**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. *
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Following on from last year’s conference at Goldsmiths, this year’s event
will focus on photographic interpretations of urban landscapes. The three
panels will address the themes of mapping, human, and changing landscapes.
Speakers will discuss the nature of urban photography in relation to
migration and change, place, identity and the cultural geographies of city
life. The conference will facilitate an on-going interdisciplinary dialogue
about the growing field of urban visual practice, method and enquiry.
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Panel themes
* Mapping landscapes: Cartographies of looking
* Human landscapes: Place & identity
* Changing landscapes: Archives & activism
Keynote speaker: Markéta Luskačová
Speakers
Les Back Goldsmiths, University of London
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, the New School & Goldsmiths, University of London
Janet Delaney, University of California, Berkeley
Davide Deriu, University of Westminster
Tiffany Fairey, PhotoVoice
Paul Goodwin, Tate Britain
Paul Halliday, Goldsmiths, University of London
Caroline Knowles, Goldsmiths, University of London
Susan Schwartzenberg, the exploratorium
Alison Rooke, Goldsmiths, University of London
Susan Trangmar, Central Saint Martins
For more information:
**http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/17657.htm*
*https://tickets.tate.org.uk/*
*http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr/*
Friday, May 15, 2009
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
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Nowak on Poetry Foundation Blog
Xcp Editor, Mark Nowak has entered the blog-o-sphere.
He joins Alan Gilbert and others on the Poetry Foundation blog
HARRIET
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/
He joins Alan Gilbert and others on the Poetry Foundation blog
HARRIET
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/
CFP: "Motion in the City"
Call for articles
Website has issued a call for
articles on "Motion in the City".
Motion and process modify the urban environment and provide
fascinating scope for those interested in the field of urban studies.
Both repeated and routine motion are important in understanding the
functioning principles behind single urban localities and also whole
metropolitan regions. Migration, commuting, financial flows and the
flux of ideas. All these motions are the beats of the city and in
certain sense may be seen as the substance of the urban setting.
Motion can be evaluated from the perspectives of different academic
fields; many questions about the contemporary development of the city
reveal themselves. How has urban motion changed over the last decades?
What are the effects of technological innovation, in the field of
transport and the transfer of information, on the urban milieu? What
is the progress of intra-urban, internal and international migration
into cities? How do the different parts of a city differ in terms of
the rhythms and everyday motions of its population?
Please send us an e-mail with your proposal to slamak@natur.cuni.cz
(Martin Ourednícek) until 30th August 2008. Final submissions
should be sent to europeancity@mkc.cz (Ondrej Daniel) until 15th
September 2008.
All feature articles and case studies should be either in English,
Czech or Slovak.
Original articles should be between 4,000 and 5,000 words, whilst
critical definitions should not exceed 2,000 words. Both must be
written in Microsoft Word and submitted as either *.doc or *.rtf
files. Font: Times New Roman, size:12. Line spacing: 1.5. Margins: 2.5
cm top and bottom, 3 cm left and right. Do not insert page numbers.
All references should follow the Harvard system consisting of in-text
citations [e.g. (Castles 2003)] and a full bibliography (see bellow).
Footnotes should be limited, but if included should be placed at the
foot of each page. Do not forget to list bibliography at the end of
your text. Please be consistent in your bibliography format, e.g. as
follows:
MORGAN, P. (2004). From a Death to a View: The Hunt for the Welsh past
in the Romantic Period. In: E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger, ed.: The
Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.
43-101.
MUSTERD, S. (2003). "Segregation and integration: A contested
relationship." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29 (4):
623-641.
KERYK M. (2008): "The Church and Ukrainian Immigrants in Poland."
Available at http://www.migrationonline.cz/e-library/?x=2081309
[visited 28.3. 2008].
Please also provide the following:
- Brief annotation (4 sentences maximum) and a list of keywords (5-10
most relevant keywords)
- Full contact details for the author along with email address as well
as a brief biography (3 sentences maximum).
Please submit all images as separate files, in either *.jpg or *.tif
format with reference points indicated in the text.
Authors of feature articles and case studies chosen for publication
will receive remuneration for their contribution.
