Registration
Heide Jäger - 1. Feb, 17:23
Wednesday, 1. February 2006
Sunday, 29. January 2006
Leeds
Leeds
Last november I went to a conference in Germany and I made some useful contacts there, also with one professor from Leeds University
So I contacted him again and he invited me to come over to Leeds to meet him there. Prof.Paul Waley is famous in his field and he wrote very good books about Tokyo and the Japanese urban space. I was curious to see how he would react to see me again and what he would think about my research. But finally we spend some nice 2 hours talking, having lunch and exchanging some good information about our common subject :)
I was happy about this experience and the possibility to meet him, and on my way back I walked through Leeds, thinking it seems to be a nice city and so I had a really nice day out of Manchester ...soon again, I will come, that is for sure ...
Last november I went to a conference in Germany and I made some useful contacts there, also with one professor from Leeds University
So I contacted him again and he invited me to come over to Leeds to meet him there. Prof.Paul Waley is famous in his field and he wrote very good books about Tokyo and the Japanese urban space. I was curious to see how he would react to see me again and what he would think about my research. But finally we spend some nice 2 hours talking, having lunch and exchanging some good information about our common subject :)
I was happy about this experience and the possibility to meet him, and on my way back I walked through Leeds, thinking it seems to be a nice city and so I had a really nice day out of Manchester ...soon again, I will come, that is for sure ...
Heide Jäger - 29. Jan, 21:21
Preparation of Lectures:
1) Japan Centre Manchester, 1st March 2006
2) Oxford Brookes University, 3rd of April 2006
3) HTWK Leipzig, May 2006
2) Oxford Brookes University, 3rd of April 2006
3) HTWK Leipzig, May 2006
Heide Jäger - 29. Jan, 21:18
Thursday, 26. January 2006
AHRA ARCHITECTURAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION Annual Research Student Symposium
AHRA Annual Research Student Symposium
Thu, Apr 6, 2006 to
Fri, Apr 7, 2006
Location(s): University of Edinburgh
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Proposals due in by Friday 6 January 2006
The Architectural Humanities Research Association invites proposals from graduate students for contributions to its 3rd Annual Student Research Symposium, which will be held from 6th - 7th April 2006, at the School of Arts, Culture and Environment, University of Edinburgh.
Proposals concerning research in any area of the architectural humanities will be eligible for consideration (architectural history, theory, culture, design, urbanism, etc.)
In addition, this year we will particularly welcome contributions that deal with aspects of architectural pedagogy (including the teaching of - and the inter-relationships between - design, history and theory; approaches to research training and supervision; historical and contemporary pedagogic environments and practices; the relationship between the academy and the profession; architecture within the disciplinary configuration of the university; alternative pedagogies; etc). Our intention is that these will be organised as a separate strand within the main symposium.
Papers will be 20 minutes long.
The symposium will also include a number of round-table sessions, allowing research students to give short, 10 minute, presentations related to interpretative, methodological or other issues arising from work with which they are currently engaged. It is anticipated that each of these sessions will consist of 3-4 presentations followed by an extensive discussion.
Proposals for papers should be 500 words maximum: those for presentations in round-table sessions 250 words maximum. Proposals should be sent by email by Friday 6 January 2006 to AHRA06@ed.ac.uk (please label the subject field: AHRA06). Indicate clearly in the main text of the email whether the submission concerns a paper or a round-table presentation. Responses to prospective contributors will be sent by 31 January 2006.
Submissions will be reviewed by the organising committee and selected for inclusion in the symposium on that basis. The organising committee is comprised of Dr Ella Chmielewska (Cultural Studies, University of Edinburgh), Dr Mark Dorrian (AHRA and University of Edinburgh), Richard Patterson (AHRA and University of Brighton), Professor Jeremy Till (AHRA and University of Sheffield), Dr Igea Troiani (Oxford Brookes University), and a panel of graduate students from the University of Edinburgh.
Selected material from the conference will be published in a special issue of Edinburgh Architectural Research. We anticipate making all material presented at the conference available as a digital archive.
There will be no charge to attend the symposium. Accommodation in Edinburgh can be booked via www.murray-accommodation.co.uk Email: mqa@murray-accommodation.co.uk
AHRA promotes, supports, develops and disseminates research in all areas of architectural humanities. Further information can be found at:www.ahra-architecture.org.uk Contact: jonathan.hale@nottingham.ac.uk
Thu, Apr 6, 2006 to
Fri, Apr 7, 2006
Location(s): University of Edinburgh
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Proposals due in by Friday 6 January 2006
The Architectural Humanities Research Association invites proposals from graduate students for contributions to its 3rd Annual Student Research Symposium, which will be held from 6th - 7th April 2006, at the School of Arts, Culture and Environment, University of Edinburgh.
Proposals concerning research in any area of the architectural humanities will be eligible for consideration (architectural history, theory, culture, design, urbanism, etc.)
