Call for Papers: 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers
Cities & Synecdoche
'Synecdoche', as defined by Webster's New World Dictionary, is "a figure
of speech in which a part is used for a whole, an individual for a
class, a material for a thing, or any of the reverse of these." In
Geography, we find this especially in representations and discussions of
scale where, for example, 'the city' is (mis-)represented using
phenomena and patterns better understood and analyzed at local or
regional scales ... or vice versa. Place-marketing and other
entrepreneurial endeavors - branding, for example - have made ample use
of synecdoche in the interest of economic development and investment.
'Best Places' claims and categorizations are, almost by necessity,
derived from scale-specific data that are hardly universal to the
'place' at hand. This is especially true for cities, for whom 'best' (or
'worst') place-branding (either self-generated or by others) has taken
on increasing competitive significance. To this end, it seems,
synecdoche is increasingly vital to projects of accumulation and - by
extension - uneven development and thus potentially rife with inter- or
intra-scale contradictions and the potential for conflict and injustice.
For this paper session, I invite papers that explore the complexities of
synecdoche at the Urban Scale, and that attempt to reveal its
implications (be they positive or negative) for those 'other' scales
(e.g., communities, environments, households, people, and places)
abstracted within it and from which it is emergent. I encourage
participation from a breadth of ideological and theoretical
orientations, sub-disciplinary interests, and international
perspectives.
Please send a message of intent and abstract electronically by no later
than October 18th to:
Alec Brownlow
Assistant Professor of Geography
DePaul University
Chicago, IL 60614
cbrownlo@depaul.edu
phone: 773-325-7876
fax: 773-325-4590
Friday, October 15, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Race and Space: The Materiality of Difference
Call For Papers: Association of American Geographers, annual meeting:
April 12-16, 2011, Seattle, WA
Race and Space: The Materiality of Difference
Co-organizers: Rachel Brahinsky (UC Berkeley Geography) and Kate
Derickson (University of Glasgow)
This session seeks to put scholars in conversation who are drawing out
the vitally important connections between racialization and the
production of space. We’re interested in these processes from a
theoretical perspective – but even more so because of the way they
play out in people’s everyday lives. Thus for this session, we are
particularly interested in papers that tease out the materiality of
space-race relationships. How do racial constructions connect to
spatial ones and vice versa – and why does it matter? If “race” makes
spaces, or if racialization occurs in and through space, then how are
these processes sedimented and resisted in everyday life?
This call for papers is devised in the spirit of drawing connections
between class- and capital-centered literatures on the production of
space and critical race literatures that aim to destabilize “race.”
This session therefore seeks both to extend the body of race-space
literature that is emergent in Geography and to open new pathways of
research and analysis, perhaps using interdisciplinary methodologies
to tease out how race and class (and other stratifications) interact
with space. Local, regional, national, and global studies are all
encouraged.
We invite scholars from across disciplines to submit abstracts that
may include (but aren’t limited to):
• Intersections of racialization with gender, class, or religion
– and space
• The ways in which financial crises are borne out through both
spatial and racialized patterns
• Ideologies and spatialities of Whiteness
• How race-space relationships play out in cities, rural spaces
or in “nature”
• Spatialities of post-racial thinking
• Race and space, post-9/11 – or in the context of the Obama presidency
• Urban (re)developments of the past and future
• Ethnographies of racialized space
• Genealogies of race-space research in the discipline
• Race and nature, in its various formulations
• Approaches for developing social justice praxis in this vein of thinking
April 12-16, 2011, Seattle, WA
Race and Space: The Materiality of Difference
Co-organizers: Rachel Brahinsky (UC Berkeley Geography) and Kate
Derickson (University of Glasgow)
This session seeks to put scholars in conversation who are drawing out
the vitally important connections between racialization and the
production of space. We’re interested in these processes from a
theoretical perspective – but even more so because of the way they
play out in people’s everyday lives. Thus for this session, we are
particularly interested in papers that tease out the materiality of
space-race relationships. How do racial constructions connect to
spatial ones and vice versa – and why does it matter? If “race” makes
spaces, or if racialization occurs in and through space, then how are
these processes sedimented and resisted in everyday life?
This call for papers is devised in the spirit of drawing connections
between class- and capital-centered literatures on the production of
space and critical race literatures that aim to destabilize “race.”
This session therefore seeks both to extend the body of race-space
literature that is emergent in Geography and to open new pathways of
research and analysis, perhaps using interdisciplinary methodologies
to tease out how race and class (and other stratifications) interact
with space. Local, regional, national, and global studies are all
encouraged.
We invite scholars from across disciplines to submit abstracts that
may include (but aren’t limited to):
• Intersections of racialization with gender, class, or religion
– and space
• The ways in which financial crises are borne out through both
spatial and racialized patterns
• Ideologies and spatialities of Whiteness
• How race-space relationships play out in cities, rural spaces
or in “nature”
• Spatialities of post-racial thinking
• Race and space, post-9/11 – or in the context of the Obama presidency
• Urban (re)developments of the past and future
• Ethnographies of racialized space
• Genealogies of race-space research in the discipline
• Race and nature, in its various formulations
• Approaches for developing social justice praxis in this vein of thinking
Monday, August 30, 2010
THE URBAN CATWALK: FASHION AND STREET CULTURE
THE URBAN CATWALK: FASHION AND STREET CULTURE
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
9:00am until
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Contact: madison moore (madison.moore@yale.edu)
Madison Moore (Yale), Conference Chair
Alex Tudela (Columbia), Conference Co-Chair
Point your browser to www.theurbancatwalk.com for up to the minute conference details.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY CAROLINE WEBER
What is street style, and what is the relationship between style, “the street,” and popular culture? How have the Internet, digital cameras and other technologies impacted how we understand the way we dress? Why do so many care about the way other people dress? In what ways does street style engage with broader issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality?
The Urban Catwalk: Fashion and Street Culture, a one-day symposium at Yale University, aims to investigate and discuss the relationships between street style and identity. We are interested in papers that approach street style from a contemporary lens, but also encourage papers with more of an historical perspective.
We are committed to a conference that blends the intellectual with an ear to the ground. In this way, we will hold a panel discussion with major editors and fashion designers about how they understand the intellectual work street style does. The panel discussion will focus on the editors’ real world expertise, but also on audience participation. Ideally, the conference will be attended by the Yale community as well as by people from the broader New Haven area. We close conference with a special street style fashion show at Artspace Gallery in Downtown New Haven, where real-people models will show us their street style.
These 20-minute presentations can treat any aspect of street fashion, including:
- Street style and Contemporary art
- (Black) Dandies
- Style blogs and the Internet
- Urban versus suburban style
- Hipsters and neo-bohemia
- Goth, punk, and skate culture
- Street style and hip hop culture
- Fashion magazines and the street
- Male androgyny; men in high heels
- Street style in media
- How to figure out a style persona; rules and boundaries
- Lady Gaga, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and other pop icons
- Japanese street fashion
- Street style in literature
- LGBTQ identity and street style
- Models
- Street style in the 19 th century
- Fashion designers
- Ready-to-wear
- Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, and trend spotters
- Vogueing, ball culture
- Sex and the City and street style
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to madison.moore@yale.edu by Friday, November 26th.
