Nutopia : Exploring The Metropolitan Imagination
2/3 April 2009
Call for speakers
Deadline for application 30th November 2008
"Each epoch dreams the one to follow"
Michelet, Avenir! Avenir!
A multi disciplinary platform for artists/ archaeologists/ social scientists/
architects/ urban planners/ developers/ environmentalists/ activists and
regeneration/ housing, to meet and make visible their perspectives on the 21c
city; the nature of community, the human narrative, the new - utopia's which
we may be able to find present amongst contemporary town planning and
architecture.
The symposium will be set in Cardiff's Victorian and Edwardian Arcades, home
to a host of independent shops and against the backdrop of Saint Davids 2,
the city's under- construction shopping centre, which has been designed for
larger retailers, primarily multi + national chains. Both architectural
manifestations speak variously of social, economic and cultural shifts and
provide a lens through which to explore a multiplicity of perspectives, framing
our position as individuals and communities within the model of the 'global'
or 'regenerated' city. The aim of the symposium is to create a map of
perspectives revealing our thoughts on the 21c metropolitan 'imagination'.
Submissions are invited for a 20 minute paper / to host a break out discussion
or run a workshop or event in response to the above. Please feel free to
respond with a short abstract outlining an area of research or as a project
which befits the idea or possibility or new- utopia's.
Symposium Format: Working in response to submitted abstracts/ proposals,
your presentations will be located in different places in the city eg. Floor 5 of
NCP Carpark, Arcade basement, in a cafe/ pub, or in shopping centre's/
arcades/ office spaces etc in order to contextualise the discussion and to
create a dynamic between what is being discussed and a physical place. The
audience will be small and all presentations will be documented in location then
made available online please state in your proposal if you need to show images.
Please send 1 side of A4 outlining your responses in relation to your practice/
field, a CV and links to website/ blogs.
All speakers will have the option of having their paper included in the Museum
Of The Moment Archive* and also be featured in "The Arcades Project: A 3D
Documentary" Publication (Jan 2010).
UK travel costs will be covered/ free entrance and lunch provided during the
event participation fee to be agreed.
To make a submission email jennie@arcadesproject.org
To find out more about The Arcades Project : A 3D Documentary go to
www.arcadesproject.org
*The Museum Of The Moment Archive will be a multi media archive which will
be installed in the city centre as 'permanent' legacy of the project.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Dreamland Pavilion
Conference - The Dreamland Pavilion: Brooklyn and Development
October 2-3, 2009, Kingsborough Community College, The City University
of New York
CALL FOR PAPERS
How has Brooklyn become what it is—a place of nostalgia, imagination,
or fantasy as much as a territorial space, an "outer borough" of New
York City? Isn't it time to assess critically the rapid changes in
the borough over the last decade? With tremendous growth comes
certain costs, but how do we evaluate the present moment, poised
between Brooklyn past and Brooklyn future? How is "development"
defined differently by different groups in different contexts?
Finally, how do Brooklyn's diverse localities and populations reflect
or even shape the future of New York, a global metropolis? This
conference aims to be a space within which these and other questions
will be addressed, discussed, even answered. The two-day gathering
will combine moderated panels (in both traditional academic and
roundtable formats), guided visits to local sites, artistic
performances and discussion.
We welcome proposals from all relevant academic disciplines, including
history, literary studies, political science, geography, and
sociology. We are equally interested in proposals from those outside
academia, including architects, artists, journalists, activists, urban
planners and others concerned with Brooklyn in particular and urban
space in general.
The primary areas we will focus on in the conference are:
--The Arts and Cultural Practices: the borough's relationship to film,
literature, and the performing arts.
--Development Projects: the conflicts and controversies surrounding
Brooklyn's most important contemporary development projects,
--Demographics and Diversity: the broader forces that have reshaped
Brooklynites' lives in past and present, including migration,
education, housing and urban politics.
Possible topics for panelists to address within these areas could include:
--Renters and homeowners
--Decision-making processes
--Relationship of arts and culture to neighborhood geography
--Case studies of particular neighborhoods
--The Atlantic Yards project or Coney Island redevelopment
--Dynamics of race and/or ethnicity
--Environmental impact of development
--Access to local institutions
--Privatization and public space
Proposals should be submitted by February 1, 2009 and should include:
--A one-page description of your topic
--Contact information: Name, position and affiliation, telephone
numbers (home and cellphone), mail address and e-mail.
Please email completed proposals to Dr. Rick Armstrong, Department of
English, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York,
at: stephen.armstrong@kingsborough.edu.
For more information, contact:
Dr. Eben Wood, Department of English
Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York
2001 Oriental Blvd.
Brooklyn, NY 11235
(718) 368-5229
eben.wood@kingsborough.edu
or
Dr. Libby Garland, Department of History, Philosophy, and Political Science
Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York
2001 Oriental Blvd.
Brooklyn, NY 11235
(718) 368-5624
libby.garland@kingsborough.edu
Please also visit our conference website at:
http://www.kingsborough.edu/dreamland_pavilion.
October 2-3, 2009, Kingsborough Community College, The City University
of New York
CALL FOR PAPERS
How has Brooklyn become what it is—a place of nostalgia, imagination,
or fantasy as much as a territorial space, an "outer borough" of New
York City? Isn't it time to assess critically the rapid changes in
the borough over the last decade? With tremendous growth comes
certain costs, but how do we evaluate the present moment, poised
between Brooklyn past and Brooklyn future? How is "development"
defined differently by different groups in different contexts?
Finally, how do Brooklyn's diverse localities and populations reflect
or even shape the future of New York, a global metropolis? This
conference aims to be a space within which these and other questions
will be addressed, discussed, even answered. The two-day gathering
will combine moderated panels (in both traditional academic and
roundtable formats), guided visits to local sites, artistic
performances and discussion.
We welcome proposals from all relevant academic disciplines, including
history, literary studies, political science, geography, and
sociology. We are equally interested in proposals from those outside
academia, including architects, artists, journalists, activists, urban
planners and others concerned with Brooklyn in particular and urban
space in general.
The primary areas we will focus on in the conference are:
--The Arts and Cultural Practices: the borough's relationship to film,
literature, and the performing arts.
--Development Projects: the conflicts and controversies surrounding
Brooklyn's most important contemporary development projects,
--Demographics and Diversity: the broader forces that have reshaped
Brooklynites' lives in past and present, including migration,
education, housing and urban politics.
Possible topics for panelists to address within these areas could include:
--Renters and homeowners
--Decision-making processes
--Relationship of arts and culture to neighborhood geography
--Case studies of particular neighborhoods
--The Atlantic Yards project or Coney Island redevelopment
--Dynamics of race and/or ethnicity
--Environmental impact of development
--Access to local institutions
--Privatization and public space
Proposals should be submitted by February 1, 2009 and should include:
--A one-page description of your topic
--Contact information: Name, position and affiliation, telephone
numbers (home and cellphone), mail address and e-mail.
Please email completed proposals to Dr. Rick Armstrong, Department of
English, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York,
at: stephen.armstrong@kingsborough.edu.
For more information, contact:
Dr. Eben Wood, Department of English
Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York
2001 Oriental Blvd.
Brooklyn, NY 11235
(718) 368-5229
eben.wood@kingsborough.edu
or
Dr. Libby Garland, Department of History, Philosophy, and Political Science
Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York
2001 Oriental Blvd.
Brooklyn, NY 11235
(718) 368-5624
libby.garland@kingsborough.edu
Please also visit our conference website at:
http://www.kingsborough.edu/dreamland_pavilion.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
CFP: Radical History Review
from HNET
"Enclosures": A call for abstracts by the Radical History Review
Publication Date: 2009-02-01
Date Submitted: 2008-10-01
Announcement ID: 164326
Call for Abstract Submissions Radical History Review Issue #108: "Enclosures"
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2009 Email: rhr@igc.org
The Radical History Review seeks submissions for an issue dedicated to the theme of “Enclosures”: a term that refers to the twin phenomenon of proprietary demarcation and dispossession that has accompanied the global transition to industrial capitalism in cities and rural areas alike. In a variety of geographical and chronological contexts, this issue will explore both the symbolic and the literal, material senses of the historical process of enclosure.
Contemporary thinkers have evoked the concept of enclosure in a vast variety of settings and across the ideological spectrum, from Garrett Hardin’s prescriptive discussion of the “tragedy of the commons” and the neoliberal doctrine of the inherent instability of the commons, to E. P. Thompson’s studies of the social and legal conflicts over the peasantry’s use of the commons in early modern England. The concept of the commons has become a generic metaphor for public property—academic disciplinary knowledge and access to the airwaves, for example—and, by extension, the commonweal. Likewise, the enclosure of the commons has taken multiple meanings that extend the idea of the fencing off of common property in the interest of private gain and liberal (or neoliberal) individual property rights. As multifarious as it is, the concept of enclosure may provide a historically coherent way of considering disparate instances of conflicts over subsistence rights in the face of the division of property.
