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Newsletter of the AFS Women's Section
Announcements and Calls for Papers
CFP: Not Drowning But Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts
University of Alberta
October 12-14, 2006
Feminist history has typically represented itself as a series of three "waves" running from the later nineteenth century to the present day. Each wave has been compelled by profound criticism of the prevailing society and of women?s place in education in particular. Women continue to examine their educational institutions, bringing questions of history, culture, art, learning, and activism to the table. Feminist work in these areas has changed the liberal arts, but how much? What
remains to be done, intellectually, pedagogically, institutionally?
The "Not Drowning But Waving" Conference - which celebrates the career and achievements of Dr. Patricia Clements, the first female Dean of Arts at the University of Alberta, Canada - invites papers that address the history, the present, and the future of women in the liberal arts.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to: feminism in/and the liberal arts disciplines; the relationship of the liberal arts to the larger university; Women?s Studies programs and the ?new? interdisciplinarity; the challenges, costs, and rewards for women in administration; the corporatization of university campuses; intergenerational tensions within feminist communities; the state and stakes of feminist pedagogy; the relationship of feminism to cultural studies; women, social justice, and the liberal arts. We welcome a wide variety of topics and approaches.
Inquiries and proposals of no more than 400 words should be sent by email to jo-ann.wallace@ualberta.ca no later than February 1, 2006. The conference website will be available at www.crcstudio.arts.ualberta.ca/waving.
posted 10/17/2005
CFP: Journeys of Expressions v. Tourism and the Roots/Routes of Religious Festivity
Belfast, Northern-Ireland, 13-15 March 2006
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change Sheffield Hallam University, United
Kingdom www.tourism-culture.com
This is the first call for papers for JOURNEYS OF EXPRESSIONS V: TOURISM AND
THE ROOTS/ROUTES OF RELIGIOUS FESTIVITY which will take place in Belfast,
Northern Ireland, from 13th to 15th March 2006. Regularly updated
information can be found at our website www.tourism-culture.com.
In this, the fifth of our continuing conference series exploring the
multi-faceted relationships between tourism and festivals, Journeys of
Expression aims to discuss touristic practices in relation to forms of
traditional and contemporary religious festivity. The conference seeks to
examine the meanings and roots of religious festivity within the context of
tourism and related studies, the ways by which tourists arrive at, and
consume religious festivity, and the ways in which touristic practice
encounters, and in some instances shapes, the religious.
In a world apparently struggling with the boundaries of 'the religious', we
are interested in the social practice of tourism, as a spatial displacement
of the human body creating, a priori, a liminal space for mental and
physical recreation. Situating this approach within the field of tourism, we
hope, permits to analyse important shifts and transformations of traditional
liturgical practices, manifested in particular by the veneration of new, now
touristic forms of 'sacred' objects, spaces and elements ('nature',
'culture', 'art', 'sun', 'water', etc.). Within the contemporary
transnationalised world how do we make sense of the religious - its symbolic
expression, its politicisation etc. - through both festivity and tourism?
How do festivals mobilise religious symbols to tell stories and make visible
particular representations of the self? What are the festive roles
attributed to, or taken by tourists and how are these integrated with forms
of festive exchange and ritual? And, how can a better understanding of
tourism-festival relationships shape agendas for 'intercultural dialogue'
and peace as articulated by international organisations such as UNESCO.
Indicative themes of the conference include:
- Defining Religious Festivity: Genesis, Genealogy and Displacement -
Tourism, Pilgrimage and Travel Liturgies: Variations and Continuity of the
'Sacred Journey' in the Contemporary World - Tourism and Transnational
Festival Spaces: Festive Ostentation, Sacrifice, Transgression and Exchange
in the Contemporary World - Festive Economics / Politics of Making Visible:
Religious Symbols, Discourse and the Formulation of Social Spaces /
Boundaries in the Contemporary World - Material Diasporas: Tourism Souvenirs
and Meanings - Tourism, Intersubjective Encounters and Power Relations in
Religious Festivals - The Continuity / End of War and Conflict: From
Paradigms of Clash to Paradigms of Peace?
