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Announcements and Calls for Papers
CFP: Home - A Visual Studies Conference [15 January 2005]
Hosted by the Graduate Program in Visual Studies, University of California,
Irvine, USA, March 4-5, 2005.
One page abstracts due: January 15, 2005
After decades of culture wars and political struggle, and in a contemporary
situation riven by the aggressive return of the topos „homeland,‰ questions
of „home‰ call urgently for analysis, both in terms of their contemporary
centrality and historical provenance.
„HOME: A Visual Studies Conference,‰ will provide a forum for a critical
interrogation of „home‰ as concept, ideology, physical structure, and object
of representation. Our hope is to bring together scholars from a variety of
disciplines to query how „home‰ structures public and private processes of
meaning formation, self-fashioning, and political contestation.
Keynote address: Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Gray Jr. Professor Emeritus of
English and American Studies, Yale University. Recently awarded an Emeritus
Fellowship by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for ongoing work on Wright
Morris, Trachtenberg‚s scholarly work has focused on 19th and 20th century
American cultural history. His books include Reading American Photographs:
Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans; Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and
Symbol; and The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded
Age. His most recent book, Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making
Americans, 1890-1930, will appear in October 2004. Trachtenberg has also
edited or contributed to a number of other books, including The American
Image and Classic Essays on Photography, and Documenting America, 1935-1943.
His honors include the International Center of Photography's Writing Award
for 1991 and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation and the
Guggenheim Foundation.
Film screenings and director discussions: Im Kwon-Taek, „Father of New
Korean Cinema‰ and winner of numerous international awards including Best
Director at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, will present his 1993 classic,
Sopyonje, and Britta Sjogren, an independent American filmmaker and winner
of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the 1996 Sundance Festival,
will preview her new feature, In This Short Life.
Panels may move between such diverse topics as Jacques Derrida‚s
interrogation of hospitality and the foreigner, Lynn Spigel‚s inquiry into
domestic ideology and technology, Griselda Pollock‚s analyses of the
gendered spaces of modernism, Lucy Lippard's work on the „lure of the
local,‰ and Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman‚s critique of the politics of
Israeli settlement, to name but a few.
We encourage creative and theoretical submissions that investigate „home‰ in
historical and international contexts as well as domestic, contemporary
ones. Through such juxtapositions, we hope to highlight the historical
contingency of „home,‰ even as we underscore its ubiquity and variegated
universality.
Possible areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to, the following:
Domesticity, Ideology, and/or Technology: Home as ideology or technology in
diverse international and historical contexts; the Victorian home and the
modern machine home of consumer leisure; domesticity, representation, and
the Defense of Marriage Act; House & Home/Home & Garden; Martha Stewart
Living; IKEA; Home Depot; home movies; HBO; the public and private of
broadcast media and the internet; virtual communities, both international
and local; domesticity, home pages, and internet spaces; home surveillance;
McMansions and trailer parks;
Historical and (Inter)National Representations of Home: Representations of
domesticity and gender, sexuality, family, and/or communal/political
practice in contemporary visual media as well as historical genres; the
gendered spaces of modernism; ideology and community in historical and
international home architectures and communal spaces; modern domestic
design; postmodern representations and conceptions of domesticity;
Home, Hospitality, and the Other: Theorizations of home such as Emmanuel
Levinas‚s work on the dwelling or Jacques Derrida‚s work on hospitality and
the foreigner; the uncanny; liminality and inside/outside; disciplinarity,
„home departments,‰ and academia; nationalism; homeland security;
citizenship and civic engagement;
Home, Space, Borders, and Populations: Spatial politics; nomadic and
transitory cultures and populations; nationalism and globality; national
identity and post-coloniality; cosmopolitanism; terrorism and homeland
in/securities; gentrification; town planning; re/settlement; homelessness;
migration, deracination, and hybridity; disequilibrium in the ghetto and the
planned or gated community.
The deadline for submission of 250-500 word abstracts is January 15, 2005.
Please include your name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and
phone number.
Send abstracts to Jonas Leddington (jledding@uci.edu).
