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Announcements and Calls for Papers
CFP: Graduate Feminist Colloquium/Graduate Women's Studies Symposium [16 Feb 2004]
13th Multidisciplinary Graduate Feminist Colloquium (2004)
1st Graduate Women's Studies Symposium (2004)
We invite abstracts from those whose activities reflect feminist perspectives and who would like to share their critical and creative endeavours at the 13th Multidisciplinary Graduate Feminist Colloquium and the 1st Graduate Women's Studies (GWS) Symposium.
For 13 years, the Graduate Feminist Colloquium has provided a strong, supportive and stimulating environment in which to engage feminist issues as a vital and dynamic field of multidisciplinary activity, interaction and study. We welcome a broad array of works and works in progress related to feminism in the form of presentations, panel sessions, round table discussions, and workshops. The Women's Studies Symposium, a new and exciting initiative undertaken by the Graduate Women's Studies Students Association, shares these goals, but will focus particularly on examining/expanding the borders and boundaries within women's studies. Creative works are welcome, including poetry, fiction, performance art, spoken word, mixed media, etc.
These two events will be held at York University, April 22-24, 2004. This is a wonderful opportunity for graduate students to gain conference presentation experience, as well as for feminists in all areas to engage with one another.
There is no registration fee for either of these events. The deadline for abstracts is Monday, February 16, 2004. Please send abstracts, including name, affiliation (if any) and preferred format (presentation, panel session, round table discussion, workshop, etc.) by mail, email, or fax. Please address all abstracts and queries to the email provided in the contact information below.
Contact Information:
Centre for Feminist Research
228 York Lanes
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3
T: (416) 736-5915
F: (416) 736-5416
cfr@yorku.ca
Co-sponsored by:
Multidisciplinary Graduate Feminist Colloquium Committee
Graduate Women's Studies Symposium Committee
York Centre for Feminist Research
posted 1/21/2004
CFP: Tourism & Literature: Travel, Imagination, & Myth [1 March 2004]
International Conference Announcement
2nd Call for Papers
TOURISM & LITERATURE: TRAVEL, IMAGINATION & MYTH
22-26 July, 2004, Harrogate, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
This is the second Call for Papers for our 2004 annual research conference on TOURISM & LITERATURE organised by the CENTRE FOR TOURISM & CULTURAL CHANGE (Sheffield Hallam University) and hosted by the HARROGATE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL. The conference will run in tandem with the Harrogate International Festival and the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival.
TOURISM & LITERATURE is the second conference in a series initiated with TOURISM & PHOTOGRAPHY last July when more than 120 delegates from 21 countries with academic backgrounds in sociology, anthropology, history, geography, arts and tourism studies met in Sheffield, UK. The overall aim of this conference series is a critical approach to the relationship between the touristic construction and experience of the world, and the challenge this represents for the social, spatial, economic, aesthetic and political organisation patterns and symbolic elements of social existence. This raises fundamental anthropological, sociological, political, economic, geographical and cognitive-psychological issues related to the way we communicate and exchange in the contemporary world, and how this has historically developed.
This second academic event emphasises on literature which, through both texts and authors, has long been an inspiration for tourists. Travel and tourist experiences have, in turn, long inspired literature. This inter-relationship between tourist, tourism and literature will be at the heart of this international conference. How does literature construct tourist histories and identities? How do tourists 'read' fictional texts? How does literature produce, prescribe and legitimate spaces for tourists? How are tourist expectations and experiences mediated by literature? What is the significance of imagined worlds, fantastic landscapes and mythic characters for tourism? Why do some authors hold a fascination for tourists? Who are literary pilgrims and what experiences do they have?
The conference seeks to explore and deepen our understanding of tourism and literature relations by bringing together an international audience of academics, curators, writers, professionals and tourism managers to discuss this increasingly important field. The conference will be multi-disciplinary drawing from literary criticism, history, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, cultural and political geography, etc. I am personally interested in developing the discussion on 'perception' and 'cognition' that I feel needs to be further introduced in the field of tourism research and would welcome abstracts from neuro-scientists, philosophers, linguists, aestheticians and psycho-analysts. From a social anthropological perspective, I would like to continue the critical debate on the meaning of tourism as an international phenomena - a hypothetic form of 'sacrality' of the contemporary worlds - which a number of younger researchers refreshed through ethnographic approaches of tourists presented in last July's event. From a political economy and geography perspective, I think our last conference permitted a very fruitful discussion on the 'imagery' of places as a way to create familiarity, to 'know' the world through conventionalised compositions, an argument which bears important conceptual and political implications.
THEMES
- Sight-seeing - encounters with literately enchanted worlds
- From the Bible to Lonely planet - literature as travel liturgy
- Production of literary spaces and the poetics of literary landscapes
- Recreating the world - travel, cosmogony and myth
- 'Intangible heritages' - narrative traditions, storytelling and oral histories
- Literary pilgrimages and the celebrity of authors
- Representing places, peoples and pasts in fictional texts
- Alternative literatures and tourist experiences
- Diaspora and Localities: Negotiating cultural identities through travel narratives
- The commodification and commercialisation of literature
Please send your abstract of no more than 300 words with full address details as an electronic file to Dr. David Picard (d.picard@shu.ac.uk ) as soon as possible but by March 1st 2004 at the latest.
