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Friday, June 17, 2005
Sunday, June 12, 2005
Lineae Terrarum - Border Theory
UTEP / Research / Lineae Terrarum - Home: "Lineae Terrarum intends to bring together the most prominent scholars in border studies from around the world to converge and share their scholarship on borders. Considering that international borders, regardless of their location, share many similarities even as they maintain their peculiar idiosyncrasies, we deem that borders constitute a discrete area of scholarly and policy focus that deserves careful attention. Based on this consideration, Lineae Terrarum's fundamental focus is to examine current border research and issues within a global comparative perspective. In addition to the scholarly research stimulated by the Conference, Lineae Terrarum will offer an analysis of the policy relevance of today's border theorizing in an effort ot establish a bridge between border sholars and border policy makers.
Lineae Terrarum tiene como propósito reunir a los estudiosos más prominentes del tema de las fronteras, para generar un espacio donde se puedan exhibir los últimos trabajos de investigación sobre fronteras de todo el mundo. Considerando que las fronteras, donde quiera que se encuentren, tienen muchas similitudes, aún cuando mantienen su propia idiosincracia regional, creemos que el tema de las fronteras es una disciplina en sí y un área de investigación académica independiente de otras disciplinas. Creemos también que el tema de las fronteras merece un enfoque distinto cuando se trata de políticas públicas. Basada en estas consideraciones, la Conferencia Lineae Terrarum se enfoca principalmente en un examen general de lo último en el estudio de las fronteras dentro de un contexto global y con una perspectiva comparada. Es por esto que, además del enfoque académico que deseamos, pretendemos también construir elementos teóricos y planteamientos relacionados con las políticas públicas fronterizas para establecer un puente entre aquellos que estudian las fronteras y aquellos que hacen e implementan políticas públicas que afectan a cualquier contexto fronterizo."
Lineae Terrarum tiene como propósito reunir a los estudiosos más prominentes del tema de las fronteras, para generar un espacio donde se puedan exhibir los últimos trabajos de investigación sobre fronteras de todo el mundo. Considerando que las fronteras, donde quiera que se encuentren, tienen muchas similitudes, aún cuando mantienen su propia idiosincracia regional, creemos que el tema de las fronteras es una disciplina en sí y un área de investigación académica independiente de otras disciplinas. Creemos también que el tema de las fronteras merece un enfoque distinto cuando se trata de políticas públicas. Basada en estas consideraciones, la Conferencia Lineae Terrarum se enfoca principalmente en un examen general de lo último en el estudio de las fronteras dentro de un contexto global y con una perspectiva comparada. Es por esto que, además del enfoque académico que deseamos, pretendemos también construir elementos teóricos y planteamientos relacionados con las políticas públicas fronterizas para establecer un puente entre aquellos que estudian las fronteras y aquellos que hacen e implementan políticas públicas que afectan a cualquier contexto fronterizo."
Brujula CFP: Latin American Cities
Brujula is published annually by graduate students of the University of California at Davis, under the auspices of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, Brújula is an interdisciplinary journal with a focus on Latin American literary studies. This journal seeks to foster a dialogue between established academics and a new generation of scholars, while including original essays from a variety of fields such as linguistics, anthropology, history, native american studies, comparative literature, art, music, spanish, and sociology. With each issue, Brújula intends to highlight a theme of relevance in current debates and to create a forum that explores transnational perspectives to critical approaches.
Bajo los auspicios del Instituto Hemisférico de las Américas y con un enfoque literario nace Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos. Abierta a la discusión crítica entre diferentes generaciones y líneas de pensamiento, el objetivo de esta publicación se concentra en la articulación de un eje donde trabajen en común distintas disciplinas como son Antropología, Historia, arte, Música, Lingüística, Sociología y Estudios Indígenas. Bajo tal premisa Brújula propone dedicar cada número a un tema de destacado interés intelectual con el fin de provocar la reflexión desde diferentes perspectivas tanto teóricas como transnacionales.
