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Deadline extended to October 15, 2009 Please distribute widely The fifth annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks submissions for “Obsolescence,” a graduate student conference to be held February 12-14, 2010, in conjunction with the Center for 21st Century Studies and its research theme for 2009-2011: “Figuring Place and Time.” This year’s theme calls upon scholars to interpret and consider variously the notion of “obsolescence.” According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, obsolescence derives from the classical Latin obsolescere: “to fall into disuse, fade away, sink into obscurity.” Obsolescence thus presents a sense of expiration or decay, it represents some act, object or idea that is out of its own time. In contemporary life we hear much of technologies and their life-spans, often in terms of the fast-capitalist invention of “planned obsolescence.” Public life is also informed by the mainstream media’s focus on the immediate present or future; we are perpetually asking or being asked: what’s hot?—who’s now?—what’s next? Given these observations, we are interested in exploring the theoretical, historico-cultural and political ramifications of identifying an act, object or idea as “obsolete.” However, we also wish to engage the concept of “obsolescence” as an active state of being, as a performative, as indicative of political value. We aim to engage in a multi-day, interdisciplinary exploration of persistent tensions within the concept of obsolescence as well as in its obverse—utility. In doing so, we expect to question the economic, political and cultural implications of temporality as tied to objects and media and to interrogate the assumption that value is inherently contingent on usability. Submissions that explore “Obsolescence” from a diverse range of fields and disciplines are encouraged. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: This year’s keynote address will be presented by Matt Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation. Please distribute widely The fifth annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks submissions for “Obsolescence,” a graduate student conference to be held February 12-14, 2010, in conjunction with the Center for 21st Century Studies and its research theme for 2009-2011: “Figuring Place and Time.” This year’s theme calls upon scholars to interpret and consider variously the notion of “obsolescence.” According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, obsolescence derives from the classical Latin obsolescere: “to fall into disuse, fade away, sink into obscurity.” Obsolescence thus presents a sense of expiration or decay, it represents some act, object or idea that is out of its own time. In contemporary life we hear much of technologies and their life-spans, often in terms of the fast-capitalist invention of “planned obsolescence.” Public life is also informed by the mainstream media’s focus on the immediate present or future; we are perpetually asking or being asked: what’s hot?—who’s now?—what’s next? Given these observations, we are interested in exploring the theoretical, historico-cultural and political ramifications of identifying an act, object or idea as “obsolete.” However, we also wish to engage the concept of “obsolescence” as an active state of being, as a performative, as indicative of political value. We aim to engage in a multi-day, interdisciplinary exploration of persistent tensions within the concept of obsolescence as well as in its obverse—utility. In doing so, we expect to question the economic, political and cultural implications of temporality as tied to objects and media and to interrogate the assumption that value is inherently contingent on usability. Submissions that explore “Obsolescence” from a diverse range of fields and disciplines are encouraged. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: This year’s keynote address will be presented by Matt Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation. For more information, visit our website at: http://pw.english.uwm.edu/~migc Call For Papers We invite graduate students and advanced undergrads in all academic Queer scholars have long recognized that there is no single gay community, but rather multiple overlapping communities comprised of people with multiple identities. We want to move beyond that, to interrogate how we can use our theoretical knowledge to understand our communities and lived Possible questions may include: In a shifting political landscape that Proposed panels include, but are not limited to: bridging academe and We invite paper abstracts of 500 words or less. In addition to submitting abstracts of individual research, we also invite students to submit proposals for panels. Interested parties should submit a title for the panel, description of the panel, abstracts of 4-5 papers to be presented, and contact information for a panel moderator/respondent and all paper presenters. Please send an abstract, along with your contact information (name, Please circulate this announcement to all those who may be interested. CALL FOR PAPERS: “Liminal Literature: Borders and Genre” University of Wisconsin-Madison The fifth annual University of Wisconsin-Madison Literature Conference (MadLit) invites paper and panel proposals for this year’s topic, “Liminal Literature: Borders and Genre.” The goal of this conference is to interrogate and critique the role of borders in literary and cultural studies. We invite papers that consider the idea of the border from formal, social, temporal, and/or geographic perspectives. Borders inform the way we think about genre, periodization, gender, race, nationality, geographies, disciplines, and social forms, but how do we account for things that cross, defy, or problematize borders—the liminal, the hybrid, the transgressive? How do troubling texts break down, reinforce, or reform borders? Keynote Speaker: David Wittenberg This year’s keynote speaker will be David Wittenberg, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Philosophy, Revision, Critique: Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson (Stanford University Press, 2001). His research and teaching interests include 19th and 20th century literary theory and philosophy, American literature, architectural design and theory, and cultural studies. He is simultaneously working on two new book projects. The first is about the history and theory of time travel narratives, tentatively entitled Time Travel: The Philosophy of Popular Culture; it analyzes works from modernist and postmodernist literature, popular fiction and film, physics, historiography, and psychology. The second book project, cautiously entitled Big Culture, is a critique of very large objects and images in contemporary culture and space, as well as a theory of the aesthetics of quantity; it explores such sizeable phenomena as skyscrapers, Hollywood films, philosophical systems, disasters, pop stars, military machines, and Las Vegas hotels. We seek proposals for 15-20 min. presentations and three-person panels on any aspect of the way borders affect genre, periodization, geographies, disciplines, gender, and material culture: ➢ What texts (or even authors) have been marginalized, overlooked, or (mis)interpreted because they exist at a threshold—generic, temporal, geographic, etc.? What texts have benefited from this status? Please submit a 250-word abstract to Eric Vivier by January 23, 2009. We will announce accepted papers by January 31. “Bodies in Motion” The University of Rhode Island’s Third Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Across academic