This special issue offers an opportunity to take stock of the idea of enclosure—to explore the connections between, for example, the type of “primitive accumulation” for which the term was originally applied and its more abstract, contemporary instances, and to historicize rigorously its application. To what degree was there ever really a “commons”? How did constructions of sacrosanct public space and its privatization and dispossession become naturalized features of cultural life? By collectively publishing work on such diverse phenomena as urban squatters throughout the world, intellectual property, or social conflicts over indigenous collective property rights in colonial and post-colonial settings, the journal editors aim to explore the limits of the usefulness of the concept of enclosure as a critical paradigm for understanding modern political and social life, and to consider how to connect its manifold manifestations.
While we would welcome submissions that revisit the early modern European context to which the term enclosure has typically been applied, we strongly encourage works from any time period, especially those that critically examine the broad applicability of the term and those that venture beyond the European and North American contexts.
The range of topics might include, but is not limited to, the following:
• Enclosure of the commons and the genesis of informal economies
• The historical roots of the privatized city
• Enclosure and the politics of population control
• The political and cultural uses of nostalgia for the “commons”
• Visual culture and the process of enclosure
• Environmental politics as part, or counterweight, to the process of enclosure
• Transnational historical perspectives on political and social movements such as Brazil’s and India’s respective anti-dam movements, or the struggle over the privatization of water in Bolivia
• Successful assertions of communal rights, for example in urban shantytowns and former runaway slave communities in the Americas: have they challenged the process of enclosure?
• Artistic, cinematic, or other cultural representations of enclosure and creative responses to it—for instance, in Agnès Varda’s cinéma verité classic, The Gleaners and I, or Britain’s punk and post-punk movements as aesthetic responses to Thatcher’s sweeping politics of privatization
• Enclosure and imperialism: what is the relationship between the domestic reapportioning of property rights and the possession of overseas territories? How can we connect the enclosure of the commons in the metropole to the fate of communally owned indigenous lands and other resources under colonial rule?
• The making of modern statecraft from the perspective of the “enclosers”: the surveyors, judges, and notaries who carried out the quotidian work of enclosure
• The politics of public space and the exclusionary “public sphere”
• Enclosure of the scientific commons and the commodification of knowledge
• The human genome as private property and the ownership of self
• The intellectual commons and radical approaches to intellectual and academic life
• Innovative uses of the cartographic and judicial records that enclosure left behind
• Critical reassessments of the classic works on enclosure, particularly E. P. Thompson and his cohort of Warwick School historians of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English agrarian society.
The RHR seeks scholarly research articles as well as such non-traditional contributions as photo essays, film and book review essays, interviews, brief interventions, “conversations” between scholars and/or activists, teaching notes and annotated course syllabi, and research notes.
Procedures for submission of articles:
By February 1, 2009, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the article you wish to include in this issue as an attachment to rhr@igc.org with “Issue 108 abstract submission” in the subject line. By March 1, 2009, authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for completed drafts of articles is August 1, 2009. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 108 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Fall 2010. Articles should be submitted electronically with “Issue 108 submission” in the subject line. For artwork, please send images as high resolution digital files (each image as a separate file).
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2009 Email: rhr@igc.org
Radical History Review
rhr@igc.org
Email: rhr@igc.org
Visit the website at http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/calls.htm
"Enclosures": A call for abstracts by the Radical History Review
Publication Date: 2009-02-01
Date Submitted: 2008-10-01
Announcement ID: 164326
Call for Abstract Submissions Radical History Review Issue #108: "Enclosures"
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2009 Email: rhr@igc.org
The Radical History Review seeks submissions for an issue dedicated to the theme of “Enclosures”: a term that refers to the twin phenomenon of proprietary demarcation and dispossession that has accompanied the global transition to industrial capitalism in cities and rural areas alike. In a variety of geographical and chronological contexts, this issue will explore both the symbolic and the literal, material senses of the historical process of enclosure.
Contemporary thinkers have evoked the concept of enclosure in a vast variety of settings and across the ideological spectrum, from Garrett Hardin’s prescriptive discussion of the “tragedy of the commons” and the neoliberal doctrine of the inherent instability of the commons, to E. P. Thompson’s studies of the social and legal conflicts over the peasantry’s use of the commons in early modern England. The concept of the commons has become a generic metaphor for public property—academic disciplinary knowledge and access to the airwaves, for example—and, by extension, the commonweal. Likewise, the enclosure of the commons has taken multiple meanings that extend the idea of the fencing off of common property in the interest of private gain and liberal (or neoliberal) individual property rights. As multifarious as it is, the concept of enclosure may provide a historically coherent way of considering disparate instances of conflicts over subsistence rights in the face of the division of property.
This special issue offers an opportunity to take stock of the idea of enclosure—to explore the connections between, for example, the type of “primitive accumulation” for which the term was originally applied and its more abstract, contemporary instances, and to historicize rigorously its application. To what degree was there ever really a “commons”? How did constructions of sacrosanct public space and its privatization and dispossession become naturalized features of cultural life? By collectively publishing work on such diverse phenomena as urban squatters throughout the world, intellectual property, or social conflicts over indigenous collective property rights in colonial and post-colonial settings, the journal editors aim to explore the limits of the usefulness of the concept of enclosure as a critical paradigm for understanding modern political and social life, and to consider how to connect its manifold manifestations.
While we would welcome submissions that revisit the early modern European context to which the term enclosure has typically been applied, we strongly encourage works from any time period, especially those that critically examine the broad applicability of the term and those that venture beyond the European and North American contexts.
The range of topics might include, but is not limited to, the following:
• Enclosure of the commons and the genesis of informal economies
• The historical roots of the privatized city
• Enclosure and the politics of population control
• The political and cultural uses of nostalgia for the “commons”
• Visual culture and the process of enclosure
• Environmental politics as part, or counterweight, to the process of enclosure
• Transnational historical perspectives on political and social movements such as Brazil’s and India’s respective anti-dam movements, or the struggle over the privatization of water in Bolivia
• Successful assertions of communal rights, for example in urban shantytowns and former runaway slave communities in the Americas: have they challenged the process of enclosure?
• Artistic, cinematic, or other cultural representations of enclosure and creative responses to it—for instance, in Agnès Varda’s cinéma verité classic, The Gleaners and I, or Britain’s punk and post-punk movements as aesthetic responses to Thatcher’s sweeping politics of privatization
• Enclosure and imperialism: what is the relationship between the domestic reapportioning of property rights and the possession of overseas territories? How can we connect the enclosure of the commons in the metropole to the fate of communally owned indigenous lands and other resources under colonial rule?
• The making of modern statecraft from the perspective of the “enclosers”: the surveyors, judges, and notaries who carried out the quotidian work of enclosure
• The politics of public space and the exclusionary “public sphere”
• Enclosure of the scientific commons and the commodification of knowledge
• The human genome as private property and the ownership of self
• The intellectual commons and radical approaches to intellectual and academic life
• Innovative uses of the cartographic and judicial records that enclosure left behind
• Critical reassessments of the classic works on enclosure, particularly E. P. Thompson and his cohort of Warwick School historians of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English agrarian society.
The RHR seeks scholarly research articles as well as such non-traditional contributions as photo essays, film and book review essays, interviews, brief interventions, “conversations” between scholars and/or activists, teaching notes and annotated course syllabi, and research notes.
Procedures for submission of articles:
By February 1, 2009, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the article you wish to include in this issue as an attachment to rhr@igc.org with “Issue 108 abstract submission” in the subject line. By March 1, 2009, authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for completed drafts of articles is August 1, 2009. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 108 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Fall 2010. Articles should be submitted electronically with “Issue 108 submission” in the subject line. For artwork, please send images as high resolution digital files (each image as a separate file).
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2009 Email: rhr@igc.org
Radical History Review
rhr@igc.org
Email: rhr@igc.org
Visit the website at http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/calls.htm
Monday, September 29, 2008
CFP: City at War: ACLA 2009 Convention
ACLA 2009 Convention
March 26-29, 2009
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Seminar Organizers: Shawn C Doubiago, UC Davis; Susanne Hoelscher, U of San Francisco
The City at War
"The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism."
-Jean Baudrillard
This seminar explores how synthesizing notions of global cities, as expressed by Baudrillard, are disrupted by the violence of war. We invite interdisciplinary contributions that draw from a large array of genres and time periods to discuss the implications of destructive conflicts carried out on the body of the city and its inhabitants. In particular, we are interested in analyzing intersections of the spatial and social fabric in an urban environment under siege.