--
Ondrej Daniel
Website editor
www.evropskemesto.cz
www.europeancity.cz
tel./fax: (+420) 296 325 347
e-mail : europeancity@mkc.cz
Website has issued a call for
articles on "Motion in the City".
Motion and process modify the urban environment and provide
fascinating scope for those interested in the field of urban studies.
Both repeated and routine motion are important in understanding the
functioning principles behind single urban localities and also whole
metropolitan regions. Migration, commuting, financial flows and the
flux of ideas. All these motions are the beats of the city and in
certain sense may be seen as the substance of the urban setting.
Motion can be evaluated from the perspectives of different academic
fields; many questions about the contemporary development of the city
reveal themselves. How has urban motion changed over the last decades?
What are the effects of technological innovation, in the field of
transport and the transfer of information, on the urban milieu? What
is the progress of intra-urban, internal and international migration
into cities? How do the different parts of a city differ in terms of
the rhythms and everyday motions of its population?
Please send us an e-mail with your proposal to slamak@natur.cuni.cz
(Martin Ourednícek) until 30th August 2008. Final submissions
should be sent to europeancity@mkc.cz (Ondrej Daniel) until 15th
September 2008.
All feature articles and case studies should be either in English,
Czech or Slovak.
Original articles should be between 4,000 and 5,000 words, whilst
critical definitions should not exceed 2,000 words. Both must be
written in Microsoft Word and submitted as either *.doc or *.rtf
files. Font: Times New Roman, size:12. Line spacing: 1.5. Margins: 2.5
cm top and bottom, 3 cm left and right. Do not insert page numbers.
All references should follow the Harvard system consisting of in-text
citations [e.g. (Castles 2003)] and a full bibliography (see bellow).
Footnotes should be limited, but if included should be placed at the
foot of each page. Do not forget to list bibliography at the end of
your text. Please be consistent in your bibliography format, e.g. as
follows:
MORGAN, P. (2004). From a Death to a View: The Hunt for the Welsh past
in the Romantic Period. In: E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger, ed.: The
Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.
43-101.
MUSTERD, S. (2003). "Segregation and integration: A contested
relationship." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29 (4):
623-641.
KERYK M. (2008): "The Church and Ukrainian Immigrants in Poland."
Available at http://www.migrationonline.cz/e-library/?x=2081309
[visited 28.3. 2008].
Please also provide the following:
- Brief annotation (4 sentences maximum) and a list of keywords (5-10
most relevant keywords)
- Full contact details for the author along with email address as well
as a brief biography (3 sentences maximum).
Please submit all images as separate files, in either *.jpg or *.tif
format with reference points indicated in the text.
Authors of feature articles and case studies chosen for publication
will receive remuneration for their contribution.
--
Ondrej Daniel
Website editor
www.evropskemesto.cz
www.europeancity.cz
tel./fax: (+420) 296 325 347
e-mail : europeancity@mkc.cz
Friday, January 11, 2008
CFP: The Fall 2008 issue of Interval(le)s
The Fall 2008 issue of Interval(le)s, the poetics journal from University of Liège, Belgium, will explore transcription in the humanities and social sciences.
As an aesthetic and methodological practice, transcription appears in many disciplines: poetry, anthropology, classics, performance studies, to name just a few. We seek scholarly papers and creative projects which discuss—or exemplify—particular uses of transcription. Possible topics and projects include: transcribed literary texts; transcribed anthropological fieldwork; transcribed autoethnographies; transcribed philosophical lectures.
By July 1, 2008, send your submission to Jon Cotner (j.cotner@rocketmail.com) and to Andy Fitch (professorfitch@yahoo.com). Papers/projects should follow the MLA format (if applicable) and use footnotes rather than endnotes (if necessary). Contact us in advance if your work exceeds 7,000 words, or if you have any questions. If you submit a transcription project, please provide a brief introductory note on its development.
Previous issues can be found online at:
As an aesthetic and methodological practice, transcription appears in many disciplines: poetry, anthropology, classics, performance studies, to name just a few. We seek scholarly papers and creative projects which discuss—or exemplify—particular uses of transcription. Possible topics and projects include: transcribed literary texts; transcribed anthropological fieldwork; transcribed autoethnographies; transcribed philosophical lectures.