In addition, this year we will particularly welcome contributions that deal with aspects of architectural pedagogy (including the teaching of - and the inter-relationships between - design, history and theory; approaches to research training and supervision; historical and contemporary pedagogic environments and practices; the relationship between the academy and the profession; architecture within the disciplinary configuration of the university; alternative pedagogies; etc). Our intention is that these will be organised as a separate strand within the main symposium.
Papers will be 20 minutes long.
The symposium will also include a number of round-table sessions, allowing research students to give short, 10 minute, presentations related to interpretative, methodological or other issues arising from work with which they are currently engaged. It is anticipated that each of these sessions will consist of 3-4 presentations followed by an extensive discussion.
Proposals for papers should be 500 words maximum: those for presentations in round-table sessions 250 words maximum. Proposals should be sent by email by Friday 6 January 2006 to AHRA06@ed.ac.uk (please label the subject field: AHRA06). Indicate clearly in the main text of the email whether the submission concerns a paper or a round-table presentation. Responses to prospective contributors will be sent by 31 January 2006.
Submissions will be reviewed by the organising committee and selected for inclusion in the symposium on that basis. The organising committee is comprised of Dr Ella Chmielewska (Cultural Studies, University of Edinburgh), Dr Mark Dorrian (AHRA and University of Edinburgh), Richard Patterson (AHRA and University of Brighton), Professor Jeremy Till (AHRA and University of Sheffield), Dr Igea Troiani (Oxford Brookes University), and a panel of graduate students from the University of Edinburgh.
Selected material from the conference will be published in a special issue of Edinburgh Architectural Research. We anticipate making all material presented at the conference available as a digital archive.
There will be no charge to attend the symposium. Accommodation in Edinburgh can be booked via www.murray-accommodation.co.uk Email: mqa@murray-accommodation.co.uk
AHRA promotes, supports, develops and disseminates research in all areas of architectural humanities. Further information can be found at:www.ahra-architecture.org.uk Contact: jonathan.hale@nottingham.ac.uk
Heide Jäger - 26. Jan, 09:19
"Rethinking Space and Place in Asia" Dissertation Workshop
"Rethinking Space and Place in Asia" Dissertation Workshop, April 9-12, 2006 San Francisco (Association for Asian Studies)
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Dissertation Workshop looks to convene graduate students working on doctoral dissertations that deal with the nature and implcations of transformations and reconceptualizations of space and place in Asia. We are seeking students concerned with historical and/or contemporary periods, and dealing with social, political and economic materials, and/or the arts and popular culture. Our hope is that comparisons across periods, regions, and types of material will both illuminate the strengths and uniqueness of particular projects and approaches, and also help construct broader understandings of these processes and their implications.
The workshop will be limited to 12 students, ideally from a broad array of disciplines and working on a wide variety of materials in a variety of time periods, and in various regions of Asia. It also will include a small multidisciplinary and multi-area faculty with similar concerns. The workshop is designed to enable students just beginning to work on these issues, or else well into them, to encourage greater cross-regional exchange and will also explore possibilities for continuing contact among interested students and faculty.
The workshop will be held in the days immediately following the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in San Francisco. It will beging the evening of Sunday, April 9, and run through the afternoon of Wednesay, April 12, 2006.
The AAS is able to provide limited financial support for participants including three night's accommodations, meals and "need-based" travel funds up to a maximum of $300. Students needing additional funds to attend the workshop are encouraged to approach their home institutions for support. (It is hoped that participants also will attend the AAS annual meeting immediately prior to the workshop.)
Applicants need not have advanced to candidacy but must have at least drafted a dissertation research proposal. Applications are also welcome from doctoral students in the early phases of writing their dissertations. Applications consist of two items only:
1) Two copies of a current Curriculum Vitae, and
2) Two copies of the dissertation proposal, or if the research and writing is well under way, a statement of the specific issues being addressed, the intellectual appriach, and the materials being studied. Neither the proposal nor statement should exceed 10 double-spaced pages in length. Application materials (hard copy only, no email) must reach the Dissertation Workshop Program, AAS, 1021 East Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104, NO LATER THAN December 1, 2005
Workshop participants will be selected on the basis of the submitted projects, the potential for useful exchanges among them, and a concern to include a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, intellectual traditions and regions of Asia. Applicants will be informed whether or not they have been selected for the workshop by mid-December.
For further information about the workshop, or eligibility, please contact Michael Paschal (mpaschal@aasianst.org) or David Szanton (szanton@uclink.berkeley.edu).
Sponsor Association for Asian Studies
Date January 9, 2006
Location San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
United States
For more information on this event contact:
Michael Paschal
(734) 665-2490
mpaschal@aasianst.org
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Dissertation Workshop looks to convene graduate students working on doctoral dissertations that deal with the nature and implcations of transformations and reconceptualizations of space and place in Asia. We are seeking students concerned with historical and/or contemporary periods, and dealing with social, political and economic materials, and/or the arts and popular culture. Our hope is that comparisons across periods, regions, and types of material will both illuminate the strengths and uniqueness of particular projects and approaches, and also help construct broader understandings of these processes and their implications.