For general questions about the conference, contact either Jaime Brunton
(jbrunton@uci.edu) or Jonas Leddington (jledding@uci.edu).
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CFP: Cool Jewz: Contemporary Jewish Identity in Popular Culture [14 March 2005]
Cool Jewz: Contemporary Jewish Identity in Popular Culture
Book Collection
This call-for-papers is for a proposed book collection which the University of Wales Press has expressed great interest in as an inaugural volume to a new series of books on Jewish Popular Culture.
Something has shifted in regards to the perception of Jewish identity within (predominantly, by not exclusively) North American popular culture. It appears that being Jewish has suddenly become "cool"; it is hip to be a Jew. In the first half of the 20th Century, Jewish popular culture was largely assimilationist: Jewish performers tried to hide their ethnic roots through make-up (blackface, in particular) and name changes. But really beginning in the 1960s and coming into fruition in the 1970s, Jewish performers stopped hiding their Jewish ancestry - Barbara Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Bette Midler and Woody Allen to name just a few. In part, these performers physically couldn't hide their ethnicity - they just looked "too Jewish" - but they also realized that their ethnic identity was what marked them as different and unique in the entertainment world. These performers' talents also came from their Jewish backgrounds. And yet, as popular as these performers were and continue to be, their roles were always that of an outsider; thankfully, the culture at the time was embracing the outsider,
but they were outsiders nonetheless.
But over the past decade, a new breed of Jewish performer has emerged: one which not only embraces and foregrounds their Jewishness, but has ceased to be the outsider. These performers are Jewish insiders. They are the fashion icons within popular culture, icons for emulation, not just popularity, appealing to both Jews and non-Jews. Stars like Ben Stiller, Selma Blair, Adam Sandler and Madonna's conversion to Judaism via Kabbalah are just a few examples. While this dynamic is perhaps most notable within popular film, it is also occurring within other forms of popular culture like publishing (Heeb Magazine), popular music (The Ramones and They Might be Giants), and television (Will and Grace) to name just a few examples.
This collection seeks to explore these changes within Jewish popular culture and the representations of Jews within popular culture. Topics can include, but are not limited to:
The new breed of Jewish stars: Adam Sandler, Selma Blair, Ben Stiller, etc.
The rise in the popularity of Kabbalah through the more famous converts like Madonna & Guy Ritchie, Demi Moore & Anton Kutchner.
The changing representation of Jews in film and on television, i.e. Will and Grace, The Hebrew Hammer.
Jewish popular music: not just The Ramones or They Might be Giants, but also the Klezmer revival, including such bands as The Klezmatics or Yid Vicious.
The emergence of a "new" Jewish press, with magazines like Heeb.
Jewish popular culture outside of North America (i.e Moni Ovadia's theatre work in Italy), or comparisons/contrasts between North-American models and those from international Jewish quarters.
Please send abstracts (250-350 words) and a brief biography of yourself to Mikel J. Koven (mik@aber.ac.uk) by 14 March 2005. Completed essays will be due in by 30 May 2005, and assuming few delays, the actual book should be out by the end of 2006.
In addition, as the University of Wales Press envision Cool Jewz to inaugurate a new book series in Jewish Popular Culture, if you have book projects or proposals relevant to this series, please send them to Mikel J. Koven (mik@aber.ac.uk) by the March deadline. Proposals will, of course, be accepted after that, however this series needs to be formally accepted based on the strength of these first proposals.
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CFP: Death Narratives (special issue of InterCulture)
InterCulture (ISSN 1552-5910) is hosting a special issue of InterCulture, Volume 2, May 2005, entitled: "Death Narratives"
We are seeking work relating to death in canonical works, death and natural disasters, the metaphysics of death, symbolic exchange and death, theories of death and time, death and nostalgia, cultural deaths, death as a commodity, women and death, men and death, sex and death, gender and death, death rituals, death and grief, transience and death, medical definitions of death, the geopolitics of death, death in film, death in comparative religions, critical theory and death, death and power, the politics of aging and death, genocide, celebration of death and denial of death, the psychology of death, death in poetry, songs of
mourning and death, war and death, death and poverty, death in the classics, playful attitudes towards death, death in philosophy, romantics and death, media and death...etc.
