity. 2. To define and explain ‘nationalism’ and the so-called ‘rise of the nation-state’ in the context of ‘exile’ and diasporic movements. 3. To define and explain cultural, political or social ‘cosmopolitanism’ in
the context of ‘exile’ and Diasporas.

We invite papers which

1. Offer specific forms of ‘exile’ including a) exile beyond the native country; forced exile or voluntary exile, political exile, diasporas and the discrimination of groups abroad that lead to forms of ‘non-voluntary exile’ b)exile within the native country: ‘inneres Exil’, discrimination of specific groups in their home countries which, in context, led to a variety of forms of ‘exile’.
2. Present responses of ‘exiled’ groups to the challenges posed by ‘exile’ – such as acculturation, integration and assimilation, discrimination and concepts of cultural superiority or inferiority developed by both the ‘hosting’ and the ‘hosted’ groups - that could be defined as ‘nationalist’ or ‘cosmopolitan’.

Please send an abstract of your paper proposal and a short curriculum vitae to

Dr. Susanne Lachenicht (slachenicht@yahoo.com). The deadline for proposals is 30 March 2006.

Organisers: Lehrstuhl für Neuere Geschichte, Schwerpunkt Nordamerikanische, Atlantische und Karibische Geschichte, Historisches Seminar, Universität Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Claudia Schnurmann, Dr. Susanne Lachenicht and the Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg, Dr. Kirsten Heinsohn.

Dr. Susanne Lachenicht
Universität Hamburg
Historisches Seminar
Arbeitsbereich Außereuropäische Geschichte
Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Claudia Schnurmann
Von Melle Park 6
Hamburg
Germany
Email: slachenicht@yahoo.com

Photography and the City

2005-11-28T16:50:00.000-08:00

Photography and the City

Conference
29th June - 1 July 2006
Call for Papers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and Transformation

2005-11-22T13:21:00.000-08:00

Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and Transformation

1st CALL FOR PAPERS

Sheffield, June 29th - July 2nd 2006

Steel and Tourism

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

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

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

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

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

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

Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and Transformation

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

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

Themes of interest to the conference include:

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

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

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

Indigenous Americas: Poetry by Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere

2005-11-18T09:42:00.000-08:00

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

Click here for submission instructions.

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

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AMERICA INDIGENA:
POESIA DE AUTORES INDIGENAS DEL HEMISFERIO OCCIDENTAL

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

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

Crossing America’s Internal Borders

2005-11-12T12:48:00.000-08:00

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Or
Jee H. An

Department of English
Seoul, National University
Seoul, Korea

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

Collision 2006

2005-11-12T12:42:00.000-08:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Streetnotes Winter 2006

2005-09-13T17:45:00.000-07:00

Xcp Website is collecting STREETNOTES for its WINTER 2006 Exhibition.

Heterotopia: Festival & Disaster

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

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

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

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

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

Diskettes (PC) and Hardcopies can be sent to:

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

Diasporic Hegemonies Project

2005-09-12T09:37:00.000-07:00

Diasporic Hegemonies Project

Symposium: Gendering the Diaspora, Race-ing the Transnational

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

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

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

2005-09-09T12:49:00.000-07:00

Sixth Annual Expo for the Artist & Musician

What?
The Sixth Annual Expo for the Artist & Musician

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

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

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

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

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

Word For/ Word: A Journal of New Writing

2005-09-02T09:24:00.000-07:00

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

Tout-Fait: Marcel Duchamp Studies Online journal

2005-08-31T16:51:00.000-07:00

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

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

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

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

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

2005-08-30T09:54:00.000-07:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All submissions must be received by November 1, 2005.

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

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

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

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

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

CFP: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ETHNIC STUDIES

2005-08-23T14:16:00.000-07:00

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

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

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

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

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

Streetnote: street music and musicians

2005-08-19T15:14:00.000-07:00

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

Streetnote

STREETNOTE

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

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

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

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

Hyphen | Asian America Unabridged

2005-08-16T10:29:00.000-07:00

What is Hyphen?

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

Hyphen | Asian America Unabridged

Submission Guidelines

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

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

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

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

WRITERS

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

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

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

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

HYPHEN DEPARTMENTS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inner View: A personal essay. 1000 words.

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

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

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Remain Human: The Slatter’s Court Project

2005-08-15T14:32:00.000-07:00

Remain Human: The Slatter’s Court Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard L. Nelson Gallery

Herring Award

2005-08-15T08:49:00.000-07:00

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

Hosted by Loyola Marymount University

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

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

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

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

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

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

Career Waitresses - Rethinking Work and Identity

2005-08-04T12:21:00.000-07:00

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

Career Waitresses - Rethinking Work and Identity

Wiyot Sacred Site Project on Indian Island

2005-08-01T21:38:00.000-07:00

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

Wiyot Sacred Site Project

CeMoRe: Centre for Mobilities Research: Lancaster University

2005-07-28T15:19:00.000-07:00

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

CeMoRe

CFP: Asian American Lit and Postcolonial Theory

2005-07-27T17:00:00.000-07:00

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

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

Contacts:

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

Katherine Sugg
Department of English
Central Connecticut State University

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

2005-07-27T13:24:00.000-07:00

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

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

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

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

PROGRAMME

Friday September 2

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

Saturday September 3

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

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

10.45-11.15 Break

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

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

12.45-14.15 Lunch

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

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

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

18.00 Reception

Sunday September 4

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

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

11.00-11.30 Break

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

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

13.00-14.15 Lunch

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

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

17.15 -17.30 Concluding remarks by Hilde Van Gelder

___________________________________________

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

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

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

WHAT COMES AFTER: CITIES, ART AND RECOVERY

2005-07-26T16:20:00.000-07:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Registration information announced on August 22, 2005.

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

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

Chris Jordan

2005-07-26T15:02:00.000-07:00

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

Here is a statement from his website.

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

Tim Edensor - British Industrial Ruins

2005-07-22T15:13:00.000-07:00

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

AIDS in Culture

2005-07-12T12:46:00.000-07:00

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

E-flux

2005-06-17T16:23:00.000-07:00

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

Lineae Terrarum - Border Theory

2005-06-12T13:12:00.000-07:00

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

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

Brujula CFP: Latin American Cities

2005-06-12T13:05:00.000-07:00

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

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

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

Brujula

CALL for PAPERs

LATIN AMERICAN CITIES

Call for Submissions: Latin American Cities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism - Conference 2005 - York University

2005-06-11T12:37:00.000-07:00

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

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

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

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

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism - Conference 2005 - York University

Poetry, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms:

2005-06-06T19:40:00.000-07:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Cost: Free and open to the public

For more information please contact

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

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