Selected papers may be considered for an edited volume.
best,
madison moore
__________________________
madison moore, ph.d. candidate
yale university
american studies program
new haven, ct
cell: 212.748.9905
email: madison.moore@yale.edu
web:www.mynameismadisonmoore.com
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
9:00am until
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Contact: madison moore (madison.moore@yale.edu)
Madison Moore (Yale), Conference Chair
Alex Tudela (Columbia), Conference Co-Chair
Point your browser to www.theurbancatwalk.com for up to the minute conference details.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY CAROLINE WEBER
What is street style, and what is the relationship between style, “the street,” and popular culture? How have the Internet, digital cameras and other technologies impacted how we understand the way we dress? Why do so many care about the way other people dress? In what ways does street style engage with broader issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality?
The Urban Catwalk: Fashion and Street Culture, a one-day symposium at Yale University, aims to investigate and discuss the relationships between street style and identity. We are interested in papers that approach street style from a contemporary lens, but also encourage papers with more of an historical perspective.
We are committed to a conference that blends the intellectual with an ear to the ground. In this way, we will hold a panel discussion with major editors and fashion designers about how they understand the intellectual work street style does. The panel discussion will focus on the editors’ real world expertise, but also on audience participation. Ideally, the conference will be attended by the Yale community as well as by people from the broader New Haven area. We close conference with a special street style fashion show at Artspace Gallery in Downtown New Haven, where real-people models will show us their street style.
These 20-minute presentations can treat any aspect of street fashion, including:
- Street style and Contemporary art
- (Black) Dandies
- Style blogs and the Internet
- Urban versus suburban style
- Hipsters and neo-bohemia
- Goth, punk, and skate culture
- Street style and hip hop culture
- Fashion magazines and the street
- Male androgyny; men in high heels
- Street style in media
- How to figure out a style persona; rules and boundaries
- Lady Gaga, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and other pop icons
- Japanese street fashion
- Street style in literature
- LGBTQ identity and street style
- Models
- Street style in the 19 th century
- Fashion designers
- Ready-to-wear
- Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, and trend spotters
- Vogueing, ball culture
- Sex and the City and street style
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to madison.moore@yale.edu by Friday, November 26th.
Selected papers may be considered for an edited volume.
best,
madison moore
__________________________
madison moore, ph.d. candidate
yale university
american studies program
new haven, ct
cell: 212.748.9905
email: madison.moore@yale.edu
web:www.mynameismadisonmoore.com
Monday, August 16, 2010
URBAN POP CULTURES
1st Global Conference
URBAN POP CULTURES
Tuesday 8th March - Thursday 10th March 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues related to urban life. The project will promote the ongoing analysis of the varied creative trends and alternative cultural movements that comprise urban popultures and subcultures. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural and political contexts within which alternative urban subcultures are flourishing.
Papers, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:
1. Urban Space and the Landscape of the City
Urban Aesthetics and Architecture, Creative Re-imagining and Revitalization of the City. The Metropolis and Inner City Life: Urban Boredom vs. Creativity.
2. Urban Music Cultures
Histories, Representations, Discourses and Independent Scenes. Popular Music Theory. The Visual Turn. Urban Intertextualities and Intermedialities. Postmodernity and Beyond.
3. The City as Creative Subject/Object
Urban Life and Themes Considered in Music, Literature, Art and Film, Urban Fashion, Style, and Branding.
4. Urban Codes
Urban Popular Culture and Ideology, Politics of Popcultures, D.I.Y, Alternative Ethics of the City. Urban Religion and Religious Expressions. The Avantgarde and Urban Codes.
5. The City and Cyberculture
Virtual Urbanity - Online Communities and the Impact of Social Networking. Urban Identity and Membership. Globalization/Localization of Urban Experience. Recent trends in Copyright/Copyleft. The Role of Internet in the Transformation of Music Industry. The Impact of User-generated Content.
6. The Urban Underground
The Rise and Fall of the Experimental Subcultures, Scenes and Styles. Alternative and Underground Dance, Hip Hop, and Punk Scenes. Queer Theory and Urban Cultures. Gendered Music and Fashion. Free Urban Exploration and Libertine Lifestyles.
7. Urban Activities in Massmedia
The Visual Aspects of Urban Entertainment. The Evolution of Music and Thematic Television. Media Structure of Music Video. Explicit TV and Censorship. Urban Styles and Extreme Sports.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st October 2010. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 4th February 2011. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Jordan Copeland
La Salle University,
Philadelphia, USA
Daniel Riha
Hub Leader (Cyber), Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
The conference is part of the 'Critical Issues' programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s) or for inclusion in a new Cyber journal (launching 2011).
Style Sheets
In preparing your papers, please pay strict attention to the following style sheets
a.. Download Oxford Style Sheet - v7 (pdf)
b.. Download Oxford Reference Style Sheet 2 (pdf)
c.. Download Template document (Word)
URBAN POP CULTURES
Tuesday 8th March - Thursday 10th March 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues related to urban life. The project will promote the ongoing analysis of the varied creative trends and alternative cultural movements that comprise urban popultures and subcultures. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural and political contexts within which alternative urban subcultures are flourishing.
Papers, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:
1. Urban Space and the Landscape of the City
Urban Aesthetics and Architecture, Creative Re-imagining and Revitalization of the City. The Metropolis and Inner City Life: Urban Boredom vs. Creativity.
2. Urban Music Cultures
Histories, Representations, Discourses and Independent Scenes. Popular Music Theory. The Visual Turn. Urban Intertextualities and Intermedialities. Postmodernity and Beyond.
3. The City as Creative Subject/Object
Urban Life and Themes Considered in Music, Literature, Art and Film, Urban Fashion, Style, and Branding.
4. Urban Codes
Urban Popular Culture and Ideology, Politics of Popcultures, D.I.Y, Alternative Ethics of the City. Urban Religion and Religious Expressions. The Avantgarde and Urban Codes.
5. The City and Cyberculture
Virtual Urbanity - Online Communities and the Impact of Social Networking. Urban Identity and Membership. Globalization/Localization of Urban Experience. Recent trends in Copyright/Copyleft. The Role of Internet in the Transformation of Music Industry. The Impact of User-generated Content.
6. The Urban Underground
The Rise and Fall of the Experimental Subcultures, Scenes and Styles. Alternative and Underground Dance, Hip Hop, and Punk Scenes. Queer Theory and Urban Cultures. Gendered Music and Fashion. Free Urban Exploration and Libertine Lifestyles.
7. Urban Activities in Massmedia
The Visual Aspects of Urban Entertainment. The Evolution of Music and Thematic Television. Media Structure of Music Video. Explicit TV and Censorship. Urban Styles and Extreme Sports.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st October 2010. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 4th February 2011. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Jordan Copeland
La Salle University,
Philadelphia, USA
Daniel Riha
Hub Leader (Cyber), Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
The conference is part of the 'Critical Issues' programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s) or for inclusion in a new Cyber journal (launching 2011).
Style Sheets
In preparing your papers, please pay strict attention to the following style sheets
a.. Download Oxford Style Sheet - v7 (pdf)
b.. Download Oxford Reference Style Sheet 2 (pdf)
c.. Download Template document (Word)
Monday, May 24, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Cosmopoetics
An International Conference - 8-10 September, 2010
Department of English Studies – Durham University, UK
Deadline for proposals: 15 May 2010
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Derek Attridge (University of York)
Stephen Bann (University of Bristol)
Michael Davidson (University of California, San Diego)
Frank Lentricchia (Duke University)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Cosmopoetics aims to expose an important aperture in contemporary poetry and poetics. Departing from the significant ground gained in late twentieth century poetic avant-gardism, Cosmopoetics takes up the difficult task of defining a twenty-first century poetics. Neither utopian nor dystopian, Cosmopoetics directs itself towards thinking a poetic atopia, a poetic interval within which the multiple currents of communication, mediation and influence mix; poetics as a particular border-crossing, trans-linguistic, socio-economic phenomenon. It is simultaneously sensitive to cultural and natural concepts of world or cosmos, and individual and aesthetic concepts of poesis, or the production of poetry, and seeks to re-centre contemporary poetry in its mediating capacity, as bridge between the singular and the universal, the local and the global, the creative and the critical.