By July 1, 2008, send your submission to Jon Cotner (j.cotner@rocketmail.com) and to Andy Fitch (professorfitch@yahoo.com). Papers/projects should follow the MLA format (if applicable) and use footnotes rather than endnotes (if necessary). Contact us in advance if your work exceeds 7,000 words, or if you have any questions. If you submit a transcription project, please provide a brief introductory note on its development.
Previous issues can be found online at:
Monday, December 03, 2007
Word on the Street
Word on the Street: Reading, Writing & Inhabiting Public Space
Peer-reviewed Collection of Essays to be published by the IGRS in
association with the AHRC-funded Research Training Network in Modern
Languages.
As the site of everyday social interaction, the street has always
provided a source of inspiration for writers from Chaucer's pilgrims
to Baudelaire's flâneur. Moreover, it has become the focus for
critical theorists such as Michel de Certeau in an attempt to push
the limits of textual analysis beyond literature and art towards our
daily experience of the world as a form of text we simultaneously
read and write.
In compiling this collection of essays, we wish to examine the
different discourses taking place within and upon the space of the
public street. Viewing this form of discourse as an action, we hope
to include a range of discursive and artistic actions which might
include, but are certainly not limited, to: architecture, sculpture,
graffiti, skateboarding, capoeira, parkour, street theatre, and busking.
Recognising that many actions of street expression are subversive, we
also invite explorations into whom these actions involve and to whom
they are addressed. The street is the site where identity is both
established and denied. We talk of living on a street yet the street
is a place where everyone is (potentially) a stranger. Moreover, the
street is the site where cultural diversity and difference is
celebrated in the form of festivals and parades and the battleground
upon which violent social struggles are carried out in the form of
political protest, gang warfare and suicide bombings. As such the
street represents the ultimate embodiment of the Bakhtinian notion of
carnival.
We invite proposals for papers from anyone working in the field of
modern languages (any language excluding English). Topics could
include but are not restricted to:
· Literary and artistic depictions of the street
· The street as a site of artistic and cultural production
· Inhabiting the street - skateboard playgrounds, the autonomous
subject, movement
· Theorizing the street - architecture, philosophy,
psychoanalysis, film theory
· The voice of the street - languages, dialects, discourses
· The topology of the street - drawing and crossing boundaries
· Street politics and urban warfare
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted in English by
5 pm on 7 January 2008. Those shortlisted will be contacted by the
end of January and invited to submit a paper. From these a final ten
essays will be selected for inclusion in the collection. An Editorial
Workshop for all contributors will be held in early July 2008. Please
note that the final paper should be no more than 5,000 words
including notes. All quotations should be accompanied by English
translations. Obtaining permission to use images in the final
publication will be the responsibility of the author.
Please send proposals to both Sophie Fuggle (sophie.fuggle@kcl.ac.uk)
and Elisha Foust (e.foust@rhul.ac.uk). Please include your full name,
email address and any institutional affiliation.
Dr Ricarda Vidal
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study
Peer-reviewed Collection of Essays to be published by the IGRS in
association with the AHRC-funded Research Training Network in Modern
Languages.
As the site of everyday social interaction, the street has always
provided a source of inspiration for writers from Chaucer's pilgrims
to Baudelaire's flâneur. Moreover, it has become the focus for
critical theorists such as Michel de Certeau in an attempt to push
the limits of textual analysis beyond literature and art towards our
daily experience of the world as a form of text we simultaneously
read and write.
In compiling this collection of essays, we wish to examine the
different discourses taking place within and upon the space of the
public street. Viewing this form of discourse as an action, we hope
to include a range of discursive and artistic actions which might
include, but are certainly not limited, to: architecture, sculpture,
graffiti, skateboarding, capoeira, parkour, street theatre, and busking.
Recognising that many actions of street expression are subversive, we
also invite explorations into whom these actions involve and to whom
they are addressed. The street is the site where identity is both
established and denied. We talk of living on a street yet the street
is a place where everyone is (potentially) a stranger. Moreover, the
street is the site where cultural diversity and difference is
celebrated in the form of festivals and parades and the battleground
upon which violent social struggles are carried out in the form of
political protest, gang warfare and suicide bombings. As such the
street represents the ultimate embodiment of the Bakhtinian notion of
carnival.
