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CFP: International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities [December 15, 2002]
University of the Aegean, Island of Rhodes, Greece,
2-5 July 2003
CONFERENCE THEME: THE NEXT WORLD ORDER
The conference this year is to be held on the campus of the University of the Aegean in Rhodes, just outside the walls of the World Heritage listed Old City. The conference will include major keynote papers by internationally renowned speakers and numerous small-group workshop and paper presentation sessions. It will address the role of the humanities in the new world order. Globalisation so far has defined a common economic order, but, thankfully
perhaps, not yet a common political or cultural society. All those researching and teaching in the area of the humanities have an urgent stake in discussing these future-shaping processes, whether these reflections are retrospective or prospective. Key issues to be addressed by the conference will include cultural diversity, globalisation and teaching and learning in the humanities.
The conference welcomes presentation proposals from right across the humanities, broadly conceived. These may present perspectives which are finely grained and empirical, or which are expansive and theoretical. Diversity of thought and expression is to be expected in a vibrant and relevant humanities. Papers submitted for the conference proceedings will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats. If you are unable to attend the conference, virtual registrations are also available allowing access to the electronic versions of the conference
proceedings, as well as virtual presentations which mean that your paper can be included in the refereeing process and published with the conference proceedings.
The deadline for the first round call for papers is 15 December 2002. Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website: http://www.HumanitiesConference.com
posted 12/09/2002
CFP: Michigan Feminist Studies Special Issue: Gender and Globalism [January 10, 2003]
CALL FOR PAPERS
Michigan Feminist Studies seeks submissions for its 2003 issue: Gender and Globalism
Topics may include- The meaning of globalism, cosmopolitanism, nationalism Global feminisms
- Historical perspectives on globalization
- Political geographies of globalization
- Globalization and its impact on women Interaction among global feminisms
- International feminist movements Migration, immigration, exile
- Imperialism and neo-Imperialism Media and the global public sphere
- International law, the United Nations, NGOs War, terrorism, peace activism, war crime tribunals
- Water and land usage
- environmental racism
- access to healthcare
- eproductive health and technology
- AIDS
- The global in literature
- politics of ethnic literature
- Publishing in the international
marketplace - Access to education
- teaching from global perspectives
Michigan Feminist Studies is an annual publication edited by graduate students at the University of Michigan. MFS particularly encourages interdisciplinary submissions, and has published papers in many disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, literature, language & linguistics, science studies, history, philosophy, art history, film, political science, and education. Graduate students, independent scholars and activists are invited to apply. Manuscripts should be 4000-6000 words, and double-spaced. Please submit three single-sided copies, and include a 150-200 word abstract, brief biographical note, institutional and departmental affiliation, address, telephone number, and e-mail address.
Papers may be submitted in the accepted format of your academic discipline (e.g., MLA, APA). If your paper is selected, you will be asked to submit an electronic file. Mail submissions to: Michigan Feminist Studies 1122 Lane Hall 204 South State Street University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290
Submissions Deadline: January 10, 2003
Inquiries can be directed to mfseditors@umich.edu
Submissions are not limited to University of Michigan students. Please forward this announcement widely. Magdalena Martinez, Graduate Research Assistant
Center for the Study of Higher & Postsecondary Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
posted 12/05/2002
CFP: Human Activities: The Social Uses of Art and Its Study [January 31, 2003]
HUMAN ACTIVITIES: THE SOCIAL USES OF ART AND ITS STUDY
Rice University, 7-8 March 2003
Keynote Speaker
Lawrence Buell, Ph.D. Dr. Buell is chair of the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He is the author of, most recently, Writing for an Endangered World (2001), and The Environmental Imagination (1995).
Call for Papers
What is the place of art? How do the production and study of aesthetic objects contribute to or detract from discussions of ethics and social activism? As the media presents us with an ever-growing number of reports of global economic crisis, environmental degradation, and war, where does the study of art find itself?
This year's Rice English Graduate Symposium, "Human Activities," will address issues surrounding the social and ethical uses of art and its study. We present no set definition for terms such as "art," "use," or "value," and we are thus seeking papers from across the disciplines examining a variety of artistic objects, genres, and media from varying perspectives. Papers should investigate social as well as aesthetic concerns.
We are accepting abstracts of 250 words or less. We welcome panel submissions. Presentations must be no more than fifteen minutes in length. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2003.
Possible Topics Include
- The power structures at work in the defining of a particular object or
objects as "art." - The impact of the study of art on its production and performance.
- The ways in which an art form or particular work of art contributes to discussions of identity (race, ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, sexuality, etc.).
