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ffc Contents May 2002
CFP: Children, Childhoods and Cultures
New Media Classroom Summer Institutes
CFP: Beyond Noise: Acoustic, Technical and Metaphorical Aspects of Noise in Music and Visual Arts
CFP: "Online Lives": A Biography Special Issue
CFP: Transparencies: Technology, Culture, Communication
CFP: International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture
CFP: International Labor and Working-Class History
CFP: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
CFP: "Zines and Everyday Life"
CFP: "Extreme Bodies" Reader
CFP: "Postmodern Science" Reader
CFP: A CONFERENCE ON DIVERSITY: Living, Learning, and Teaching Diversity
CFP: The Slash Reader: Fan Communities and Fictions of Desire
posted 5/31/2002
CFP: Children, Childhoods and Cultures [June 30, 2002]
Language-Communication-Culture
Evora, Portugal, Nov 27-30, 2002
Session announcement and cfp
Theme: Children, Childhoods and Cultures
organiser: Margarida Morgado
mail: morgadofrazao@mail.telepac.pt
Sharon Stephens wrote in _Children and the Politics of Culture_ that "as representatives of the contested future and subjects of cultural policies, children stand at the crossroads of divergent cultural projects. Their minds and bodies are at stake in debates about the transmission of fundamental cultural values in the schools. The very nature of their senses, languages, social networks, worldviews and material futures are at stake in debates about ethnic purity, national identity, minority self-expression and self-rule".
This session welcomes 20-minute papers dealing with approaches and appreciations of cultural projects involving children, be it concepts of 'children' and of 'childhood' for adults; educational aspects that impact on children, such as the sites of learning for children in contemporary societies; social constructions of childhood; the roles attributed to the 'child' in the structures of modernity and post-modernity; globalization of children's culture; or new entertainment technologies and industries.
Deadline for 150-word abstracts: June 30, 2002
posted 5/27/2002
New Media Classroom Summer Institutes
Washington State University invites all high school teachers, two and four year college faculty, university faculty, and library personnel to participate in WSU's fifth annual NEW MEDIA CLASSROOM SUMMER FACULTY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE.
This year we are offering two institutes on the following theme:
LOOKING, LEARNING, AND ASSESSMENT:
"BEST PRACTICE" CURRICULUM DESIGN IN VISUAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY LEARNING
The Institutes will be offered on the WSU campus in Vancouver, Washington on June 19-23; the second will be offered at WSU's campus in Pullman, Washington June 27-30. Educators throughout the northwestern and western regions are invited. Using humanities and social science content (especially American Studies), the institutes help faculty start or refine use of new media technologies like email, the Internet, CD-Roms, or video in learner-centered classrooms.
The New Media Classroom Summer Institute welcomes educators interested in:
1. Using inquiry-based classroom pedagogies;
2. Exploring on-line communication systems;
3. Expanding their professional knowledge and teaching repertoires; and
4. Improving their use of technology, including assessment, in undergraduate classrooms.
Participants will be asked to bring course syllabi, projects, course ideas, or activities to work on during the workshop. Additional information will be mailed in mid-May. If you are interested in either institute, please contact Susan Kilgore and fill out and mail in your registration, available on-line.
Registration for either institute is $400 (depending upon numbers, some scholarships may become available.) A deposit of $100 will reserve your spot until June 10.
Please make checks or money orders payable to New Media Classroom Project and send to: Ms. Cheryl Stone, Washington State University, General Education Program, CUE 519, Pullman, Washington, 99164-4519.
posted 5/26/2002
CFP: "Beyond Noise: Acoustic, Technical and Metaphorical Aspects of Noise in Music and Visual Arts" [June 1, 2002]
Speakers: Jacques Attali, Michel Chion and others
August 1-3, 2002
The concept of noise has played an important role in the recent decades both in the creation of and reflection on music. In the mid-eighties it appeared as the name for a new genre of electronic music, while at the same time it appeared on the title of an influential book by Jacques Attali ("Bruits: essai sur l'économie politique de la musique" (1977)) English translation: "Noise: The Political Economy of Music"(1985). As a result of these and other discourses, noise became closely associated with radical aesthetics, interaction (human-human, human-machine, and machine-machine), indeterminacy, and system dynamics. The conference and festival will address the concept of noise in time-based media arts
jointly in its sociopolitical, aesthetic and technical dimensions and will examine its role in the future of music-making and in the emerging fusion of visual with auditory dimensions in art.
