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Deadline: 30 June, annually
Description
This scheme makes available up to five grants of $1000 each for Postgraduate
Cultural Studies projects in Australia. This includes events such as conferences
and seminar series, or projects such as preparing databases of Cultural
Studies postgraduate work in a region.
All projects must support the aims and objectives of the CSAA:
To apply for this funding, email an application to the President of the
Association, Alan McKee, on a.mckee@mailbox.uq.edu.au.
The application should be no more than 1000 words long, and should include
the following information:
Any Cultural Studies writers who are interested in submitting their thesis
for consideration in this series should, in the first instance, email a
copy of the entire thesis to Alan McKee, President of the CSAA (a.mckee@mailbox.uq.edu.au).
The Editorial Committee for New Voices in Cultural Studies consists of:
The CSAA conference is a cross-disciplinary gathering for cultural studies
researchers and scholars in Australasia and internationally. To accommodate
the varied research interests of the field, the 2003 conference will be
run with both general and themed streams. Presentations on any aspect of
cultural studies are welcome in the general stream. The themed section will
consist of keynotes, plenaries, panels, and composite sessions addressing
the following:
Conference Theme: What kinds of cultural corpus - human, environmental, animal, cyborg -
are today being produced and consumed, and what kinds are being superseded?
How do we understand the body, as culture incarnate? Which local and global
contexts are currently shaping modes of cultural inhabitation? What are
the intersections between nation spaces, bodies, and cultural politics?
Where is history in all of this? Where is the cultural studies industry
going? In what ways does culture become big business? When did we become
posthuman? The conference welcomes proposals on a wide range of cultural
studies topics, especially those that respond to such questions.
The Conference committee invites proposals for panels, symposia, individual
papers or other formats to be included in both streams. Panels that bring
together a number of papers based on a common theme or topic are especially
encouraged. The format for panels may be either: 4 x 20 minute papers addressing
a particular facet of the conference theme, with a panel coordinator (perhaps
the original proposer) being responsible for planning the coherence of the
session, OR One panel keynote of about 30 minutes, followed by about four
respondents of about ten minutes each. A draft of the keynote must be available
to be circulated among respondents three weeks in advance.
Proposals (of no more than 250 words) for 20-minute papers should be directed
via email to the Organising Committee at Cultural-Studies@canterbury.ac.nz.
Please email the Committee if you would like a supply of brochures to
distribute in your department, OR a couple of posters.
The Conference website is on-line at http://www.cult.canterbury.ac.nz
See also: http://www.unijob.edu.au/,
an online job search site devoted to Australian academic jobs; http://www.seek.com.au/
has a searchable database and lists academic jobs in Australia. For UK opportunities,
see http://jobsunlimited.co.uk/ .
Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Communication Studies (Confirmation Path) The University of Otago invites applications for confirmation path (equivalent
to tenure track) positions of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Communication
Studies.
As a result of continuing strong growth, the Department is seeking applicants
with research expertise and tertiary teaching experience in a number of
areas. The Department is particularly interested in receiving applications
from qualified individuals who have a strong research background in Social
Science. Preference will be given to applications from within the following
broad areas of interest: Interpersonal communication (including small group
communication, organisational communication and inter-cultural communication);
Mass communication (including systems, mass audiences and effects); Communication
institutions, economics and policy; Media industries, economics and policy.
To be appointed at the Lecturer level, applicants will have completed
their PhD, or be at the point of doing so, have some teaching experience
in a university, and will have demonstrated the ability to conduct and publish
research in a social science context. Appointment at higher levels will
be available to established scholars with substantial research and teaching
records.
The positions need to be filled by no later than 1 February 2004, but
may be available earlier. Specific enquiries may be directed to Dr Ian Frazer,
Acting Head of Department, Department of Communication Studies, Tel 64 3
479 8753, Fax 64 3 479 9095, Email Ian
Frazer APPLICATION INFORMATION
We are always looking for material to publish in Bad Subjects. If you
are interested in writing an article for the magazine, please consult the
individual Calls for Papers below and contact the editors for an issue you
would like to write for (whether it be on the issue topic or something else
-- we welcome non-topic submissions). The ideal Bad Subjects article is
no more than 3000 words and keeps specialized terminology to a minimum.
If you are interested in writing reviews for our Web site, please contact
our Reviews Editors Joel Schalit riotgoy@ix.netcom.com
or Charlie Bertsch cbertsch@u.arizona.edu.
FAMILY (Issue 67) -- Brothers and Sisters, send your essays to Cynthia
Hoffman [choff@lmi.net] and Mike Mosher [mosher@svsu.edu] by June 1,
2003.
ORGANIZE (Issue 68) -- Put this on your to-do list: send your submissions
to J. C. Myers [jcmyers@csustan.edu] or Scott Schaffer [scott.schaffer@millersville.edu]
no later than August 1, 2003. Time's a-wastin'.
SLAVERY (Issue 69) -- Contact issue co-editors Joe Lockard [Joe.Lockard@asu.edu]
or Aaron Shuman [aShuman101@aol.com] with essays or essay proposals. The
deadline is October 1, 2003.
Editors: Mary Griffiths mary.griffiths@arts.monash.edu.au "The Geopolitics of e-Messaging" invites theoretically informed discussions
of the social and political outcomes of P2P electronic communications, and
case studies of the dynamics of governing new publics and the spaces of
private communication. Email, webmail, voicemail, text messaging, ICQ, pxt, chat forums, digital
television messaging, discussion boards, and now, wireless communications
form distinctive protocols, and different capacities in users. New geographies
of space and politics are made possible. But, not all that results from
the increase in the kind and volume of communication is beneficial. The
pressure on many users is to be always available and immediately responsive.