- The intersection of the study of aesthetics (or a particular aesthetic object) with studies of
ethics, economics, or global politics. - The place of art within environmental studies.
- The relationship between theory and activism.
Send submissions or questions to David Messmer at dmessmer@sbcglobal.net or Elizabeth Fenton at efenton@rice.edu.
posted 12/05/2002
CFP: The Languages of Gender (University of Cyprus) [February 15, 2003]
The importance given to the sex/gender distinction in feminist theory since the 1960s has laid out the conditions of possibility for a more theoretical appreciation of the ways in which male and female identities are culturally produced, reproduced, contested or transformed. Though the distinction is currently being abandoned in Western theory for a more dialectical understanding of embodied subjectivity, it is still important to continue investigating the cultural practices and discourses through which identities are constructed worldwide. Indeed, despite claims to the contrary, such an investigation remains urgent in today's global society, which has accentuated (rather than alleviated) the economic and social differences between the two sexes. It is not a coincidence that the majority of migrants and refugees today are women. Neither is it a coincidence that the trafficking of women (for example, as domestic servants or sex workers) has become one of the most profitable markets and that the Third World low-wage labourers on which global manufacturers depend are almost exclusively women.
As contemporary sociologists emphasize, what we are currently witnessing is the increasing feminization of Western society's margins. The aim of this conference is to investigate questions relating to gender in the changing cultural landscape of multinational capitalism. In particular, we wish to re-address questions of gender from a perspective that throws into relief their inextricability from some of the most urgent political challenges that we are facing today: i.e. the relations between East and West, the re-emergence of nationalisms and religious fundamentalisms, the displacement of large populations, the diffusion of global tensions into terrorist acts or regional/local conflicts. Papers are invited from all fields in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Interdisciplinary papers from other fields will also be considered. Topics may include, among others:
- Human rights and embodied democracy
- Gender and representation (in Politics, Business, the Arts,
Literature, the Media) - Gender and violence (discursive, psychic or physical; in the public or private sphere)
- Gender and the production of knowledge
- Sexuality and the construction of gendered identity
Languages of the conference: English & Greek
Organizing committee: Fabienne H. Baider, Maria Hadjipavlou, Maria Margaroni, Joanna Montgomery-Byles, Alexia Panayiotou
Abstracts of about 200 words to be sent by 15 February 2003 to:
Maria Hadjipavlou Joanna Montgomery Byles
Dept. of Social & Political Sciences Dept. of Foreign Lang. & Literatures
e-mail: mariat@ucy.ac.cy e-mail: joanna@ucy.ac.cy
Fax: ++ 357 22 342086 Fax: ++357 22 750310
Alexia Panayiotou
Dept. of Public & Business Administration
e-mail: alexiap@ucy.ac.cy
fax: ++ 357 22 892460
University of Cyprus
PO Box 20537
CY-1678, Nicosia, Cyprus
posted 12/03/2002
American Institute of Indian Studies Book Prize [May 1, 2003]
In order to promote scholarship in South Asian Studies, the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) announces the award of two prizes each year for the best unpublished book manuscript on an Indian subject, one in the humanities, "The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities" and one in the social sciences, "The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences". Indiana University Press has the right of first refusal for any prize winner, with manuscripts being published in the Indiana University Press/AIIS series Indian Culture and Society (after revision and editing). Only junior scholars who have received their PhD within the last five years (after 1997) and/or been awarded an AIIS Fellowship or participated in an AIIS program (fellowship or language) are eligible. A prize committee will determine the yearly winners and can chose to designate no winner in any given year if worthy submissions are lacking. When submitting manuscripts to the prize committee, applicants are committed to publication in the AIIS series with Indiana University Press if chosen as a winner AIIS will provide a subvention to Indiana University Press for all prize manuscripts.
Unrevised dissertations are not accepted. We expect that the applicants will have revised dissertations prior to submission.
Manuscripts are due May first, with an announcement of the awardees at the Madison South Asia Conference in October. Send manuscripts, postmarked no later than May 1, 2003, to the Publications Committee Chair, Susan S. Wadley, Anthropology, 209 Maxwell, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244. Queries can be addressed to sswadley@maxwell.syr.edu
Publications committee: Akhil Gupta, Stanford University; Martha Selby, U. of Texas-Austin; Brian Hatcher, Illinois Weslayan U.; David Lelyveld, William Patterson U.; John Echeverri-Gent, U of Virginia; Susan S. Wadley, Syracuse U.
posted 12/03/2002
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