How can we revisit Death from an interdisciplinary perspective?
Submissions deadline: March 15, 2005
Remit via email or post:
Thomas Philbeck: tdp0761@fsu.edu
InterCulture Site Coordinator
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CFP: Adoption and Culture International Conference [ 1 March 2005]
Nov. 18-20 at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida
Organized by the Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Identity, and Kinship
Conference Organizers: Emily Hipchen (University of Tampa), Marianne Novy (University of Pittsburgh), and Carol Singley (Rutgers University-Camden)
Papers should discuss representations of adoption in literature, film, and other arts and/or connections between adoption and culture as studied by historians, anthropologists, philosophers, political theorists, sociologists, and scholars of law, religious studies, cultural studies and other fields.
Keynote speaker will be Ellen Herman, Professor of History at the University of Oregon and founder of the Adoption History Project website.
Please send 200 word proposals for papers, with a brief cv, by March 1, to Emily Hipchen (ehipchen@ut.edu) and Marianne Novy (mnovy+@pitt.edu).
We are also interested in readings of memoir, poetry, and fiction dealing with adoption. Send samples to the same addresses.
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CFP: Changing Gender: Research, Theory, and Policy for Gendered Realities of 21st Century 10 Jan 2005
Changing Gender: Research, Theory and Policy for Gendered Realities of the 21st century.
June 2-3, 2005.
Panteion University, Athens, Greece.
This International Conference is being organized as a forum for the presentation and discussion of current issues in research, theory and policy pertaining to gender.
The daily and institutional consequences of late modernity render disparate social realities increasingly more complex. The pervasive reach of the Mass Media, the effects of a globalizing "information society" and developments in the field of biotechnology, along with increasing poverty, violence, immigration and the growing negative effects of globalization are defining characteristics of the present historical moment. The transmutation of disciplinary practices and the consolidation of assorted mechanisms of social control often challenge the foundations of what we define as "democracy" even as they advance in its name.
The field of power shaping different societies and their subjects has undergone rapid change. At the same time, the ways in which we study gender and society, including politics, the economy, culture etc., have also been changing, and, indeed, should be changing. Disciplinary boundaries are shifting and the epistemological and methodological ground of scholarly work in all fields is being reassessed as a product of the focus on gender. The contribution of Women's Studies as a field during the past thirty years, and that of Gender Studies more recently, is significant.
The Objective:
We aim for the conference to encourage interdisciplinary thought and collaboration as well as rigorous dialogue between theory and the broad range of current empirical work. The conference hopes to stand as a unique forum bringing together a wide range of scholarly work that contributes to the study of gendered social reality.
The conference invites papers dealing with the following questions or issues related to them:
What does gender mean at the present?
How do we currently understand what it meant to be a woman in the past or in different social contexts of the present?
What does the performativity of "woman" consist of and how is it represented culturally to different constituencies?
How do we understand the subject "man" and how is this defined differently in different contexts?
What other forms of gender are there?
What are the politics of these distinctions and what is at stake?
How do these identities become objects of negotiation and how do they resist or submit to entrenched relations of power?
Given the scope of social changes that we are currently witnessing globally, and given the accumulation of knowledge about gender in recent years, how might "gender" change in the future?
Finally, the contribution of Women's Studies and Gender Studies programs- How are these different? Where has each failed, where have we succeeded and what might be the best course for the future?
Participation:
The call to submit papers is directed to a broad spectrum of researchers within the social and political sciences, including theory, empirical research and policy or specialized practice. Papers that "transgress boundaries" are welcome. In addition, the conference hopes to host one panel with papers, or performances, on gender as a category in art, especially contemporary art and multi-media.
Those interested in participating should send a 300 word abstract of the paper they propose to present, including their name, title, area of expertise and contact information, to gender@panteion.gr by January 10, 2005. Abstracts may be submitted in either of the two languages of the conference: Greek or English.