Organisational communications may improve but increased surveillance is
the corollary. At home and work, time is needed to manage "legitimate" electronic
messages and users also deal with unsolicited spam, and with scams, and
viruses. Many find themselves, either willingly or involuntarily, in new
and compelling sets of relations with others. New etiquettes of interaction
are emerging.
The "free" space of limitless communication shows signs of shrinking back
to more private and customised domains. For example, online communities
now use gating technologies to secure themselves from all but identifiable
messages. Individuals are increasingly using filters, junk folders and different
accounts for protection of privacy.
What is being gained or lost by these developments? Is an organised retreat
from the exigencies of the most demanding and clamorous aspects of e-messaging
starting? Can the new gated communities be thought of as publics? Do they
provide evidence of undemocratic tendencies? What can be produced by the
crossing of traditional communicative borders? What are the skills, capacities
and literacies which are being formed by different messaging technologies?
What counts as "nuisance mail" and how is it being dealt with? How are subjectivities
being constructed and governed by compulsory participation in online work
and educational communities? How are nations, communities, institutions,
businesses and individuals managing the virtual spaces of electronic messaging
across physical frontiers? Which technologies are being favoured to help
sort and filter messages, and protect the privacy of the user? Conversely,
why have weblogs, the privatised acts of publicity and broadcasting, become
so popular? Full articles due: April 30, 2003
Reconstruction (http://www.reconstruction.ws)
is a 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.
"Science Fiction & Everyday Life" will be published July 21, 2003. Submissions
should be received no later than May 19, 2003 for consideration.
Submissions are encouraged from a variety of perspectives, including,
but not limited to: geography, cultural studies, folklore, architecture,
history, sociology, psychology, communications, music, political science,
semiotics, theology, art history, queer theory, literature, criminology,
urban planning, gender studies, etc. Both theoretical and empirical approaches
are welcomed.
In matters of citation, it is assumed that the proper MLA format will
be followed. Other citation formats are acceptable in respect to the disciplinary
concerns of the author. All submissions and submission queries should be
written care of submissions@reconstruction.ws.
Large files, such as Flash movies or essays with many large pictures,
should be sent on a zip disk or CD-R to: Submissions, Reconstruction, 104
East Hall, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43402.
We are seeking submissions for the following;
Regions of Sexuality
(submissions due 31 May, 2003) Men are from Mars, Woman are from Venus explained to a massive Western
audience that our behaviour is always and unavoidably sexed. For theorists
of sexuality though, the issue can rarely be reconciled as cleanly as John
Gray's allegory of planetary mis/alignment suggests. The diverse discourses
of sexuality studies indicate that the region or regions of the sexual are
incessantly contested, and the refusal or inability to locate a sexual 'common
ground' often pitches theorists at loggerheads. Psychoanalysis, for example, continues to be criticised for making allegedly
the same claim to omnipresent sexuality as Gray. Public debate over paedophilia,
meanwhile, struggles to distinguish between sex acts that are legitimately
sexual and those which are symptomatic of illness or degeneration. Neo-Darwinism,
on the other hand, has argued that even rape is sociobiologically sound.
A British politician in 1999 decried the apparent centrality of sexuality
in the gay community, which had led to 'gay this, gay that'. Queer theory,
meanwhile, seems more attuned to the actuality, diversity and politics of
sex than many disciplines which occlude such issues, but is often dismissed
as unscholarly for the same reason.
What, then, is the region and extent of the sexual? Sex this, sex that?
Most commonly figured in spatial terms, regionality works as a cartographic
metaphor for a cognitive and conceptual reliance on boundaries. This special
issue will examine where sexuality studies draws its borders. Queer, for
instance, has articulated and described a dissatisfaction with regulatory
borders, but has also produced boundaries of its own by glamorising young,
able-bodied, metropolitan, hedonistic subjectivities. Do such borders constrain
our accounts of sex and sexed behaviour?
The editors seek interdisciplinary papers of some 3500-5000 words that
challenge the notion of regional boundaries-whether aesthetic, rhetorical,
psychoanalytic, political, or phenomenological-'within' sexuality studies
and sexual practices.
For further details contact Iain
Morland iain@icfm.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.ahs.cqu.edu.au/transformations
Potential Topics:
Deadlines: Draft papers (or title, abstract and brief bio) must be
received by May 30, 2003.
New Talents 21C is published by the University of Queensland Press and
the Australian Public Intellectual Network. Each volume is specifically
dedicated to original scholarly and critical work on Australia by graduate
and new and emerging scholars.
New Talents 21C is joint initiative of The Australia Research Institute
(Curtin University of Technology), The Australian Centre (The University
ofMelbourne) and the Australian Studies Centre (The University of Queensland).
If you are currently enrolled in a postgraduate program anywhere in Australia
or offshore or have completed graduate work within the last two years, you
are eligible to submit your 5000 word paper by 31 July 2003 for consideration
in this internationally acclaimed Australian publication.
Your article must wholey or substantially involve Australian subject matter.
TimeLines:
31 May 2003 - Submission of Abstracts What you do:
Submission of Abstract (31 May 2003): Logon to to submit your abstract
of not more than one page, as well as a short biographical note and brief
description of your scholarly work, your enrolling institution, area of
research, specialisation or creative production, supervisor, and contact
details.
Submission of Article (31 July 2003): Please email, or post with disc,
your 5000 word paper, making certain that it conforms with the JAS style
guide, see www.api-network.com.