We seek to investigate how the aggression by external and/or internal forces disrupts and restructures urban spaces and communities, and how affected subjects react to the violations in their public and private spheres.
Topics might focus on:
- The City as Site of Contestations/Contested Sites in the City
- Victors? Claim to the City
- Penetration of Private and Public Realms
- Displacement
- Gendered Experiences
- Inner Cities and Ghettos
- Ethnic Conflicts and Colonization
- Divisions, Borders and Boundaries
- The City as Semiotic Field
- The City as Literary Figure
- The Razed City
- Topography and Architecture
- Conflicts in Historic Cities
Please submit paper proposals by Nov. 1, 2008 directly through the ACLA
website at: http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?page_id=7
March 26-29, 2009
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Seminar Organizers: Shawn C Doubiago, UC Davis; Susanne Hoelscher, U of San Francisco
The City at War
"The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism."
-Jean Baudrillard
This seminar explores how synthesizing notions of global cities, as expressed by Baudrillard, are disrupted by the violence of war. We invite interdisciplinary contributions that draw from a large array of genres and time periods to discuss the implications of destructive conflicts carried out on the body of the city and its inhabitants. In particular, we are interested in analyzing intersections of the spatial and social fabric in an urban environment under siege.
We seek to investigate how the aggression by external and/or internal forces disrupts and restructures urban spaces and communities, and how affected subjects react to the violations in their public and private spheres.
Topics might focus on:
- The City as Site of Contestations/Contested Sites in the City
- Victors? Claim to the City
- Penetration of Private and Public Realms
- Displacement
- Gendered Experiences
- Inner Cities and Ghettos
- Ethnic Conflicts and Colonization
- Divisions, Borders and Boundaries
- The City as Semiotic Field
- The City as Literary Figure
- The Razed City
- Topography and Architecture
- Conflicts in Historic Cities
Please submit paper proposals by Nov. 1, 2008 directly through the ACLA
website at: http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?page_id=7
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Nowak on Poetry Foundation Blog
Xcp Editor, Mark Nowak has entered the blog-o-sphere.
He joins Alan Gilbert and others on the Poetry Foundation blog
HARRIET
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/
He joins Alan Gilbert and others on the Poetry Foundation blog
HARRIET
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/
CFP: "Motion in the City"
Call for articles
Website has issued a call for
articles on "Motion in the City".
Motion and process modify the urban environment and provide
fascinating scope for those interested in the field of urban studies.
Both repeated and routine motion are important in understanding the
functioning principles behind single urban localities and also whole
metropolitan regions. Migration, commuting, financial flows and the
flux of ideas. All these motions are the beats of the city and in
certain sense may be seen as the substance of the urban setting.
Motion can be evaluated from the perspectives of different academic
fields; many questions about the contemporary development of the city
reveal themselves. How has urban motion changed over the last decades?
What are the effects of technological innovation, in the field of
transport and the transfer of information, on the urban milieu? What
is the progress of intra-urban, internal and international migration
into cities? How do the different parts of a city differ in terms of
the rhythms and everyday motions of its population?
Please send us an e-mail with your proposal to slamak@natur.cuni.cz
(Martin Ourednícek) until 30th August 2008. Final submissions
should be sent to europeancity@mkc.cz (Ondrej Daniel) until 15th
September 2008.
All feature articles and case studies should be either in English,
Czech or Slovak.
Original articles should be between 4,000 and 5,000 words, whilst
critical definitions should not exceed 2,000 words. Both must be
written in Microsoft Word and submitted as either *.doc or *.rtf
files. Font: Times New Roman, size:12. Line spacing: 1.5. Margins: 2.5
cm top and bottom, 3 cm left and right. Do not insert page numbers.
All references should follow the Harvard system consisting of in-text
citations [e.g. (Castles 2003)] and a full bibliography (see bellow).
Footnotes should be limited, but if included should be placed at the
foot of each page. Do not forget to list bibliography at the end of
your text. Please be consistent in your bibliography format, e.g. as
follows:
MORGAN, P. (2004). From a Death to a View: The Hunt for the Welsh past
in the Romantic Period. In: E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger, ed.: The
Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.
43-101.
MUSTERD, S. (2003). "Segregation and integration: A contested
relationship." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29 (4):
623-641.
KERYK M. (2008): "The Church and Ukrainian Immigrants in Poland."
Available at http://www.migrationonline.cz/e-library/?x=2081309
[visited 28.3. 2008].
Please also provide the following:
- Brief annotation (4 sentences maximum) and a list of keywords (5-10
most relevant keywords)
- Full contact details for the author along with email address as well
as a brief biography (3 sentences maximum).
Please submit all images as separate files, in either *.jpg or *.tif
format with reference points indicated in the text.
Authors of feature articles and case studies chosen for publication
will receive remuneration for their contribution.
--
Ondrej Daniel
Website editor
www.evropskemesto.cz
www.europeancity.cz
tel./fax: (+420) 296 325 347
e-mail : europeancity@mkc.cz
Website has issued a call for
articles on "Motion in the City".
Motion and process modify the urban environment and provide
fascinating scope for those interested in the field of urban studies.
Both repeated and routine motion are important in understanding the
functioning principles behind single urban localities and also whole
metropolitan regions. Migration, commuting, financial flows and the
flux of ideas. All these motions are the beats of the city and in
certain sense may be seen as the substance of the urban setting.
Motion can be evaluated from the perspectives of different academic
fields; many questions about the contemporary development of the city
reveal themselves. How has urban motion changed over the last decades?
What are the effects of technological innovation, in the field of
transport and the transfer of information, on the urban milieu? What
is the progress of intra-urban, internal and international migration
into cities? How do the different parts of a city differ in terms of
the rhythms and everyday motions of its population?
Please send us an e-mail with your proposal to slamak@natur.cuni.cz
(Martin Ourednícek) until 30th August 2008. Final submissions
should be sent to europeancity@mkc.cz (Ondrej Daniel) until 15th
September 2008.
All feature articles and case studies should be either in English,
Czech or Slovak.
Original articles should be between 4,000 and 5,000 words, whilst
critical definitions should not exceed 2,000 words. Both must be
written in Microsoft Word and submitted as either *.doc or *.rtf
files. Font: Times New Roman, size:12. Line spacing: 1.5. Margins: 2.5
cm top and bottom, 3 cm left and right. Do not insert page numbers.
All references should follow the Harvard system consisting of in-text
citations [e.g. (Castles 2003)] and a full bibliography (see bellow).
Footnotes should be limited, but if included should be placed at the
foot of each page. Do not forget to list bibliography at the end of
your text. Please be consistent in your bibliography format, e.g. as
follows:
MORGAN, P. (2004). From a Death to a View: The Hunt for the Welsh past
in the Romantic Period. In: E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger, ed.: The
Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.
43-101.
MUSTERD, S. (2003). "Segregation and integration: A contested
relationship." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29 (4):
623-641.
KERYK M. (2008): "The Church and Ukrainian Immigrants in Poland."
Available at http://www.migrationonline.cz/e-library/?x=2081309
[visited 28.3. 2008].
Please also provide the following:
- Brief annotation (4 sentences maximum) and a list of keywords (5-10
most relevant keywords)
- Full contact details for the author along with email address as well
as a brief biography (3 sentences maximum).
Please submit all images as separate files, in either *.jpg or *.tif
format with reference points indicated in the text.
Authors of feature articles and case studies chosen for publication
will receive remuneration for their contribution.
--
Ondrej Daniel
Website editor
www.evropskemesto.cz
www.europeancity.cz
tel./fax: (+420) 296 325 347
e-mail : europeancity@mkc.cz
Friday, January 11, 2008
CFP: The Fall 2008 issue of Interval(le)s
The Fall 2008 issue of Interval(le)s, the poetics journal from University of Liège, Belgium, will explore transcription in the humanities and social sciences.
As an aesthetic and methodological practice, transcription appears in many disciplines: poetry, anthropology, classics, performance studies, to name just a few. We seek scholarly papers and creative projects which discuss—or exemplify—particular uses of transcription. Possible topics and projects include: transcribed literary texts; transcribed anthropological fieldwork; transcribed autoethnographies; transcribed philosophical lectures.
By July 1, 2008, send your submission to Jon Cotner (j.cotner@rocketmail.com) and to Andy Fitch (professorfitch@yahoo.com). Papers/projects should follow the MLA format (if applicable) and use footnotes rather than endnotes (if necessary). Contact us in advance if your work exceeds 7,000 words, or if you have any questions. If you submit a transcription project, please provide a brief introductory note on its development.