We invite proposals for papers from anyone working in the field of
modern languages (any language excluding English). Topics could
include but are not restricted to:
· Literary and artistic depictions of the street
· The street as a site of artistic and cultural production
· Inhabiting the street - skateboard playgrounds, the autonomous
subject, movement
· Theorizing the street - architecture, philosophy,
psychoanalysis, film theory
· The voice of the street - languages, dialects, discourses
· The topology of the street - drawing and crossing boundaries
· Street politics and urban warfare
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted in English by
5 pm on 7 January 2008. Those shortlisted will be contacted by the
end of January and invited to submit a paper. From these a final ten
essays will be selected for inclusion in the collection. An Editorial
Workshop for all contributors will be held in early July 2008. Please
note that the final paper should be no more than 5,000 words
including notes. All quotations should be accompanied by English
translations. Obtaining permission to use images in the final
publication will be the responsibility of the author.
Please send proposals to both Sophie Fuggle (sophie.fuggle@kcl.ac.uk)
and Elisha Foust (e.foust@rhul.ac.uk). Please include your full name,
email address and any institutional affiliation.
Dr Ricarda Vidal
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Thinking After Derrida: Davis Derrida Day
The conference "Thinking After Derrida: Davis Derrida Day" will take place
on Friday, November 9th, 2007 at the University Club Conference Center of
the University of California, Davis from 10:00 a.m.—6:15 p.m. Hosted by the
UC Davis Graduate Program in Critical Theory, the event will include
lectures by Karen Embry, Martin Jay, Peggy Kamuf, Gerhard Richter, Scott
Shershow, and David Simpson. The event is free and open to the public.
on Friday, November 9th, 2007 at the University Club Conference Center of
the University of California, Davis from 10:00 a.m.—6:15 p.m. Hosted by the
UC Davis Graduate Program in Critical Theory, the event will include
lectures by Karen Embry, Martin Jay, Peggy Kamuf, Gerhard Richter, Scott
Shershow, and David Simpson. The event is free and open to the public.
Xcp Web Offline
There is a temporary problem with the Buffalo Freenet Server, which hosts the Xcp and Streetnotes site. We hope to be back online shortly. David
Sunday, October 14, 2007
CFP: The Street
THE STREET: The 2008 UC Irvine Visual Studies Graduate Student Association Conference
February 29 - March 1
In the most literal sense, "the street" denotes a passageway that connects various points in space. However, a quick catalog of the phrase in everyday language reveals that "the street" is a dynamic social and symbolic space, an intersection of public and private interests that are often difficult to isolate. For example, "the street" does not only refer to a thoroughfare but also denotes the place where one lives. This relationship prompts the phrase "my street," which connotes a community affected through ownership, and links its author to a greater metropolis at the same time that it embeds him or her in place as owner and agent. In this sense the street also represents the confrontation of a sense of place and the codes of public policy, thereby pointing to a larger interpenetration of the public and the private that lies at the core of this elusive space. In other instances the phrase transcends space altogether, referring instead to a mode of existence that is independent of site specificity. In this capacity "the street" is used to convey authenticity as in "receiving one's education from the street" or in being "from the street," a usage that usually implies an opposition to artificial or abstract representations of reality. While these examples make clear that "the street" often functions in opposition to a privileged class, it is, in practice, precisely that space which refuses class distinction by forcing interactions among diverse social groups. This interaction is itself as diverse as the space in which it takes place as one may address the street with the apathy of the flâneur or with the fervor of political protest.
We seek papers, projects, or organized panels from a variety of disciplines and approaches all of which address and expand upon the many layers of meaning that constitute this rich object of study. Please submit abstract (250 words) and c.v. to thestreetconference@gmail.com by Dec. 1, 2007 for consideration.