Articles should be previously unpublished, no longer than 24 pages, double-spaced,
and including documentation (MLA preferred). Submit three hard copies of
your manuscript, plus one disk copy (in Word) format. Include a SAE for
return of manuscripts and disk, should that be necessary. Deadline: June
1 2003.
Please address all enquiries, and send all submissions, to: Ian Conrich,
Guest Editor, Post Script Australia and New Zealand Issue, 15 Garrett Grove,
Clifton Village, Nottingham NG11 8PU England. E-mail: iconrich@freenet.co.uk
[or] i.conrich@roehampton.ac.uk.
As discussions continue apace about the role of cultural studies as an
area of teaching, research and graduate qualifications in the 21st century,
there has been an interesting rediscovery of humanistic discourses in educational
policy debates. The necessity of developing 'well-rounded' graduates able
to engage in critical thinking, possessing strong communications skills,
and able to demonstrate creativity in a variety of contexts has emerged
as an important corollary of the renewed stress upon ideas in the knowledge-based
economy.
This has been termed the 'new humanism', as it is focused upon developing
a full range of social and cultural capabilities in graduates as individual
subjects, but in ways that are more concerned with the application of 'soft
skills' in the 'new economy' than with a deeper understanding of the human
condition.
'New humanism' has also emerged as a framework for those concerned about
the perceived political limitations of identity politics associated with
political fragmentation, as theorists on the left in particular have sought
a more integrative and connective form of political practice.
This special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
invites contributions on this theme. Issues that could be addressed include:
Dr. Terry Flew or
Dr Mark Gibson
The assumed relationships of interior space to exteriority, issues of
enclosure, limit, shelter, movement, environmental control and regulation
are among the topics available for scrutinising a new understanding of interiority.
Submission due date: November 28, 2003 - space@carleton.ca
Cultural Values: Journal for Cultural Research is an international
journal, based in Lancaster University's Institute for Cultural Research.
It is interested in essays concerned with the conjuncture between culture
and the many domains and practices in relation to which it is usually defined,
including, for example, media, politics, technology, economics, society,
art and the sacred. The journal publishes original essays by established
and emerging writers around the globe who are developing the future of cultural
theory and research in the 21st century. We encourage writing that explores
every aspect of cultural experience, experiences that occur in the correlation
between fields of knowledge, types of normativity, and forms of subjectivity
in different domains and locations around the world.
Three hard copies of completed papers should be sent, along with an emailed
electronic copy, to Shannon Lowe, Assistant Editor, pp. Mick Dillon and
Scott Wilson, Co-editors, Cultural Values, Institute for Cultural Research,
CartmelCollege, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, LA1 4YL and emailed
to: s.lowe@lancaster.ac.uk and
m.dillon@lancaster.ac.uk
CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE, MAY 2005 'NOISE'.
Today, noise is breaking away from the status of undesirable phenomenon
bestowed upon it by traditional communications theory. No longer merely
an undesirable element to be eradicated so as to retain the purity of the
original signal, noise is infecting expression from all realms, spawning
genres and movements, complexifying rather than destroying semantics. Indeed,
noise has become an integral part of our late modern condition, and not
only because of the amount of noise produced by late industrial and digital
societies. It is perhaps only natural that we attempt to insulate ourselves
from this latter noise, but to treat all noise in this way, to attempt to
eradicate *all* forms of noise is fundamentally to disavow the ground on
which our every expression is transmitted. This issue of _Culture, Theory
and Critique_ will aim to listen to (or look at) noise in all of its guises
both literal and metaphorical, to restore noise to its rightful place and
to examine the ways in which noise can refigure existing theories, theories
which also at times collude in this politics of noise reduction. Amongst
the key issues to be addressed in this volume will be:
Inquiries and submissions should be directed to: Dr Greg Hainge, greg.hainge@adelaide.edu.au Deadline for submissions: 1 June 2004.
We are pleased to invite scholars worldwide who are working in the broadly
defined field of critical cultural studies to submit manuscripts to the
National Communication Association's newest journal, Communication and Critical/Cultural
Studies, published by Routledge. The journal's editorial board consists
of leading scholars in a wide array of communication and related fields
and from a variety of countries.
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies publishes scholarship for
an international readership on communication as a theory, practice, technology,
and discipline of power. The journal features critical inquiry that cuts
across academic boundaries to focus on social, political, and cultural practices
from the standpoint of communication. It promotes critical reflection on
the requirements of a more democratic culture by giving attention to subjects
such as, but not limited to, class, race, ethnicity, gender, ability, sexuality,
polity, public sphere, nation, environment, and globalization. Essays are
selected to be academically sound, rhetorically self-reflexive, intellectually
innovative, and conceptually relevant to democratic concerns in their orientation
toward communication and culture.
Collectively, they analyze historical contexts, material and economic
conditions, institutional settings, political initiatives, practices of
resistance, and/or the theoretical significance of discursive formations
in everyday life. In addition to research essays, CCCS publishes one or
more reviews each issue of major new books. The journal is published quarterly
in March, June, September, and December.
Manuscripts of no more than 9000 words should be should be formatted in
Microsoft Word in a PC-compatible version (Mac users making sure to utilize
the most current versions of Word and to end their file names in ".doc")
and submitted electronically asattachments to cccs@indiana.edu
Consulting Editors:
Barbara Biesecker (University of Iowa)
For full details see the programme website at http://www.sci-soc.net
The Center annually awards academic-year (or one semester) residential
fellowship to individuals in the social sciences and humanities with outstanding
project proposals on national and/or international issues. Topics should
intersect with questions of public policy or provide the historical and/or
cultural framework to understand policy issues of contemporary importance.