The conference is designed to be a discussion led, small scale event hosting
approximately 50-70 international delegates. In the tradition of the
Journeys of Expression series, we wish to animate an interdisciplinary
debate on the suggested themes and welcome paper proposals from academics
from various disciplinary backgrounds including: tourism studies,
anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, religious studies,
theology, philosophy, performance studies, cultural economics, politics,
etc. If you wish to submit a paper proposal, please send a 300-word abstract
with full address and institutional affiliation details as an electronic
file to Dr. David Picard (d.picard@shu.ac.uk ). The deadline for the
reception of abstracts is 10th January 2006. Please find regularly updated
information regarding this conference, registration procedures and (at a
later stage) a programme at our website www.tourism-culture.com.
Dr David Picard Senior Research Fellow Centre for Tourism and Cultural
Change Sheffield Hallam University Owen Building, Howard Street Sheffield S1
1WB United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 114 225 3973 E-mail: d.picard@shu.ac.uk
Web: www.tourism-culture.com
posted 10/17/2005
CFP: IASPM-Canada Annual Conference 2006
Spanning the Distance:
Regionalism and Reflections On Popular Music in Canada
May 5-7, 2006 University of Regina, Regina Saskatchewan
Deadline: October 20th, 2005
The conference organizers invite proposals for papers, panels, or
roundtables on any aspect of popular music. We are especially interested in
proposals that take up one of the following five themes:
Popular Music Studies in Canada: Where are we now?
Space, Place, and Performance
Sounding Canadian: Representation, Identity, and Difference in Canada’s
Music Scenes
Media, Technology, and the Industry: Local/Global Representation’s of Canada
Regional Popular Music Scenes
Considering the geographical location of the conference, the conference
organizers would also like to encourage proposals for papers, panels, or
roundtables that deal with aspects of popular music specific to western
Canada, including the Pow Wow circuit and other Indigenous Popular Music
practices, as well as the musical experiences of western francophone
communities.
The program committee aims to encourage dialogue concerning the place of
popular music and popular music studies within Canada’s cultural landscape
and the academy. We also hope to offer a range of perspectives that are both
discipline-specific and interdisciplinary.
Proposals for individual papers and roundtables should be no longer than 300
words. Proposals for panels should include an abstract of no more than 300
words for the panel as a whole, in addition to abstracts of no more than 300
words for each paper proposed for the panel. Papers should be twenty minutes
in length.
Please send proposals of 250-300 words to charity.marsh@uregina.caby October
20th, 2005 (if applying for travel subsidy) or by November 15th, 2005.
For applicants who are applying for travel funding please include the
following: current position (or affiliation in the case of students), list
of degrees with years and institutions, and any publications.
Applicants will be notified by December 15th, 2005 if the proposal was
successful.
For questions concerning the conference, please email Dr. Charity Marsh at
charity.marsh@uregina.ca.
posted 10/17/2005
CFP: The Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
"Ethics, Politics and Human Subject Research In the New Millennium”
The Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from May 3-6, 2006.
The theme of the Second International Congress, "Ethics, Politics and Human
Subject Research" builds on and extends the theme of the First International
Congress which focused on “Qualitative Inquiry in a Time of Global
Uncertainty.” The 2006 Congress will explore experiences with and criticisms
of Institutional Review Boards. It will question the over-reliance of audit
cultures on evidence-based, neo-experimental models of inquiry. The 2006
Congress will investigate new ways of decolonizing traditional
methodologies. It will take up performative, feminist, indigenous,
democratic and participatory forms of critical inquiry. The 2006 Congress
will examine how these new forms of inquiry can advance the goals of social
justice and progressive politics in this new century.
Session Themes will include, but not be confined to these topics:
alternative IRB models, interpretive inquiry and IRBs, disciplines and their
ethical codes, active interviews, auto- and performance ethnography,
arts-based inquiry, coloring and engendering epistemology, colonial and
post-colonial epistemologies, critical performance narratives, critical
pedagogy, critical race theory, cultural studies and critical pedagogy,
democratic methodologies, discourse, ethnodrama, story, poetry,
epistemology, oral history, queer, feminist and gender studies, focus
groups, funding qualitative research, globablization, health care, grounded
theory and social justice, human rights, indigenous studies, models of
evidence, mixed-methodologies, participatory action research, policy
studies, portraiture, post-human subjects, qualitative evaluation inquiry,
qualitative health research, technology, mobility, memory, representation,
working with multicultural populations.
Half-day (morning and afternoon) pre-conference workshops (May 4) will
precede the three-day Congress (May 4-6), which will consist of keynote,
plenary, spotlight, featured, and regular sessions. There will also be
opening and closing receptions and banquets, and a town hall meeting for the
newly formed International Association of Qualitative Inquiry.