Michael Davidson speaks of the North American Free Trade Agreement as having created “a form of unheimlich reality through which subjects are produced and economic displacement is lived”. He sees the literary upshot of this is a community which operates cosmopoetically, “across national borders and cultural agendas”. Cosmopoetics amplifies the prospect of a cosmopolitics: “Cosmos protects against the premature closure of politics and politics against the premature closure of cosmos”, in the words of Bruno Latour. At the intersection of poetic form and formation, Cosmopoetics investigates the immediate forces of mediation – poetry as medium and mediator - between otherwise heterogenous ideas and concepts.
We hope that the conference will reveal some of the many ways in which contemporary poetry and poetics still has a significant role to play in forging both new worlds and new ways of relating to existing paradigms of "cosmos". As Franco Moretti wrote, “The literature around us is now unmissably a planetary system”. In this light, we propose to explore the manner in which poetry, whether by design or accident, is also capable of revealing the contemporary as an atopian paradigm, a space sans frontières, or of non-spaces which simultaneously reflects upon and makes possible the reconsideration of poetic or generative force.
Proposals are welcomed in (but not restricted to) the following areas:
Innovations and trends in c.21st poetry and poetics
Cosmopoetics and Cosmopolitics
Poetry as mediation
Communicative poetic force
Poetic atopia or cosmos
The space of poetry
Poetry and ‘World Literature’
Digital / Print culture
Poetic form today
New media poetics
Poetry between the local and the global
Relocation / dislocation of resistance
Writing across / without borders
Please send 300 word proposals for papers of 20 minutes to Marc Botha and Heather Yeung at cosmopoetics@googlemail.com by 15th May 2010.
This conference is taking place with the support of the Department of English Studies, Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Advanced Study, and Graduate School of the University of Durham.
Marc Botha and Heather Yeung
Email: cosmopoetics@googlemail.com
Department of English Studies – Durham University, UK
Deadline for proposals: 15 May 2010
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Derek Attridge (University of York)
Stephen Bann (University of Bristol)
Michael Davidson (University of California, San Diego)
Frank Lentricchia (Duke University)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Cosmopoetics aims to expose an important aperture in contemporary poetry and poetics. Departing from the significant ground gained in late twentieth century poetic avant-gardism, Cosmopoetics takes up the difficult task of defining a twenty-first century poetics. Neither utopian nor dystopian, Cosmopoetics directs itself towards thinking a poetic atopia, a poetic interval within which the multiple currents of communication, mediation and influence mix; poetics as a particular border-crossing, trans-linguistic, socio-economic phenomenon. It is simultaneously sensitive to cultural and natural concepts of world or cosmos, and individual and aesthetic concepts of poesis, or the production of poetry, and seeks to re-centre contemporary poetry in its mediating capacity, as bridge between the singular and the universal, the local and the global, the creative and the critical.
Michael Davidson speaks of the North American Free Trade Agreement as having created “a form of unheimlich reality through which subjects are produced and economic displacement is lived”. He sees the literary upshot of this is a community which operates cosmopoetically, “across national borders and cultural agendas”. Cosmopoetics amplifies the prospect of a cosmopolitics: “Cosmos protects against the premature closure of politics and politics against the premature closure of cosmos”, in the words of Bruno Latour. At the intersection of poetic form and formation, Cosmopoetics investigates the immediate forces of mediation – poetry as medium and mediator - between otherwise heterogenous ideas and concepts.
We hope that the conference will reveal some of the many ways in which contemporary poetry and poetics still has a significant role to play in forging both new worlds and new ways of relating to existing paradigms of "cosmos". As Franco Moretti wrote, “The literature around us is now unmissably a planetary system”. In this light, we propose to explore the manner in which poetry, whether by design or accident, is also capable of revealing the contemporary as an atopian paradigm, a space sans frontières, or of non-spaces which simultaneously reflects upon and makes possible the reconsideration of poetic or generative force.
Proposals are welcomed in (but not restricted to) the following areas:
Innovations and trends in c.21st poetry and poetics
Cosmopoetics and Cosmopolitics
Poetry as mediation
Communicative poetic force
Poetic atopia or cosmos
The space of poetry
Poetry and ‘World Literature’
Digital / Print culture
Poetic form today
New media poetics
Poetry between the local and the global
Relocation / dislocation of resistance
Writing across / without borders
Please send 300 word proposals for papers of 20 minutes to Marc Botha and Heather Yeung at cosmopoetics@googlemail.com by 15th May 2010.
This conference is taking place with the support of the Department of English Studies, Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Advanced Study, and Graduate School of the University of Durham.
Marc Botha and Heather Yeung
Email: cosmopoetics@googlemail.com
Friday, April 16, 2010
Blocked arteries: circulation and congestion in history
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2010-05-14 (in 27 days)
This conference, to be held on 25-26 November 2010 at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK, aims to examine the ways in which congestion has been, and continues to be, a problem as well as an inherent characteristic of the historical development of cities and regions worldwide, particularly in their relationship with commercial, financial, industrial, tourist and other networks. Our purpose is also to promote an exchange across disciplines and engage with current policy debates.
Proposals relating to any historical period and geographical area examining congestion in its broadest sense and/or focusing on one of its multiple dimensions are welcomed. Themes that might be explored include: the importance of structure and agency in the conception, planning and execution of transport infrastructures such as roads, waterways, canals, railways and airways; the use of mechanical, medical and anthropomorphic metaphors describing the circulation of information, capital, goods, waste and people and its relationship with cities and regions; the cultural, political and social reception of new transport technologies and policies; the responses to and interpretations of environmental issues; the ways in which traffic and congestion have been depicted in films and literary and other works. Papers adopting a comparative perspective are especially encouraged. Abstracts of 300 words and a brief statement outlining the institutional affiliation of the participants should be sent via email by 14 May 2010 to the conference organisers: Carlos Galviz (psv7@ymail.com) or Dhan Zunino Singh (dhan.zuninosingh@sas.ac.uk)
Carlos López Galviz
VCH, Institute of Historical Research
Senate House
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU
UK
Email: psv7@ymail.com
Visit the website at http://www.history.ac.uk/events/conferences/1160
Call for Papers Date: 2010-05-14 (in 27 days)
This conference, to be held on 25-26 November 2010 at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK, aims to examine the ways in which congestion has been, and continues to be, a problem as well as an inherent characteristic of the historical development of cities and regions worldwide, particularly in their relationship with commercial, financial, industrial, tourist and other networks. Our purpose is also to promote an exchange across disciplines and engage with current policy debates.