Previous issues can be found online at:
As an aesthetic and methodological practice, transcription appears in many disciplines: poetry, anthropology, classics, performance studies, to name just a few. We seek scholarly papers and creative projects which discuss—or exemplify—particular uses of transcription. Possible topics and projects include: transcribed literary texts; transcribed anthropological fieldwork; transcribed autoethnographies; transcribed philosophical lectures.
By July 1, 2008, send your submission to Jon Cotner (j.cotner@rocketmail.com) and to Andy Fitch (professorfitch@yahoo.com). Papers/projects should follow the MLA format (if applicable) and use footnotes rather than endnotes (if necessary). Contact us in advance if your work exceeds 7,000 words, or if you have any questions. If you submit a transcription project, please provide a brief introductory note on its development.
Previous issues can be found online at:
Monday, December 03, 2007
Word on the Street
Word on the Street: Reading, Writing & Inhabiting Public Space
Peer-reviewed Collection of Essays to be published by the IGRS in
association with the AHRC-funded Research Training Network in Modern
Languages.
As the site of everyday social interaction, the street has always
provided a source of inspiration for writers from Chaucer's pilgrims
to Baudelaire's flâneur. Moreover, it has become the focus for
critical theorists such as Michel de Certeau in an attempt to push
the limits of textual analysis beyond literature and art towards our
daily experience of the world as a form of text we simultaneously
read and write.
In compiling this collection of essays, we wish to examine the
different discourses taking place within and upon the space of the
public street. Viewing this form of discourse as an action, we hope
to include a range of discursive and artistic actions which might
include, but are certainly not limited, to: architecture, sculpture,
graffiti, skateboarding, capoeira, parkour, street theatre, and busking.
Recognising that many actions of street expression are subversive, we
also invite explorations into whom these actions involve and to whom
they are addressed. The street is the site where identity is both
established and denied. We talk of living on a street yet the street
is a place where everyone is (potentially) a stranger. Moreover, the
street is the site where cultural diversity and difference is
celebrated in the form of festivals and parades and the battleground
upon which violent social struggles are carried out in the form of
political protest, gang warfare and suicide bombings. As such the
street represents the ultimate embodiment of the Bakhtinian notion of
carnival.
We invite proposals for papers from anyone working in the field of
modern languages (any language excluding English). Topics could
include but are not restricted to:
· Literary and artistic depictions of the street
· The street as a site of artistic and cultural production
· Inhabiting the street - skateboard playgrounds, the autonomous
subject, movement
· Theorizing the street - architecture, philosophy,
psychoanalysis, film theory
· The voice of the street - languages, dialects, discourses
· The topology of the street - drawing and crossing boundaries
· Street politics and urban warfare
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted in English by
5 pm on 7 January 2008. Those shortlisted will be contacted by the
end of January and invited to submit a paper. From these a final ten
essays will be selected for inclusion in the collection. An Editorial
Workshop for all contributors will be held in early July 2008. Please
note that the final paper should be no more than 5,000 words
including notes. All quotations should be accompanied by English
translations. Obtaining permission to use images in the final
publication will be the responsibility of the author.
Please send proposals to both Sophie Fuggle (sophie.fuggle@kcl.ac.uk)
and Elisha Foust (e.foust@rhul.ac.uk). Please include your full name,
email address and any institutional affiliation.
Dr Ricarda Vidal
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study
Peer-reviewed Collection of Essays to be published by the IGRS in
association with the AHRC-funded Research Training Network in Modern
Languages.
As the site of everyday social interaction, the street has always
provided a source of inspiration for writers from Chaucer's pilgrims
to Baudelaire's flâneur. Moreover, it has become the focus for
critical theorists such as Michel de Certeau in an attempt to push
the limits of textual analysis beyond literature and art towards our
daily experience of the world as a form of text we simultaneously
read and write.
In compiling this collection of essays, we wish to examine the
different discourses taking place within and upon the space of the
public street. Viewing this form of discourse as an action, we hope
to include a range of discursive and artistic actions which might
include, but are certainly not limited, to: architecture, sculpture,
graffiti, skateboarding, capoeira, parkour, street theatre, and busking.
Recognising that many actions of street expression are subversive, we
also invite explorations into whom these actions involve and to whom
they are addressed. The street is the site where identity is both
established and denied. We talk of living on a street yet the street
is a place where everyone is (potentially) a stranger. Moreover, the
street is the site where cultural diversity and difference is
celebrated in the form of festivals and parades and the battleground
upon which violent social struggles are carried out in the form of
political protest, gang warfare and suicide bombings. As such the
street represents the ultimate embodiment of the Bakhtinian notion of
carnival.
We invite proposals for papers from anyone working in the field of
modern languages (any language excluding English). Topics could
include but are not restricted to:
· Literary and artistic depictions of the street
· The street as a site of artistic and cultural production
· Inhabiting the street - skateboard playgrounds, the autonomous
subject, movement
· Theorizing the street - architecture, philosophy,
psychoanalysis, film theory
· The voice of the street - languages, dialects, discourses
· The topology of the street - drawing and crossing boundaries
· Street politics and urban warfare
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted in English by
5 pm on 7 January 2008. Those shortlisted will be contacted by the
end of January and invited to submit a paper. From these a final ten
essays will be selected for inclusion in the collection. An Editorial
Workshop for all contributors will be held in early July 2008. Please
note that the final paper should be no more than 5,000 words
including notes. All quotations should be accompanied by English
translations. Obtaining permission to use images in the final
publication will be the responsibility of the author.
Please send proposals to both Sophie Fuggle (sophie.fuggle@kcl.ac.uk)
and Elisha Foust (e.foust@rhul.ac.uk). Please include your full name,
email address and any institutional affiliation.
Dr Ricarda Vidal
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Thinking After Derrida: Davis Derrida Day
The conference "Thinking After Derrida: Davis Derrida Day" will take place
on Friday, November 9th, 2007 at the University Club Conference Center of
the University of California, Davis from 10:00 a.m.—6:15 p.m. Hosted by the
UC Davis Graduate Program in Critical Theory, the event will include
lectures by Karen Embry, Martin Jay, Peggy Kamuf, Gerhard Richter, Scott
Shershow, and David Simpson. The event is free and open to the public.
on Friday, November 9th, 2007 at the University Club Conference Center of
the University of California, Davis from 10:00 a.m.—6:15 p.m. Hosted by the
UC Davis Graduate Program in Critical Theory, the event will include
lectures by Karen Embry, Martin Jay, Peggy Kamuf, Gerhard Richter, Scott
Shershow, and David Simpson. The event is free and open to the public.
Xcp Web Offline
There is a temporary problem with the Buffalo Freenet Server, which hosts the Xcp and Streetnotes site. We hope to be back online shortly. David
Sunday, October 14, 2007
CFP: The Street
THE STREET: The 2008 UC Irvine Visual Studies Graduate Student Association Conference
February 29 - March 1
In the most literal sense, "the street" denotes a passageway that connects various points in space. However, a quick catalog of the phrase in everyday language reveals that "the street" is a dynamic social and symbolic space, an intersection of public and private interests that are often difficult to isolate. For example, "the street" does not only refer to a thoroughfare but also denotes the place where one lives. This relationship prompts the phrase "my street," which connotes a community affected through ownership, and links its author to a greater metropolis at the same time that it embeds him or her in place as owner and agent. In this sense the street also represents the confrontation of a sense of place and the codes of public policy, thereby pointing to a larger interpenetration of the public and the private that lies at the core of this elusive space. In other instances the phrase transcends space altogether, referring instead to a mode of existence that is independent of site specificity. In this capacity "the street" is used to convey authenticity as in "receiving one's education from the street" or in being "from the street," a usage that usually implies an opposition to artificial or abstract representations of reality. While these examples make clear that "the street" often functions in opposition to a privileged class, it is, in practice, precisely that space which refuses class distinction by forcing interactions among diverse social groups. This interaction is itself as diverse as the space in which it takes place as one may address the street with the apathy of the flâneur or with the fervor of political protest.
We seek papers, projects, or organized panels from a variety of disciplines and approaches all of which address and expand upon the many layers of meaning that constitute this rich object of study. Please submit abstract (250 words) and c.v. to thestreetconference@gmail.com by Dec. 1, 2007 for consideration.