We invite composers, ethnomusicologists, media and culture theorists and psychoacoustics experts to discuss ways of reaching beyond noise conceptually technically, and stylistically. The word "beyond" is to be understood here in all its possible implications, that is: transcending or leaving current notions or ways of dealing with noise behind, building on or developing them further, but also exploring the laws underlying the synthesis and perception of noise, interaction and indeterminacy and finally the role of noise in both electronic and acoustic musics from diverse cultures.
Areas for submission of abstracts and works are: Noise in acoustic music cultures; Noise in electronic music cultures; Noise in interactive digital arts, installations and human/machine
interaction; Visual Noise, Noise in Cinema and Video, Noise and Atmosphere,
Phenomenology of Sound, Noise and Repression, What We Don't Hear When We See; Semiotic dimensions of noise; Noise and Timbre: Synthesis Techniques; Noise as Timbre: Perceptual issues and principles; Noise and Interfaces: Indeterminacy and Control factors in Interfaces forComputer Music Performance; Noise and Interaction: Indeterminacy and Feedback in improvised Computer Music; Noise as Stylistic or Compositional Element; Noise and "Anti-Noise": Noise to Signal, Noise (or Chaos) vs. Order,Low-Frequency and Low-Amplitude Noise, Noise and Silence.
Please send 400 word abstracts in plain text to beyondnoise@create.ucsb.eduby June 1, 2002 or before!
Organized by the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technologies (CREATE) in cooperation with the e-Studio, the Ethnomusicology Program and the Department of Film Studies of the University of California in Santa Barbara.Also supported by UC's Digital Cultures Project.
For more details see: http://www.create.ucsb.edu
posted 5/21/2002
CFP: "Online Lives": A Biography Special Issue [September 1, 2002]
The January 2003 issue of _Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly_ will feature critical essays on how
auto/biography and other forms of life writing are engaging the Internet, hypertext, digital multimedia, and the immersive interactive environments of MOOs, virtual worlds, and role-playing games. Guest editor John Zuern seeks contributions that address topics such as personal home pages, online diaries and web logs, web-based genealogical research and family histories, the stability and/or flux of identity in virtual communities, and the creative use of webcams and other surveillance and tracking technologies for self-representation.
Interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches, as well as explorations of the theoretical, methodological, and ethical challenges of studying online lives are particularly encouraged.
TO SUBMIT: Manuscripts should be double spaced and ideally between 3,000 and 10,000 words. A double-blind submission policy will be followed; the author's name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript, but an accompanying cover letter should contain the author's name and address.
Consultation on manuscript ideas is welcomed.
Deadline for receipt of entries: September 1, 2002.
For more information, or to submit an entry, contact
Center for Biographical Research,
University of Hawai'i at Mänoa,
Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822 USA
Tel./Fax: (808) 956-3774
biograph@hawaii.edu
posted 5/21/2002
CFP: Transparencies: Technology, Culture, Communication [June 14, 2002]
A graduate student conference: Friday, November 1 and Saturday, November 2, 2002
Transparencies, a graduate student conference at the University of Texas at Austin, is an invitation to explore the implications of both historically significant and recently emergent technologies from a critical and cultural perspective. In the beginning of the 21st century, our constant interactions with technology have become nearly transparent and problematic in new ways. New forms of transnational and transcultural identity are supported by global flows of culture. Provincialism and isolationism emerge in different guises. Cultural critique and journalism take on new paths and responsibilities. Vital data flows and banal spam fill "superhighways" running alongside persistent social and digital divides. How do these elements interact and how are they contingent on each other? How do technologies participate in these "transparencies" that help us negotiate the micro-and macro-conflicts and contradictions of
everyday life?
The conference is an opportunity for scholars in all disciplines engaged with issues of technology and culture to come together and share their ideas on these and other topics. In addition to panels, the conference will include a keynote address, a reception, and other unstructured time to facilitate the exchange of ideas. As a regional conference we invited colleagues from across Texas and surrounding
south-central US states, as well as from northern Mexico, to participate.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):Communication technology and the formation of identity (gender, ethnicity, nation);Technologies on the border; Historiographic accounts of media technologies;
Transcultural identity and uses of technology; Media, technology, citizenship; Communication technology and discourse; DIY Communication: Media sabotage and culture jamming; Television and Radio's future and their past; Failed technologies of culture and communication; "Non-traditional" technologies of communication; Popular music and technology; Personal computer culture; Cinema as cultural technology; Video games, computer games.