The workshop will be limited to 12 students, ideally from a broad array of disciplines and working on a wide variety of materials in a variety of time periods, and in various regions of Asia. It also will include a small multidisciplinary and multi-area faculty with similar concerns. The workshop is designed to enable students just beginning to work on these issues, or else well into them, to encourage greater cross-regional exchange and will also explore possibilities for continuing contact among interested students and faculty.
The workshop will be held in the days immediately following the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in San Francisco. It will beging the evening of Sunday, April 9, and run through the afternoon of Wednesay, April 12, 2006.
The AAS is able to provide limited financial support for participants including three night's accommodations, meals and "need-based" travel funds up to a maximum of $300. Students needing additional funds to attend the workshop are encouraged to approach their home institutions for support. (It is hoped that participants also will attend the AAS annual meeting immediately prior to the workshop.)
Applicants need not have advanced to candidacy but must have at least drafted a dissertation research proposal. Applications are also welcome from doctoral students in the early phases of writing their dissertations. Applications consist of two items only:
1) Two copies of a current Curriculum Vitae, and
2) Two copies of the dissertation proposal, or if the research and writing is well under way, a statement of the specific issues being addressed, the intellectual appriach, and the materials being studied. Neither the proposal nor statement should exceed 10 double-spaced pages in length. Application materials (hard copy only, no email) must reach the Dissertation Workshop Program, AAS, 1021 East Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104, NO LATER THAN December 1, 2005
Workshop participants will be selected on the basis of the submitted projects, the potential for useful exchanges among them, and a concern to include a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, intellectual traditions and regions of Asia. Applicants will be informed whether or not they have been selected for the workshop by mid-December.
For further information about the workshop, or eligibility, please contact Michael Paschal (mpaschal@aasianst.org) or David Szanton (szanton@uclink.berkeley.edu).
Sponsor Association for Asian Studies
Date January 9, 2006
Location San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
United States
For more information on this event contact:
Michael Paschal
(734) 665-2490
mpaschal@aasianst.org
Heide Jäger - 26. Jan, 09:15
IAPS 19 IN ALEXANDRIA OF EGYPT
11-16 September, 2006. ENVIRONMENT,HEALTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
IAPS 19 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina
YOUNG RESEARCHERS' WORKSHOP - 11 & 12 OF SEPTEMBER 2006
As usual, a Young Researchers' Workshop will be held prior to the conference in Alexandria, on September 11 all day and in the morning of September 12, 2006. Senior participants of the conference should encourage their PhD student(s) to participate and submit a proposal, if they have not already done so.
This workshop is intended to give doctoral students of all disciplines the opportunity to discuss their dissertation proposal or their on-going work with leading researchers and professors in research areas related to their thesis, and to build an international network with other doctoral students involved in environmental studies. Research work from Masters' students will be considered only if near completion.
Each session is tutored by two mentors. Students have a total of 45 minutes to present and discuss with the two mentors and other PhD candidates.
The Workshop language is English.
The workshop is free for students who register for the entire conference. Two lunches and coffee breaks will be provided free of charge.
This year, the best paper presented for the workshop will win a 5 years free IAPS membership; the best one will have the possibility to be published in the post-conference book as a short communication paper.
Students interested in participating can submit a one 800 words summary of their 'in-progress' work at www.iaps19-bibalex.com/yrw-abstractSubmission.htm with "Young Researchers' Workshop" as the type of submission. The deadline for the young researchers workshops has been extended to January 31, 2006.
Abstracts should include the following items:
Student identification
Name
Department and university
Email address
Ph.D. program
Supervisor
Thesis information
Explicit title for presentation
Research problem
Cultural/urban/architectural context in which study is conducted
Theoretical framework/relevant literature
Research questions, objectives and/or hypotheses
Research strategy/methodology developed for tackling research
State of development of thesis: research proposal (theoretical framework, literature review, hypothesis), data collection
Conclusion (if available)
Avenues for research findings applications (if relevant)
THEMES
The United Nations has set eight developmental goals for the new millennium, four of which address health related and environ mental targets.
This conference aims at research in the realm of People, Environment, Health and Subtainable Development
Themes and sub –themes cover the following:
1. Environment & Sustainable Development
Sustainable Planning and Design: Initiatives and Actual Practices.
Productivity and the Indoor Environmental Quality.
Pollution Management.
Urban Sprawl, Smart Growth, and Digital Cities.
Sustainable Urban Conservation and Small City Revitalization
2. Health & Sustainable Development
Land Use and Urban Planning for Health Promotion.
Health and Well-being in Residential Environments (formal/informal).
Agriculture, Nutrition and Health.
World Health Organization Healthy Cities Project.
Impact of Human Behavior on the Environment & Health.
3. Socio-Cultural Issues & Sustainable Development
Architectural Education for Sustainable Development.
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health and Well-being.
Women's Health and Gender Issues.
Requirements of Groups with Specific Needs..
Desert Communities, Tradition, and Eco-tourism.