Fellows are provided with a stipend (includes a round-trip transportation
allowance) and with part-time research assistance. Fellows work from private
offices at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington,
DC.
Eligibility: For academic applicants, eligibility is limited to the postdoctoral
level and, normally, to applicants with publications beyond the Ph.D. dissertation.
For other applicants, an equivalent level of professional achievement is
expected. Applications from any country are welcome. All applicants should
have a very good command of spoken English. The Center seeks a diverse group
of Fellows and welcomes applications from women and minorities.
For application materials, please visit our website at: http://www.wilsoncenter.org
, or write to: Scholar Selection and Services Office, Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC 20004-3027;
Scholars will be in residence for the academic year at the Simpson Center
for the Humanities and will receive a stipend of $37,500 in addition to
compensation for teaching a quarter-long graduate seminar.
Applications for 2004-2005 are due December 15, 2003 to CritAsia@u.washington.edu
For more information, please visit our website: http://depts.washington.edu/critasia
Wednesdays, 7 May-11 June 2002, 4:30-6:00pm In this seminar series, we propose to interrogate, via "translation",
the cross and the cultural in "cross-cultural". What productive analogies,
what innovative forms of self-description, what telling divergences may
be discerned when cross-cultural study is compared to language work, and
of the work of crossing, the brinkmanship of crossing, the art of arriving.
This when the language work of translation is returned to its primal figure
of the activity of crossing? We propose to explore the numerous senses of
translation a language practice, an etymology, a metaphoric, a cultural
event to see what we can bring to our collective discussion of the network
of critical practices engaged in by cross-cultural research, all of which
are under the head of "cross".
This emphasis on crossing will not get "carried away" with the post-modern
taste for the flux, since in crossing there are also points of arrival,
pauses, banks on the other side of the river. We will propose discussion
of some of the ancient interest in the gesture of carrying over and invite
examination emphasis on "work" entails a refusal to think only in terms
of intellectual value. There are acts and outcomes at stake.
Speakers:
In 2003/4, a cross-disciplinary program initiated by the Institute of
Advanced Studies at The University of Western Australia will be presented
in partnership with the Humanities Research Centre and the National Europe
Centre at the ANU. The central theme is ' Europeans: Migration, racisms
and the construction of the 'Other' in Europe and Australia', with the following
subthemes:
Visit the IAS Europeans website: http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/acis/acis_researchbod.html
The Australian Humanities Review's 'The Good Oil': http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/goodo/home.html
The only continent occupied by a single nation, Australia has had a different
experience of borders. Early Europeans were amazed by the apparently endless
horizons of the flat and desert parts of the country and there seemed no
limit to expansion. Yet now the deserts are occupied by a later wave of
migrants who, in detention centres, find the horizons of the fences all
too close. This conference will question literary and dramatic reflections
on borders and barriers will observe how they construct the notion of the
national. It will do so through a joint conference that in its own structure
questions disciplinary borders. The joint conference will host papers in
literary or drama areas on these themes:
This conference will explore the ways in which ethical issues bear on
art practice, museology and art historical discourse. This might encompass
art historical work or art theory that intersects with philosophical ethics,
politics, cultural and postcolonial studies, as well as other disciplines.
Questions addressed may focus on a range of historical and contemporary
topics, but might include: How can the "critical" function of art be understood
today? What is the contribution of art and art theory to recent interdisciplinary
work on ethics? What are the most pressing ethical concerns for art galleries
and museums in the current climate?
The conference will include 3 guest speakers including confirmed keynote
speaker, Okwui Enwezor, Artistic Director of Documenta 11; plus an international
artist.
Information: donnab@ag.nsw.gov.au
Call for Papers
'Staking a Claim: Global Buffy and Local Identities', Hosted by The Hawke
Research Institute, and the University of South Australia, will be an international
symposium exploring the global reach of the Buffy phenomenon from the perspectives
of academics, fans and industry. Why has Buffy inspired such a passionate
reaction from both the audience and scholars? Can Buffy fandom and Buffy
scholarship be separated?
Confirmed presenters include: Professor Rhonda Wilcox (Division
of Humanities, Gordon College, Georgia) and Professor David Lavery (English
Department, Middle Tennessee State University), co-editors of Fighting the
Forces: WhatÕs at stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Slayage: the Online
International Journal of Buffy Studies.
Dr Catherine Driscoll, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at
the University of Sydney, author of Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular
Culture and Culture Theory and a forthcoming book on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Dr Sue Turnbull, School of Communication, Arts & Critical Inquiry at La
Trobe University has published extensively in the areas of audience research,
television formats and the representation of crime, and was co-editor of
Tomorrow Never Knows: Soap on Australian Television.
Dr Vanessa Knights, Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
UK. Co-editor of Vanessa Knights and Ian Biddle (eds.), Between the Local
and the Global: Popular Musics and National Identities (forthcoming); co-editor
(with Paul Attinello) of Sounds of the Slayer: Music and Silence in Buffy
and Angel ( in process).
Dr Geraldine Bloustien, School of Communication Information and New Media,
University of South Australia, author of Girl-Making: a Cross-cultural Ethnography
of Growing up Female (in print). editor of Musical Visions: Music as Sound,
Movement and Image [1999]
David Franken, Program Director, Channel 7 Brisbane.
Call for papers:
The conference committee also invites proposals for individual papers
from established and emerging scholars, industry participants and fans.
Papers will be presented at a series of afternoon parallel sessions. Possible
themes for papers are wide-ranging but should fit into one of three broad
areas: For general information visit our conference website at:http://www.com.unisa.edu.au/buffy/index.html
Registration Fees: Full $110, One-Day $55, Students $55.
