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CFP: The Cell Phone: History, Technology, Culture [1 September 2004]
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EDITED BOOK
THE CELL PHONE: HISTORY, TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE
Edited by Anandam P. Kavoori and Noah Arceneaux
Dept of Telecommunications
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
The University of Georgia, Athens, Ga 30602
The Cell phone presents itself at the periphery of contemporary discourse about media and culture. TV cops use it as they rush to crime scenes, teenagers use it to connect with their peers, terrorists are traced through calls made on their cell phones, extra-marital affairs draw sustenance from them. Such images, however, do not do justice to the central role that cell phones have begun to play in contemporary society. Cell phones lack the hype of the Internet but are fast approaching the cultural impact of a mass medium. They have begun to shape how we communicate; their use has created new forms of media-centered relations; and in the marketplace they have begun to influence patterns of media ownership and acquisition. In the developing world-the cell phone is often
the first phone for the urban poor. In their intersection with other technologies-text messaging, the World Wide Web and digital photography/video-Cell phones have changed how we look at an omnipresent cultural technology-the "telephone."
This edited book seeks papers that examines three overarching issues-History, Technology and Culture-- as they relate to the Cell Phone. Papers from all theoretical (social scientific, cultural, critical, ethnographic, historical) perspectives are welcome. Of special interest are papers dealing with the impact of the Cell Phone in the developing world and with issues of identity politics-race, gender, ethnicity and sexuality.
The deadline for paper abstracts is September 1, 2004.
Please send your queries via email to the corresponding editor, Noah Arceneaux at noahax@uga.edu or via mail to Dr. Anandam P. Kavoori, Associate Professor, Dept of Telecommunications, Grady College of Journalism and Mass
Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.
posted 2/17/2004
CFP: 2nd International Language-Communication-Culture Conference [15 July 2004]
Beja, Portugal, November 2004
CALL FOR PAPERS
Knowledge and Power: history, geography, representation, identity in post-colonial studies
In Orientalism, Edward Said selected these two great Baconian themes - Knowledge and Power - as dominant in the discourse of imperial authority. "Knowledge means rising above immediacy, beyond self, into the foreign and distant . To have such knowledge of such a thing is to dominate it, to have
authority over it". And, in Culture and Imperialism, he called for 'a different and innovative paradigm for humanistic research', 'a way of regarding our world as amenable to investigation and interrogation without magic keys, special jargons and instruments, curtained-off practices', a way through which 'the disenchantments, the disputations and systematically sceptical investigations in innovative work . submit these composite, hybrid identities [the caliphate, the state, the orthodox clerisy, the Establishment] to a negative dialectics which dissolves them into variously constructed components. What matters a great deal more than the stable identity kept current in official discourse is the contestatory force of an interpretative method whose material is the disparate, but intertwined and interdependent, and above all overlapping streams of historical evidence.'
Both in method and content Said's books contributed to a new approach to post-colonial theory and practice. A year after his death we would like to address some of the issues he developed in his work. We, therefore, welcome papers (15 to 20 minutes reading) on the following subjects:
1. Histories of Empires and Colonies
2. Women and Empires
3. Old Empires and Indirect Colonialism
4. Post-colonial Theories in the 21st century
5. Said's works and their importance in post-colonial cultural criticism
Please send 150-word abstracts by 15 July 2004 to the following addresses:
Adelaide Meira Serras: aserras@mail.telepac.pt
Luísa Leal de Faria: lealfaria@yahoo.com
Teresa Malafaia: tvmalafaia@mail.telepac.pt
posted 2/17/2004
CFP: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION [31 March 2004]
10th International _Culture and Power_ Conference of the Iberian Association for Cultural Studies 7-8-9 October 2004
To be held in Burgos (Spain)
Conference venue: Teatro Principal
Confirmed keynote speakers: Charlotte Brunsdon and David Morley
The English Department, Humanities Faculty, University of Burgos will host a three-day conference organised by the Iberian Association for Cultural Studies around the theme _Culture and Society in the Age of Globalisation._
The aim of this conference is to bring together specialists and researchers from different nations and fields of study in an effort to develop a truly international and trans-disciplinary understanding of the multiple ways in which globalising processes are impacting our world, lives and identities. The conference organisers therefore welcome papers in all areas of learning and are open to a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches; preferred, however, are presentations which focus on the following areas:
Globalisation and culture:
cultural-theoretical perspectives on the globalisation of culture; intercultural communication; high and low culture; environmental politics and public policy; endangered species; social plights; culture and work; culture and business; globalisation and the world economy; transnational corporations; international crime ...