Deadline for abstracts: June 14. Abstracts should be 300 words or less. Abstracts may be emailed, or mailed if postmarked no later than June 14. Electronic submissions encouraged. Participants will be notified of acceptance or rejection by July 19. Panel submissions cannot be considered. A draft of the conference program will be made available online.
Complete papers must be submitted by September 15, 2002. Papers submitted by the September 15 deadline will be eligible to compete for a "top paper" award of $500, sponsored by the Technology and
Information Policy Institute.
For more information or for paper submission, please contact:
Coordinating Committee
Transparencies
Dept. of Radio-Television-Film
CMA 6.118
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
Email: transpar@uts.cc.utexas.edu
URL: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~transpar
Sponsored by the Department of Radio-Television-Film, Technology and Information Policy Institute, and Graduate Students in Radio-Television-Film.
posted 5/21/2002
CFP: International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture [June 30, 2002]
International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture
Evora, Portugal, Nov. 27-30, 2002
Session announcement and Call for Papers
Theme: Private Vices, Public Virtues: Gendered Sexualities and Citizenship
Convenors: Teresa Malafaia & Carlos A. M. Gouveia
The purpose of this session is to explore from different perspectives, within different frameworks and diverse theoretical concerns the intersection between issues of gender, sexuality and citizenship, under the general theme of the conference, Language, Communication and Culture.
We welcome papers on topics from any period dealing with, for instance: representations of gender & sexuality, language & gender, homosexuality & power, eroticisation of difference, notions of desire & sexual practices, the (de)construction of othernesses, colonial desire & sexualized discourse, sexual difference & Orientalism, the subversion or reinforcement of traditional gender roles, gender & pornography.
Deadline for 250-word abstracts (for 20-minutes papers): June 30, 2002
Proposals should be sent to:
Teresa Malafaia (tvmalafaia@mail.telepac.pt)
Carlos A. M. Gouveia (carlos.gouveia@mail.doc.fl.ul.pt
Department of English
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
Alameda da Universidade
Lisboa
Portugal
Phone: 351 21 7920000
Fax: 351 21 7960063
posted 5/21/2002
CFP: International Labor and Working-Class
Call for article proposals for an International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH) thematic issue on Workers, Suburbs, and Labor Geography
A large proportion of the world's workers live in communities on the outskirts of cities. In different places, such communities take very different forms. Many European cities (Paris, Moscow, etc.) long have been
ringed by working-class suburbs composed of dense, high-rise dwellings. In the United States, Canada, and Australia, workers have been part of a massive process of suburbanization characterized by low density, single-family dwellings, and automobile dependence. In Latin America and Africa, massive self-built communities of shacks and shanties surround major urban settlements (a phenomenon that occurred in some North American cities during the early 20th century). In India, squatter settlements have been interspersed in middle and upper-class neighborhoods.
There has been no systematic, comparative study of working-class suburbs and their meaning for labor movements and working-class politics, in spite of their growing importance. ILWCH proposes to publish a thematic issue which would begin such an investigation. It also would present an opportunity for ILWCH to engage with the growing body of work by geographers interested in the relationship between labor and the spatial dimension. Articles for the ILWCH issue might address such questions as: how have patterns of working-class suburbanization (or, more generally, working-class residence on the edges of cities) varied from country to country? How has suburbanization impacted working-class culture, social activism, politics, and industrial relations? What do labor movements look like in suburbanized worlds? How have spatial divisions intersected with ethnic and racial divisions? How do spatial issues force us to rethink paradigms of labor and working-class history? How do different disciplines (history, geography, sociology, anthropology, political science) approach issues of spatial organization, and what can scholars of working-class history learn from each? We welcome proposals dealing with a single country (or city) as well as those that address thematic questions transnationally.
Interested authors should submit a one-page proposal to: International Labor and Working-Class History Center for Studies of Social Change New School for Social Research 80 Fifth Avenue, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10011, or by e-mail to joshua_freeman@qc.edu
posted 5/21/2002
CFP: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy [September 1, 2003]
SAAP is feminist friendly, and the theme for 2003 is especially welcoming of papers
that intersect feminist issues, approaches, and topics with American philosophy, broadly conceived. The theme is "Crossing Traditions, Crossing Divides," and the CFP with all its details can be found online.