For details contact Graham Squires at Graham.Squires@newcastle.edu.au
or visit our website: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/journal/ics/index.htm
Topics to be covered include: The call for papers and application form are downloadable from our web-site:
http://www.uts.edu.au/oth/wexdev
What epistemological advantage might there be in examining the concept
of migrancy, the migration process and migrants themselves today as scholars
engage with what Clifford termed 'an unruly crowd of descriptive/interpretive
terms' employed to conceptualise the interstices of cultures, nations and
states? Anthropology has escaped the more exceptionalist practices of other
disciplines that seek to interpret the movement of peoples narrowly within
national frames, integrationist state policies, and nativist responses.
The discipline has forcefully engaged with the technological transformations
of global processes without surrendering to the euphoria of the potential
liberatory dimensions of these changes. For example, work of scholars like
Ang, Appadurai, Bottomley, Clifford, Grillo, Ong, Werbner and Yuval Davis
engage with these changes by examining the transnational subjectivities
that negotiate the regulatory practices of states, the complexities of nationalisms,
the assumptions about space and belonging, the reconstitution of familial
and social networks and the construction of identities discursively and
materially. How might a reconsideration of what migration studies is and
could be alter our understanding and evaluation of the anthropological project?
What might migration studies say about the unfolding of modernities, the
localising aspects of global capitalism and the processes of subject-making
and racialisation? This workshop seeks to examine the horizon of possibilities
that migration studies offers.
Papers:
A 200 WORD ABSTRACT SHOULD BE SENT TO THE CONFERENCE SECRETARY (Mr Suryono)
VIA EMAIL BY MONDAY 30 JUNE 2003 - suryono@flinders.edu.au
The symposium will provide an opportunity for scholars from a range of
disciplines in Social Sciences and Humanities pursuing critical race research
in the Australian, Asian and Pacific context to engage with each other's
work and explore new meanings of race and whiteness. The symposium will
host the inaugural meeting of the Australian Race and Whiteness Studies
Association. The symposium will be a forum for both theoretically based
and empirical studies on race and whiteness. Suggestions for panels are
sought. Dr Jane Haggis, Jane.Haggis@flinders.edu.au
http://www.scu.edu.au/research/clpc/human_rights/index.html
This international conference is for everyone who cares passionately about
human rights, and who wishes to activate/re-activate human rights and their
importance in the twenty-first century. We hope the conference will provide
a crucial and critical learning space for activating human rights and diversity
in relation to the fields of law, culture, politics and health. A major
focus of the conference is to invite participants to exchange ideas and
experiences about human rights, questions of diversity and their implications
across these fields. The conference is interdisciplinary as well as activist
in approach.
Contact: Dr Baden Offord, Centre for Law, Politics and Culture, rofford@scu.edu.au
With the eventual goal of creating an interdisciplinary working group
to explore sexuality and gender in the Italian "diaspora," we propose a
preliminary workshop to re-visit the concept of honor and shame, focusing
on its place in cross-cultural contacts in a mobile world. Since Peristiany's
(1966) paper, which focused on rural, small-scale societies, there has been
much debate about his argument that honor and shame are concepts that define
the Mediterranean as a distinctive cultural area. Herzfeld (1980, 1984),
in particular, has rejected this claim arguing that before cross cultural
comparisons can be effectively made, each concept must be examined separately
and in relation to each other within their local settings. Herzfeld's (1997)
related concept of cultural intimacy broadens the debate to account for
self-representations. Gilmore's 1987 collection raised the possibility that
notions of honor and shame not only exist elsewhere but that they persist
in the modern world. Scholars such as Giovannini and Cole have pointed out
that research on honor and shame has generally concerned itself with men
and masculinity and may reflect male perspectives on power and on social
relations. We hope workshop participants can build on these foundations
by raising historical and comparative questions about "honor and shame"
and "cultural intimacy" as markers of cultural difference. In particular,
we invite workshop participants to offer thoughts on how these notions figure
in the lives of migratory men and/ or women who encounter cultures that
understand gender and sexuality without recourse to, or with very different
understandings of, honor, respect, shame and sexual morality. Finally we
hope workshop discussions could focus on how to begin to sketch a gendered
analysis of honor and shame, allowing us to understand how male and female
perspectives on sexuality coincide or clash, and particularly (again) in
settings of cross-cultural encounter.
Papers: http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/acis/acis_researchbod.html
Date: 28-29th November 2003. The University of Western Australia will offer a back-to-back conference
on Asian Literature. Dates and details to be attached to the web page.
Themes for the Conference: Modernising traditions: Chinese and the Asia-Pacific CONTACT: Dr Jan Ryan
RoundAbout, is a one-day inter-disciplinary conference to be held at The
University of Sydney on Friday the 12th of September 2003.
The conference seeks to investigate the changing representations, understandings
and experiences of mobility, space and place, identity, travel writing and
journeys in twentieth century Australia, and to create a forum for researchers
from various disciplines working within related areas.
Themes for papers could include but are not limited to: The deadline for submissions is the 1st of July 2003.
Email: laina.hall@history.usyd.edu.au
Keynote speakers include: Presentations might relate to such areas as: autobiographical writing,
diary-writing, the self in cinema and television, histories of discourses
of the self, technologies of the self, the self in translation, the self
between and across cultures, post colonial/ gendered/ queer subjectivities,
constructions of national identity, self and other in theory/philosophy/
psychoanalysis
Details: email j.denooy@uq.edu.au
Co-hosted by the International Council for Traditional Music, the International
Society for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), and the Musicological Society
of Australia (MSA).