Publicado anualmente por estudantes de graduação da Universidade da California Davis, sob o auspicio do Instituto Hemisferico das Americas, Brújula é um jornal interdisciplinar com enfoque em estudos literários da América Latina. Este jornal procura manter um dialogo entre acadêmicos estabelecidos e uma nova geração de “scholars”, através da inclusão de textos originais de uma variedade de disciplinas tais como a linguística, antropologia, música, historia, arte, estudos indígenas e sociologia. Em cada publicação, Brújula pretende dar ênfase a um tema de relevância em debates atuais e criar um fórum que explore perspectivas transnacionais de analise critica.
Brujula
CALL for PAPERs
LATIN AMERICAN CITIES
Call for Submissions: Latin American Cities
The fifth issue of Brújula will be devoted to the study of Latin American cities. We will consider for publication manuscripts that analyze the idea of the city from either historical, mythical or imaginary perspectives, as well as those that deal with the urban experience and its social, political, economic and cultural manifestations. Brújula is especially interested in submissions from diverse disciplines that examine the expression of the margin/periphery in the center and from pre-colonial times until today. Please submit materials to submitbrujula@ucdavis.edu by January 6, 2006.
Submissions:
Please submit your essay with a cover letter that includes a brief (50-75 word) professional statement (with your name, academic affiliation, and standing [graduate student, doctoral candidate, assistant professor], institution, research interests, and/or a few relevant publications) the title of your paper as well as a 100-word abstract.
_Brújula_ is a peer-reviewed journal that favors anonymity in the process of selection. Therefore we ask that essays be submitted without names. Names and e-mail addresses should appear on cover letter and envelopes only.
Essays may be written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese. Papers are limited to 15-20 pages, double-spaced, including endnotes and bibliography.
Send material via e-mail at: submitbrujula@ucdavis.edu. Use Microsoft Word 95 or higher. Or Mail 3.5" formatted disk (IBM or Mac) with document to: Brújula, Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8576.
We request that essay format follow the conventions of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing.
Tables, diagrams, maps, photos, and artwork may be included by arrangement with editors. Permissions to reproduce such materials will be the responsibility of the author.
_Brújula_ only accepts original contributions. Translations of articles or articles already published will not be accepted. Manuscripts will not be returned.
For more information visit us at: http://hia.ucdavis.edu/brujula
Claudia Darrigrandi
University of California, Davis
5206 Social Sciences Building
Phone: 530-7528535 or 7523046
Fax: 530-7525655
Email: submitbrujula@ucdavis.edu
Visit the website at
http://hia.ucdavis.edu/brujula/SubSections/Submissions.htm
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
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Capitalism, Nature, Socialism - Conference 2005 - York University
Ecology, Imperialism and the Contradictions of Capitalism intends to take stock of the state-of-the-art in recent debates on the root causes of world-wide ecological degradation and the realities and possibilities of radical response. Radiating out from - but not limited to – James O'Connor's work on the second contradiction of capital and the broad range of debate in CNS, this conference wants to bring together a plurality of critical theoretical and political perspectives on the current crisis of societal relations with nature. Strictly cross-disciplinary in orientation, the conference intends to attract contributors in a variety of fields, including, but not limited to, critical theory, political economy, radical geography, environmental philosophy, and social movement theory. We welcome contributions to four broadly conceived subject areas:
1. Marxism, critical theory, and ecology
2. Ecosocialism, feminism, and environmental justice
3. Urbanization, ecological degradation and political ecology
4. Imperialism, world order, and global ecological politics
Subthemes are:
Marxism, uneven development and the contradictions of capital
Critical theory, the domination of nature, and societal relations with nature
The status of ecology and nature in Marx and marxism
Patriarchy, social reproduction and ecology
Feminist critiques of militarism, neoliberalism and colonization
Environmental racism and environmental justice, local and global
Dreams and Perils of global urbanization
Food, Hunger and urban-ecological reconstruction
Capitalist Globalization, colonialism and global pillage
War, globalization and ecological crisis
Neoliberalism, Privatization, and Green capitalism
Continental integration and comparative ecological modernization
After an opening keynote address by Maria Mies and panel on the contribution of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, and the work of James O'Connor, the conference discussions will centre on keynote speeches by invited guests and other selected participants. Activists and non-academic researchers, new scholars and graduate students are strongly invited to submit proposals. The conference will be held from July 22 to July 24 at York University, Toronto, Canada.