Proposals relating to any historical period and geographical area examining congestion in its broadest sense and/or focusing on one of its multiple dimensions are welcomed. Themes that might be explored include: the importance of structure and agency in the conception, planning and execution of transport infrastructures such as roads, waterways, canals, railways and airways; the use of mechanical, medical and anthropomorphic metaphors describing the circulation of information, capital, goods, waste and people and its relationship with cities and regions; the cultural, political and social reception of new transport technologies and policies; the responses to and interpretations of environmental issues; the ways in which traffic and congestion have been depicted in films and literary and other works. Papers adopting a comparative perspective are especially encouraged. Abstracts of 300 words and a brief statement outlining the institutional affiliation of the participants should be sent via email by 14 May 2010 to the conference organisers: Carlos Galviz (psv7@ymail.com) or Dhan Zunino Singh (dhan.zuninosingh@sas.ac.uk)
Carlos López Galviz
VCH, Institute of Historical Research
Senate House
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU
UK
Email: psv7@ymail.com
Visit the website at http://www.history.ac.uk/events/conferences/1160
Thursday, January 21, 2010
CFP: Everyday Life in the Segmented City
Everyday Life in the Segmented City
Florence Conference, July 22-25, 2010
For the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population
lives in urban areas, and by 2050 more than 2/3 will live in metropolitan
regions across the globe. At the same moment metropolitan regions confront
unprecedented economic, social, and political challenges, the meanings of
everyday life are put into question because of the changing structure and
interdependence of urban economies. North American cities register the
largest number of foreign-born persons in their history, while cities in
Europe confront issues of social integration with emergent minority
populations in the suburbs and inner city neighborhoods. The rapidly growing
urban regions in China and India confront the continuing pressures of rural
to urban migration that will produce the largest urban populations in human
history. While the focus on the global city often emphasizes similarities
in the development of metropolitan regions and neo-liberal regimes, we are
interested in better understanding how individuals and groups respond to and
create dynamic change in everyday life within the ever changing urban
environment.
We invite contributions for a conference on everyday life in the segmented
city to be held in Florence this July 22-25, 2010. The presentations will
be grouped into the following subject areas:
Cinematic urbanism: Images and representation of the segmented city;
emergent symbolic economics of consumption and production; tourism and
visual consumption of the city.
Governance and planning: Multicultural cities and ethnic spaces; strategies
to govern the multicultural city; citizenship and participation in the
segmented city.
Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Suburban growth and urban sprawl;
revolt of the banlieues; social exclusion in the inner suburbs; urbanity and
urbanism in the suburban fringe
Appropriations of urban space: Emerging patterns of social exclusion and
personal security; privatization and surveillance of urban space; reclaiming
public space
The right to the city: Migration and immigration in the 21st century
metropolis; social participation in the segmented city; contested urban
spaces.
We invite submissions for papers on these and related topics. Please send
abstract of your paper or presentation by March 15, 2010 to the address
listed below.
Papers on cinematic urbanism: Dr. Lorenzo Tripodi, Berlin
(lorenzo.tripodi@googlemail.com)
Papers on governance and planning: Dr. Camilla Perrone, Università degli
Studi di Firenze (camilla.perrone@unifi.it)
Papers on Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Dr. Gabriele Manella,
Università degli Studi di Bologna (Gabriele.manella@unibo.it)
Papers on appropriations of urban space: Dr. Circe Monteiro, Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil (monteiro.circe@gmail.com)
Papers on the right to the city: Dr. Milan Prodanovic, University of Novi
Sad (ecourban@eunet.rs) or Dr. Ray Hutchison University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay (hutchr@uwgb.edu).
Participants will be contacted with information concerning participation in
the conference by March 15th, 2010. Completed papers will be required by
May 30, 2010.
For other general inquiries concerning Everyday Life in the Segmented City,
contact Ray Hutchison, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (hutchr@uwgb.edu)
Selected papers from the conference will appear in special edited volume
titled Everyday Life in the Segmented City (a volume in the series Research
in Urban Sociology, published by Emerald Press).
Discounted hotel accommodations in Florence will be available to
participants in the conference. This conference is supported with funding
from the Del Bianco Foundation in Florence.
More information concerning conference location and lodging may be found on
the web at Everyday Life in the Segmented City. This will be updated with
additional information concerning housing and other conference details as it
becomes available.
Florence Conference, July 22-25, 2010
For the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population
lives in urban areas, and by 2050 more than 2/3 will live in metropolitan
regions across the globe. At the same moment metropolitan regions confront
unprecedented economic, social, and political challenges, the meanings of
everyday life are put into question because of the changing structure and
interdependence of urban economies. North American cities register the
largest number of foreign-born persons in their history, while cities in
Europe confront issues of social integration with emergent minority
populations in the suburbs and inner city neighborhoods. The rapidly growing
urban regions in China and India confront the continuing pressures of rural
to urban migration that will produce the largest urban populations in human
history. While the focus on the global city often emphasizes similarities
in the development of metropolitan regions and neo-liberal regimes, we are
interested in better understanding how individuals and groups respond to and
create dynamic change in everyday life within the ever changing urban
environment.
We invite contributions for a conference on everyday life in the segmented
city to be held in Florence this July 22-25, 2010. The presentations will
be grouped into the following subject areas:
Cinematic urbanism: Images and representation of the segmented city;
emergent symbolic economics of consumption and production; tourism and
visual consumption of the city.
Governance and planning: Multicultural cities and ethnic spaces; strategies
to govern the multicultural city; citizenship and participation in the
segmented city.
Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Suburban growth and urban sprawl;
revolt of the banlieues; social exclusion in the inner suburbs; urbanity and
urbanism in the suburban fringe
Appropriations of urban space: Emerging patterns of social exclusion and
personal security; privatization and surveillance of urban space; reclaiming
public space
The right to the city: Migration and immigration in the 21st century
metropolis; social participation in the segmented city; contested urban
spaces.
We invite submissions for papers on these and related topics. Please send
abstract of your paper or presentation by March 15, 2010 to the address
listed below.
Papers on cinematic urbanism: Dr. Lorenzo Tripodi, Berlin
(lorenzo.tripodi@googlemail.com)
Papers on governance and planning: Dr. Camilla Perrone, Università degli
Studi di Firenze (camilla.perrone@unifi.it)
Papers on Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Dr. Gabriele Manella,
Università degli Studi di Bologna (Gabriele.manella@unibo.it)
Papers on appropriations of urban space: Dr. Circe Monteiro, Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil (monteiro.circe@gmail.com)
Papers on the right to the city: Dr. Milan Prodanovic, University of Novi
Sad (ecourban@eunet.rs) or Dr. Ray Hutchison University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay (hutchr@uwgb.edu).
Participants will be contacted with information concerning participation in
the conference by March 15th, 2010. Completed papers will be required by
May 30, 2010.
For other general inquiries concerning Everyday Life in the Segmented City,
contact Ray Hutchison, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (hutchr@uwgb.edu)
Selected papers from the conference will appear in special edited volume
titled Everyday Life in the Segmented City (a volume in the series Research
in Urban Sociology, published by Emerald Press).
Discounted hotel accommodations in Florence will be available to
participants in the conference. This conference is supported with funding
from the Del Bianco Foundation in Florence.
More information concerning conference location and lodging may be found on
the web at Everyday Life in the Segmented City. This will be updated with
additional information concerning housing and other conference details as it
becomes available.
Saturday, August 01, 2009
University of Trash
Conceptualizing Urban Space, Place, & Trash: academic theories for thinking on the street
Monday, August 3rd 2009
Time: 4-6pm
part of "University of Trash", an installation/ ongoing event www.universityoftrash.org or Facebook at The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, Queens (directions below)
By Aseel Sawalha, & Judith Pajo, Anthropology Faculty, Pace University, New York
Aseel Sawalha talks about the rise of academic theories of space and place in the social sciences, touching on major thinkers and key debates, illustrated by case studies in Beirut and in New York City.