Fields of interest may include:
The 40th anniversary of May '68
Limits of 'the public' in a surveillance society
Public infrastructure and urban planning
Protest on the global street
Globalization and Wall Street
Benjamin's Arcades Project
Advertising and public displays of consumption
Homelessness and nomadism
Situationism and the practice of the Derive
Public performance and the choreography of the street
GPS, G-Maps and virtual negotiations
The simulated street of the Sims and Second Life
Car crashes, accidents and public fatality
Visual Studies Graduate Student Association
University of California, Irvine
thestreetconference@gmail.com
February 29 - March 1
In the most literal sense, "the street" denotes a passageway that connects various points in space. However, a quick catalog of the phrase in everyday language reveals that "the street" is a dynamic social and symbolic space, an intersection of public and private interests that are often difficult to isolate. For example, "the street" does not only refer to a thoroughfare but also denotes the place where one lives. This relationship prompts the phrase "my street," which connotes a community affected through ownership, and links its author to a greater metropolis at the same time that it embeds him or her in place as owner and agent. In this sense the street also represents the confrontation of a sense of place and the codes of public policy, thereby pointing to a larger interpenetration of the public and the private that lies at the core of this elusive space. In other instances the phrase transcends space altogether, referring instead to a mode of existence that is independent of site specificity. In this capacity "the street" is used to convey authenticity as in "receiving one's education from the street" or in being "from the street," a usage that usually implies an opposition to artificial or abstract representations of reality. While these examples make clear that "the street" often functions in opposition to a privileged class, it is, in practice, precisely that space which refuses class distinction by forcing interactions among diverse social groups. This interaction is itself as diverse as the space in which it takes place as one may address the street with the apathy of the flâneur or with the fervor of political protest.
We seek papers, projects, or organized panels from a variety of disciplines and approaches all of which address and expand upon the many layers of meaning that constitute this rich object of study. Please submit abstract (250 words) and c.v. to thestreetconference@gmail.com by Dec. 1, 2007 for consideration.
Fields of interest may include:
The 40th anniversary of May '68
Limits of 'the public' in a surveillance society
Public infrastructure and urban planning
Protest on the global street
Globalization and Wall Street
Benjamin's Arcades Project
Advertising and public displays of consumption
Homelessness and nomadism
Situationism and the practice of the Derive
Public performance and the choreography of the street
GPS, G-Maps and virtual negotiations
The simulated street of the Sims and Second Life
Car crashes, accidents and public fatality
Visual Studies Graduate Student Association
University of California, Irvine
thestreetconference@gmail.com
Monday, October 01, 2007
John C Mohawk, His Life and Work Conference
4th Annual Storytellers Conference honoring John C. Mohawk, his life and his work
Location: New York, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2007-11-01
Date Submitted: 2007-08-26
HNET Announcement ID: 157942
From March 28 to March 30, 2008 -- The Fourth Annual Storytellers of the Americas Conference will honor the life and work of John C. Mohawk through storytelling and through academic papers relating to the many and varied fields in which Dr. Mohawk worked throughout his life. This conference will be hosted at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, New York. We seek proposals for academic papers related to John Mohawk, his life, and work. Panels include but are not limited to:
(1) Iroquois White Corn Project, including issues of slow food, contemporary cuisine, farming, and native nutrition; Indigenous Stories within their own culture, including creation stories, ceremonies, and histories (2) Environmental concerns, including historical climate change, contemporary global warming, the effects on indigenous peoples, and survival advice offered by indigenous prophecies (3) Indigenous History, including government, law, resistance, land rights, and development; Modernity and the West, including the European projects of white supremacy, colonization, and domination by the sword, by the pen, and by any means available.
As this is a Storytellers Conference, we invite you to tell stories related to the above. Stories will be told in a special session, wrapping up the conference, on Sunday, March 30, 2008.
Please feel free to suggest other panel topics.
Storytellers of Americas Conference Organizing Committee c/o Nikki Dragone (dragonnd2@gmail.com); and, Amber Adams (ambermeadowadams@verizon.net); and, Ula Piasta (ulapiasta@yahoo.com).
Email: dragonnd2@gamil.com
Location: New York, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2007-11-01
Date Submitted: 2007-08-26
HNET Announcement ID: 157942
From March 28 to March 30, 2008 -- The Fourth Annual Storytellers of the Americas Conference will honor the life and work of John C. Mohawk through storytelling and through academic papers relating to the many and varied fields in which Dr. Mohawk worked throughout his life. This conference will be hosted at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, New York. We seek proposals for academic papers related to John Mohawk, his life, and work. Panels include but are not limited to:
(1) Iroquois White Corn Project, including issues of slow food, contemporary cuisine, farming, and native nutrition; Indigenous Stories within their own culture, including creation stories, ceremonies, and histories (2) Environmental concerns, including historical climate change, contemporary global warming, the effects on indigenous peoples, and survival advice offered by indigenous prophecies (3) Indigenous History, including government, law, resistance, land rights, and development; Modernity and the West, including the European projects of white supremacy, colonization, and domination by the sword, by the pen, and by any means available.
As this is a Storytellers Conference, we invite you to tell stories related to the above. Stories will be told in a special session, wrapping up the conference, on Sunday, March 30, 2008.
Please feel free to suggest other panel topics.
Storytellers of Americas Conference Organizing Committee c/o Nikki Dragone (dragonnd2@gmail.com); and, Amber Adams (ambermeadowadams@verizon.net); and, Ula Piasta (ulapiasta@yahoo.com).
Email: dragonnd2@gamil.com
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Join Network of Concerned Anthropologists
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The Network of Concerned Anthropologists (NCA) is an independent ad hoc network of anthropologists seeking to promote an ethical anthropology. For more information, write concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
--
Pledge of Non-participation in Counter-insurgency
"We, the undersigned, believe that anthropologists should not engage in research and other activities that contribute to counter-insurgency operations in Iraq or in related theaters in the “war on terror.” Furthermore, we believe that anthropologists should refrain from directly assisting the US military in combat, be it through torture, interrogation, or tactical advice..."
--
"
The Department of Defense and allied agencies are
mobilizing anthropologists for interventions in the
Middle East and beyond. It is likely that larger,
more permanent initiatives are in the works.
Over the last several weeks, we have created an ad hoc
group, the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, with
the objective of promoting an ethical anthropology.
Working together, we have drafted a pledge of
non-participation in counter-insurgency, which we have
organized as a petition (see attachment). We invite
you to become a part of this effort by taking the
following steps:
Download and print the attached pledge (in .pdf
format). Ask your colleagues to sign the pledge, and
promptly send it to us via regular mail. Our address
is Network of Concerned Anthropologists, c/o Dept. of
Anthropology, George Mason University, 4400 University
Drive, MS 3G5, Fairfax, VA 22030 (USA). If it is more
convenient, email a .pdf copy of collected signatures
and send it to us at
concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
"
See petition and details at web site at
http://concerned.anthropologists.googlepages.com/home
for more information and updates.
Network of Concerned Anthropologists span>
The Network of Concerned Anthropologists (NCA) is an independent ad hoc network of anthropologists seeking to promote an ethical anthropology. For more information, write concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
--
Pledge of Non-participation in Counter-insurgency
"We, the undersigned, believe that anthropologists should not engage in research and other activities that contribute to counter-insurgency operations in Iraq or in related theaters in the “war on terror.” Furthermore, we believe that anthropologists should refrain from directly assisting the US military in combat, be it through torture, interrogation, or tactical advice..."
--
"
The Department of Defense and allied agencies are
mobilizing anthropologists for interventions in the
Middle East and beyond. It is likely that larger,
more permanent initiatives are in the works.
Over the last several weeks, we have created an ad hoc
group, the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, with
the objective of promoting an ethical anthropology.
Working together, we have drafted a pledge of
non-participation in counter-insurgency, which we have
organized as a petition (see attachment). We invite
you to become a part of this effort by taking the
following steps:
Download and print the attached pledge (in .pdf
format). Ask your colleagues to sign the pledge, and
promptly send it to us via regular mail. Our address
is Network of Concerned Anthropologists, c/o Dept. of
Anthropology, George Mason University, 4400 University
Drive, MS 3G5, Fairfax, VA 22030 (USA). If it is more
convenient, email a .pdf copy of collected signatures
and send it to us at
concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
"
See petition and details at web site at
http://concerned.anthropologists.googlepages.com/home
for more information and updates.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Urban History Group Annual Conference
Urban History Group Annual Conference,
27-28 March 2008, University of Nottingham
Second Call for sessions and papers:
Urban Boundaries and Margins
This conference will explore the concept of boundaries and margins in
the context of the city. The theme is interpreted broadly to encompass
not only the identification of various types of boundaries - spatial,
social, cultural, economic and political - but also the
processes that help create, sustain as well as contest the legitimacy
and practices of such boundaries. This focus draws attention to the
differences as well as the similarities between various groups and
activities in the city, and explores how these could change over time.