Capitalism, Nature, Socialism - Conference 2005 - York University
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
Monday, June 06, 2005
Poetry, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms:
Poetry, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms: From the Early 20th Century to the Present
This conference is part of the "Poetics, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms: From the Early 20th Century to the Present" CIRA project.
Friday, June 10, 2005
9:00 AM - 10:30 PM
UCLA
9:00 am-5:30 pm: Presentations and panels in 306 Royce Hall
7:45 pm-10:30 pm: Film Screenings in 314 Royce Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Sponsored by the UCLA Asia Institute, the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, the UCLA Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia, Chain, the UCLA International Institute, Palm Press, West Coast Line, and Xcp: Crosscultural Poetics.
9:00-9:30 Announcements and Opening Remarks (306 Royce Hall)
Prof. Walter K. Lew, English Dept., Mills College.
9:30-10:45 Translation's Role in East Asian Colonialism and Cosmopolitanism
"Heterolingual Love: Kim Ôk's International Affections" • Prof. Ann Choi, Asian Languages & Cultures Dept., Rutgers University.
"Treacherous Translation: Japanese-Language Theatrical Version of the Korean Tale Ch’unhyang-jôn (The Tale of Spring Fragrance)" • Serk-bae Suh, History Dept., UC, Los Angeles.
Moderator: Koichi Haga, Asian Languages and Cultures, UC, Los Angeles
10:45-12:00 Anarchism and Poetry in East Asia During the 1930s
"Advertising Tower: Anarchist Poetry at the Nexus of Commerce, Censorship, and Avant-Garde Art Movements in Prewar Japan" • Prof. William Gardner, Modern Languages & Literatures Dept., Swarthmore College.
"Anarchism in East Asia in the Early 20th Century" • Prof. Dongyoun Hwang, Asian Studies, Soka University, Aliso Viejo.
Moderator: Prof. Juliana Spahr, English Dept., Mills College, coeditor of Chain
Lunch
1:15-2:30 Other Internationalist Poetries of Resistance
"Apocrypha & Avant Garde: (Early) (South) American Strategies concerning 'Modernism'" • Prof. Heriberto Yepez, Philosophy, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana.
"'Blame Me on History': The Drum Generation and South African Modernism(s)" • David Buuck, History of Consciousness Dept., UC, Santa Cruz, editor of Tripwire.
Moderator: Prof. Ann Choi, Asian Languages & Cultures Dept., Rutgers University
Break
2:45-4:00 Histories of Internationalist Poetry and Reforming "Creative Writing" in the U.S.A.
"T/heres: What Pacific Poetries Might Add to the Teaching of Creative Writing" • Prof. Juliana Spahr, English Dept., Mills College, coeditor of Chain.
"Neoliberalism, Collective Action, and the American MFA Industry" • Prof. Mark Nowak, College of St. Catherine, Minneapolis, editor of Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics.
"Towards Decolonizasian: Integrating Pedagogies, Editorial Practices, and Cultural Organizing North of the Border" • Prof. Rita Wong, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (Vancouver),
editorial board member, West Coast Line.
Moderator: Prof. Walter K. Lew, Mills College
4:00-5:30 Readings of Poetry, Translations, Poetics
Nowak, Choi, Gardner, Lew, Yepez, Buuck, Spahr.
7:45-11:00 Films (314 Royce Hall)
Introduced by Prof. Vinay Lal, Dept. of History, UCLA, who will also lead a discussion session after the screenings.
A Night of Prophecy, dir. Amar Kanwar (India, 2002). 77 min. Documentary / cinematic poem.
The Poet of Linge Homeland (Penyair Negeri Linge), dir. Aryo Danusiri (Indonesia, 2000). 25 min. Documentary.
A Poet, Unconcealed Poetry (Puisi tak terkuburkan), dir. Garin Nugroho (Indonesia, 1999). 50 min. excerpt. Cross-genre, historical feature film.
For notes on the participants, updated details and web links, please visit the website:: http://www.international.ucla.edu/cira/Poetics_Pedagogy.asp.