Globalisation, language and education:
language and cultural studies; multi-lingual communities; English as a second language; English as a local and global language; immigrant and multicultural education; pedagogy; educational policies; higher education and cultural competence ...
Globalisation and the media:
the role of the media (broadly understood to include all forms of telecommunications, the Internet and computers, print and televisual journalism, and all forms of visual media) in the era of globalisation ...
Globalisation, democracy and citizenship:
the nation state, the nation and transnational capital; nationalisms and global disorder; global governance and citizenship; cultural regionalism vs. globalisation; the global and the glocal; multicultural citizenship; Americanisation; Europeanisation and Euroscepticism ...
Globalisation and identity:
cultural and societal agents of change; class and gender; flexible capitalism and unions; labour and globalisation; difference and diversity in the workplace; social integration and exclusion; alterity and hybridity; immigration processes, race relations, minorities and identity formation ...
Contributors are welcome to submit abstracts that address these, or other questions related to the theme _Culture and society in the age of
globalisation_. Proposals for full panels (2-hour, 5-paper panels) are also welcome. Early submission is encouraged. Proposals will be refereed and selected by a panel appointed by IBACS (Iberian Association for Cultural Studies).
Contributor Guidelines:
1. Abstract of paper (150 words)
2. Full panel proposal (300 words)
3. Brief resume/bio for each author/coauthor of the paper and panel organiser
4. Submission by material mail or e-mail (e-mail with MS Word attachment
preferred; reference line: Burgos 2004)
5. Submission deadlines: panel proposals - March 31, 2004; paper proposals -
15th June 2004
Material mail:
Elena Oliete
Ana Matamala
Olga Seco
Chantal Cornut-Gentille
Departamento de Filología inglesa
Facultad de Filosofía y letras
De la Universidad de Zaragoza
Ciudad Universitaria
50009 Zaragoza
Spain
E-mail
Elena Oliete: alcarel3@terra.es
Ana Matamala: anamatamala2001@yahoo.es
Olga Seco: olgaseco79@yahoo.es
Chantal Cornut-Gentille: chantalcorngent@telefonica.net
posted 2/17/2004
CFP: Tourism and Festivals as Transnational Practice
Journeys of Expression III: Tourism and Festivals as Transnational Practice
3rd annual CTCC Tourism & Festival Research Conference
Innsbruck, Austria, 5-7 May 2004
Journeys of Expression III: Tourism and Festivals as Transnational Practice is a small three day academic conference being held in Innsbruck, Austria from 5 to 7 May 2004. It is being co-organised by the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Sheffield Hallam University (United Kingdom) and the Institute for European Ethnology and Folklore at Innsbruck University. The aim of the conference is to present and discuss a selection of case studies and theoretical approaches focusing on the relation between tourism and festivals in the
context of the contemporary world(s). Since at least 12,000 BC, humans have been creating symbolic 'models' to explain their existence and their relations to the world; models to articulate and make meaningful the contradictive conditions of our loving, longing, suffering, hating, communicating, exchanging and 'passing by'. These models are usually expressed and mediated through
various forms of narration, aesthetic production and the festive enactment of legends and myths during moments of social concentration. Since the early 19th century, social scientists and philosophers have been interested in the links between these festively created forms of the poetic, aesthetic and artistic, and the social organisation of groups and societies. Such forms and practices have also long provided focal points for tourists; travellers of times and spaces that
are seeking experiences, narrations and intercultural participation that make personal and collective worlds meaningful.