Notification as to acceptance: February 15, 2005.
The papers presented at the conference shall need to adhere to a 15min. time limit so as to maximize time for discussion. To be included in the program of the conference the full text of the presentation must be received by May 1, 2005.
We regret that the conference cannot cover transportation or other costs for participants. The Gender Studies Center of Panteion University shall provide a list of accommodation options in the vicinity of Panteion on our web site www.genderpanteion.gr as of March 15th, 2005.
Conference Organizers
Aleka Boutzouvi
Lecturer, Department of History
University of Athens
Alexandra Halkias
Lecturer, Department of Sociology
Panteion University
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CFP: Northern New England: Does It Have a Unique Identity? 31 Jan 2005
"Northern New England: Does it Have a Unique Identity?"
This call for papers marks the
RETURN OF THE HUMANITIES SEMINARS TO THE
WASHBURN-NORLANDS LIVING HISTORY CENTER
290 Norlands Road, Livermore, ME 04253
June 2 - 4, 2005
The conference is sponsored by the WASHBURN HUMANITIES CENTER in association with the University of Maine at Farmington.
With this year's broad theme we are seeking the participation of both professional and lay scholars and students from across the spectrum of academic disciplines.
We welcome the submission of complete two-or three-paper sessions as well as single papers. We also encourage presenters from previous conferences to return, present a paper, and meet old friends. Previously published material should not be submitted.
The conference will be held at theWashburn-Norlands Living History Center, a 445 acre site containing a restored one room school house, farmer’s cottage, free standing library (housing the extensive Washburn family collections), a 200 seat 1828 Universalist Church, and the 1867 Washburn mansion.
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Submit 150-word abstract and one-page vita by JANUARY 31, 2005 TO:
Billie Gammon
42 Hathaway Hill Road, Livermore, ME 04253
Phone: (207) 897-2236 E-mail: egammon@exploremaine.com
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CFP: Perspectives on Contemporary Legend 1 Feb 2005
23rd Perspectives on Contemporary Legend
International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
Athens, Georgia, USA
May 25 - 29, 2005
The International Society for Contemporary Legend Research is pleased to announce that the 2005 Perspectives on Contemporary Legend Twenty-third International Conference is to be held at the University of Georgia in the lovely Southern college town of Athens, Georgia. Athens lies in the foothills just south of the Appalachian chain. Home of both the State
Botanical Garden and R.E.M., of both the Georgia Museum of Art and the Northeast Georgia Folk Music Festival, Athens offers a range of natural and cultural pleasures. Plus, May is the beginning of peach season.
Proposals for papers on all aspects of "contemporary," "urban," or "modern" legend research are sought, as are those on any legend or legend-like tradition that circulate actively at present or have circulated at an earlier historical period. Previous discussions have ranged in focus
from the ancient to the modern (including Internet-lore) and have covered diverse cultures worldwide (including our own academic world).
The 2005 meeting will be organized as a series of seminars at which the majority of those who attend will present papers and/or contribute to discussion sessions. Concurrent sessions will be avoided so that all participants can hear all the papers. Proposals for special panels of
papers, discussion sessions, and other related events are encouraged.
Athens is approximately 80 miles northeast of Atlanta. A shuttle van ($30 one way) goes directly from the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport to the Athens hotels on a fixed schedule 7 times per day. For information or to make reservations on the AAA Airport Express, see www.aaaairportexpress.com or phone 1-800-354-7874 or 404-767-2000. Athens also has an airport, served by USAir on very small planes coming in from Charlotte, NC. Sometimes the
timing and price work out better than for Atlanta; it's worth checking.
To participate in the conference, please forward a title and abstract, along with the appropriate conference fee, to the organizers by 1st February 2005.
For further information or travel advice, contact: Elissa R. Henken, Department of English, Park Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA, E-mail: ehenken@uga.edu
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CFP: Special Issue of Western Folklore--Film and Folklore 30 Jan 2005
Western Folklore, the academic journal of the California Folklore Society, is soliciting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will focus on the relationship between Film and Folklore. Submissions on the following or related topics are particularly welcome:
Folklore representation in film and television; including myth, Märchen, legend, folksong and ballad, belief and custom, etc.
