Photography and the City

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tout-Fait: Marcel Duchamp Studies Online journal

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

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

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

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

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.



PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ILLUSTRATORS

Hyphen seeks talented photographers, illustrators and digital artists to fill our pages with daring, eye-popping artwork to accompany our articles. Ideas for photo essays are welcome. Send us links to online portfolios and websites so we can view your work. Contact: design(at)hyphenmagazine.com

Or snail mail at:

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

Please note that we are an all-volunteer organization and cannot pay contributers at this time. Please accept copies of Hyphen and our gratitude.

Remain Human: The Slatter’s Court Project

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

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

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

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

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

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