Monday, August 3rd 2009
Time: 4-6pm
part of "University of Trash", an installation/ ongoing event www.universityoftrash.org or Facebook at The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, Queens (directions below)
By Aseel Sawalha, & Judith Pajo, Anthropology Faculty, Pace University, New York
Aseel Sawalha talks about the rise of academic theories of space and place in the social sciences, touching on major thinkers and key debates, illustrated by case studies in Beirut and in New York City.
Friday, May 15, 2009
**Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape
**Urban Encounters: Rethinking Landscape
Saturday 23 May, 2009: 10am-6pm
Tate Britain, London
£25 (£15 concessions), with post-conference reception
For tickets, please book online at:
**https://tickets.tate.org.uk/performancelist.asp?ShowID=3586&Source=web** *
*
or call: 020 7887 8888
This one-day symposium, organised with the Tate Britain and the Centre for
Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of London, uses the
lens of urban photography to bring together international researchers,
academics, photographers and artists, concerned with the nature of
contemporary urban spaces and cultures. It will be of particular relevance
to those engaged with urban image-making, analysis and research. *
*
Following on from last year’s conference at Goldsmiths, this year’s event
will focus on photographic interpretations of urban landscapes. The three
panels will address the themes of mapping, human, and changing landscapes.
Speakers will discuss the nature of urban photography in relation to
migration and change, place, identity and the cultural geographies of city
life. The conference will facilitate an on-going interdisciplinary dialogue
about the growing field of urban visual practice, method and enquiry.
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Panel themes
* Mapping landscapes: Cartographies of looking
* Human landscapes: Place & identity
* Changing landscapes: Archives & activism
Keynote speaker: Markéta Luskačová
Speakers
Les Back Goldsmiths, University of London
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, the New School & Goldsmiths, University of London
Janet Delaney, University of California, Berkeley
Davide Deriu, University of Westminster
Tiffany Fairey, PhotoVoice
Paul Goodwin, Tate Britain
Paul Halliday, Goldsmiths, University of London
Caroline Knowles, Goldsmiths, University of London
Susan Schwartzenberg, the exploratorium
Alison Rooke, Goldsmiths, University of London
Susan Trangmar, Central Saint Martins
For more information:
**http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/17657.htm*
*https://tickets.tate.org.uk/*
*http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr/*
Saturday 23 May, 2009: 10am-6pm
Tate Britain, London
£25 (£15 concessions), with post-conference reception
For tickets, please book online at:
**https://tickets.tate.org.uk/performancelist.asp?ShowID=3586&Source=web** *
*
or call: 020 7887 8888
This one-day symposium, organised with the Tate Britain and the Centre for
Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of London, uses the
lens of urban photography to bring together international researchers,
academics, photographers and artists, concerned with the nature of
contemporary urban spaces and cultures. It will be of particular relevance
to those engaged with urban image-making, analysis and research. *
*
Following on from last year’s conference at Goldsmiths, this year’s event
will focus on photographic interpretations of urban landscapes. The three
panels will address the themes of mapping, human, and changing landscapes.
Speakers will discuss the nature of urban photography in relation to
migration and change, place, identity and the cultural geographies of city
life. The conference will facilitate an on-going interdisciplinary dialogue
about the growing field of urban visual practice, method and enquiry.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Panel themes
* Mapping landscapes: Cartographies of looking
* Human landscapes: Place & identity
* Changing landscapes: Archives & activism
Keynote speaker: Markéta Luskačová
Speakers
Les Back Goldsmiths, University of London
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, the New School & Goldsmiths, University of London
Janet Delaney, University of California, Berkeley
Davide Deriu, University of Westminster
Tiffany Fairey, PhotoVoice
Paul Goodwin, Tate Britain
Paul Halliday, Goldsmiths, University of London
Caroline Knowles, Goldsmiths, University of London
Susan Schwartzenberg, the exploratorium
Alison Rooke, Goldsmiths, University of London
Susan Trangmar, Central Saint Martins
For more information:
**http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/17657.htm*
*https://tickets.tate.org.uk/*
*http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr/*
Saturday, April 11, 2009
CFP: Post American City
The New England American Studies Association has extended the CFP for its fall 2009 conference until April 10. The Conference will be Oct. 16-18 i Lowell, MA, on the topic "The Post-American City." The full call is found below.
Taking our cue from Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World, the New England American Studies Association invites submissions of individual papers and panels on historic and contemporary understandings of the city in global contexts. Our site in Lowell, Massachusetts, looks back to colonial and early national interactions of an emerging Atlantic World, and to the economic and cultural shifts of the Industrial Revolution. At the same time, our call directs us forward, to the urbanizing and globalizing forces that have brought 21st century immigrants and refugees to Lowell and other cities. This sweeping transnational topic signals our desire to bring together academics from a range of disciplines, including history, literature, economics, political science, environmental studies, urban planning, law, and film and visual cultural studies, as well as community organizers, artists, architects, teachers and policy makers. We hope that Zakaria's argument that the "rise of the rest" has left the United States less dominant provokes dialogue rather than simply agreement. At the same time, we are particularly interested in proposals which connect American urban lives, cultures, economies, policies, and spaces to the rest of the world, and consider the city, past and present, in terms of immigration, globalization, and cosmopolitanism. Questions which guide NEASA's 2009 conference call include:
* How, and to what degree, has a post-American city developed?
* How has globalization changed the city as a site for forming national identity and other kinds of identity?
* How might cities in China, India, South America, or Africa be post-American cities?
* To what extent has the U.S. city always been a hybrid and transnational site?
* How have political and cultural struggles rooted in post-American contexts transformed urban spaces and communities?
* How have shifts in American political and economic power affected particular cities or the idea of the city?
* How is the post-American model different from other models for understanding the city (multicultural, global, cosmopolitan)?
* What are key sites and texts for understanding and shaping the post-American city?
* How have American cities developed individual identities? How have those identities been represented, reified, or challenged?
* In what ways have American cities been distinct from other world metropolises? In what ways have they been similar?
Proposals should include a one page abstract with title, as well as the author's name, address, and institutional or professional affiliation.
For panel proposals please include contact information for all participants, as well as a brief (no more than two page) description of the session. Submit proposals by April 10, 2009 to neasacouncil@gmail.com
Further information is available at our website: http://www.neasa.org
Proposals or queries may also be sent to:
Mary Battenfeld, NEASA
President
Wheelock College, 200 The Riverway
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 879-2369 (mbattenfeld@wheelock.edu)
Taking our cue from Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World, the New England American Studies Association invites submissions of individual papers and panels on historic and contemporary understandings of the city in global contexts. Our site in Lowell, Massachusetts, looks back to colonial and early national interactions of an emerging Atlantic World, and to the economic and cultural shifts of the Industrial Revolution. At the same time, our call directs us forward, to the urbanizing and globalizing forces that have brought 21st century immigrants and refugees to Lowell and other cities. This sweeping transnational topic signals our desire to bring together academics from a range of disciplines, including history, literature, economics, political science, environmental studies, urban planning, law, and film and visual cultural studies, as well as community organizers, artists, architects, teachers and policy makers. We hope that Zakaria's argument that the "rise of the rest" has left the United States less dominant provokes dialogue rather than simply agreement. At the same time, we are particularly interested in proposals which connect American urban lives, cultures, economies, policies, and spaces to the rest of the world, and consider the city, past and present, in terms of immigration, globalization, and cosmopolitanism. Questions which guide NEASA's 2009 conference call include:
* How, and to what degree, has a post-American city developed?