Gated Communities: Impact and Challenges.
http://www.iaps19-bibalex.com/index.htm
IAPS 19 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina
YOUNG RESEARCHERS' WORKSHOP - 11 & 12 OF SEPTEMBER 2006
As usual, a Young Researchers' Workshop will be held prior to the conference in Alexandria, on September 11 all day and in the morning of September 12, 2006. Senior participants of the conference should encourage their PhD student(s) to participate and submit a proposal, if they have not already done so.
This workshop is intended to give doctoral students of all disciplines the opportunity to discuss their dissertation proposal or their on-going work with leading researchers and professors in research areas related to their thesis, and to build an international network with other doctoral students involved in environmental studies. Research work from Masters' students will be considered only if near completion.
Each session is tutored by two mentors. Students have a total of 45 minutes to present and discuss with the two mentors and other PhD candidates.
The Workshop language is English.
The workshop is free for students who register for the entire conference. Two lunches and coffee breaks will be provided free of charge.
This year, the best paper presented for the workshop will win a 5 years free IAPS membership; the best one will have the possibility to be published in the post-conference book as a short communication paper.
Students interested in participating can submit a one 800 words summary of their 'in-progress' work at www.iaps19-bibalex.com/yrw-abstractSubmission.htm with "Young Researchers' Workshop" as the type of submission. The deadline for the young researchers workshops has been extended to January 31, 2006.
Abstracts should include the following items:
Student identification
Name
Department and university
Email address
Ph.D. program
Supervisor
Thesis information
Explicit title for presentation
Research problem
Cultural/urban/architectural context in which study is conducted
Theoretical framework/relevant literature
Research questions, objectives and/or hypotheses
Research strategy/methodology developed for tackling research
State of development of thesis: research proposal (theoretical framework, literature review, hypothesis), data collection
Conclusion (if available)
Avenues for research findings applications (if relevant)
THEMES
The United Nations has set eight developmental goals for the new millennium, four of which address health related and environ mental targets.
This conference aims at research in the realm of People, Environment, Health and Subtainable Development
Themes and sub –themes cover the following:
1. Environment & Sustainable Development
Sustainable Planning and Design: Initiatives and Actual Practices.
Productivity and the Indoor Environmental Quality.
Pollution Management.
Urban Sprawl, Smart Growth, and Digital Cities.
Sustainable Urban Conservation and Small City Revitalization
2. Health & Sustainable Development
Land Use and Urban Planning for Health Promotion.
Health and Well-being in Residential Environments (formal/informal).
Agriculture, Nutrition and Health.
World Health Organization Healthy Cities Project.
Impact of Human Behavior on the Environment & Health.
3. Socio-Cultural Issues & Sustainable Development
Architectural Education for Sustainable Development.
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health and Well-being.
Women's Health and Gender Issues.
Requirements of Groups with Specific Needs..
Desert Communities, Tradition, and Eco-tourism.
Gated Communities: Impact and Challenges.
http://www.iaps19-bibalex.com/index.htm
Heide Jäger - 26. Jan, 09:13
Crossroads 2006 Association for Cultural Studies Conference at İstanbul Bilgi University
20-23 July 2006
Conference Announcement and First Call for Papers for
Crossroads 2006 in Istanbul
We are pleased to announce that the Sixth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, the official meeting of
The Association for Cultural Studies, will be held in Istanbul, sponsored by Istanbul Bilgi University, 20-23 July 2006.
For millennia Istanbul has been a natural crossroads at which radically different types of cultural experience have found a space to coexist and interact. Correspondingly, rather than having a specific theme, Crossroads 2006 will aspire to construct
an intellectual space for the international cultural studies community to meet, to give voice to different cultural orientations and researches, and to motivate each other for further reflection.
We encourage scholars from all countries and disciplines to contribute to the shaping of the conference program with individual session proposals extending over a wide range of topics and addressing not only issues that concern the practice
of cultural studies, but also the current conditions, local, regional and global, of both aggression and domination, and cooperation and resistance. We also encourage individual paper submissions on any topic within the broad purview of cultural
studies.
Detailed information concerning participation, conference structure, travel and accommodations will be available from August 1, 2005 on the official website of the conference: www.crossroads2006.org and on the website of The Association for Cultural Studies: www.cultstud.org. We will also be announcing a broad representative line-up of keynote speakers and invite suggestions.
http://www.crossroads2006.org/
Conference Announcement and First Call for Papers for
Crossroads 2006 in Istanbul
We are pleased to announce that the Sixth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, the official meeting of
The Association for Cultural Studies, will be held in Istanbul, sponsored by Istanbul Bilgi University, 20-23 July 2006.
For millennia Istanbul has been a natural crossroads at which radically different types of cultural experience have found a space to coexist and interact. Correspondingly, rather than having a specific theme, Crossroads 2006 will aspire to construct
an intellectual space for the international cultural studies community to meet, to give voice to different cultural orientations and researches, and to motivate each other for further reflection.
We encourage scholars from all countries and disciplines to contribute to the shaping of the conference program with individual session proposals extending over a wide range of topics and addressing not only issues that concern the practice
of cultural studies, but also the current conditions, local, regional and global, of both aggression and domination, and cooperation and resistance. We also encourage individual paper submissions on any topic within the broad purview of cultural
studies.