Themed sessions will include the following:
Age and life cycle issues in urban contexts
"Them and us"; class, race, ethnicity, culture
Transgressing norms of behaviour
Shifting concepts of day and night
Marginal groups and practices
Spatial and architectural margins in the home and the city
Administrative and political boundaries
Public and private space
The representation of boundaries
Boundaries of conflict and boundaries of order
The conference committee invites proposals for individual papers as
well as for additional sessions. Abstract of up to 500 words should be
submitted to the conference organiser and should indicate clearly how
the content of the paper addresses the broad conference theme. Those
wishing to propose additional sessions should provide a brief statement
that identifies the ways in which the session will address the
conference theme, a list of speakers and paper abstracts. The deadline
for expressions of interest for sessions and papers is 30 September
2007.
In addition, the conference will also host a new researchers forum.
This is aimed primarily at those who are at an early stage in a research
project and who wish primarily to discuss ideas rather than present
findings. New and current postgraduates working on topics unrelated to
the main theme, as well as those just embarking on new research, are
particularly encouraged to submit short papers for this forum.
Graduate students can obtain a bursary to offset some of the expenses
associated with attending the conference. Please send an e mail
application to Richard Rodger rgr@le.ac.uk and ask your PhD supervisor
to also send a message confirming your status as a registered PhD
student. The Urban History Group would like to acknowledge the Economic
History Society for its support for these bursaries.
For further details please contact:
Dr David Green (conference organiser)
Email: david.r.green@kcl.ac.uk
Department of Geography
King's College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS, UK
Tel: 44 (0) 20 7848 2721/2599
Fax:44 (0) 20 7848 2287
27-28 March 2008, University of Nottingham
Second Call for sessions and papers:
Urban Boundaries and Margins
This conference will explore the concept of boundaries and margins in
the context of the city. The theme is interpreted broadly to encompass
not only the identification of various types of boundaries - spatial,
social, cultural, economic and political - but also the
processes that help create, sustain as well as contest the legitimacy
and practices of such boundaries. This focus draws attention to the
differences as well as the similarities between various groups and
activities in the city, and explores how these could change over time.
Themed sessions will include the following:
Age and life cycle issues in urban contexts
"Them and us"; class, race, ethnicity, culture
Transgressing norms of behaviour
Shifting concepts of day and night
Marginal groups and practices
Spatial and architectural margins in the home and the city
Administrative and political boundaries
Public and private space
The representation of boundaries
Boundaries of conflict and boundaries of order
The conference committee invites proposals for individual papers as
well as for additional sessions. Abstract of up to 500 words should be
submitted to the conference organiser and should indicate clearly how
the content of the paper addresses the broad conference theme. Those
wishing to propose additional sessions should provide a brief statement
that identifies the ways in which the session will address the
conference theme, a list of speakers and paper abstracts. The deadline
for expressions of interest for sessions and papers is 30 September
2007.
In addition, the conference will also host a new researchers forum.
This is aimed primarily at those who are at an early stage in a research
project and who wish primarily to discuss ideas rather than present
findings. New and current postgraduates working on topics unrelated to
the main theme, as well as those just embarking on new research, are
particularly encouraged to submit short papers for this forum.
Graduate students can obtain a bursary to offset some of the expenses
associated with attending the conference. Please send an e mail
application to Richard Rodger rgr@le.ac.uk and ask your PhD supervisor
to also send a message confirming your status as a registered PhD
student. The Urban History Group would like to acknowledge the Economic
History Society for its support for these bursaries.
For further details please contact:
Dr David Green (conference organiser)
Email: david.r.green@kcl.ac.uk
Department of Geography
King's College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS, UK
Tel: 44 (0) 20 7848 2721/2599
Fax:44 (0) 20 7848 2287
Sunday, September 09, 2007
CFP: Who Claims the City?
Who Claims the City?: Thinking Race, Class, and Urban Place May 2-3,
2008 Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Proposals from all disciplines are invited for a conference at Marquette
University exploring "the city" as the locus of social conflict,
representation, law, ideology, desire, policy, planning, and
imagination, all inflected by lived realities of race, class, gender,
sexuality, and movement. Possible issues for consideration include:
--How has racial discourse changed as a result of shifting patterns of
immigration and migration?
What role does foreign policy play in determining domestic urban
realities?
--How have education or the arts challenged or sustained ideologies of
privilege in American cities?
-- What is the relationship between racial politics and economic
globalization?
Please submit 250 - 500 word abstracts and a brief c.v. to
artsnscience@marquette.edu by December 1, 2007. Please include
"conference proposal" in your subject line.
Heather Hathaway, Associate Professor of English Way-Klingler College of
Arts and Sciences Marquette University P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI
53201-1881
(414) 288-5310
2008 Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Proposals from all disciplines are invited for a conference at Marquette
University exploring "the city" as the locus of social conflict,
representation, law, ideology, desire, policy, planning, and
imagination, all inflected by lived realities of race, class, gender,
sexuality, and movement. Possible issues for consideration include:
--How has racial discourse changed as a result of shifting patterns of
immigration and migration?
What role does foreign policy play in determining domestic urban
realities?
--How have education or the arts challenged or sustained ideologies of
privilege in American cities?
-- What is the relationship between racial politics and economic
globalization?
Please submit 250 - 500 word abstracts and a brief c.v. to
artsnscience@marquette.edu by December 1, 2007. Please include
"conference proposal" in your subject line.
Heather Hathaway, Associate Professor of English Way-Klingler College of
Arts and Sciences Marquette University P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI
53201-1881
(414) 288-5310
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
CFP: Oral History, Mid-Atlantic Region
Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region, in partnership with the Columbia University Oral History Research Office and the New York Public Library for the Performing arts, invites proposals for papers and performances for the March 14 and 15, 2008 Oral History and Performance Conference, to be held at Columbia University in New York City.
As one of the great performing arts meccas of the world and a vital center for community-based and grassroots oral history research, New York City is an ideal place to explore the intersection of oral history and performance. The conference program committee hopes to bring together performing artists, oral historians, and other practitioners in a multi-disciplinary conference that will highlight the diversity of work centered around oral history and performance.
Where oral history and performance meet lies an important emerging field of endeavor, with rich cross-disciplinary resonances across anthropology, sociology, history, performance studies, art history, public history, arts-based education, community development and many other areas. Performances, in a variety of genres, are a powerful means for increasing access to oral history sources and engaging broad audiences with diverse historical materials. Proposals dealing with the methodological and theoretical issues around transforming interviews into performances are welcome. This conference should also provide an opportunity to examine how stories are performed, in interviews and in other contexts.
The program committee welcomes proposals using multiple approaches, media, and theoretical frameworks, falling at various points along the wide continuum of paper and performance.
The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2007. See the Call for Papers and Performances for full details, available online at
http://www.ohmar.org/pastconferences/conf2008spring.htm.
Conference Program Committee:
Renee Braden, National Geographic Society
Jeff Friedman, Rutgers University
Susan Kraft, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Harriet Lynn, Heritage Theatre Artists' Consortium
Amy Starecheski, Columbia University Oral History Research Office
As one of the great performing arts meccas of the world and a vital center for community-based and grassroots oral history research, New York City is an ideal place to explore the intersection of oral history and performance. The conference program committee hopes to bring together performing artists, oral historians, and other practitioners in a multi-disciplinary conference that will highlight the diversity of work centered around oral history and performance.
Where oral history and performance meet lies an important emerging field of endeavor, with rich cross-disciplinary resonances across anthropology, sociology, history, performance studies, art history, public history, arts-based education, community development and many other areas. Performances, in a variety of genres, are a powerful means for increasing access to oral history sources and engaging broad audiences with diverse historical materials. Proposals dealing with the methodological and theoretical issues around transforming interviews into performances are welcome. This conference should also provide an opportunity to examine how stories are performed, in interviews and in other contexts.
The program committee welcomes proposals using multiple approaches, media, and theoretical frameworks, falling at various points along the wide continuum of paper and performance.
The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2007. See the Call for Papers and Performances for full details, available online at
http://www.ohmar.org/pastconferences/conf2008spring.htm.
Conference Program Committee:
Renee Braden, National Geographic Society
Jeff Friedman, Rutgers University
Susan Kraft, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Harriet Lynn, Heritage Theatre Artists' Consortium
Amy Starecheski, Columbia University Oral History Research Office
Monday, August 20, 2007
CFP: New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Call for Papers for Volume 1, Issue 2.
The Editorial Collective invites submissions from politically engaged
scholars that discus the linkage between their political engagements and
their academic work.
Papers should be no more than 3,000 - 5,000 words. References and citations
are to be kept to the minimum required to advance your argument. Articles
can be based in original research, synthetic reviews, or theoretical
engagements. We look forward to -in fact expect- a diversity of
perspectives and approaches that, while they may disagree on the
particulars, they will share with the Editorial Collective a commitment to
an engaged scholarship that prioritizes social justice.
New Proposals is a transnational peer-reviewed journal hosted at The
University of British Columbia in collaboration with the UBC Library
EJournal Project.