SIMS 2004 will bring together musicologists, ethnomusicologists, popular
and traditional music specialists, academics in interdisciplinary fields,
professional musicians, students, teachers and others to present their research
and interact with each other at sessions, receptions, musical events and
the like. Researchers in all disciplines are invited to submit proposals
for papers on any aspect of music as it relates to the conference themes
listed below. The Committee wishes especially to invite scholars to submit
proposals for sessions of papers on their current research topics in order
to promote discussion between groups of presenters on topics of current
importance and interest. The Committee particularly invites contributions
from younger scholars and from scholars outside Western Europe, North America
and Australasia. Papers by Indigenous Australians and papers that relate
to Indigenous Australian music and society are welcome.
Symposium Themes
Proposals (in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish) should be submitted
to the Chair of the Programs Committee, Margaret Kartomi: Margaret.Kartomi@arts.monash.edu.au
Submission deadline: 1 May, 2003
Further information can be obtained from the SIMS website: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/music/sims2004
Conference themes: All communication concerning the conference should be directed to: Email
aqr@icmsaust.com.au
Hosted by the University of South Australia in conjunction with the Australia-New
Zealand Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular
Music
Aimed at both academics and practitioners, this conference focuses on
identities, technologies and communities. 'Sonic Synergies, Creative Cultures'
will be an interdisciplinary gathering for researchers, scholars, practitioners
and students interested in the general themes of identity, music, technology,
community and the synergies = between them. Presentations on all aspects
of creative cultures are welcome.
For general information about the conference please refer to this official
conference website http://www.com.unisa.edu.au/sonic
or email Susan Luckman, susan.luckman@unisa.edu.au.
The conference invites the participation of all academic and postgraduate
researchers with an interest in research and teaching in the varying disciplines
of communication. The conference theme, Designing Communication for Diversity,
encourages delegates to consider the issues with technological and content
convergence in communication industries and to consider the need for diversity
of content, ownership, culture, vehicles and responses to ideas.
Please feel free to contact the Conference Organiser, Caroline Hatcher
(c.hatcher@qut.edu.au), if you
have any queries about the event.
Information can also be found at the ANZCA website at http://www.anzca.net/
Long before Rudyard Kipling urged his readers to 'take up the white man's
burden'â benevolence was integral to cultural domination, whether through
the formal structures of empire, or through associated charitable activities
such as the provision of medical aid, education, or missions. As the rise
of the middle classes and the emphasis on Puritan conscience increasingly
replaced the notion of aristocratic patronage and noblesse oblige, 'benevolence'
functioned as an umbrella term under which imperial and neo-imperial domination,
particularly cultural domination, were rationalised and promoted within
government and among the subjects of empire. For the British, the 'burden
of benevolence' and the work of 'civilising' were seen as differentiating
their own from other European imperial enterprises. To a certain extent,
a similar self-perception is evident now in the policies and practices of
the contemporary worldâs dominant imperial power, the United States. This
conference will consider benevolence, and representations of benevolence,
in a wide variety of forms.
Papers on the following topics will be welcomed: Abstracts should be sent electronically by 30 April 2003 to Helen
Gilbert (H.Gilbert@uq.edu.au) or
Leigh Dale (L.Dale@uq.edu.au)
Postcolonial Research Group, School of English, Media Studies and Art
History, The University of Queensland
Taylor and Francis's cultural and media studies arena site: http://www.mediastudiesarena.com/mediastudiesarena/conf.html
The Australian Humanities Review's 'The Good Oil': http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/goodo/home.html
Keynote address: Prof. Linda Nochlin, New York University The conference organisers propose a debate on the subject of "the real"
in aesthetic philosophy, criticism and practice.
"When is representation not real?" "Reclaiming the real." The organisers particularly welcome proposals on, or dealing with, the
following related subjects: Deadline for abstracts: 22 April 2003
In 2003 the University of Manchester will launch an interdisciplinary,
multi-disciplinary, and cross-faculty Centre for the Study of Sexuality
and Culture, with a particular focus on the relationships between sexuality,
culture and history. To mark the establishment of the Centre at Manchester,
and to foster a stimulating intellectual exchange between UK researchers
and scholars elsewhere, we propose an international conference on Sexuality
After Foucault.
Confirmed speakers include: Carolyn Dinshaw (New York University), David
Halperin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Don Kulick (New York University),
Cindy Patton (Simon Fraser University), Valerie Traub (University of Michigan),
and Jeffrey Weeks (South Bank University).
Email :Dr Laura Doan laura.doan@man.ac.uk
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change and School of Cultural Studies
at SHU invites submissions for its 2003 Tourism & Photography conference.
The aim of the conference is to explore the tourism-photography relationship
from different disciplinary perspectives. Why do tourists take photos of
certain things and not of others? Why do tourists take photos at all? How
do photos build places, how do they change places and shape lives? How are
photos used to define people and territories? How do locals negotiate photographic
images of themselves? Themes of interest to the conference include:
in association with New York University's Center for the Study of Gender
and Sexuality is holding an interdisciplinary QUEER MATTERS conference:
http://www.queermatters.org.