Detailed information concerning participation, conference structure, travel and accommodations will be available from August 1, 2005 on the official website of the conference: www.crossroads2006.org and on the website of The Association for Cultural Studies: www.cultstud.org. We will also be announcing a broad representative line-up of keynote speakers and invite suggestions.
http://www.crossroads2006.org/
Heide Jäger - 26. Jan, 09:00
Meetings: January
1.Prof. Paul Waley
2. Prof. Simon Guy
3. Supervisors: Prof. David Dernie, Prof. Greg Keeffe, Prof. Jim Aulich
2. Prof. Simon Guy
3. Supervisors: Prof. David Dernie, Prof. Greg Keeffe, Prof. Jim Aulich
Heide Jäger - 26. Jan, 08:56
Saturday, 7. January 2006
Tuesday, 13. December 2005
Walking in Manchester
The last weeks I thought often it would be so nice to take a longer walk through Manchester to see how things develop and especially visit the lively and dynamic Norther Quarter of the city where a lot of ateliers, handicrafts and small shops are located ..for example you can visit the Chinese craft center with contemporary exhibitions of Chinese artists and local people (picture 3)... the city council also stimulate different projects of architects and artists which should improve the public space and have names like 'urban jungle' and so on ...
My walk took me along the city center to the edges of Picadilly and the down back on the Western side of the city where you can find now the German Christmas market, a lot of decoration and busy people buying tones of presents ...all in all this gave me a new perspective on the city where I live now and I would like to similar walks from time to time... as walking engages you with your own city and let you feel close to the local and grass root culture of every street life.
My walk took me along the city center to the edges of Picadilly and the down back on the Western side of the city where you can find now the German Christmas market, a lot of decoration and busy people buying tones of presents ...all in all this gave me a new perspective on the city where I live now and I would like to similar walks from time to time... as walking engages you with your own city and let you feel close to the local and grass root culture of every street life.
Heide Jäger - 13. Dec, 21:49
Sunday, 11. December 2005
Local, Global, and Glocal: Shifting Borders and Hybrid Identities
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY:
University of Arizona
April 6-9, 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS:
The 2006 New Directions in Critical Theory Conference, an interdisciplinary
graduate student forum at the University of Arizona, will focus on tensions
between local identities within global contexts. This conference will address
the crisis of how ?local? identities must act in ?global? frameworks,
and the ways that global frameworks in turn reflect and shape conceptions of
local identities. Concepts of local identity such as ?nation,?
?culture,? and ?language? are complicated by geo-political issues such
as globalism and global capitalism. Individuals do not adhere to discrete
categories of one culture, one nation, or one ideological framework. While
subjects may still be defined by a local or global identity, they are also now
subject to one that is ?glocal?--a hybrid identity that speaks to a complex
interconnectedness of both global and local identities. This is a particular
concern in border states and towns that must negotiate the immediate local
needs of a diverse community of Caucasian Americans, Native Americans, Mexican
Americans, and Mexicans, as well as the formation of a national identity that
works to define and thereby exclude for economical and political reasons.
Glocal identity does not go unchallenged; groups fight for local identities and
effectively tribalize knowledge and access to knowledge while the pressure to
act within larger contexts constantly weighs on people. This tension can be
found not only in the aforementioned identity and world politics, but also in
the academy itself, where academic tribalism comes into conflict with more
global interactions within the university (crossing disciplinary boundaries in
favor
of interdisciplinarity). This leaves us to question how identity, discipline,
and politics can be defined as both local and global, and how these relate to a
hybrid glocal approach.
An address by Lauren Berlant: Lauren Berlant, Professor of English at The
University of Chicago will open this event. Professor Berlant, is a
distinguished scholar who explores questions of nationhood, citizenship and
gender. Her work complicates these issues by relating concepts of citizenship
to class mobility, national and ethnic patriotism, constructions of family,
consumerism, gender, and sexuality. In her scholarship and publications
Professor Berlant exposes the multiple intersections between these facets of
citizenship that shape how American culture perceives and constructs boundaries
and borders, both physical and symbolic. Her recent publications include, Author
of the National Fantasy, The Queen of American Goes to Washington City: Essays
on Sex and Citizenship, and The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of
Sentimentality in American Culture.
We invite graduate students from any discipline to present
theoretically-oriented scholarship that investigates the social formation and
maintenance of local/tribal identities, global contexts, and the possibility of
hybrid glocal identities, and in doing so, question the tensions between these
forms of interaction and possible rewards attained from not merely crossing the
border, but from redefining and reconceptualizing definitions of citizenship
and nationhood. We would also welcome interdisciplinary work that crosses
disciplinary borders to create new knowledge within a glocal university context
(such as papers, film, artwork, installation projects, and so on).