Within this context, this conference aims to discuss academic meanings of the relation between tourism and festivals in a transnational context. Why do tourists go to festivals? How do they participate? What do they experience and through which forms of symbolic or semiotic frameworks do they make this experience meaningful? Do festivals become social nodes of a transnational culture, of a 'global village'? What is the meaning of the economic and symbolic exchange processes involved? Are there meta-narratives, and what is their ideological
grounding, and their vision of the world?
The conference welcomes case studies and theoretical explorations that
address such questions. Themes for the conference include:
- tourism and festivals as transnational social phenomena
- tourism as a global geographical extension of ritual processes
- heritage, culture and nature as sacred spaces
- festivals as transnational relations and exchange systems
- cultural festivals as international institutions, utopias and doctrines
- festivals as expressions of power
- tourist participation in 'cultural' festivals and the communication of experience
- the challenge of internationalisation to cultural values and organisation patterns.
We welcome critical contestations and discussions of such themes and would
particularly appreciate papers that are based on research data.
Please send a 250 word abstract to Dr David Picard (d.picard@shu.ac.uk). The
deadline to submit abstracts is the 5th of March 2004. Given the short notice, we will be accepting abstracts earlier to provide participants with more time.
Conference convenors: Mike Robinson, David Picard, Oliver Haid
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 2/12/2004
CFP: Encyclopedia of Documentary Film
Calling contributing authors to write for the Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, to be published by Routledge in September 2005. The Encyclopedia will be a three-volume work and will contain over 850 entries describing individual films, directors, producers, theorists, production companies, and publications. It will also address broad themes such as modernism, Marxism, and feminism, and key concepts including reflexivity and autobiography.
Entries will also cover style techniques, technical issues, and types of documentaries. Overviews of the documentary film traditions of specific countries and regions will also be provided.
Available articles range from 500 to 7000 words in length. For their first 2000 words contributors will receive a copy of the Encyclopedia on publication. You will also be paid, on publication, at the rate of $75 per thousand words for any writing over the initial 2000 commissioned.
Should you agree to contribute, we will mail you the contributor agreement for your signature. A complete unassigned list will be forwarded to you upon response to this posting. For more information regarding style guidelines, sample articles, and available entries, please email docfilm@taylorandfrancis.com.
If you have any questions please let us know. If you are unable to participate, we would welcome your suggestions of other outstanding academics or scholars as potential contributors.
We look forward to hearing from you and to adding your name to our list of distinguished contributors.
posted 2/09/2004
CFP: Cultures of Atlantic Europe and the New Partnership [31 December 2004]
Papers are invited for publication online and in hard-copy in a collected volume, Cultures of Atlantic Europe and the New Partnership, edited by Steven Totosy de Zepetnek and Marcus Jurij Vogt.
The papers are to appear 1) as a thematic issue of CLCWeb: Comparative
Literature and Culture , a peer-reviewed, full-text, and public-access journal published by Purdue University Press and 2) in a hard-copy collected volume in the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies & . The publications are a project following a conference held at the University of Halle-Wittenberg 5 February 2004 "Atlantic Europe or a Partnership Apart? / Europa in Atlantica: Partnerschaft im Kontinentaldrift?" . Thematics: Historically, the process of European unification has been supported and furthered in large measures by the USA since the 1950s and Germany, in particular, has been a beneficiary in this process. The US-American support of European unification and its process allowed for and often aided the transformation of long-established historical reservations into new and working partnerships between cultures and countries within Europe and between Europe and the USA. About Iraq, the USA on the one hand and France and Germany on the other hand demonstrated differences in opinion and action. The question presents itself as to whether and in what measure Europe would need US-American support and involvement in its process of unification, including such within the context of international and global affairs. Papers selected represent multi- and inter-disciplinary analysis and discussion of transatlantic cooperation and partnership between countries and cultures of the European Union and the USA in order to respond to issues of current import constructively.