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To keep up with Asia-related events in Southern California, visit the calendar section of the Asia Institute website. If you would like to receive a weekly email newsletter listing Asia-focused events, please send your name and email address to asia@international.ucla.edu.
Cost: Free and open to the public
For more information please contact
Walter K. Lew
Lew@humnet.ucla.edu
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cira/Poetics_Pedagogy.asp
Poetry, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms: From the Early 20th Century to the Present
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.
* * *
To keep up with Asia-related events in Southern California, visit the calendar section of the Asia Institute website. If you would like to receive a weekly email newsletter listing Asia-focused events, please send your name and email address to asia@international.ucla.edu.
Cost: Free and open to the public
For more information please contact
Walter K. Lew
Lew@humnet.ucla.edu
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cira/Poetics_Pedagogy.asp
Poetry, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms: From the Early 20th Century to the Present
Sunday, June 05, 2005
Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed publication that mixes traditional approaches and contemporary interventions in the interdisciplinary humanities and interpretive social sciences. IJCS is published exclusively in special issues, co-edited by faculty and advanced graduate student "pairs" from across the University. The result of our unique combination of approach and editing is that each issue serves as a conversation between established and emerging scholars; a lucid engagement of theoretical and ideological divides, and the evocation of new shared paths in cultural studies.
Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
Saturday, June 04, 2005
On Voyage: UC Berkeley Tourism Studies Working Group
On Voyage: New Directions in Tourism Theory
October 7-8, 2005, Townsend Center for the Humanities
University of California, Berkeley
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Organized by an interdisciplinary committee of faculty and graduate students, this conference aims to be a benchmark event for the study of tourism and travel, bringing together scholars from around the world. It will provide a forum to challenge the theoretical framework(s) of tourism studies, with the intention that interdisciplinary discussion fostered at such an event will give rise to new theorizations of tourism as an object of academic inquiry.
On Voyage: UC Berkeley Tourism Studies Working Group
October 7-8, 2005, Townsend Center for the Humanities
University of California, Berkeley
Organized by an interdisciplinary committee of faculty and graduate students, this conference aims to be a benchmark event for the study of tourism and travel, bringing together scholars from around the world. It will provide a forum to challenge the theoretical framework(s) of tourism studies, with the intention that interdisciplinary discussion fostered at such an event will give rise to new theorizations of tourism as an object of academic inquiry.
On Voyage: UC Berkeley Tourism Studies Working Group
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Sociological Research Online
Sociological Research Online: focuses on theoretical, empirical and methodological discussions which engage with current political, cultural and intellectual topics and debates.
Sociological Research Online
Sociological Research Online
Current Issue
Volume 10, Issue 1, published on 31/5/2005, includes:
The Memory-History-Popular Culture Nexus: Pearl Harbor As a Case Study in Consumer-Driven Collective Memory
Patricia Leavy
The Geographical Mobility, Preferences and Pleasures of Prolific Punters: a Demonstration Study of the Activities of Prostitutes' Clients
Keith Soothill and Teela Sanders
The Diversity of State Benefit Dependent Lone Mothers: the Use of Type Categories As an Analytical Tool
Martina Klett-Davies
Toys for Boys? Women's Marginalization and Participation As Digital Gamers
Garry Crawford and Victoria Gosling
The Digital Revolution in Qualitative Research: Working with Digital Audio Data Through Atlas.Ti
Will Gibson, Peter Callery, Malcolm Campbell, Andy Hall and Dave Richards
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Future Trends
Current Issues and Future Trends in Sociology: Extending the Debate in Sociological Research Online
Gayle Letherby
Sociology and Its Others: Reflections on Disciplinary Specialisation and Fragmentation
John Scott
Special Issue: Working Visually
Editors: Susan Halford and Caroline Knowles
More Than Words: Some Reflections on Working Visually
Susan Halford and Caroline Knowles
Kalighat, the Home of Goddess Kali: the Place Where Calcutta is Imagined Twice: a Visual Investigation into the Dark Metropolis
Erica Barbiani
Social Life Under the Microscope?
Monika Büscher
The Fabric of Society: Using Visual Methods to Investigate the Experience of Wearing Denim Clothing
Fiona Candy
The Photograph in Theory
Elizabeth Chaplin
Photography: Making and Breaking Racialised Boundaries: an Essay in Reflexive, Radical, Visual Sociology.