________________________________________________________________________
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals
The Editorial Collective invites submissions from politically engaged
scholars that discus the linkage between their political engagements and
their academic work.
Papers should be no more than 3,000 - 5,000 words. References and citations
are to be kept to the minimum required to advance your argument. Articles
can be based in original research, synthetic reviews, or theoretical
engagements. We look forward to -in fact expect- a diversity of
perspectives and approaches that, while they may disagree on the
particulars, they will share with the Editorial Collective a commitment to
an engaged scholarship that prioritizes social justice.
New Proposals is a transnational peer-reviewed journal hosted at The
University of British Columbia in collaboration with the UBC Library
EJournal Project.
________________________________________________________________________
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Beyond Signification
Beyond Signification - The Return of Reality and the Crisis of Poststructuralism
Appel à contribution
Date limite : 30 août 2007
Information publiée le mercredi 8 août 2007 par Bérenger Boulay (source : Jan Wopking)
Beyond Signification (Nach den Zeichen)
On the 7th and 8th of December 2007 the Department of Philosophy at Free University Berlin will host its second International Graduate Conference for Philosophy. This year´s conference addresses the recent comeback of concepts such as substance, presence and reality in and outside the Humanities and the crisis of poststructuralism that accompanies it.
Deadline: 30th of August 2007!
conference homepage: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs/
Call for Papers
Beyond Signification. The Return of Reality and the Crisis of Poststructuralism.
Today a growing number of people in the Humanities suggest that the times of poststructuralism have come to an end. According to them we concentrated on symbols, signs and discourse for far too long. Did we not thereby forget the reality of things? How do we account for the materiality of media, experiments, and writing? What happened to reality, substantiality and presence? This conference aims at discussing contemporary critiques of poststructuralism, its historical conditions, its impact on the present, and its implications for the future. Does poststructuralism really fail to acknowledge reality? How do we evaluate the emerging new theories that challenge poststructuralism? We would like to suggest three main areas for discussion:
1. How important are concepts like “reality” and “materiality” for contemporary debates in the Humanities? On the one hand there is increasing demand for the rehabilitation of a non-discursive reality; on the other hand there is a growing scepticism towards ideas such as the worldmaking power of discourse or the “free play of the signifyer”. In recent years this led to the development of new versions of cultural materialism. How do these conceive of culture and reality, of man and the world? What are their advantages and disadvantges and how big is their impact on the humanities? Do we witness a lasting turn form poststructuralism to cultural materialism, from symbol to substance?
2. Is the return of the real limited to academia or is it part of a more general shift that affects social and politial life as a whole? Outside of university, various discourses emphasise the constraints of reality. Consider the threat of global climate change and the diagnosis of a new age of vulnerability after 9/11. Can we identify a turn to materiality in such fields as politics, society, arts, and science? Are we faced with a paradigm shift?
3. Is it true that French Theory neglects materiality, and if so, why? Critics accuse poststructuralism of having forgotten or repressed the importance of reality and of having discredited thinking and writing about it. Others claim that these theories propose extraordinarily subtle ways of conceptualizing reality which are more adequate for an understanding of the complexities of the present. We would like to discuss various poststructuralist accounts of reality and we would like to speculate on the future of Derrida, Lyotard and Deleuze. Will they play a role in the debates to come? And what role could that be?
We invite graduate students and young researchers from all faculties to submit proposals for a 30-minute presentation. Presentations can be given in English or German; at least a passive knowledge of German is recommended. Free accomodation will be provided. Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words, accompanied by some biographical information, to:
Johannes-Georg Schülein (jgs@zedat.fu-berlin.de) oder
Jan Wöpking (jan.woepking@googlemail.com)
Deadline for abstracts: 30th August 2007
For more information see http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs/
Responsable : Philosophy Department FU Berlin
Url de référence : http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs
Adresse : Jan Wöpking Institut für Philosophie Freie Universität Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 45 10957 Berlin Allemagne.
Appel à contribution
Date limite : 30 août 2007
Information publiée le mercredi 8 août 2007 par Bérenger Boulay (source : Jan Wopking)
Beyond Signification (Nach den Zeichen)
On the 7th and 8th of December 2007 the Department of Philosophy at Free University Berlin will host its second International Graduate Conference for Philosophy. This year´s conference addresses the recent comeback of concepts such as substance, presence and reality in and outside the Humanities and the crisis of poststructuralism that accompanies it.
Deadline: 30th of August 2007!
conference homepage: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs/
Call for Papers
Beyond Signification. The Return of Reality and the Crisis of Poststructuralism.
Today a growing number of people in the Humanities suggest that the times of poststructuralism have come to an end. According to them we concentrated on symbols, signs and discourse for far too long. Did we not thereby forget the reality of things? How do we account for the materiality of media, experiments, and writing? What happened to reality, substantiality and presence? This conference aims at discussing contemporary critiques of poststructuralism, its historical conditions, its impact on the present, and its implications for the future. Does poststructuralism really fail to acknowledge reality? How do we evaluate the emerging new theories that challenge poststructuralism? We would like to suggest three main areas for discussion:
1. How important are concepts like “reality” and “materiality” for contemporary debates in the Humanities? On the one hand there is increasing demand for the rehabilitation of a non-discursive reality; on the other hand there is a growing scepticism towards ideas such as the worldmaking power of discourse or the “free play of the signifyer”. In recent years this led to the development of new versions of cultural materialism. How do these conceive of culture and reality, of man and the world? What are their advantages and disadvantges and how big is their impact on the humanities? Do we witness a lasting turn form poststructuralism to cultural materialism, from symbol to substance?
2. Is the return of the real limited to academia or is it part of a more general shift that affects social and politial life as a whole? Outside of university, various discourses emphasise the constraints of reality. Consider the threat of global climate change and the diagnosis of a new age of vulnerability after 9/11. Can we identify a turn to materiality in such fields as politics, society, arts, and science? Are we faced with a paradigm shift?
3. Is it true that French Theory neglects materiality, and if so, why? Critics accuse poststructuralism of having forgotten or repressed the importance of reality and of having discredited thinking and writing about it. Others claim that these theories propose extraordinarily subtle ways of conceptualizing reality which are more adequate for an understanding of the complexities of the present. We would like to discuss various poststructuralist accounts of reality and we would like to speculate on the future of Derrida, Lyotard and Deleuze. Will they play a role in the debates to come? And what role could that be?
We invite graduate students and young researchers from all faculties to submit proposals for a 30-minute presentation. Presentations can be given in English or German; at least a passive knowledge of German is recommended. Free accomodation will be provided. Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words, accompanied by some biographical information, to:
Johannes-Georg Schülein (jgs@zedat.fu-berlin.de) oder
Jan Wöpking (jan.woepking@googlemail.com)
Deadline for abstracts: 30th August 2007
For more information see http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs/
Responsable : Philosophy Department FU Berlin
Url de référence : http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs
Adresse : Jan Wöpking Institut für Philosophie Freie Universität Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 45 10957 Berlin Allemagne.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
CFP: Behind the Scenes, Between the Lines. Dis-Membering the Dark Side of Organization
First Call for Papers: Behind the Scenes, Between the Lines.
Dis-Membering the Dark Side of Organization
June 25-27 2008, Wortley Hall, Sheffield, UK
Conference Organizers: Garance Maréchal (University of Liverpool); Hugo Letiche (UvH Utrecht); Stephen Linstead (University of York); Torkild Thanem (University of Vaxjo).
Keynotes by: Professor Gibson Burrell, University of Leicester Management School; Professor Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney and AIM
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28 November 2007 (300-500 words)
Decisions on acceptance of abstracts: 18 January 2008.
Deadline for submission of full papers : 30 April 2008
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In this two-day conference, we wish to explore, track, display and dis-member the ‘dark side’ of organization. We are interested in the perhaps instinctual, impulsive, non organized and hidden dynamics that influence organizing, and especially its ‘upsetting’ part. Our aim is to confront the potential of the dark side of organization as an alternative focus for understanding organizational life.
We invite papers that consider such questions as:
- Should we talk about a “dark side”? How can it be defined and why is it conceived of as being dark? Can and should the “dark side” be suppressed? Can it be creative as well as destructive? Is an ethics of the dark side possible? Is there also a horror of “whiteness”?
- Are organizations no more than trembling aggregates of human flesh, violence, pain and/or desires? How can organization studies engage with the nature of the formless? Is aesthetics one way to recognise its negativity? Are there others?
- Does dis-membering mean more than taking apart? Does it require the development of new methods of study and how can they be generated?
Possible themes that papers might address could include: - Desire, sexuality, carnality, passion, sacrifice and the sacred in organization - Depravity, perversion and transgression in organization;
- Corruption, bribery, organizational crime, fraud, post-Enron issues
- Abuse of power, harassment, bullying, intimidation, extortion,bystanding, suicide, murder.