Film and television texts as folkloristic forms; including issues of variant texts, dissemination of beliefs/narratives, film/television as storytelling, etc.
Audience ethnographies/fan studies
Ethnographic (documentary) films
Children‚s media and its relationship to folklore
Deadline for 200-word abstracts is January 30, 2005 and completed papers (5000 - 6000 words) submitted by May 1, 2005. Please send attachments in Microsoft Word to Mikel J. Koven, Special Editor, < mik@aber.ac.uk>, or Sabina Magliocco, Editor <sabina.maglioco@csun.edu>, or hard copy to: Sabina Magliocco, Editor, Western Folklore; Department of Anthropology, California State University ˆ Northridge; 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330-8244.
Submissions should conform to the Social Sciences format, Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition.
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CFP: Special Issue of Reconstruction on blogging
This is a call for papers for a special theme issue on "blogging" to be published as a threshold issue in the journal Reconstruction. The editors of this theme issue are looking for papers/projects/manifestos on the subject of "blogging."
Possible topics:
Theorization of the Blogosphere
Blogging Manifesto
Politics and/of Blogging
Aesthetics of Blogs
Activist Blogging
Auto/Biographical Blogs
New Media/Communication Theories and Blogging
New Journalism Blogging
Civil Rights of Bloggers
Global Culture and Blogging
Local Culture and Blogging
Education and Blogging
Gender and Blogging
Race and Blogging
Collective Blogs
Community of Bloggers
Unrealized Potential of Blogging
Critiques of Blogging
Representations of Space/Place on Blogs
Purpose of a Unique Individual/Collective Blog
Audio and Visual Blogs
We are especially interested in the experiences, theories and perspectives of those who actually blog. Feel free to propose other topics to the editors:
Michael Benton (University of Kentucky; founder of the blog Dialogic) and Nick Lewis (co-founder of the Progressive Bloggers‚ Alliance and the collective blog NetPolitik)
Send all queries, proposals and manuscripts to mdbento@gmail.com
Read below about the journal Reconstruction and threshold special theme issues and their deadlines. The editors expect this issue to fill very quickly due to the importance of this subject.
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN 1547-4348) is an innovative culture studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the opportunity and ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies.
Manuscripts may be written from any number of perspectives, and with any end in mind; possible sites for articulations may focus on the urban, the rural, the natural, the social, local and global "culture," politics, (auto)biography, medicine, the body, science, texts (music, cinema, literature), media (the internet, television), myth and religion.
Submissions are encouraged from a variety of perspectives, including, but not limited to: geography, cultural studies, folklore, architecture, history, sociology, psychology, communications, anthropology, music, political science, semiotics, theology, art history, queer theory, literary criticism, ecocriticism, criminology, urban planning, gender studies, etc. All theoretical and empirical approaches are welcomed.
This special issue is a threshold issue. Thresholds are about the transgressing, pushing or collapsing of boundaries; they are about the point of beginning, the entranceway and stimulation. Thus, threshold issues are dedicated to exploring an experimental theme, novel method(s) or theoretical apparatus(es) that might not normally find an audience. Rather than having firm publication dates ˆ due to the experimental nature of their contents ˆ threshold issues are published once a minimum number of acceptable submissions are received. If this minimum is not met by 18 months from the December 13, 2005, the approved manuscripts will be published in the next available issue of the journal.
Information on the preparation of manuscripts for submission can be found at .
Reconstruction published quarterly (January, April, July, and October) and is currently indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.
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CFP: Canadian Association of Cultural Studies 31 Jan 2005
OPEN CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS
Deadline: January 31, 2005
Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS)
University of Alberta, October 20 - 22, 2005
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
CACS invites session proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on cultural studies to be held at the University of Alberta, Canada, October 20 - 22, 2005. At this stage, we are seeking proposals for themed sessions that individuals would like to chair.