disciplines, “bodies” — animal, epistemological, textual, or otherwise — defy singular definition and elude our efforts to pin them down. As they parallel, intersect, and inform one another, these “bodies” demand rigorous research, creative thinking, and ever-evolving methodologies. How do we account for these “bodies in motion” and the complex ecologies of knowledge that they form? From what critical perspectives — scientific, mathematic, literary, historical, political, rhetorical, ethical, philosophical — can we examine these “bodies” in order to learn from them and from others? The graduate community at the University of Rhode Island invites submissions for posters, papers, presentations, performances and panels from a variety of disciplines exploring “bodies in motion.” Dr. Stuart L. Pimm is Duke University’s Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology and the 2006 winner of the Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences. Dr. Pimm’s work focuses on maintaining global biological diversity. His commitment to environmental and species preservation has brought him to Washington D.C., where he testified before both the House’s and Senate’s Committee on the Reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act. He is a founder of SavingSpecies.org, an NGO working toward species preservation and carbon neutrality, and a member of National Geographic’s grant-awarding Committee for Research and Exploration. Bridging the divides between science, sociology, and anthropology, Dr. Pimm’s methods involve working directly with indigenous populations to help flora and fauna survive while maintaining local traditions. His books include World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth, The Balance of Nature?: Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities, and Food Webs. Possible topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to: • Theorizing the body or bodies Submission Guidelines: To propose a paper, submit a cover page with your name; institutional affiliation; contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email); a 250-word abstract of the paper; a roughly 100-word bio; and a detailed request for audiovisual equipment (if needed). Presentations will be limited to fifteen minutes (about seven double-spaced pages). To propose a panel, submit a cover page including the title of the panel and the names of presenters; a panel abstract of 150-250 words; a separate page with the names of presenters, their contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and institutional affiliation(s), the titles of their presentations; and a 250-word abstract for each paper. Panels will be one hour and fifteen minutes long. The conference committee requests the submission of materials in the body of an email or as an attachment in a Word, text, or PDF document. All submissions should be emailed to Gradcon at URI. Please refer any questions you may have to this address as well. Notification of acceptance will be by Friday, February 7, 2009. Oprah Picks Another WinnerPosted by Paul Constant on Sun, Dec 28 at 10:08 AMYou were very nearly subject to a mass-media assault (glowing news stories, Oprah-approved bliss, an inevitable movie adaptation) regarding a new memoir, out in February, called An Angel at the Fence. It was a memoir by a man who says he met the love of his life during the Holocaust. Oprah loved the fuck out of this book and was going to no doubt push it to the top of the bestseller lists..
from democracynow.org Posing as a Bidder, Utah Student Disrupts Government Auction of 150,000 Acres of Wilderness for Oil & Gas Drilling
*CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Submission Deadline:December 7, 2008 Northwestern University’s Department of Performance Studies invites Radical Intersections aims to interrogate junctures at which dissimilar ways Possible topics include, but are not limited to: We welcome competitive proposals for individual papers as well as panels not McGill-Queen’s Graduate Student Conference in History The Departments of History at Queen’s University and McGill University invite proposals for the sixth annual McGill-Queen’s Student Conference in History. The intention of the conference is to bring together Masters and Doctoral students working in a wide variety of fields in order to foster discussion in an interdisciplinary and bilingual environment. We encourage submissions from students working in all historical periods and geographical areas. The theme of the conference is ‘Forward Through the Rearview Mirror? Re-assessing History as a Medium.’ Our keynote speaker will be Dr. A.B. McKillop, Chancellor’s Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Carleton University. He is the author of several books on cultural and intellectual history, including A Disciplined Intelligence: Critical Inquiry and Canadian Thought in the Victorian Era, The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells, and the Mystery of the Purloined Past, and Pierre Berton: A Biography. His talk, entitled ‘Engaging History: Historians, Storytelling, and Self,’ deals with the oldest form of history as medium—storytelling and historians’ relationship to it. Proposals must not exceed 500 words, be accompanied by a short biographical statement, and include a phone number through which potential presenters may be contacted by the conference committee. Proposals may be submitted in either French or English. The deadline for submissions is December 7th, 2008. Those submitting proposals are encouraged to suggest possible themes for conference panels, and indicate whether they are interested in chairing panels. Please send proposals via email (*.rtf; *.doc; or *.wpd) to Us . Or via post to: McGill-Queen’s Graduate Student Conference in History As we are interested in exploring the nature, variety, complexity, and relevance of contemporary historical practice, we encourage a broad interpretation of the conference theme from a variety of fields and backgrounds. Possibilities include (but are by no means limited to): Gender and Sexuality Call for Papers Theme: “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Reflections Sponsored by the Classical and Modern Languages Graduate Forum Conference Date: When contemplating ourselves in a mirror we are confronted with our physical appearance. Although the mirror doesn’t lie, it doesn’t show us the entire picture either. Often how we feel about our appearance is predicated on how we perceive ourselves, and how others perceive us. Metaphorically, mirrors are not just objects of vanity but help us gain perspective, which we otherwise are not in a position to see. A mirror can only reflect an image, our face, our hands, our smile: but how do we perceive our internal countenance, our values, our fears, our memories? What tools do we use to perceive less concrete things such as culture, history and gender? How does language reflect our individually and collectively perceived reality? How do our experiences color our vision? * defining and perceiving gender, historical, national/ethnic, linguistic identity *ideal vs. real identity *the individual as a reflection of a larger community *the psychological self *perceptions of beauty and cultural aesthetics *translation *historical perceptions and modern realities *mirror/illusion imagery in literature *the arts of reflecting/portraying the individual in film and the visual arts *reflections of space and “other” realities *reflections of genre Submission Criteria For further information and submissions, contact Sasha Pákh-Kelly here , or submit abstracts to http://www.linglist.org/confcustom/gsc7_wsu |
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