Fields of interest may include:
The 40th anniversary of May '68
Limits of 'the public' in a surveillance society
Public infrastructure and urban planning
Protest on the global street
Globalization and Wall Street
Benjamin's Arcades Project
Advertising and public displays of consumption
Homelessness and nomadism
Situationism and the practice of the Derive
Public performance and the choreography of the street
GPS, G-Maps and virtual negotiations
The simulated street of the Sims and Second Life
Car crashes, accidents and public fatality
Visual Studies Graduate Student Association
University of California, Irvine
thestreetconference@gmail.com
February 29 - March 1
In the most literal sense, "the street" denotes a passageway that connects various points in space. However, a quick catalog of the phrase in everyday language reveals that "the street" is a dynamic social and symbolic space, an intersection of public and private interests that are often difficult to isolate. For example, "the street" does not only refer to a thoroughfare but also denotes the place where one lives. This relationship prompts the phrase "my street," which connotes a community affected through ownership, and links its author to a greater metropolis at the same time that it embeds him or her in place as owner and agent. In this sense the street also represents the confrontation of a sense of place and the codes of public policy, thereby pointing to a larger interpenetration of the public and the private that lies at the core of this elusive space. In other instances the phrase transcends space altogether, referring instead to a mode of existence that is independent of site specificity. In this capacity "the street" is used to convey authenticity as in "receiving one's education from the street" or in being "from the street," a usage that usually implies an opposition to artificial or abstract representations of reality. While these examples make clear that "the street" often functions in opposition to a privileged class, it is, in practice, precisely that space which refuses class distinction by forcing interactions among diverse social groups. This interaction is itself as diverse as the space in which it takes place as one may address the street with the apathy of the flâneur or with the fervor of political protest.
We seek papers, projects, or organized panels from a variety of disciplines and approaches all of which address and expand upon the many layers of meaning that constitute this rich object of study. Please submit abstract (250 words) and c.v. to thestreetconference@gmail.com by Dec. 1, 2007 for consideration.
Fields of interest may include:
The 40th anniversary of May '68
Limits of 'the public' in a surveillance society
Public infrastructure and urban planning
Protest on the global street
Globalization and Wall Street
Benjamin's Arcades Project
Advertising and public displays of consumption
Homelessness and nomadism
Situationism and the practice of the Derive
Public performance and the choreography of the street
GPS, G-Maps and virtual negotiations
The simulated street of the Sims and Second Life
Car crashes, accidents and public fatality
Visual Studies Graduate Student Association
University of California, Irvine
thestreetconference@gmail.com
Monday, October 01, 2007
John C Mohawk, His Life and Work Conference
4th Annual Storytellers Conference honoring John C. Mohawk, his life and his work
Location: New York, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2007-11-01
Date Submitted: 2007-08-26
HNET Announcement ID: 157942
From March 28 to March 30, 2008 -- The Fourth Annual Storytellers of the Americas Conference will honor the life and work of John C. Mohawk through storytelling and through academic papers relating to the many and varied fields in which Dr. Mohawk worked throughout his life. This conference will be hosted at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, New York. We seek proposals for academic papers related to John Mohawk, his life, and work. Panels include but are not limited to:
(1) Iroquois White Corn Project, including issues of slow food, contemporary cuisine, farming, and native nutrition; Indigenous Stories within their own culture, including creation stories, ceremonies, and histories (2) Environmental concerns, including historical climate change, contemporary global warming, the effects on indigenous peoples, and survival advice offered by indigenous prophecies (3) Indigenous History, including government, law, resistance, land rights, and development; Modernity and the West, including the European projects of white supremacy, colonization, and domination by the sword, by the pen, and by any means available.
As this is a Storytellers Conference, we invite you to tell stories related to the above. Stories will be told in a special session, wrapping up the conference, on Sunday, March 30, 2008.
Please feel free to suggest other panel topics.
Storytellers of Americas Conference Organizing Committee c/o Nikki Dragone (dragonnd2@gmail.com); and, Amber Adams (ambermeadowadams@verizon.net); and, Ula Piasta (ulapiasta@yahoo.com).