* How has globalization changed the city as a site for forming national identity and other kinds of identity?
* How might cities in China, India, South America, or Africa be post-American cities?
* To what extent has the U.S. city always been a hybrid and transnational site?
* How have political and cultural struggles rooted in post-American contexts transformed urban spaces and communities?
* How have shifts in American political and economic power affected particular cities or the idea of the city?
* How is the post-American model different from other models for understanding the city (multicultural, global, cosmopolitan)?
* What are key sites and texts for understanding and shaping the post-American city?
* How have American cities developed individual identities? How have those identities been represented, reified, or challenged?
* In what ways have American cities been distinct from other world metropolises? In what ways have they been similar?
Proposals should include a one page abstract with title, as well as the author's name, address, and institutional or professional affiliation.
For panel proposals please include contact information for all participants, as well as a brief (no more than two page) description of the session. Submit proposals by April 10, 2009 to neasacouncil@gmail.com
Further information is available at our website: http://www.neasa.org
Proposals or queries may also be sent to:
Mary Battenfeld, NEASA
President
Wheelock College, 200 The Riverway
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 879-2369 (mbattenfeld@wheelock.edu)
Friday, April 03, 2009
CFP: Urban Crowds in History (and Beyond)
Urban Crowds in History (and Beyond)
An international and interdisciplinary conference to be held October 15-17, 2009, University of Tours, France.
Crowds, and more specifically urban crowds, have long been a favorite topic for human and social sciences, before fading out from recent research. Is this due to the fact that we have been moving on from an 'age of the masses' to an 'age of the individual'? Indeed, if there is a wealth of studies of crowds at various turning points in history, we lack studies trying to bypass the canonical chronological boundaries and to develop a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue among the social sciences. Crowds are understood here as encompassing political, cultural and religious gatherings, either in a paroxistical form (riots, collective celebration) or in a more subdued, ordinary, form (social networks), as well as collective practices shared by a score of individuals. These collective practices bring crowds to invest the city as its major theatre; crowd action is an addition of individual gestures, postures, behaviors, slogans, cries, screams..., the modalities and temporalities of which deserve a study in their own right.
This conference is aiming at an approach which combines history, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, or literary studies of urban crowds.
Possible themes include, but are not limited to:
- theoretical approaches of 'the crowd' from the angle of various social sciences -anthropology, social psychology, political science. - or literary representations;
- when does a crowd become a 'crowd', i.e., when does a gathering of people come to be seen - and whom by ? - as a 'crowd'? Does it change in space and/or time ?
- crowds in urban environments, their means of acting, positioning in, and negociating urban space;
- the various types of crowds : sports crowd, festive crowd, protesting crowd, consumerist crowd (Christmas shopping, the sales.), etc.; their behaviour, with particular attention to chants, speeches, slogans;
- crowd leaders, their means, methods and results;
- the influence of 'populism' on the masses;
- crowd movements relate to social and political passions;
- the means of checking and controlling crowds ;
- the influence of power institutions on gathering crowds and, in return, the influence of gathered crowds on the powers that created them ;
The conference committee will be pleased to welcome 300-word abstracts no later than May 30, 2009. Please include a CV or resume. Selected applicants will be notified by June 30, 2009.
Please send abstracts to
Dr. Christine Bousquet : christinebousquet@gmail.com
Prof. Philippe Chassaigne : philchassaigne@gmail.com
Prof. Stéphane Corbin : stephmagcorbin@wanadoo.fr
A selection of papers presented during the Conference will be published in a special issue of Mana. Revue de sociologie et d'anthropologie (University of Caen, France).
Prof. Philippe Chassaigne
Dept. of History
University of Tours
3 rue des Tanneurs
37000 Tours
France
Email: philchassaigne@gmail.com
An international and interdisciplinary conference to be held October 15-17, 2009, University of Tours, France.
Crowds, and more specifically urban crowds, have long been a favorite topic for human and social sciences, before fading out from recent research. Is this due to the fact that we have been moving on from an 'age of the masses' to an 'age of the individual'? Indeed, if there is a wealth of studies of crowds at various turning points in history, we lack studies trying to bypass the canonical chronological boundaries and to develop a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue among the social sciences. Crowds are understood here as encompassing political, cultural and religious gatherings, either in a paroxistical form (riots, collective celebration) or in a more subdued, ordinary, form (social networks), as well as collective practices shared by a score of individuals. These collective practices bring crowds to invest the city as its major theatre; crowd action is an addition of individual gestures, postures, behaviors, slogans, cries, screams..., the modalities and temporalities of which deserve a study in their own right.
This conference is aiming at an approach which combines history, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, or literary studies of urban crowds.
Possible themes include, but are not limited to:
- theoretical approaches of 'the crowd' from the angle of various social sciences -anthropology, social psychology, political science. - or literary representations;
- when does a crowd become a 'crowd', i.e., when does a gathering of people come to be seen - and whom by ? - as a 'crowd'? Does it change in space and/or time ?
- crowds in urban environments, their means of acting, positioning in, and negociating urban space;
- the various types of crowds : sports crowd, festive crowd, protesting crowd, consumerist crowd (Christmas shopping, the sales.), etc.; their behaviour, with particular attention to chants, speeches, slogans;
- crowd leaders, their means, methods and results;
- the influence of 'populism' on the masses;
- crowd movements relate to social and political passions;
- the means of checking and controlling crowds ;
- the influence of power institutions on gathering crowds and, in return, the influence of gathered crowds on the powers that created them ;
The conference committee will be pleased to welcome 300-word abstracts no later than May 30, 2009. Please include a CV or resume. Selected applicants will be notified by June 30, 2009.
Please send abstracts to
Dr. Christine Bousquet : christinebousquet@gmail.com
Prof. Philippe Chassaigne : philchassaigne@gmail.com
Prof. Stéphane Corbin : stephmagcorbin@wanadoo.fr
A selection of papers presented during the Conference will be published in a special issue of Mana. Revue de sociologie et d'anthropologie (University of Caen, France).
Prof. Philippe Chassaigne
Dept. of History
University of Tours
3 rue des Tanneurs
37000 Tours
France
Email: philchassaigne@gmail.com
Thursday, April 02, 2009
New Book: Coal Mountain Elementary
Coal Mountain Elementary
Poems by Mark Nowak
photographs by Ian Teh and Mark Nowak
“Coal Mountain Elementary is an imaginative and shocking reminder of what it means, in the most human and poignant terms, to be a miner, whether in this country or in China, or for that matter anywhere in the industrial world. It is also a tribute to miners and working people everywhere. It manages, in photos and in words, to portray an entire culture. And it is a stunning educational tool.”—Howard Zinn
“Mark Nowak’s vital poetry cleaves to the hard surfaces of working lives. There is an epic quality to the voices that cannot be dismissed by corporations or the state. Coal Mountain Elementary will move readers to indignation and action.”—Aihwa Ong
A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America’s most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation’s curriculum for schoolchildren, and newspaper accounts of mining disasters in China with photographs of Chinese miners taken by renowned photojournalist Ian Teh.