Conference Convenors: Mike Robinson, David Picard, William Culver-Dodds
David Picard Ph.D.
Tourism Development & Consultancy Unit
Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street - Owen Building
Sheffield S1 1WB
United Kingdom
Phone +44 (0) 114 225 3973
Fax +44 (0) 114 225 3343
Email d.picard@shu.ac.uk
Website www.tourism-culture.com
posted 1/19/2004
CFP: The Journal of American Culture
The Journal of American Culture is seeking contributors. In keeping with its long-standing tradition, the journal will showcase articles on the Americas, especially those addressing broad and substantive cultural issues.
While The Journal of American Culture frequently will include research on entertainment media and the popular arts that so effectively characterize life in the Americas in the twenty-first century, it also will provide a steady and wide-ranging forum for aesthetic, historical, sociological, and ethical inquiries into the diverse cultures of the Americas, representing various times, places, and orientations. The journal is meant to be a useful resource, with articles written in accessible language and reflecting interdisciplinary approaches and comparative analyses that will be of interest to the American Culture Association's diverse membership.
In order to publish in the journal, you must be a member of either the American Culture Association or the Popular Culture Association. Authors should submit papers in current MLA style with a works cited page and a minimum of endnotes. Please send two copies of the paper to the journals' editors for the peer-review process, and include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you want them returned. Upon acceptance of your work, you will be asked to submit the material electronically via e-mail attachment or on disk in PC/IBM format.
This journal has a long and distinguished history. We are proud to accept responsibility for carrying it forward. Come join us and together we will continue to ensure that The Journal of American Culture is the definitive journal in its field.
Kathy Merlock Jackson and William M. Jones, Editors
Virginia Wesleyan College
1584 Wesleyan Drive
Norfolk, VA 23502-5599
kmjackson@vwc.edu /(757-455-3308)
wmjones@vwc.edu / (757-455-3360)
View a free sample issue online: www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/americanculture .
posted 1/14/2004
CFP: Punk and Hardcore: Contemporary Approaches (1 July 2004)
Submissions for a book, Punk and Hardcore: Contemporary Approaches, are requested.
Edited by: Emilie Hardman (Department of Sociology, Brandeis University), Ben Holtzman (Independent Scholar/Documentary Filmmaker), Alan O’Connor (Cultural Studies Program, Trent University, Canada)
The focus of this edited book is the contemporary punk and hardcore scenes. The book emphasizes the period after which most works by music critics and academics have declared punk to have ended. From the perspective of the movement in the 1980s and after, this book deals with the complexities and differences within an international field that includes anarcho-punk and conservative hardcore kids, ‘crusty’ street punks and suburban straightedge scenes, religious punks and queercore. We are skeptical of approaches which attempt to fix punk in a single meaning and seek contributions which emphasize punk as a field in which there are many different intentions and struggles. A long introduction sets out the editors’ approach to punk/hardcore which includes a discussion of these issues. There will also be an extensive selected bibliography.
The book will consider issues such as resistance, commodification, social class, geography, identity (gender, race, sexual diversity, etc.), and activism. Contributions will not only describe scenes and struggles within punk but each will clearly identify the larger political and theoretical issues at stake. Descriptions of local scenes or aspects of the punk movement are not sufficient. Each contribution must address larger theoretical and political issues in an explicit manner. All theoretical perspectives and disciplines are welcome.
The editors invite contributions. We are looking for chapters of about 4,000-6,000 words written for academic readers as well as punks looking for serious discussion of their movement. The book will be published by an academic press and will be available in bookstores. Contributions and inquiries should be sent electronically to benholtzman@riseup.net.
Submissions must be received no later than 1 July 2004.
posted 1/11/2004
Festival: "POWERING UP/POWERING DOWN"
"POWERING UP/POWERING DOWN": An International Festival of Radical Media Arts
January 30th - February 1st, 2004
Pushing boundaries of electronic media and technology, artists, writers, and musicians from around the world will gather on the University of California, San Diego campus on January 30th for Powering Up/Powering Down, a three-day festival of public concerts, panels and exhibits. Exploring the complex relationship between technology, gender and race, and economics, Powering Up/Powering Down will create a living laboratory where artists, performers, thinkers, students and the public will discuss innovative artwork, share skills and collaborate on new pieces. Juxtaposing various media and diverse approaches, the festival will create a space for conversation and co-creation between UC campuses, underground artists from California and Tijuana, and an extended international arts community; sparking a dialogue among international artists around the issues of social identity media arts.
For more information and registration go to teknikaradica.org or call 858/204-8558
Powering Up/Powering Down is sponsored by Teknika Radica with generous support from the University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), UCSD's Department of Music, The California Cultures in Comparative Perspectives Initiative, UCSD Arts Libraries, and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA).
posted 1/04/2004
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