The length of a paper is 5000 words, in the MLA: Modern Language Association of America format with parenthetical sources and a works cited (but no footnotes or end notes): for CLCWeb's style guide link to , for the CCS-Purdue
series style guide link to ; when quoting text other than English, quotes are presented in English translation with the text of the source language following the English translation. A 200-word abstract of the paper and a biographical abstract are also required: please see examples of papers for the format of the abstract and the biographical abstract in CLCWeb. Submission of papers is electronically only, in word by attachment to or by 31December 2004.
posted 2/09/2004
CFP: Visual Studies
Visual Studies is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes visually-oriented articles across a range of disciplines. The journal represents a long-standing commitment to empirical visual research, studies of visual and material culture, the development of visual research methods, and the exploration of visual means of communication about social and cultural worlds. The multidisciplinary character of the journal is reflected in its attention to visually-based research in sociology, anthropology, cultural and media studies, documentary film and photography, information technology, education, communication studies as well as other fields concerned with image-based study.
The journal invites contributions across a broad range, including but not limited to the following:- studies of visual and material culture
- photography and documentary studies
- visual ethnography
- visual essays
- image-based research in sociology and anthropology
- applied visual research
- photo-elicitation studies
- studies of visual media and communication
- visual studies pedagogy
It is expected that most articles will be accompanied by appropriate visual material, and the journal encourages visually-led submissions.
Ethics special issue
Vol. 19 No.2 will include a guest-edited section devoted to ethical issues in visual research. Contributions and enquiries for this issue should be directed to Diana Papademas at DianaPapademas@worldnet.att.net
20th Anniversary volume
As the journal approaches its 20th anniversary volume we are particularly keen to encourage contributions that review the achievements of visual research over the past twenty years and offer directions for the future development of the field.
For more information on Visual Studies, instructions for authors and to request a sample copy please visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/1472586X.html
Contributions to the journal should be sent to:
Darren Newbury (Editor), Visual Studies, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England, Gosta Green, Birmingham, B4 7DX, United Kingdom. Tel. +44 (0)121 331 7813 Fax. +44 (0)121 331 7824 Email: darren.newbury@uce.ac.uk
Submissions will be reviewed as they are received, but the following may be taken as indicative deadlines:
Vol.19 No.2 - 30th April 2004
Vol.20 No.1 - 30th September 2004
Vol.20 No.2 - 31st March 2005
Please send three copies of manuscript plus photocopies of illustrations (not originals).
posted 2/09/2004
CFP: Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies,
and Social Action [15 April 2004]
Although current manifestations of cyberfeminism are visible in various digital, computer-mediated environments, some of these seem to imply that the only concern for cyberfeminists should be the setting up of a feminist counterculture in the form of spaces merely in opposition to the presumed masculinist hegemony online. Yet if cyberfeminist agendas are indeed to produce subversive countercultures that are empowering to women and men of lesser material and socio-cultural privilege the world over, it is important for us to examine how individuals and communities are situated within the complex global and local contexts mediated by unequal relations of power.
To address these issues, Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and Social Action, will feature an interdisciplinary collection of voices that address both the possibilities and constraints of female and feminist identity, community, and social/educational transformation in cyberspace. Contributors are encouraged to submit abstracts to the appropriate section editor for a 20-25 page chapter. Our proposed text is organized into three sections:
Section I. The Everyday Life of Borderwork (Section Editor, Christine Tulley)
What do female web spaces look like when they operate in opposition to or distinctly from standard borders/communities (for example, classroom and community spaces, political arenas, or cultural centers)? What happens to women who design cyberspaces that dont necessarily fall under the category of feminist?
Section II. Classroom and Community Networks (Section Editor, Kristine Blair)
Essays in this section will focus on the role of technology in fostering feminist teaching and learning communities, including community action and service learning projects and the gender and power dynamics that evolve as more and more women enroll in distance education or seek access to communication networks as part of their academic, professional, and social lives. Rather than align ourselves with uncritical views of technology as liberator, contributors should theorize the role of technology in classroom practice and social action projects, acknowledging the possibilities and constraints of virtual spaces in subverting traditional intersections among gender, power, and identity to foster social and political transformation both locally and globally.