Poems by Mark Nowak
photographs by Ian Teh and Mark Nowak
“Coal Mountain Elementary is an imaginative and shocking reminder of what it means, in the most human and poignant terms, to be a miner, whether in this country or in China, or for that matter anywhere in the industrial world. It is also a tribute to miners and working people everywhere. It manages, in photos and in words, to portray an entire culture. And it is a stunning educational tool.”—Howard Zinn
“Mark Nowak’s vital poetry cleaves to the hard surfaces of working lives. There is an epic quality to the voices that cannot be dismissed by corporations or the state. Coal Mountain Elementary will move readers to indignation and action.”—Aihwa Ong
A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America’s most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation’s curriculum for schoolchildren, and newspaper accounts of mining disasters in China with photographs of Chinese miners taken by renowned photojournalist Ian Teh.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Racial Formation in the 21st Century Symposium
Racial Formation in the 21st Century Symposium
April 17-18, 2009
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Professors Howard Winant (UC Santa Barbara) and Michael Omi (UC Berkeley) will headline a groundbreaking symposium addressing the theories, politics and practices of racial formation. The two-day program includes a plenary session featuring Omi and Winant, keynote addresses by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Duke) and Devon Carbado (UCLA), and four other sessions which bring together 15 leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines.
The symposium is organized in anticipation of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the first publication of Omi and Winant’s landmark book
Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s.
Omi and Winant's work—influential to a generation of scholars across the social sciences and humanities—will serve as the point of departure for a series of panels and presentations exploring the past, present and future of racial formation.
The panels will examine a diverse set of locations and times: from the plantations of Colonial Virginia to the Rastafarian communities of Western Jamaica in the 1990s to the prisons of Abu Ghraib today. Speakers will explore the ways race is constructed, inhabited, and transformed and will discuss contemporary policy questions; such as conceptions of race in biomedical research. The panels will offer fresh perspectives on social movements, such as the diverse origins and membership of the United Farm Workers in the 1960s. And they will consider a range of provocative theoretical frameworks—Native studies, feminist theories, critical race studies--to depict the various ways that struggles over land, identity, bodies and nationhood articulate racial meaning and power.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
No advance registration is required.
http://www.waynemorsecenter.uoregon.edu/Racial_Formation_09/home.html
April 17-18, 2009
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Professors Howard Winant (UC Santa Barbara) and Michael Omi (UC Berkeley) will headline a groundbreaking symposium addressing the theories, politics and practices of racial formation. The two-day program includes a plenary session featuring Omi and Winant, keynote addresses by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Duke) and Devon Carbado (UCLA), and four other sessions which bring together 15 leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines.
The symposium is organized in anticipation of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the first publication of Omi and Winant’s landmark book
Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s.
Omi and Winant's work—influential to a generation of scholars across the social sciences and humanities—will serve as the point of departure for a series of panels and presentations exploring the past, present and future of racial formation.
The panels will examine a diverse set of locations and times: from the plantations of Colonial Virginia to the Rastafarian communities of Western Jamaica in the 1990s to the prisons of Abu Ghraib today. Speakers will explore the ways race is constructed, inhabited, and transformed and will discuss contemporary policy questions; such as conceptions of race in biomedical research. The panels will offer fresh perspectives on social movements, such as the diverse origins and membership of the United Farm Workers in the 1960s. And they will consider a range of provocative theoretical frameworks—Native studies, feminist theories, critical race studies--to depict the various ways that struggles over land, identity, bodies and nationhood articulate racial meaning and power.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
No advance registration is required.
http://www.waynemorsecenter.uoregon.edu/Racial_Formation_09/home.html
Saturday, February 14, 2009
BEYOND THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE
cfp: BEYOND THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE
Today at 1:24pm
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For the July 2009 issue, the editors of Litteraria Pragensia (journal) are seeking contributions addressing the political commitment of art and the aesthetic dimension of politics in the increasingly globalized and medialized global environment.
From Ezra Pound´s contention that "energy depends on one´s ability to make a vortex" to Youngblood’s "the new avant-garde is about creating autonomous social worlds that people can live in... what´s avant-garde is... the creation of context", the problems of artistic creation within or without the context of other, social or political, types of creation, have been of utmost concern for artistic practitioners and theorists alike, whether under the inertia of Cold-War ideological state apparatuses, in the countershock of the society of the spectacle, or born from the reconfigurations of social reality linked to the advent of cyberspace.
What strategies does or should art adopt in order to implicate itself within, or disentangle itself from, the contemporary political debates? More particularly, what future does art have in a world of instantaneous assimilation of ideas? What forms can a ppolitical-critical art assume beyond those already mapped out by the avant-garde heritage(s) in what are now seen as definitive movements (the Oulipo, the Situationists, the Nouveau Roman, the Tel Quel, Lettrism, Concrete Poetry, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E , hypertextual fiction, new media poetics, etc.). Where do the emerging boundaries of contestation lie?
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The deadline for proposals/abstracts is 15 April.
Final submissions are due by 31 May, 2009.
Papers of up to 6,000 are welcome.
Please send abstracts/queries to: litteraria@ff.cuni.cz
or: info@litterariapragensia.com
www.litterariapragensia.com
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Today at 1:24pm
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For the July 2009 issue, the editors of Litteraria Pragensia (journal) are seeking contributions addressing the political commitment of art and the aesthetic dimension of politics in the increasingly globalized and medialized global environment.
From Ezra Pound´s contention that "energy depends on one´s ability to make a vortex" to Youngblood’s "the new avant-garde is about creating autonomous social worlds that people can live in... what´s avant-garde is... the creation of context", the problems of artistic creation within or without the context of other, social or political, types of creation, have been of utmost concern for artistic practitioners and theorists alike, whether under the inertia of Cold-War ideological state apparatuses, in the countershock of the society of the spectacle, or born from the reconfigurations of social reality linked to the advent of cyberspace.
What strategies does or should art adopt in order to implicate itself within, or disentangle itself from, the contemporary political debates? More particularly, what future does art have in a world of instantaneous assimilation of ideas? What forms can a ppolitical-critical art assume beyond those already mapped out by the avant-garde heritage(s) in what are now seen as definitive movements (the Oulipo, the Situationists, the Nouveau Roman, the Tel Quel, Lettrism, Concrete Poetry, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E , hypertextual fiction, new media poetics, etc.). Where do the emerging boundaries of contestation lie?
============================================
The deadline for proposals/abstracts is 15 April.
Final submissions are due by 31 May, 2009.
Papers of up to 6,000 are welcome.
Please send abstracts/queries to: litteraria@ff.cuni.cz
or: info@litterariapragensia.com
www.litterariapragensia.com
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
City From Below
The city from below: call for participation
March 27th-29th, 2009
Baltimore
http://cityfrombelow.org
The city has emerged in recent years as an indispensable concept for
many of the struggles for social justice we are all engaged in - it's
a place where theory meets practice, where the neighborhood organizes
against global capitalism, where unequal divisions based on race and
class can be mapped out block by block and contested, where the
micropolitics of gender and sexual orientation are subject to
metropolitan rearticulation, where every corner is a potential site
of resistance and every vacant lot a commons to be reclaimed, and,
most importantly, a place where all our diverse struggles and
strategies have a chance of coming together into something greater.
In cities everywhere, new social movements are coming into being,
hidden histories are being uncovered, and unanticipated futures are
being imagined and built - but so much of this knowledge remains, so
to speak, at street-level. We need a space to gather and share our
stories, our ideas and analysis, a space to come together and rethink
the city from below. To that end, a group of activists and
organizers, including Red Emma's, the Indypendent Reader,
campbaltimore, and the Campaign for a Better Baltimore are calling
for a conference called The City From Below, to take place in
Baltimore during the weekend of March 27,28,29, 2009 at 2640, a
grassroots community center and events venue.