Email: dragonnd2@gamil.com
Location: New York, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2007-11-01
Date Submitted: 2007-08-26
HNET Announcement ID: 157942
From March 28 to March 30, 2008 -- The Fourth Annual Storytellers of the Americas Conference will honor the life and work of John C. Mohawk through storytelling and through academic papers relating to the many and varied fields in which Dr. Mohawk worked throughout his life. This conference will be hosted at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, New York. We seek proposals for academic papers related to John Mohawk, his life, and work. Panels include but are not limited to:
(1) Iroquois White Corn Project, including issues of slow food, contemporary cuisine, farming, and native nutrition; Indigenous Stories within their own culture, including creation stories, ceremonies, and histories (2) Environmental concerns, including historical climate change, contemporary global warming, the effects on indigenous peoples, and survival advice offered by indigenous prophecies (3) Indigenous History, including government, law, resistance, land rights, and development; Modernity and the West, including the European projects of white supremacy, colonization, and domination by the sword, by the pen, and by any means available.
As this is a Storytellers Conference, we invite you to tell stories related to the above. Stories will be told in a special session, wrapping up the conference, on Sunday, March 30, 2008.
Please feel free to suggest other panel topics.
Storytellers of Americas Conference Organizing Committee c/o Nikki Dragone (dragonnd2@gmail.com); and, Amber Adams (ambermeadowadams@verizon.net); and, Ula Piasta (ulapiasta@yahoo.com).
Email: dragonnd2@gamil.com
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Join Network of Concerned Anthropologists
from
Network of Concerned Anthropologists span>
The Network of Concerned Anthropologists (NCA) is an independent ad hoc network of anthropologists seeking to promote an ethical anthropology. For more information, write concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
--
Pledge of Non-participation in Counter-insurgency
"We, the undersigned, believe that anthropologists should not engage in research and other activities that contribute to counter-insurgency operations in Iraq or in related theaters in the “war on terror.” Furthermore, we believe that anthropologists should refrain from directly assisting the US military in combat, be it through torture, interrogation, or tactical advice..."
--
"
The Department of Defense and allied agencies are
mobilizing anthropologists for interventions in the
Middle East and beyond. It is likely that larger,
more permanent initiatives are in the works.
Over the last several weeks, we have created an ad hoc
group, the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, with
the objective of promoting an ethical anthropology.
Working together, we have drafted a pledge of
non-participation in counter-insurgency, which we have
organized as a petition (see attachment). We invite
you to become a part of this effort by taking the
following steps:
Download and print the attached pledge (in .pdf
format). Ask your colleagues to sign the pledge, and
promptly send it to us via regular mail. Our address
is Network of Concerned Anthropologists, c/o Dept. of
Anthropology, George Mason University, 4400 University
Drive, MS 3G5, Fairfax, VA 22030 (USA). If it is more
convenient, email a .pdf copy of collected signatures
and send it to us at
concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
"
See petition and details at web site at
http://concerned.anthropologists.googlepages.com/home
for more information and updates.
Network of Concerned Anthropologists span>
The Network of Concerned Anthropologists (NCA) is an independent ad hoc network of anthropologists seeking to promote an ethical anthropology. For more information, write concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
--
Pledge of Non-participation in Counter-insurgency
"We, the undersigned, believe that anthropologists should not engage in research and other activities that contribute to counter-insurgency operations in Iraq or in related theaters in the “war on terror.” Furthermore, we believe that anthropologists should refrain from directly assisting the US military in combat, be it through torture, interrogation, or tactical advice..."
--
"
The Department of Defense and allied agencies are
mobilizing anthropologists for interventions in the
Middle East and beyond. It is likely that larger,
more permanent initiatives are in the works.
Over the last several weeks, we have created an ad hoc
group, the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, with
the objective of promoting an ethical anthropology.
Working together, we have drafted a pledge of
non-participation in counter-insurgency, which we have
organized as a petition (see attachment). We invite
you to become a part of this effort by taking the
following steps:
Download and print the attached pledge (in .pdf
format). Ask your colleagues to sign the pledge, and
promptly send it to us via regular mail. Our address
is Network of Concerned Anthropologists, c/o Dept. of
Anthropology, George Mason University, 4400 University
Drive, MS 3G5, Fairfax, VA 22030 (USA). If it is more
convenient, email a .pdf copy of collected signatures
and send it to us at
concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
"
See petition and details at web site at
http://concerned.anthropologists.googlepages.com/home
for more information and updates.
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