Section III. Building Cyberfeminist Webs (Section Editor, Radhika Gajjala)
For this section of the book, the authors solicit essays that develop and analyze strategies and tactics for building cyberfeminist webs. Even as women are displayed visibly in relation to various technological contexts, the complex gendered, raced, classed, embodied - in short the socio-cultural and economically situated nature of technological design and practices - are not acknowledged often enough. At the same time there exists a mediated visibility of gender in relation to computers and cyberspace, much discourse surrounding new technologies implicitly assumes the transparency of these technologies. Thus this
section will include various critical theoretical perspectives that practically form the necessary collaborations to design and produce dialogic electronic networks.
Deadlines:
500-Word Abstracts: April 15, 2004
Selection of Abstracts: June 15, 2004
First Version of Manuscripts: September 15, 2004
Feedback to Authors: November 15, 2004
Final Versions: January 15, 2005
posted 2/09/2004
CFP: MAKING MUSIC, MAKING MEANING [1 July 2004]
13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Studyof Popular Music (IASPM)
July 18-23, 2005 Rome, Italy
The Program Committee of IASPM invites individual or panel proposals on the general theme of “Making Music, Making Meaning” for the July 2005 conference to be held in Rome. While focusing on meaning as a shared initial concept, the conference will be organized by five parallel streams, as follows:
- Mapping Meaning (convenor Geoff Stahl) [geoffs@cam.org]
- Reading Meaning (convenor Claire Levy) [levy@musicart.imbm.bas.bg]
- Voicing Meaning (convenor Franco Fabbri) [prof.fabbri@fastwebnet.it]
- Visualizing Meaning (convenor Marion Leonard) [marionl@liverpool.ac.uk]
- Mediating Meaning (convenor Shuhei Hosokawa) [hosokawa@valdes.titech.ac.jp]
Proposals should be sent by email to: iaspm-2005@iaspm.net. They should include author’s name, institutional affiliation (if any), post and email addresses, paper or panel title, and abstract of no more than 300 word suitable for publication on the conference website if accepted. Please also specify the intended stream and attach your submissions as files with the title “authorsname.rtf”.
Deadline for submissions is July 1, 2004; authors will be notified of the Program Committee’s decisions by January 1, 2005.
posted 2/09/2004
CFP: NOSTALGIA [07 May 2004]
The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies is currently soliciting submissions for an upcoming special issue on:
NOSTALGIA
Guest Editors: Tom Lutz and Sean Scanlan
What are the most recent manifestations of nostalgia, and what are the theoretical implications of the desire to return to a lost place and time? Critics such as Fredric Jameson claim that nostalgia represents a crisis of history, but yearning for a lost past can also mean a yearning for a mode of representing the loss, hence, nostalgia is also linked to a crisis of aesthetics. Considered a medical condition associated with homesickness in the late 1700s, nostalgia has transcended both medicine and psychology, and has been dispersed into all facets of culture. Nostalgia still carries its etymological heritage of yearning for a lost home, but through the 1980s and 90s, the term became attached to political allegiances, to problems of theorizing history, and to models of consumerism. It is now time to revisit nostalgia, to move it forward, and to see how it has changed.
For this special issue we are interested in investigating the role of nostalgia as it is engaged by both the academy and popular culture. Is there a new nostalgia? Is nostalgia a form of psychological whiplash, a cultural style, the abdication of memory, an aesthetic treatment, an ornament, a technique, a part of the narrative of history, or a part of the narrative of critical theory? Possible topics include, but are not limited to: representations of nostalgia in literature, film, television, architecture, music, art, entertainment, criticism and theory, memoir, fashion; nostalgia as it relates to modernism, postmodernism, memory, aesthetics, history, medicine, and psychology; and nostalgia in the historical novel, black and white photography and film, technology, and politics.
The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, a refereed academic journal produced at the University of Iowa, is dedicated to publishing cultural studies work from both established scholars and emerging critics. Our goal is to present the best in contemporary criticism while fostering conversations across disciplinary and ideological divides.
Please submit papers no later than May 7, 2004 to:
Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
English Department
308 English-Philosophy Building
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1492
Two hard copies of the manuscript and a disk, preferably in Microsoft Word (for Windows), should be provided. Manuscripts cannot be returned unless a self-addressed envelope with US postage is provided. Submissions should be no longer than 30 pages and should be prepared following the MLA Style Manual.
posted 2/03/2004
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