Members are invited to submit the title of their session as well as an abstract of approximately 150 words. We remind participants to includ their name, mailing address, phone number, email address or fax, institutional affiliation (if applicable), and the title of the proposed session along with the abstract. The selection committee encourages the submission of proposals via email. Proposals should be submitted on or before January 31, 2005 to cacs@ualberta.ca or mailed to:
Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS)
c/o Department of Educational Policy Studies
7-104 Education North
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
T6G 2G5
All proposed sessions will be refereed. Session chairs will be contacted regarding the acceptance of their sessions by early March. An open call for individual papers will be sent out late March/early April 2005 with an announcement of accepted sessions.
To submit a proposal, members must be in good standing.
Please also note that CACS will be hosting its annual conference in October 2005 and will not be attending Congress.
Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS)
c/o Department of Educational Policy Studies
Phone: 780-492-0773
Fax:780-492-2024
website: www.culturalstudies.ca
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CFP: Tourism & Performance: Scripts, Stages and Stories
Tourism and Performance: Scripts, Stages and Stories
14-18 July 2005, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
www.tourism-culture.com
CALL FOR PAPERS
This is the first announcement and call for papers for the 3rd CTCC Tourism Research Conference. Tourism and Performance: Scripts, Stages and Stories is part of our ongoing conference series focusing on tourism and tourism related practices, with the aim to test and, where useful, to overcome traditional conceptual and disciplinary boundaries. Previous events of this series include Tourism and Photography: Still Visions - Changing Lives in Sheffield, in 2003, and Tourism and Literature: Travel, Imagination and Myth in Harrogate, in 2004.
Performance has been theorised as a way by which human beings act in society and organise their being in the world. In the context of tourism, there is much debate regarding the idea of tourists as performers, 'acting out' spaces, and enacting 'scripts', through which they organise and add meaning to their experiences and journeys. Tourism in this sense can be seen to be 'staged'. But such perspectives raise a number of questions regarding the reflexivity, the hermeneutics, the sensual and aesthetic modalities, the social interactions and the political economy of tourist performance: How is individual tourist performance linked to socially prescribed or learnt models regarding tourism behaviour and spaces? How are spaces and material culture 'enacted' by and for tourists? What are the production and consumption modalities of in situ and in visu stages for tourism performance? How
is tourism performance linked to modes of touristic social interaction during the journey? What roles do stories play in generating performativity and in liberating tourists from the acts of travel and tourism?
The aim of this conference is to explore such questions by drawing on the methodological and conceptual knowledge of different disciplinary perspectives including those of: anthropology, sociology, history, folkloric studies, literature and critical theory, linguistics, human/cultural geography, psychology, theatre studies and other relevant approaches. Key themes of interest to the conference include:
Eden, Sodom & Gomorrah, the Golden Fleece: narrative archetypes underlying tourism?
Hermeneutics and reflexivity: Tourism scripts, stages and stories as parables of the social world?
Losing the plot: Tourism lost in translation
Odour, sound, vision, taste - making sense of the senses: cognitive categories and processes in tourism
Distance and familiarity: Tourist performance and social interaction
Global forms and exchange: Building facades, eroticising space, making places visible for tourism
Who is cooking who? Geographies and economies of touristic performance, consumption and exchange
Political and symbolic manipulation of tourism scripts, stages and stories
Objects as props - objects as texts
Please send a 300 word long abstract of your suggested communication with full address details as an electronic file to Dr. David Picard (send to d.picard@shu.ac.uk) as soon as possible but by 15th April 2005 at the latest.
For further details on the conference and the Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change, please visit www.tourism-culture.com or contact us at: CTCC, Sheffield Hallam University, Howard Street, Owen Building, Sheffield, S1 1WB, United Kingdom. Phone: +44 (0) 114 225 3973. Fax: +44 (0) 114 225 3343.
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CFP: New Engladn LGBTQA College Conference 01 Feb 2005
First New England Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Ally College Conference
The University of New Hampshire Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Alliance is pleased to issue a call for workshop proposals for the First New England Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Ally College Conference which will be held jointly with The Annual NH TREE Spring Summit sponsored by The New Hampshire Transgender Resources for Education and Empowerment (NH TREE).