Possible Topics:
Global/Local Politics
Postcolonialism
Language and discrimination
Language and racism
Language policy and planning
Tourism/Travel Writing/Advertising
Architecture/Geography
History/Autobiography
Memory and Identity
National/Cultural/Racial/Sexual/Gendered/Class Identity
Hybridity and Identity
Hybridity and Embodiment
Borders of the Human
Peripheral Zones/Contact Zones
The Rhetoric of Borders, Territories, Frontiers
Barriers/Communities/Home
Space/Mobility/Displacement
Immigration/Alienation
Othering
Borders and Criminality
Borders in Film and Literature
Science and Technology Studies
Virtual Borders
Borders and Boundaries in Cyberspace
Popular Culture/High Culture
Consumerism, Media and Identity
Sex and Economy
Violence and Desire
Heterinormativity/Homosexuality/Transsexuality
Feminist Theory and Queer Theory
Critical Race Theory
Spirituality and Subjectivity
Texts, Bodies and Spectacle
Bodies of/and Knowledge
Diversity, Similarity and the Academy
Translation/Appropriation/Adaptation
Teaching and Service Learning
The Academy and Activism
Please submit 100-250 word individual abstracts or panel proposals, comprised of
a 100-250 word abstract for the entire panel and one 100-250 abstract for each
paper. Include names, email address, mailing addresses, institutional
affiliations, technology requests, paper titles, and abstracts by February 1st
2006 to:
Meg Smith Hallak (Department of English) or Erica Reynolds Clayton (Department
of English)
Modern Languages Building, Room 445
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
(520) 621-1836
ndconf_at_email.arizona.edu
If you should have any questions or concerns, please contact Meg Smith Hallak at
ndconf_at_email.arizona.edu.
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New Directions in Critical Theory
University of Arizona
ndconf_at_email.arizona.edu
University of Arizona
April 6-9, 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS:
The 2006 New Directions in Critical Theory Conference, an interdisciplinary
graduate student forum at the University of Arizona, will focus on tensions
between local identities within global contexts. This conference will address
the crisis of how ?local? identities must act in ?global? frameworks,
and the ways that global frameworks in turn reflect and shape conceptions of
local identities. Concepts of local identity such as ?nation,?
?culture,? and ?language? are complicated by geo-political issues such
as globalism and global capitalism. Individuals do not adhere to discrete
categories of one culture, one nation, or one ideological framework. While
subjects may still be defined by a local or global identity, they are also now
subject to one that is ?glocal?--a hybrid identity that speaks to a complex
interconnectedness of both global and local identities. This is a particular
concern in border states and towns that must negotiate the immediate local
needs of a diverse community of Caucasian Americans, Native Americans, Mexican
Americans, and Mexicans, as well as the formation of a national identity that
works to define and thereby exclude for economical and political reasons.
Glocal identity does not go unchallenged; groups fight for local identities and
effectively tribalize knowledge and access to knowledge while the pressure to
act within larger contexts constantly weighs on people. This tension can be
found not only in the aforementioned identity and world politics, but also in
the academy itself, where academic tribalism comes into conflict with more
global interactions within the university (crossing disciplinary boundaries in
favor
of interdisciplinarity). This leaves us to question how identity, discipline,
and politics can be defined as both local and global, and how these relate to a
hybrid glocal approach.
An address by Lauren Berlant: Lauren Berlant, Professor of English at The
University of Chicago will open this event. Professor Berlant, is a
distinguished scholar who explores questions of nationhood, citizenship and
gender. Her work complicates these issues by relating concepts of citizenship
to class mobility, national and ethnic patriotism, constructions of family,
consumerism, gender, and sexuality. In her scholarship and publications
Professor Berlant exposes the multiple intersections between these facets of
citizenship that shape how American culture perceives and constructs boundaries
and borders, both physical and symbolic. Her recent publications include, Author
of the National Fantasy, The Queen of American Goes to Washington City: Essays
on Sex and Citizenship, and The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of
Sentimentality in American Culture.
We invite graduate students from any discipline to present
theoretically-oriented scholarship that investigates the social formation and
maintenance of local/tribal identities, global contexts, and the possibility of
hybrid glocal identities, and in doing so, question the tensions between these
forms of interaction and possible rewards attained from not merely crossing the
border, but from redefining and reconceptualizing definitions of citizenship
and nationhood. We would also welcome interdisciplinary work that crosses
disciplinary borders to create new knowledge within a glocal university context
(such as papers, film, artwork, installation projects, and so on).
Possible Topics:
Global/Local Politics
Postcolonialism
Language and discrimination
Language and racism
Language policy and planning
Tourism/Travel Writing/Advertising
Architecture/Geography
History/Autobiography
Memory and Identity
National/Cultural/Racial/Sexual/Gendered/Class Identity
Hybridity and Identity
Hybridity and Embodiment
Borders of the Human
Peripheral Zones/Contact Zones
The Rhetoric of Borders, Territories, Frontiers
Barriers/Communities/Home
Space/Mobility/Displacement
Immigration/Alienation
Othering
Borders and Criminality
Borders in Film and Literature
Science and Technology Studies
Virtual Borders
Borders and Boundaries in Cyberspace
Popular Culture/High Culture
Consumerism, Media and Identity
Sex and Economy
Violence and Desire
Heterinormativity/Homosexuality/Transsexuality
Feminist Theory and Queer Theory
Critical Race Theory
Spirituality and Subjectivity
Texts, Bodies and Spectacle
Bodies of/and Knowledge
Diversity, Similarity and the Academy
Translation/Appropriation/Adaptation
Teaching and Service Learning
The Academy and Activism
Please submit 100-250 word individual abstracts or panel proposals, comprised of
a 100-250 word abstract for the entire panel and one 100-250 abstract for each
paper. Include names, email address, mailing addresses, institutional
affiliations, technology requests, paper titles, and abstracts by February 1st
2006 to:
Meg Smith Hallak (Department of English) or Erica Reynolds Clayton (Department
of English)
Modern Languages Building, Room 445
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
(520) 621-1836
ndconf_at_email.arizona.edu
If you should have any questions or concerns, please contact Meg Smith Hallak at
ndconf_at_email.arizona.edu.