Max Farrar
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Book Reviews
Cyberstalking: Harrassment in the Internet Age
Bocij, Paul
Reviewed by Jody Mellor
The Survey Methods Workbook
Buckingham, Alan and Peter Saunders
Reviewed by Iain Lang
Accomodating Diversity: National Policies That Prevent Ethnic Conflict
Deutscher, Irwin
Reviewed by Timothy J. White
Media, Politics and the Network Society
Hassan, Robert
Reviewed by Javier Alcalde
Race and Social Analysis
Knowles, Caroline
Reviewed by Samantha Holland
Social Theory: the Multicultural and Classic Readings 3rd Edition
Lemert, Charles (Editor)
Reviewed by Melissa Dearey
Looking West: Cultural Globalization and Russian Youth Cultures
Pilkington, Hilary; Elena Omel'chenko; Moya Flynn; Ul'iana Bliudina; Elena Starkova
Reviewed by Harry Blatterer
Focus Group Practice
Puchta, Claudia and Jonathan Potter
Reviewed by Rose Barbour
Race, Ethnicity and Difference
Ratcliffe, Peter
Reviewed by Bertha Yakubu
Internet in Everyday Life
Wellman, Barry and Haythornthwaite, Caroline
Reviewed by Kris Cohen
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Documentary Box
Documentary Box is a journal devoted to covering recent trends in making and thinking about documentaries. Four issues are published every two years in both hard copy and internet versions in conjunction with the biennial YIDFF. Documentary Box is indexed in Film Literature Index
YIDFF: DocBox: Contents
YIDFF: DocBox: Contents
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Life on the Streets and Commons
Life on the Streets and Commons, 1600 to the Present
Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts
Saturday, June 18, 2005
'Life on the Streets and Commons, 1600 to the Present' is a one-day
conference on street life and places of public assembly in New England. The
conference opens Saturday morning with papers on street professions as they
were practiced in the colonial and early national period, given by
specialists in popular broadsides, religious proselytizing, law enforcement,
and outdoor or tavern medicine. It continues Saturday afternoon with the
social and religious conflict that occurred on the road and in town commons.
It concludes with an assessment of meeting halls and displays of Egyptian
artifacts.
The Seminar is designed for educators, historians, collectors, dealers,
authors, and museum curators; students and the general public are cordially
invited to attend. Past Seminar Proceedings and publications by program
speakers will be available for purchase at the conference.
Selected and edited transcripts of conference papers will appear as the 2005
Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, which
will be issued about one year after the conference.
LECTURE PROGRAM
Opening Remarks
Street Professions
Purveyor to the Peddlers: Nathaniel Coverly, Jr., Printer of Songs for the
Streets of Boston
Kate Van Winkle Keller, Society for American Music
Street Religion in Central and Eastern Massachusetts before 1830
Peter Benes, Dublin Seminar
"I Never Used to Go Out with a Weapon": Law Enforcement on the Streets of
Pre-Revolutionary Boston
J. L. Bell, Friends of the Longfellow House
Doctors in the Streets: Medicine as Public Performance in Nineteenth-Century
New England
Anú King Dudley, University of Maine
Roads and Commons
Shakers and the Public Roads: Burdens and Blessings, 1780-1875
Glendyne Wergland, Dalton, Massachusetts
Commotions on Meetinghouse Hill
W. Michael Ryan, Northampton District Court:
"Fair New England": Displaying the Region at The Eastern State Exposition
Anthony J. Antonucci, Maine Historical Society
Halls and Taverns
>From "Bolshevik Hall" to Butterfly Ballroom: The Assimilation of South
Norwood's Lithuanian Hall
Patricia J. Fanning, Bridgewater State College
Admission 25 cent, Children Half-Price: Exhibiting Egyptian Mummies in Early
Nineteenth Century New England
S. J. Wolfe, American Antiquarian Society, and Robert Singerman, University
of Florida
ADVANCE REGISTRATION
Reservations are limited and will be accepted in the order received and must
arrive on or before June 10, 2005. Advance registrations
are refundable, less $5 handling, if returned before June 10, 2005.