The theme of the conference this year is Break Out! The Fight of One in the Struggle for All. The conference will be held April 8, 9 and 10, 2005 at the University of New Hampshire Student Union in Durham, NH.
UNH Allinace will be handling all conference proposals which deal with gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, allies, gay-marriage, gay-politics, religion, issues and topics. We invite proposals on a wide array of topics and issues dealing with sexuality and inclusivity. Workshops with be 60 minutes in length. Individuals are also invited to submit individual papers to present on a combined panel. Academic, creative, and political formats are all eligible for submission. Individuals are also encouraged to submit creative works such as films, poetry/prose and gender-based performance art.
We particularly welcome topics which explore the
following issues:
the intersection of Queer rights and race and class
the intersection of Queer rights and disability issues
rural GLBT organizing
GLBT and HIV/AIDS
GLBT and chemical dependency issues
GLBT and depression
GLBT people and suicide prevention
GLBT and youth organizing
GLBT and hate crimes/violence
Domestic violence, sexual assault, and incest perpetrated against GLBT
GLBT people and counseling/mental health issues
GLBT people and religion/spirituality
Conducting GLBT 101 educational programs
Organizing for GLBT civil rights in NH
Being a GLBT ally
Significant Others and family members of GLBT people
All proposals will be submitted electronically.
Submissions must include the following information:
- Contact Info for all presenters
Name, Snail Mail Address, Email Address, Phone Number, Organizational
affiliation
- Workshop Title
- Abstract
Please write a detailed one page description of your proposed workshop or paper. Discuss your overall theme as well as how you specifically plan to utilize your time. Interactive workshops and audience participation are highly encouraged.
- Booklet Description
Write a brief description of your workshop for publication in the conference booklet. This should be approximately 50-100 words.
- Presenters Biography
Include brief biographies (50-100 words) for all workshop presenters
Please send the above information as an email attachment or in the body of an email to: breakoutconference@gmail.com
Deadline for submissions is February 1, 2005. Any questions, please write Will at breakoutconference@gmail.com. Notification of all workshop decisions will be made by March 1, 2005. Thanks so much in advance for your proposals!
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CFP: Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning
We seek submissions for an interdisciplinary collection devoted to the examination of how representations (literary, filmic, artistic, etc.) of food and foodways serve as vehicles for the transmission of ideologies about gender, sex, race, class, age, ethnicity, disability, and a host
of other identity constructs. Essays that provide a comparative analysis of multiple representations are preferred to those that examine just one text, although the latter will be considered. All submissions should go beyond a mere "close read" to discuss the social and political context and implications of the meaning of the representations.
Possible topics for consideration include:
The politics of class, race and/or ethnicity as represented in dietary practices or rituals;
The enforcement or resistance to religious ideologies and/or codes of morality through food;
Food practices that challenge dominant ideologies and/or cultural practice (i.e., cannibalism);
Food-related texts (i.e., culinary magazines, cookbooks, food-related television shows) that reinforce or resist dominant ideologies, including normative ideologies of sex and gender;
Literary, filmic and/or artistic representations of
contemporary debates about food and foodways (i.e., genetic modification
of food, the raw food movement, vegetarianism, organic food, etc.).
We encourage contributions from a variety of fields, including (but not limited to) Art, Art History, Communication, Comparative Literature, English, Film or Cinema Studies, History, Media Studies, Musicology, Sociology, Theater, and Women's Studies. Submissions should not be under review elsewhere, nor should they have been previously published.
Essays should be approximately 5000-6000 words in length and should adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style. Please send completed essays as MSWord attachment to both of the editors at klebesco@mmm.edu and pnaccarato@mmm.edu by June 1, 2005. Expressions of interest prior to the deadline are encouraged.
About the Editors: Kathleen LeBesco is Associate Professor of Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College. Peter Naccarato is Assistant Professor of English at Marymount Manhattan College
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