We invite your submission of paper and session proposals. Session and paper
submissions will be accepted online only from October 1 until December 1,
2005. Conference and workshop registration will begin December 1, 2005.To
learn more about the Second International Congress and submit your paper or
panel, please visit our website, www.QI2006.org.
posted 10/05/2005
CFP: The Working Life [15 February 2006]
Seventh Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Film Symposium
Thursday, July 20 - Saturday, July 22, 2006
Working life and moving images are at the heart of Northeast Historic Film
(NHF). In 1985, NHF co-founders David Weiss and Karan Sheldon restored
Alfred Ames' 1930 amateur film From Stump to Ship for the University of
Maine. Ames, president of a lumber company, had documented the twilight of
the long lumber industry in the state. Weiss and Sheldon brought Ames'
16mm film back to life for audiences throughout New England. In 1986, they
founded Northeast Historic Film and began collecting a wide range of
amateur, documentary, personal and industrial films that captured images
of work and everyday life of people in New England.
Today, NHF houses over six million feet of film and holds an international
reputation as a regional archive at the forefront of collecting,
preserving and studying moving image heritage. To celebrate the 20th
Anniversary of NHF and the legacy of From Stump to Ship, the theme of the
Seventh Annual Summer Film Symposium is "The Working Life."
We invite papers and presentations that explore the working life as a
subject of amateur and non-commercial film. We are interested in moving
images that offer us a new historical, cultural, and critical
understanding of work since the late 19th century.
By examining moving images of the working life made by amateurs and for
noncommercial purposes the aim of this symposium is to consider the details,
diversity and perspectives on work that often escape recognition in
mainstream media representations. Potential paper topics might include,
but are not limited to subjects such as:
Blue collars, white collars; Factory life; Labor history; Leisure as
work; Work as leisure; Time and motion studies; Sweatshops; Unions;
Value of work; Industrial Ruins; Fairs and exhibitions; Migrant Work;
Farming; Consumption; Trade shows; Techniques and skills; Mechanization; Labor at sea; Riots; WPA film projects; Production lines; Protests; Uprisings; Fraternal Organizations; Hierarchy and difference
The NHF Summer Film Symposium is a multi-disciplinary gathering devoted to
the history, theory, and preservation of moving images. The Symposium is
noted for bringing together archivists, scholars, and artists in an
intimate setting. NHF is located in Bucksport, a town of 5,000 on the coast of
Maine (for more info on NHF, please visit: http://www.oldfilm.org).
Presenters have a full hour in which to deliver their paper and engage in
discussion with their colleagues. Typically, presentations are 30 minutes,
including moving images, and followed by 30 minutes of discussion. The
symposium is open to archivists, artists and scholars from all
disciplines.
NHF houses a 125-seat cinema with 35mm, 16mm, videotape, and DVD projection,
and we are looking for presentations that include interesting moving images.
Please send 250-500 word abstracts outlining your paper ideas to the
symposium organizers at the address below. We prefer e-mail submissions,
but will accept any format. We are happy to discuss your presentation
ideas with you in advance of a formal submission. The Symposium Program
Committee will begin reviewing proposals on February 15, 2006. Please send
proposals and inquiries to:
Mark Neumann, Associate Professor
mneumann@cas.usf.edu
Janna Jones, Associate Professor
jjones1@cas.usf.edu
Department of Communication, CIS 1040
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 33620-7800 USA
posted 10/03/2005
Clark/Oakley Humanites Fellowship: Visual Culture [15 November 2005]
In conjunction with the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Williams College, the Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute announces a new fellowship for a scholar in the humanities whose work takes an interdisciplinary approach to some aspect of the visual. The selected fellow will have his or her office at the Oakley Center, be housed at the Clark scholars' residence, and participate fully in the rich intellectual life of both advanced research institutes. The preferred term of the fellowship is for one academic year, though applicants available only for one semester will also be considered. The ample stipend will be dependent on salary and sabbatical replacement need.The Clark is one of a small number of institutions in the United States that combines a public art museum with a complex of research and academic programs, including lectures, workshops, symposia, and international conferences. It offers between fifteen and twenty Clark Fellowships each year, ranging in duration from less than a month to ten months. The Oakley Center supports interdisciplinary scholarship across the humanities and social sciences. In addition to sponsoring a wide variety of colloquia, lectures, and research groups, it provides offices and support for selected Williams College faculty on sabbatical. Applications and further information on the Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellowship are available a
http://www.clarkart.edu/research_and_academic/ and
http://www.williams.edu/resources/oakley/
Deadline: November 15.