Mail to:
Peter Benes
Director, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Boston University Scholarly Publications
985 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston MA 02215
Phone: 978/369-7382
Fax: 978/369-5962
E-mail: dublsem@bu.edu
Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts
Saturday, June 18, 2005
'Life on the Streets and Commons, 1600 to the Present' is a one-day
conference on street life and places of public assembly in New England. The
conference opens Saturday morning with papers on street professions as they
were practiced in the colonial and early national period, given by
specialists in popular broadsides, religious proselytizing, law enforcement,
and outdoor or tavern medicine. It continues Saturday afternoon with the
social and religious conflict that occurred on the road and in town commons.
It concludes with an assessment of meeting halls and displays of Egyptian
artifacts.
The Seminar is designed for educators, historians, collectors, dealers,
authors, and museum curators; students and the general public are cordially
invited to attend. Past Seminar Proceedings and publications by program
speakers will be available for purchase at the conference.
Selected and edited transcripts of conference papers will appear as the 2005
Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, which
will be issued about one year after the conference.
LECTURE PROGRAM
Opening Remarks
Street Professions
Purveyor to the Peddlers: Nathaniel Coverly, Jr., Printer of Songs for the
Streets of Boston
Kate Van Winkle Keller, Society for American Music
Street Religion in Central and Eastern Massachusetts before 1830
Peter Benes, Dublin Seminar
"I Never Used to Go Out with a Weapon": Law Enforcement on the Streets of
Pre-Revolutionary Boston
J. L. Bell, Friends of the Longfellow House
Doctors in the Streets: Medicine as Public Performance in Nineteenth-Century
New England
Anú King Dudley, University of Maine
Roads and Commons
Shakers and the Public Roads: Burdens and Blessings, 1780-1875
Glendyne Wergland, Dalton, Massachusetts
Commotions on Meetinghouse Hill
W. Michael Ryan, Northampton District Court:
"Fair New England": Displaying the Region at The Eastern State Exposition
Anthony J. Antonucci, Maine Historical Society
Halls and Taverns
>From "Bolshevik Hall" to Butterfly Ballroom: The Assimilation of South
Norwood's Lithuanian Hall
Patricia J. Fanning, Bridgewater State College
Admission 25 cent, Children Half-Price: Exhibiting Egyptian Mummies in Early
Nineteenth Century New England
S. J. Wolfe, American Antiquarian Society, and Robert Singerman, University
of Florida
ADVANCE REGISTRATION
Reservations are limited and will be accepted in the order received and must
arrive on or before June 10, 2005. Advance registrations
are refundable, less $5 handling, if returned before June 10, 2005.
Mail to:
Peter Benes
Director, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Boston University Scholarly Publications
985 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston MA 02215
Phone: 978/369-7382
Fax: 978/369-5962
E-mail: dublsem@bu.edu
Ghost Town Webring homepage
Looking for something to do this summer? Interested in the mobility of capital?
Visit these fascinating ghost towns...
Ghost Town Webring homepage
Visit these fascinating ghost towns...
Ghost Town Webring homepage
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Friday, May 20, 2005
Michael Denning: at UC Davis
> CHSC Colloquium Series: Critical Knowledges after Neoliberalism- Spring 2005 presents:
>
> Michael Denning
> American Studies Program, Yale University
>
> THE RHETORIC OF CLASS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
>
> Tuesday May 24, at 4 pm in the Andrews Conference Room
> 2203 Soc. Sci/Hum Bldg.
>
> Michael Denning is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His most recent book Culture in the Age of Three Worlds is a trenchant and far-reaching analysis of "the cultural turn" in the humanities and social sciences that was forged in New Left social movements. Recasting the legacies of British cultural studies and the radical traditions of the American studies movement in a global context, Denning reassesses the legacy of the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture and charts the lineaments of the global cultures that emerged as three worlds gave way to one.
>
> He has taught graduate courses on cultural theory, social movements, and twentieth-century cultural history, and is currently leading a working group on globalization and culture. He is also the author of the author of Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (1987); Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (1987); The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997).