The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2003. Feel free to email me, Shannon Sullivan (SAAP program committee chair for 2003), if you have any questions about the Society, the theme, or the conference, at sws10@psu.edu.
posted 5/21/2002
CFP: "Zines and Everyday Life" [December 31, 2002]
Original essays are invited for a collection tentatively entitled "Zines and Everyday Life: The Anatomy of an Independent Medium." The purpose of this book is to evaluate the role of zines as a method of communication and as a form of cultural production. Ideally this collection will be a comprehensive
introductory textbook for the study of zines, independent media, and culture, and will be suitable for use at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Possible topics include historical interrogations of zines, and their cultural significance, as well as media-based analyses of zines and their differential aspects. Studies of the aesthetics of zines, the embodiment of politics, modes of discourse and power in independent cultures, modes of consumption and production of "non-capitalist" mediums, identity formation, and bricolage. Studies should not limit themselves to music and traditional fanzines, but also include those focused upon politics, humor, sports,
shopping, etc.
Studies of Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Class, Sexuality, Technology and any number of methodological approaches are appropriate and not limited to: Phenomenology, Sociology, Literary Analysis, Anthropology, Ethnography, Post-colonial Studies, Culture Studies, Historical Analysis, Psychology,
Semiotics, Folklore, Journalism, Feminist and Gender Studies, etc.
Please submit 2-page proposals or completed manuscripts (MLA style, 15-25 pages in length) to:
Reconstruction Reader Submissions
104 East Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0226
kschilt@reconstruction.ws
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us at the above email addresses.
The deadline for submission of completed papers is December 31st, 2002.
This collection co-edited by Kristen Schilt and J. J. Palmer.
A full version of this call for papers is available online.
posted 5/21/2002
CFP: "Extreme Bodies" Reader [August 16 2002]
Original essays are invited for a collection tentatively entitled "Extreme Bodies: Cultures of Body Modification and Discourses of Beauty." The purpose of this book is to explore the cultural significance of bodies and body modifications from a variety of scholarly approaches and perspectives. Ideally this collection will be a comprehensive introductory textbook for the growing interest in bodies and will be suitable for use at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Possible topics include social constructions and performances of Beauty, as well as theoretical analyses of Body Modification Culture (from grooming habits to amputation fetishes). Examples include: practices of permanent body modification (tattooing or branding) within "mainstream" and sub-cultures; plastic/cosmetic surgery; the negotiation of cultural boundaries between "normative" and "acceptable" modifications vs. "extreme," "aberrant," "devious" etc.; and the future of body modification in light of
new medical technologies.
Studies of Gender and Sexuality, Race, Ethnicity, and Class are encouraged and any number of methodological/theoretical approaches are appropriate, including but limited to: Performance, Women's Studies, Sociology, Literary Analysis, Anthropology, Culture Studies, Historical Analysis, Psychology,
Folklore, etc.
Please submit 2-page proposals or completed manuscripts (MLA style, 15-25 pages in length) to:
Reconstruction Reader Submissions
104 East Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0226
jsmith@reconstruction.ws
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us at the above email addresses.
The deadline for submission of completed papers is August 16th, 2002.
This collection co-edited by Jeremiah Smith and Sarah Hildebrandt.
A complete version of this call for papers is available online.
posted 5/21/2002
CFP: "Postmodern Science" Reader [August 16, 2002]
Original essays are invited for a collection tentatively entitled "Postmodern Science: Science in the Culture of Shifting Paradigms." The purpose of this book is to explore the significance and/or origins of shifts in the sciences and their relationship to the postmodern thought. Ideally this collection will be a comprehensive introductory textbook for culture studies scholars interested in the dialectical intersections of science and culture and will be suitable for use at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Possible Topics include the cultural effects of relativity, quantum mechanics, and nonlinear math. Studies of economics, engineering, science, technology and technoculture which explore structural shifts in the way that research is conducted are highly encouraged. Metascholarship might include discussions of the appeal of postmodern science by culture studies scholars, particularly the interest in chaos and strange attractors. Other studies might include popular conceptions of "Fuzzy Math" or "the Butterfly Effect"
and their representation in fiction and film. Also considered are discussions of conspiracies of science, medicine, and social control.
Studies of Ethics, Technology, and the History of Science are encouraged. Any number of methodological approaches are appropriate and not limited to: Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Literary Analysis, Anthropology, Post-colonial Studies, Ethnography, Culture Studies, Historical Analysis, Folklore, etc.