-----------------
New Directions in Critical Theory
University of Arizona
ndconf_at_email.arizona.edu
Heide Jäger - 11. Dec, 11:42
EMERGING SPACES, TRANSFORMING SCAPES
Intersections 2006: A Graduate Student Creative Conference
Call For Proposals (CFP)
CFP DEADLINE: Friday, January 20th, 2006
Hosted by the students of the Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture
York University and Ryerson University
Toronto, Canada
March 24-26, 2006
EMERGING SPACES, TRANSFORMING SCAPES
We invite all interested graduate students to join us for our 5th
annual Intersections weekend Creative Conference. This year we are
especially interested in discussing the significance of both new and
established scapes, and their relationships with and connections to
imagined and physical spaces. Edges, nodes, networks, overflows,
streams: the way we imagine our world is changing. We are at a point
where it is important to reflect upon and consider older
connectivities established through non-electronic media, while at the
same time considering the potentials of new media through emerging
communication technologies. Bodies, commodities, ideas, and
technologies follow an exploding number of conduits between the local
and the global, around, through, and behind nations and
institutions.
The 2006 Intersections Conference will be the 5th annual event organized by
the York/Ryerson joint Programme in Communication and Culture. After last
year's successful conference concerning themes of HYBRID ENTITIES,
which analyzed haphazard links, mongrel formations, and mutant
compositions, we are now interested in submissions that explore
intersections where steps and solutions can be actively followed in
attempts to answer the many questions that arise when we try to create
and influence the direction of Communications and Culture. The
conference will investigate the following new spaces and modes of
movement: How and by who are these flows, networks, and disjunctures
created? By what paths do we move/think through them? Where is power,
and how does it move? Do borders, edges, and in-between spaces exist?
What happens here? Is social change or even directionality possible
within a fluid and shifting environment? What metaphors and tools can
we use to conceptualize the world and the future? What potential
exists for scapes of resistance, or opportunities to challenge present
boundaries and structures? What can we learn from the past? How can
we imagine new social formations, solidarity, and subjects positions
in the 21st Century?
Open to all graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference
welcomes submissions that take up these themes either through an
academic paper presentation, an artistic expression, or an activist
agenda. Details on subtopics and submission procedures follow below.
We encourage all interested activists and scholars to participate and
to come celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of the Intersections
Conference!!
*******************************
SUBTOPICS AND THEMES
Invited submissions include papers, artwork and activist presentations
that relate to the following broad themes:
1) Media and Culture
Topics could include (but are not limited to) cultural consumption and
production, cultures of cities, space and place, depictions of
ability/disability, media democracy, media studies, popular and visual
culture, subjectivity, representations of
class/ethnicity/gender/race/sexualities, semiotics and linguistics.
2) Technology in Practice
Submissions in this category might address (but are not limited to)
questions regarding technology's emergent role in theoretical and
practical debates surrounding art, authenticity, and aesthetics,
negotiations of accessibility and identity, race and gender,
explorations in the concepts of the cyborg, the post-human, and
technoculture. Also, issues of how the Internet and network society
is reconfiguring social formations and subject positions will be
considered as a part of this category.
3) Politics and Policy
Potential areas of focus could include (but are not limited to)
accessibility, citizenship, communication policy, copyright and
intellectual property, cultural policy, deliberations about
communication and culture and the public sphere, globalization, media
ownership in Canada, questions of structure, power and agency, privacy
and surveillance, sovereignty, and strategies of resistance.
SUBMISSION FORMAT/DEADLINES
As an expanded event, this year EMERGING SPACES will include the
following formats for disseminating and discussing ideas.
1) Paper presentations
- 15 min. presentation of an academic paper with time for discussion
to follow
2) Creative work with artist's talk
- Artwork/media for exhibition, accompanied by artist talk during
conference
3) Poster session (with possible roundtable discussion)
- Presentation of materials in a poster and/or table display with
discussant. If enough interest, these displays may be followed by a
roundtable discussion.
Although these formats are tailored to accommodate academic papers,
artwork and activist contributions respectively, all participants are
encouraged to apply for whatever format is most interesting or
appropriate for your submission.
All interested participants are asked to submit a textual abstract or
artist's statement explaining the proposed presentation in light of
the conference themes, and indicate which of the above three formats
the presentation would take.