>
> Michael Denning
> American Studies Program, Yale University
>
> THE RHETORIC OF CLASS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
>
> Tuesday May 24, at 4 pm in the Andrews Conference Room
> 2203 Soc. Sci/Hum Bldg.
>
> Michael Denning is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His most recent book Culture in the Age of Three Worlds is a trenchant and far-reaching analysis of "the cultural turn" in the humanities and social sciences that was forged in New Left social movements. Recasting the legacies of British cultural studies and the radical traditions of the American studies movement in a global context, Denning reassesses the legacy of the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture and charts the lineaments of the global cultures that emerged as three worlds gave way to one.
>
> He has taught graduate courses on cultural theory, social movements, and twentieth-century cultural history, and is currently leading a working group on globalization and culture. He is also the author of the author of Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (1987); Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (1987); The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997).
EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory: "
Wecome to the EServer Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Collection.
Cultural studies and critical theory combine sociology, literary theory, film/video studies, and cultural anthropology to study cultural phenomena in industrial societies. Cultural studies researchers often concentrate on how a particular phenomenon relates to matters of ideology, race, social class, and/or gender.
Cultural studies concerns itself with the meaning and practices of everyday life. Cultural practices comprise the ways people do particular things (such as watching television, or eating out) in a given culture. Particular meanings attach to the ways people in particular cultures do things."
Wecome to the EServer Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Collection.
Cultural studies and critical theory combine sociology, literary theory, film/video studies, and cultural anthropology to study cultural phenomena in industrial societies. Cultural studies researchers often concentrate on how a particular phenomenon relates to matters of ideology, race, social class, and/or gender.
Cultural studies concerns itself with the meaning and practices of everyday life. Cultural practices comprise the ways people do particular things (such as watching television, or eating out) in a given culture. Particular meanings attach to the ways people in particular cultures do things."
EServer.org: Accessible Writing
About the EServer
The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works.
In today's world of corporate publishing, value is placed on works that sell to broad markets. Quick turnover, high-visibility marketing campaigns for bestsellers, and corporate "superstore" bookstores have all made it difficult for unique and older texts to be published. (Further, the costs this marketing adds to all books discourage people from leisure reading as a common practice.) And publishers tend to encourage authors to write books with strong appeal to the current, undermining (if unknowingly) writings with longer-term implications.
The EServer (founded fifteen years ago, in 1990 at Carnegie Mellon as the English Server), attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work, particularly writings in the arts and humanities. Now based at Iowa State University, we offer 45 collections on such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues. In addition to short and longer written works, we publish hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings. Our collections grow as increased membership has new works to publish with us, and as we teach new members how to publish works to the Web and to the more than million readers who visit our site per month.
EServer.org: Accessible Writing
The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works.
In today's world of corporate publishing, value is placed on works that sell to broad markets. Quick turnover, high-visibility marketing campaigns for bestsellers, and corporate "superstore" bookstores have all made it difficult for unique and older texts to be published. (Further, the costs this marketing adds to all books discourage people from leisure reading as a common practice.) And publishers tend to encourage authors to write books with strong appeal to the current, undermining (if unknowingly) writings with longer-term implications.
The EServer (founded fifteen years ago, in 1990 at Carnegie Mellon as the English Server), attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work, particularly writings in the arts and humanities. Now based at Iowa State University, we offer 45 collections on such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues. In addition to short and longer written works, we publish hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings. Our collections grow as increased membership has new works to publish with us, and as we teach new members how to publish works to the Web and to the more than million readers who visit our site per month.
EServer.org: Accessible Writing
a "Cross-Cultural Poetics " Radio
A radio show hosted by Leonard Schwartz on KAOS 89.3FM Olympia Community -- some MP3's available as well as typescripts.
KAOS 89.3FM Olympia Community Radio
KAOS 89.3FM Olympia Community Radio
Workshop in Buffalo this Summer
UB Department of Media Study to Offer Summer Workshop on "The Poetics of Movement"
Release date: Friday, April 29, 2005
Contact: David Wedekindt, drw6@acsu.buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-645-6775
Fax: 716-645-6929
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Department of Media Study will offer a hands-on, two-week intensive workshop to teach filmmaking and digital arts as collaborative tools for exploration of movement. Although the workshop will focus on the intersection of dance, theatre and the visual arts, this class is intended for everyone interested in learning to film the moving image and these workshops are often taken by sports photographers and others concerned with recording movement. No previous media making experience is necessary.