Please submit 2-page proposals or completed manuscripts (MLA style, 15-25 pages in length) to:
Reconstruction Reader Submissions
104 East Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0226
rfroemke@reconstruction.ws
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us at the above email addresses.
The deadline for submission of completed papers is August 16th, 2002.
This collection co-edited by Robert Froemke and C. Jason Smith.
A full version of this call for papers is available online.
posted 5/21/2002
CFP: A CONFERENCE ON DIVERSITY: Living, Learning, and Teaching Diversity [July 31, 2002]
Corey Union, SUNY Cortland
November 15-16, 2002
This is a joint conference of SUNY Cortland and Tompkins-Cortland Community College. It will be held in conjunction with SUNY Cortland's Conference on Urban Education.
The purpose of this conference is to examine the concepts and practices and exchange ideas on the important issues addressed in how we perceive diversity, and to suggest solutions to the various social, economic and political conflicts resulting from uninformed reactions to diversity. The conference invites people from diverse backgrounds to exchange ideas and strategies. Educators, students, PTO members, representatives of the Police and City Council, grassroots organizers, faith communities, migrants,
artists, and other interested people are invited to submit proposals for panels, papers, poster sessions, workshops, dramatic presentations, installations, or video displays. Among other issues, we encourage people to include experiences or perspectives on gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered concerns. Issues of race, gender, age, class, disability, and nationality will be of particular interest.What do we mean by diversity? We wish to acknowledge that diversity encompasses a complexity of meanings and we want to engage in a dialogue with participants on this important matter.
Tentative Areas: Diversity and the Curriculum, Diversity and Urban Education, Alternative Routes to Higher Education, Diversity and Health, Diversity and the Media, Diversity and Disability, Diversity and Aging, Diversity in the Workforce, Race and Religion, Linguistic Diversity, Effects of Globalization, Citizenship and Transnationalism, Indigenous Cultures, Gender and Sexuality, Conflict Mediation and Resolution.
Letters of intent for the organization of panels and for the submission of papers specifying a clear diversity-related topic should rbe sent to SUNY Cortland soon as possible (to the address below). Proposals will be accepted until July 31, 2002. Panel and paper proposals will be accepted in view of
the contribution they make to the overall program. We will publish proceedings of selected papers.
Please send proposal to: Dr. Seth Asumah, Coordinator, African American
Studies Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies SUNY Cortland P.O. Box
2000 Old Main, Room 122 Cortland, NY 13045, USA
phone: (607) 753-5784
fax: (607) 753-5979
email: diversity@cortland.edu
web: http://www.cortland.edu/mcgs/diversityconference.html
Mechthild Nagel Department of Philosophy and Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies SUNY Cortland Cortland, NY 13045 tel. 607-753-2013 fax 607-753-4114 http://www.cortland.edu/mcgs/mgshome.htm
posted 5/11/2002
CFP: The Slash Reader: Fan Communities and Fictions of Desire [August 16th, 2002]
Original essays are invited for a collection tentatively entitled "The Slash Reader: Fan Communities and Fictions of Desire." The purpose of this book is to explore the cultural significance of slash fiction from a variety of scholarly approaches and perspectives. Ideally this collection will be a comprehensive introductory textbook that explores the critical intersection between media fandom and desire and will be suitable for use at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Possible Topics include the boundaries of consumption and production, the politics of representation, and the fluidity of desire. Critical comparisons of fan fiction from Pokémon to Knight Rider, to Star Trek are also encouraged. Submissions that explore the sexual identities of the characters as well as those of the creators are also anticipated. Papers that deal with the inner workings of the slash writing community, as well as those that explore the boundaries between slash writers and the larger fan communities are welcomed, too.
Studies of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class, Sexuality, Media, and Desire are encouraged. Any number of methodological approaches are appropriate and not limited to: Performance Studies, Feminism, Sociology, Literary Analysis, Anthropology, Ethnography, Culture Studies, Historical Analysis, Psychology,
Queer Theory, Folklore, etc.
Please submit 2-page proposals or completed manuscripts (MLA style, 15-25 pages in length) to:
Reconstruction Reader Submissions
104 East Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0226
cbichler@reconstruction.ws
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us at the above email addresses.
The deadline for submission of completed papers is August 16th, 2002.
This collection co-edited by Christine Bichler and Jeremiah Smith.
A full version of this call for papers is available online.
posted 5/10/2002
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