Our intention to focus on the city first and foremost stems from our
own organizing experience, and a recognition that the city is very
often the terrain on which we fight, and which we should be fighting
for. To take a particularly salient example from Baltimore, it is
increasingly the case that labor struggles, especially in the service
sector, need to confront not just unfair employers, but structurally
disastrous municipal development policies. While the financial crisis
plays out in the national news and in the spectacle of legislative
action, it is at the level of the urban community where foreclosures
can be directly challenged and the right to a non-capitalist relation
to housing can be fought for. Our right to an autonomous culture, to
our freedom to dissent, to public spaces and to public education all
hinge increasingly on our relation to the cities in which we live and
to the people and forces in control of them. And our cities offer
some truly inspiring and creative examples of resistance - from the
community garden to the neighborhood assembly.
We are committed in organizing this conference to a horizontal
framework of participation, one which allows us to concretely engage
with and support ongoing social justice struggles. What we envision
is a conference which isn't just about academics and other
researchers talking to each other and at a passive audience, but one
where some of the most inspiring campaigns and projects on the
frontlines of the fight for the right to the city (community anti-
gentrification groups, transit rights activists, tenant unions,
alternative development advocates) will not just be represented, but
will concretely benefit from the alliances they build and the
knowledge they gain by attending.
At the same time, we also want to productively engage those within
the academic system, as well as artists, journalists, and other
researchers. It is a mistake to think that people who spend their
lives working on urban geography and sociology, in urban planning, or
on the history of cities have nothing to offer to our struggles. At
the same time, we recognize that too often the way in which academics
engage activists, if they do so at all, is to talk at them. We are
envisioning something much different, closer to the notion of
"accompaniment". We want academics and activists to talk to each
other, to listen to each other, and to offer what they each are best
able to. Concretely, we're hoping to facilitate this kind of dynamic
by planning as much of the conference as possible as panels involving
both scholars and organizers.
THEMES TO BE CONSIDERED
0. Gentrification/uneven development
0. Policing and incarceration
0. Tenants rights/housing as a right
0. Public transit
0. Urban worker's rights
0. Foreclosures/financial crisis
0. Public education
0. Slots/casionos/regressive taxation
0. Cultural gentrification
0. Underground economies
0. Reclaiming public space
0. The right to the city
0. Squatting
0. Urban sustainability
PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS
Please share with us your proposal for workshops or presentations. We
hope to host 15-25 sessions with a mixture of formats and welcome
proposals from groups and individuals. The conference is geared
towards discussion and participation. People are welcome to bring
papers andother resources with them, but this conference is not
oriented to the presentation of papers. There will be 50 and 110
minute sessions. We welcome self organized workshops but will also
work to incorporate individual proposals into panels with others. In
your proposal please indicate how your proposal relates to the themes
of the conference, expected participants, organizing partners and
session format (training, panel, open discussion, video, etc.) and
how long the session will be. We are especially interested in
proposals which combine critique of the urban environment with
discussions of new strategies for its reclamation.
Please send proposals to:
cityfrombelow -at- redemmas.org
Email is preferred, but you can also send a proposal to:
City from Below
c/o Red Emma's
800 St Paul St.
Baltimore MD 21202
March 27th-29th, 2009
Baltimore
http://cityfrombelow.org
The city has emerged in recent years as an indispensable concept for
many of the struggles for social justice we are all engaged in - it's
a place where theory meets practice, where the neighborhood organizes
against global capitalism, where unequal divisions based on race and
class can be mapped out block by block and contested, where the
micropolitics of gender and sexual orientation are subject to
metropolitan rearticulation, where every corner is a potential site
of resistance and every vacant lot a commons to be reclaimed, and,
most importantly, a place where all our diverse struggles and
strategies have a chance of coming together into something greater.
In cities everywhere, new social movements are coming into being,
hidden histories are being uncovered, and unanticipated futures are
being imagined and built - but so much of this knowledge remains, so
to speak, at street-level. We need a space to gather and share our
stories, our ideas and analysis, a space to come together and rethink
the city from below. To that end, a group of activists and
organizers, including Red Emma's, the Indypendent Reader,
campbaltimore, and the Campaign for a Better Baltimore are calling
for a conference called The City From Below, to take place in
Baltimore during the weekend of March 27,28,29, 2009 at 2640, a
grassroots community center and events venue.
Our intention to focus on the city first and foremost stems from our
own organizing experience, and a recognition that the city is very
often the terrain on which we fight, and which we should be fighting
for. To take a particularly salient example from Baltimore, it is
increasingly the case that labor struggles, especially in the service
sector, need to confront not just unfair employers, but structurally
disastrous municipal development policies. While the financial crisis
plays out in the national news and in the spectacle of legislative
action, it is at the level of the urban community where foreclosures
can be directly challenged and the right to a non-capitalist relation
to housing can be fought for. Our right to an autonomous culture, to
our freedom to dissent, to public spaces and to public education all
hinge increasingly on our relation to the cities in which we live and
to the people and forces in control of them. And our cities offer
some truly inspiring and creative examples of resistance - from the
community garden to the neighborhood assembly.
We are committed in organizing this conference to a horizontal
framework of participation, one which allows us to concretely engage
with and support ongoing social justice struggles. What we envision
is a conference which isn't just about academics and other
researchers talking to each other and at a passive audience, but one
where some of the most inspiring campaigns and projects on the
frontlines of the fight for the right to the city (community anti-
gentrification groups, transit rights activists, tenant unions,
alternative development advocates) will not just be represented, but
will concretely benefit from the alliances they build and the
knowledge they gain by attending.
At the same time, we also want to productively engage those within
the academic system, as well as artists, journalists, and other
researchers. It is a mistake to think that people who spend their
lives working on urban geography and sociology, in urban planning, or
on the history of cities have nothing to offer to our struggles. At
the same time, we recognize that too often the way in which academics
engage activists, if they do so at all, is to talk at them. We are
envisioning something much different, closer to the notion of
"accompaniment". We want academics and activists to talk to each
other, to listen to each other, and to offer what they each are best
able to. Concretely, we're hoping to facilitate this kind of dynamic
by planning as much of the conference as possible as panels involving
both scholars and organizers.
THEMES TO BE CONSIDERED
0. Gentrification/uneven development
0. Policing and incarceration
0. Tenants rights/housing as a right
0. Public transit
0. Urban worker's rights
0. Foreclosures/financial crisis
0. Public education
0. Slots/casionos/regressive taxation
0. Cultural gentrification
0. Underground economies
0. Reclaiming public space
0. The right to the city
0. Squatting
0. Urban sustainability
PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS
Please share with us your proposal for workshops or presentations. We
hope to host 15-25 sessions with a mixture of formats and welcome
proposals from groups and individuals. The conference is geared
towards discussion and participation. People are welcome to bring
papers andother resources with them, but this conference is not
oriented to the presentation of papers. There will be 50 and 110
minute sessions. We welcome self organized workshops but will also
work to incorporate individual proposals into panels with others. In
your proposal please indicate how your proposal relates to the themes
of the conference, expected participants, organizing partners and
session format (training, panel, open discussion, video, etc.) and
how long the session will be. We are especially interested in
proposals which combine critique of the urban environment with
discussions of new strategies for its reclamation.
Please send proposals to:
cityfrombelow -at- redemmas.org
Email is preferred, but you can also send a proposal to:
City from Below
c/o Red Emma's
800 St Paul St.
Baltimore MD 21202
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Nutopia : Exploring The Metropolitan Imagination
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.
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 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
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