Elliot Caplan, Director of the Center for the Moving Image in the UB Department of Media Study will instruct the workshops. An Emmy Award-winning producer, Caplan served as filmmaker in residence at the Cunningham Dance Foundation from 1983 until January 1998, collaborating with Merce Cunningham and John Cage in the production of films and videos. Together, their work has aired nationally on PBS, Bravo, A&E and internationally in 35 countries. He also served as co-director with chorographer Michael Kidd of the Dance/Film/Video Workshop at the Sundance Institute.
The workshop will meet daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from May 30 to June 12 in the Center for the Arts. Students will learn the basics of camera operation, lighting, sound and editing as well as Caplan's own innovative approach to capturing movement on film. Students will be individually guided throughout the process and their work will be critiqued daily. The cost of the workshop is $600 and advanced registration is required.
For more information please call Kate Anderson at 645-6902 ext. 1494 or email andersoc@buffalo.edu. The UB Media Study Web site is http://www.mediastudy.buffalo.edu.
UB News Services
Release date: Friday, April 29, 2005
Contact: David Wedekindt, drw6@acsu.buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-645-6775
Fax: 716-645-6929
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Department of Media Study will offer a hands-on, two-week intensive workshop to teach filmmaking and digital arts as collaborative tools for exploration of movement. Although the workshop will focus on the intersection of dance, theatre and the visual arts, this class is intended for everyone interested in learning to film the moving image and these workshops are often taken by sports photographers and others concerned with recording movement. No previous media making experience is necessary.
Elliot Caplan, Director of the Center for the Moving Image in the UB Department of Media Study will instruct the workshops. An Emmy Award-winning producer, Caplan served as filmmaker in residence at the Cunningham Dance Foundation from 1983 until January 1998, collaborating with Merce Cunningham and John Cage in the production of films and videos. Together, their work has aired nationally on PBS, Bravo, A&E and internationally in 35 countries. He also served as co-director with chorographer Michael Kidd of the Dance/Film/Video Workshop at the Sundance Institute.
The workshop will meet daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from May 30 to June 12 in the Center for the Arts. Students will learn the basics of camera operation, lighting, sound and editing as well as Caplan's own innovative approach to capturing movement on film. Students will be individually guided throughout the process and their work will be critiqued daily. The cost of the workshop is $600 and advanced registration is required.
For more information please call Kate Anderson at 645-6902 ext. 1494 or email andersoc@buffalo.edu. The UB Media Study Web site is http://www.mediastudy.buffalo.edu.
UB News Services
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Call For Papers on Garbage
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence
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Seeking contributions for the 5th issue (Fall 2005) issue, to be sent by September 1st, 2005 (max length 5000 words).
This issue of the Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence seeks papers that explore the dynamic relationship between garbage and culture. In what ways have different cultures responded to the accumulation of garbage? In what ways do cultures manage, recycle, reuse, or store it? What, indeed, constitutes garbage? Papers may address such topics as:
Perceptions of garbage
Rituals of waste disposal
Politics of producing/consuming/storing garbage
Aesthetics of garbage and/or its management
Ideologies of recycling
Waste management policies
Production/consumption of green products
Literary representations of waste
Appropriations of waste spaces
Garbage and the sublime
Please visit their homepage for details
The Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Seeking contributions for the 5th issue (Fall 2005) issue, to be sent by September 1st, 2005 (max length 5000 words).
This issue of the Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence seeks papers that explore the dynamic relationship between garbage and culture. In what ways have different cultures responded to the accumulation of garbage? In what ways do cultures manage, recycle, reuse, or store it? What, indeed, constitutes garbage? Papers may address such topics as:
Perceptions of garbage
Rituals of waste disposal
Politics of producing/consuming/storing garbage
Aesthetics of garbage and/or its management
Ideologies of recycling
Waste management policies
Production/consumption of green products
Literary representations of waste
Appropriations of waste spaces
Garbage and the sublime
Please visit their homepage for details
The Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence
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