posted 10/03/2005
CFP: Pornography [15 January 2006]
THE VELVET LIGHT TRAP
A CRITICAL JOURNAL OF FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES
Pornography has always been a ubiquitous, yet peripheral, part of the
motion picture industry. Various events throughout the latter half of the
20th century have given pornographic films a more visible presence in the
public sphere. But as pornography becomes increasingly widespread and
accessible, media scholars have largely resisted it as an object of
inquiry. Despite annual revenues currently surpassing those of Hollywood
and much of the sports industry, pornography still remains "obscene" in the
sense that film theorist Linda Williams recently used the term --
"off-stage" or "out of public view." Over the last fifteen years, scholars
have inched pornography closer and closer to center stage. Issue #59 of The
Velvet Light Trap will continue in that tradition. The editors seek essays
that build on the momentum of recent scholarly work and address pornography
in its varied forms.
Possible topics for this issue include but are not limited to:
- Connotations of the words "pornography" or "porn"
- Genres
- Sexually Explicit Art Cinema -- (e.g. Patrice Chereau, Catherine
Breillat, Andrew Repasky McElhinney, Baise-Moi, Porn Theatre)
- Pornography from non-Western countries
- Teaching pornography
- Amateur pornography
- Production companies
- The avant-garde as pornography / pornography as avant-garde
- Questions of "the real" and evidence
- Feminist interventions
- Porn stars as celebrities / celebrities as porn stars
- Documentaries about pornography - (e.g. Shooting Porn, Sex: The
Annabel Chong Story, Inside Deep Throat, Porn Star: The Legend of Ron
Jeremy, Kamikaze Hearts, Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes)
- Films about pornography - (e.g. The Fluffer, Demonlover, Orgazmo,
Wonderland, Boogie Nights, 8MM, Inserts)
- Softcore vs. hardcore
- Changing definitions of pornography
- Exhibition/distribution
- Delivery systems
- Queering pornography
- Internet pornography
- Canon formation
- Narrative strategies
- Technology
- Theories of the visible and audible
- Intersections with race and class
- Censorship
- Rating systems
- Porn Auteurs
- Porn Classics
- Careers in pornography
To be considered for publication, papers should be between 4,500 and 7,500
words, double-spaced, in MLA style, with the author's name and contact
information included only on the cover page. Queries regarding potential submissions also are welcome. Authors are responsible for acquiring related visual images and the associated copyrights. For more information or to submit a query, please contact Leslie Delassus (lesliedelassus@earthlink.net). All submissions are due January 15, 2006.
The Velvet Light Trap is an academic, refereed journal of film and
television studies published semi-annually by University of Texas Press.
Issues are coordinated alternately by graduate students at the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After a prescreening, articles are anonymously refereed by specialist readers of the journal's Editorial Advisory Board, which includes such notable scholars as Charles Acland, David William Foster, Sean Griffin, Bambi Haggins, Heather Hendershot, Charlie Keil, Michele Malach, Dan
Marcus, Nina Martin, Tara McPherson, Walter Metz, Jason Mittell, James Morrison, Steve Neale, Karla Oeler, Lisa Parks, and Malcolm Turvey.
Please address submissions to:
The Velvet Light Trap
c/o The Department of Radio-Television-Film
University of Texas at Austin
CMA 6.118, Mail Code A0800
Austin, TX 78712
posted 9/21/2005
CFP: Technology and Private Music/Public Music
I am organizing a panel on "Technology and Private Music or Public
Music" for the upcoming 15th annual Kansas State University Cultural
Studies Conference on “Privacy” next March (March 9-11, 2006, in
Manhattan, Kansas).
Possible topics include the cultural impact of the iPod and other MP3
players, the super-miniaturization of music technology, the anonymous
"trading" of music over the internet, responses to or updates of Rey
Chow's landmark essay on the Walkman, the function or signification
of loud personal music in public places—for example, "boomboxes," car
stereos, leaky headphones, cell phones that play audible songs—etc.
If you are interested in participating in this panel, please send a 1-
page proposal for a fifteen-minute paper or presentation to Greg
Eiselein (eiselei@ksu.edu). Deadline: October 25.
Please feel free to share this invitation with colleagues and listservs.
posted 9/20/2005
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