- Secrecy, espionage, disinformation, surveillance.
- The creativity of the dark side and the dark side of learning.
- Decrepitude, decay, terror and horror.
- Organized aspects of human tragedies and disasters – war, genocide, exploitation and displacement of indigenous people by “development” projects.
- Technologies of horror and the horrors of technology.
- The monstrous in organization and organization theory – including consideration of excess, waste, hybrids, chimera.
- The significance of illusion, including dreams; symbolism, artefacts and language of the dark side; simulacra, escapism, gambling, risk.
- Non-knowledge, non-being and the Inhuman.
- Phantoms, spectres, spirits and ghosts…..!
We also welcome papers that:
- Explore the potential contributions to the understanding of the dark side of organization of specific authors and movements outside the boundary of organization studies, such as: Artaud, Bataille, surrealism or recent approaches to the application of psychoanalysis (such as Zizek’s appropriation of Lacan, and the work of Laplanche).
- Develop approaches to formlessness: the rhizomatics of the dark side; architecture, thresholds, transitions, ectoplasm, clouds, mess, pneumatology; challenges of the formless to organizational philosophy.
- Attempt further to explore arguments advanced in Burrell’s Pandemonium
Papers and Proposals
We invite proposals for innovative forms of presentations as well as conventional papers; innovative forms can include performances, demonstrations of methods or techniques, and novel or unconventional utilizations of representational forms. Forms that unleash the dark side of individual or collective creativity (like the surrealists’ exquisite cadaver) and make it available for scrutiny are particularly welcome. Should your presentation require a timing or other resources outside the conventional format, please set out your requirements clearly. We hope to facilitate a wide range of approaches to the topic.
Registration
@ £275 per person (single) £220 (sharing)- includes all accommodation and meals from 2pm 25th to 2pm 27th and will cost . Accommodation and registration forms will be available in autumn 2007.
Garance Marechal
University of Liverpool Management School
Chatham Street
L69 7ZH Liverpool UK
Phone: (44) 151 795 3808
Email: g.marechal@liv.ac.uk
Email: darksideoforg@btinternet.com
Visit the website at http://slinstead.userworld.com/darkside/dsindex.html
Dis-Membering the Dark Side of Organization
June 25-27 2008, Wortley Hall, Sheffield, UK
Conference Organizers: Garance Maréchal (University of Liverpool); Hugo Letiche (UvH Utrecht); Stephen Linstead (University of York); Torkild Thanem (University of Vaxjo).
Keynotes by: Professor Gibson Burrell, University of Leicester Management School; Professor Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney and AIM
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28 November 2007 (300-500 words)
Decisions on acceptance of abstracts: 18 January 2008.
Deadline for submission of full papers : 30 April 2008
------
In this two-day conference, we wish to explore, track, display and dis-member the ‘dark side’ of organization. We are interested in the perhaps instinctual, impulsive, non organized and hidden dynamics that influence organizing, and especially its ‘upsetting’ part. Our aim is to confront the potential of the dark side of organization as an alternative focus for understanding organizational life.
We invite papers that consider such questions as:
- Should we talk about a “dark side”? How can it be defined and why is it conceived of as being dark? Can and should the “dark side” be suppressed? Can it be creative as well as destructive? Is an ethics of the dark side possible? Is there also a horror of “whiteness”?
- Are organizations no more than trembling aggregates of human flesh, violence, pain and/or desires? How can organization studies engage with the nature of the formless? Is aesthetics one way to recognise its negativity? Are there others?
- Does dis-membering mean more than taking apart? Does it require the development of new methods of study and how can they be generated?
Possible themes that papers might address could include: - Desire, sexuality, carnality, passion, sacrifice and the sacred in organization - Depravity, perversion and transgression in organization;
- Corruption, bribery, organizational crime, fraud, post-Enron issues
- Abuse of power, harassment, bullying, intimidation, extortion,bystanding, suicide, murder.
- Secrecy, espionage, disinformation, surveillance.
- The creativity of the dark side and the dark side of learning.
- Decrepitude, decay, terror and horror.
- Organized aspects of human tragedies and disasters – war, genocide, exploitation and displacement of indigenous people by “development” projects.
- Technologies of horror and the horrors of technology.
- The monstrous in organization and organization theory – including consideration of excess, waste, hybrids, chimera.
- The significance of illusion, including dreams; symbolism, artefacts and language of the dark side; simulacra, escapism, gambling, risk.
- Non-knowledge, non-being and the Inhuman.
- Phantoms, spectres, spirits and ghosts…..!
We also welcome papers that:
- Explore the potential contributions to the understanding of the dark side of organization of specific authors and movements outside the boundary of organization studies, such as: Artaud, Bataille, surrealism or recent approaches to the application of psychoanalysis (such as Zizek’s appropriation of Lacan, and the work of Laplanche).
- Develop approaches to formlessness: the rhizomatics of the dark side; architecture, thresholds, transitions, ectoplasm, clouds, mess, pneumatology; challenges of the formless to organizational philosophy.
- Attempt further to explore arguments advanced in Burrell’s Pandemonium
Papers and Proposals
We invite proposals for innovative forms of presentations as well as conventional papers; innovative forms can include performances, demonstrations of methods or techniques, and novel or unconventional utilizations of representational forms. Forms that unleash the dark side of individual or collective creativity (like the surrealists’ exquisite cadaver) and make it available for scrutiny are particularly welcome. Should your presentation require a timing or other resources outside the conventional format, please set out your requirements clearly. We hope to facilitate a wide range of approaches to the topic.
Registration
@ £275 per person (single) £220 (sharing)- includes all accommodation and meals from 2pm 25th to 2pm 27th and will cost . Accommodation and registration forms will be available in autumn 2007.
Garance Marechal
University of Liverpool Management School
Chatham Street
L69 7ZH Liverpool UK
Phone: (44) 151 795 3808
Email: g.marechal@liv.ac.uk
Email: darksideoforg@btinternet.com
Visit the website at http://slinstead.userworld.com/darkside/dsindex.html
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
CFP: Teaching the City
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE
Teaching the City
The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 - 10,000 words) and
media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. - 3,000
to 5,000 words) that explore the city in a variety of pedagogical contexts
and disciplinary perspectives-literature, women's and gender studies,
urban studies, architecture, anthropology, folklore, history, psychology,
sociology, art, photography, geography, religion, working-class studies,
ethnic studies, cultural studies, science, music, performance studies, and
others. Essays must focus on pedagogical theory and/or praxis.
Topics might include: teaching the city in K-12 and higher education;
defining urban space; gendering the city; the history and interpretation
of public space; globalization and the city; the politics of urban
education; intersections of race, class, and gender in the city; economics
and gentrification; environmental education; greening the city; community
and cultural identity in the city; representations of the city in
literature, visual, and popular culture; expressive forms and traditions;
post-industrial transformations; im/migration and transnational labor;
architecture and urban planning; building and re-building cities, public
history in/and the city; urban geography; urban sexualities, health and
the city.
Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.) and a 250-word abstract to:
Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, Transformations, New Jersey
City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey
City, NJ 07305 OR email submissions and inquiries to:
transformations@njcu.edu. Email submissions should be sent as attachments
in MS Word or Rich Text format. For submission guidelines go to
www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations.
Published semi-annually by New Jersey City University
Deadline: November 30th, 2007
Teaching the City
The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 - 10,000 words) and
media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. - 3,000
to 5,000 words) that explore the city in a variety of pedagogical contexts
and disciplinary perspectives-literature, women's and gender studies,
urban studies, architecture, anthropology, folklore, history, psychology,
sociology, art, photography, geography, religion, working-class studies,
ethnic studies, cultural studies, science, music, performance studies, and
others. Essays must focus on pedagogical theory and/or praxis.
Topics might include: teaching the city in K-12 and higher education;
defining urban space; gendering the city; the history and interpretation
of public space; globalization and the city; the politics of urban
education; intersections of race, class, and gender in the city; economics
and gentrification; environmental education; greening the city; community
and cultural identity in the city; representations of the city in
literature, visual, and popular culture; expressive forms and traditions;
post-industrial transformations; im/migration and transnational labor;
architecture and urban planning; building and re-building cities, public
history in/and the city; urban geography; urban sexualities, health and
the city.
Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.) and a 250-word abstract to:
Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, Transformations, New Jersey
City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey
City, NJ 07305 OR email submissions and inquiries to:
transformations@njcu.edu. Email submissions should be sent as attachments
in MS Word or Rich Text format. For submission guidelines go to
www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations.
Published semi-annually by New Jersey City University
Deadline: November 30th, 2007
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