This will be a major queer studies conference focusing on queer theories,
queer histories and queer cultures in the global context. AsiaPacifiQueer
(APQ) http://apq.anu.edu.au, an Australia-based
group of academics and students researching queer peoples and cultures in
the Asia-Pacific region, would like to encourage scholars working on queer
topics and issues in the Asian region to participate in this event. In particular,
the APQ team is interested in helping organize a stream of queer-themed
panels within the QUEER MATTERS conference. APQ believes that a series of
themed panels looking at queer theory in Asian contexts will help to challenge
the ethnocentrism of some Anglo-American paradigms and raise the profile
of Asian approaches within the field of Queer theory. We also think that
a dedicated stream of Asian-themed panel presentations, as well as having
Asian papers dispersed throughout the conference program, will contribute
to building networks of Asian queer studies scholars and help alert colleagues
working on European and American queer cultures to the existence of dynamic
Asian appropriations of queer theory.
If you are interested in presenting on Asian queer theories, histories
or cultures at QUEER MATTERS and would like to participate in a panel with
other scholars working on queer Asian topics, please contact either Dr Mark
McLelland m.mclelland@uq.edu.au or Dr Peter Jackson peterj@coombs.anu.edu.au
with a title and a 250-word abstract by 25 May 2003.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Margaret Chatterjee, New Delhi, India
Call for Papers
The conference will explore the way pluralism poses challenges in the
world today. The theme is of special importance since there are other tendencies
which pull in an opposite direction - the most evident of these being globalization.
The project will seek to identify and begin to delimit the boundaries
of 'pluralism'; discussion will also centre on the following areas:
1. Political. Currently political wisdom seems to lag behind economic
forces which generate cross border institutional networks. United Nations
efforts coexist with the emergence of a super power while at the same time
national sovereignties proclaim stridently their own separate identities
and older sovereignties face the problem of fissiparous tendencies within
their own borders. Migrations introduce the extra territorial factor into
culture, giving rise to multiple allegiances. Can all these be reconciled?
2. Economic. The main issues are how major trends in dominant economies
affect the many weaker economies. Focus will be on pluralism as seen in
mixed economies and the influence of world economic forces on the two thirds
world.
3. Social. Special reference will be made to the marginalised who fall
outside the consumerist culture of the relatively prosperous. Identifying
the problems and advantages of multi-cultural societies will be a key aim.
The relationship between pluralism and social pathology will also be explored.
4. Religion. Is religion a hitherto unutilised resource for bringing about
a better world, or is it a regressive force seen at its worst in authoritative
regimes and fundamentalist mind sets? Can religion step in and unify the
fragments? Can humans live without certainties? Does pluralism mean fragmentation?
Is a peaceful religiously plural society problematic?
5. Literature. Is the basic concept of contemporary pluralism reinforced
by recent moves in literary criticism e.g., the language of fragmentation,
deconstruction. The project will explore pluralist and non-pluralist trends
in contemporary fiction. The fate of little traditions will also be examined.
6. Pluralism in medicine. How has pluralism influenced and affected developments
in medicine and medical practice? Why has there been such tremendous growth
in alternative systems of medicine and therapy?
Out of our deliberations it is anticipated that a series of seminars will
develop with an open door for other associated manifestations of the pluralist
theme in our time.
Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts
should be submitted by Friday 13th June 2003. Full draft papers should be
submitted by Friday 22nd August 2003.
Further details, information and a booking form can be found at: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/pluralism/pl03cfp.htm
June 19-22, 2003, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
ASPAC, the Association for Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, the Pacific
rim affiliate of the Association Studies, will hold its 2003 conference
at the East-West Center, Honolulu, June 19-22. The conference theme, "Asian
Studies in an Internet Connected World: Building an Asia-Pacific Community?,"
is meant to be all-inclusive. Scholars working an any and every field of
Asian studies are invited to present their research at ASPAC 2003. For complete
details, including instructions for submitting paper proposals, please visit
the ASPAC website at http://www.aspac.org.
Is leisure a state of being or a state of seeing? This conference offers
a timely response to issues raised by the burgeoning scholarship within
the realm of leisure and visual culture. Contact: e.kennedy@roehampton.ac.uk
CONTACT
CALL FOR PAPERS The Institute will convene a major international
conference for 19-22nd February 2004 on recent approaches to Modern
and Contemporary Asian Art. This will be a multi-tiered, multi-thematic
conference which systematically presents platforms for modern art history
and contemporary art critique. Paper proposals are invited in the following
sections with the convenors given:
Standard descriptive surveys of recent national practice are not encouraged.
The convenors also intend to invite specialists from some non-Asian cultures
to provide their own perspectives on possible Asian modernities and contemporary
art.
Proposals should be in English and of not more than 200 words in length,
and in addition include not more than 5 lines of personal biography with
an email address and a postal address. All proposals should be sent as an
email attachment in .rtf [rich text format] to ariv15@nus.edu.sg
with the subject heading 'Our Modernities', specifying the relevant section.
The closing date for receipt of proposals is July 15th 2003.
Detailed CALL FOR PAPERS and conference information will also be available
and updated regularly from the conference website at http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/AsianArt.htm
Clare College, Cambridge, UK - July 25-31, 2004
The International Society for the Study of Time (ISST) encourages the
interdisciplinary study of time in all its aspects. The unique character
of intellectual exchange at ISST Conferences is vested in cross-disciplinary
discussions spurred by participants from around the world and representing
many different areas of specialization.
The 2004 Conference at Cambridge University will be based within the Old
Court of Clare College.
Call For Papers
The theme of the Society's twelfth conference is Time and Memory. Memory
plays an important role in fields across the disciplinary spectrum as well
as several strands of contemporary life and culture. In the face of rapid
change in the cosmological, ecological, geopolitical, technological, cultural
and individual landscapes, the topic of memory takes on special urgency.
New understandings of memory emerge in fields ranging from neuroscience
and evolutionary biology to geology and cosmology. Technological forms of
memory raise pressing social and political issues, amid shifts in our collective
means and modes of memory. Competing accounts of history and personal identity
foreground the role of narrative in shaping human memory. The Society therefore
solicits contributions to the study of Time and Memory understood in its
widest sense. Presentation/paper proposals are called for from all fields
of scholarly investigation and all forms of creative expression. Diverse
formats are welcome: scholarly paper, cross-disciplinary panel discussion,
debate, performance/overview of creative work, installations, workshop,
poster. All work is to be presented in English. Some possible Themes in
the field of Time and Memory:
The deadline for submission is July 30th, 2002.
Session organizers should submit a 500-word abstract proposal, including
with it pertinent contact information and the area under which you think
it would best fit (e.g., Critical Race Theory, Feminist Media Studies; Critical
Pedagogy, etc.). You may propose a session with a complete list of participants,
or just send us the title and session abstract, so people can see it advertised
and contact you with their paper proposals. The initial deadline for session proposals to be accepted for consideration
is June 1, 2003. We anticipate announcing our general Call for Papers
on or about September 1, 2003, or as soon as all of the panel abstracts
have been formally considered by the organizing committee.
For more information on the 2004 Crossroads conference, please visit our
website at http://www.crossroads2004.org
If you have any further questions, contact us at info@crossroads2004.org
The Department of Art History and Communications Studies and The Culture
of Cities Project at McGill University invite proposals for an interdisciplinary
conference on Print Culture and the City. This conference will seek to stimulate
dialogue and debate on the relationship between print culture and urban
life. Papers may address a variety of forms of urban print culture: periodicals,
newspapers, advertisements, flyers, books, broadsheets, calendars, posters,
maps, etc.
Papers are expected to be no more than 20 minutes in duration. An abstract
of 300-350 words should be submitted by September 1st. Potential
presenters are asked to submit a short biography (2-3 lines) and full contact
information with their proposals.
Send abstracts to Jessica Wurster jessica.wurster@mail.mcgill.ca
An interdisciplinary symposium exploring the interplay between space,
culture, memory and identity in literary and cultural studies.Contact: vibeke.burke@britishcouncil.org
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers The overarching themes of the symposium will be:
Venue: The Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon Papers are hereby called for, from a variety of intellectual disciplines
and practices in the fields of human and social sciences, dealing with the
general theme of the Conference or contributing to the themed sessions articulated
around it ('Citizenship, knowledge and power', 'Critical pedagogy: Which
future?', 'Cultural identities, old and new', 'A geography of the possible:
Autobiography as a knowable community', 'George Orwell's centenary', 'Girl-hostile
and girl-friendly cultures', 'Imagining communities of identity: The aftermath
of 9/11', 'Society, class, community', and 'Utopia and cultural studies'),
whose abstracts are to be found on the Conference's webpage. Selections
of blind-refereed, peer-reviewed papers will be published in various forms
(journals or themed volumes).
Deadline for submission of 150-word abstracts: May 15, 2003.
The conference is being organised by faculty, students and associates
of the Culture and Society Postgraduate Programme and Mundiconvenius http://www.mundiconvenius.pt
on whose homepage the general and sessions' CFP and all relevant information
is available.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Zygmunt Bauman, Lawrence Grossberg
and Chantal Cornut-Gentille d'Arcy.
Call for Workshop Participation and Paper Proposals
From January 2nd to January 10th 2004 an international workshop and a
conference on Transnational Risks will take place in Berlin. The event is
part of a series of workshops and conferences on transnationality organized
by the Irmgard Coninx Foundation in cooperation with the Social Science
Research Center Berlin (WZB) and Humboldt University.
The topic of the first workshop will be: Transnational Risks - The Responsibility
of Social Sciences and the Media. The workshop will focus on the question:
How can global civil society respond to challenges that don't stop at borders?
How can networks of risk, disaster and crisis management be sustained, used
and expanded for the development of a transnational civil society?
About 30 younger social scientists (maximum five years after PhD), field
activists and journalists can participate in the workshop that will be led
by senior researchers. To apply for participation candidates must send in
a CV and a two to three page proposal outlining their research project or
a specific problem/topic related to the overall subject. Papers will be
discussed and worked on during the workshop. The best papers will be presented
at the subsequent international conference.
The Irmgard Coninx Foundation will cover costs of travel and accommodation.
For further information: <http://www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de
Contact: info@irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de
In spite of a widespread rhetoric of tolerance, our ever increasingly
multicultural societies are overrun by racism and bigotry. Discrimination
at work, verbal abuse, and harassment are common manifestations of such
xenophobic feelings. Physical violence has also been on the rise in most
English speaking countries, just as in the rest of the world. Although an
effort is made at an institutional level to praise diversity as a source
of cultural enrichment, otherness is deemed by many as a threat.
Killing the Other - whether actually murdering him/her or trying to obliterate
his/her presence (by ignoring him/her), or even attempting to yoke him/her
to one's own identity (imposing sameness) - is high on the agenda of many
groups and individuals.
The coming conference will endeavour to analyse the manifestations of
and reasons for such violent rejections of ethnic difference on the five
continents. Such themes as racist crimes, inner cities inter-ethnic clashes,
racism in stadiums (British soccer fans), capital punishment and ethnicity
(US), colonial violence (Africa, India), genocide (Indians and aborigines),
sectarian violence and bigotry (Ireland), antisemitism, incitement to racial
crime (through political speeches, on the internet, etc.) could in particular
be addressed.
The period chosen is the 20th century until the present day. The area
covered includes all English speaking countries. Languages of the conference
: French and English.
Date: January 23-24, 2004.
Benedicte Deschamps
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