Abstract or statement should be no more than 250 words (approx. 1
typewritten page, double spaced) and submitted via email as an
attachment in .TXT, .RTF, or Microsoft Word format.
Name and contact information should not appear on this page. Please
include a separate page with the following information:
1. Title of presentation as it appears on the abstract or statement
2. Name
3. Affiliation (program and university)
4. Level and year of study (ex. Master's, 2nd year)
5. Phone number
6. E-mail address
7. Mailing address
8. A/V requirements (computer/projector, film projector, VCR, stereo,
turntables, etc.)
9. Other requirements (table, easel, hooks, display materials). If
you have exceptional requirements for your work, please contact us to
discuss feasibility.
Artists are also asked to submit a small sample of their work for
adjudication, by either email or post.
If sending creative works by email, please submit up to 10 jpegs sized
to display onscreen or a multimedia clip with cumulative attachment
size of 5mb or less. You may also direct us to an URL. Please number
the pieces and put viewing instructions, comments and titles in your
email if applicable.
If submitting creative works by post, please mail the proposal well
before the deadline with a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return
to the following address:
Intersections, c/o Graduate Communication and Culture
3068 TEL Building, York University
4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3
You may send a CD, DVD, cued video or other multimedia, the duration
of which does not exceed 10 minutes. Alternatively, you may send up to
10 slides or printouts of work, illustrations or diagrams. Please
include a slide or media list with title, size, media, and date, and
viewing instructions for your work if applicable. Please do not send
original work.
Deadline: FRIDAY, JANUARY 20th, 2006.
Please e-mail inquiries and submissions to: intersec_at_ryerson.ca
CFP available online: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference.html
Presented by the Communication and Culture Graduate Students
Association (GSA): http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa
For more information about the Joint Programme in Communication and
Culture: http://www.yorku.ca/comcult/
Call For Proposals (CFP)
CFP DEADLINE: Friday, January 20th, 2006
Hosted by the students of the Joint Graduate Programme in
Communication and Culture
York University and Ryerson University
Toronto, Canada
March 24-26, 2006
EMERGING SPACES, TRANSFORMING SCAPES
We invite all interested graduate students to join us for our 5th
annual Intersections weekend Creative Conference. This year we are
especially interested in discussing the significance of both new and
established scapes, and their relationships with and connections to
imagined and physical spaces. Edges, nodes, networks, overflows,
streams: the way we imagine our world is changing. We are at a point
where it is important to reflect upon and consider older
connectivities established through non-electronic media, while at the
same time considering the potentials of new media through emerging
communication technologies. Bodies, commodities, ideas, and
technologies follow an exploding number of conduits between the local
and the global, around, through, and behind nations and
institutions.
The 2006 Intersections Conference will be the 5th annual event organized by
the York/Ryerson joint Programme in Communication and Culture. After last
year's successful conference concerning themes of HYBRID ENTITIES,
which analyzed haphazard links, mongrel formations, and mutant
compositions, we are now interested in submissions that explore
intersections where steps and solutions can be actively followed in
attempts to answer the many questions that arise when we try to create
and influence the direction of Communications and Culture. The
conference will investigate the following new spaces and modes of
movement: How and by who are these flows, networks, and disjunctures
created? By what paths do we move/think through them? Where is power,
and how does it move? Do borders, edges, and in-between spaces exist?
What happens here? Is social change or even directionality possible
within a fluid and shifting environment? What metaphors and tools can
we use to conceptualize the world and the future? What potential
exists for scapes of resistance, or opportunities to challenge present
boundaries and structures? What can we learn from the past? How can
we imagine new social formations, solidarity, and subjects positions
in the 21st Century?
Open to all graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference
welcomes submissions that take up these themes either through an
academic paper presentation, an artistic expression, or an activist
agenda. Details on subtopics and submission procedures follow below.
We encourage all interested activists and scholars to participate and
to come celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of the Intersections
Conference!!
*******************************
SUBTOPICS AND THEMES
Invited submissions include papers, artwork and activist presentations
that relate to the following broad themes:
1) Media and Culture
Topics could include (but are not limited to) cultural consumption and
production, cultures of cities, space and place, depictions of
ability/disability, media democracy, media studies, popular and visual
culture, subjectivity, representations of
class/ethnicity/gender/race/sexualities, semiotics and linguistics.
2) Technology in Practice
Submissions in this category might address (but are not limited to)
questions regarding technology's emergent role in theoretical and
practical debates surrounding art, authenticity, and aesthetics,
negotiations of accessibility and identity, race and gender,
explorations in the concepts of the cyborg, the post-human, and
technoculture. Also, issues of how the Internet and network society
is reconfiguring social formations and subject positions will be
considered as a part of this category.
3) Politics and Policy
Potential areas of focus could include (but are not limited to)
accessibility, citizenship, communication policy, copyright and
intellectual property, cultural policy, deliberations about
communication and culture and the public sphere, globalization, media
ownership in Canada, questions of structure, power and agency, privacy
and surveillance, sovereignty, and strategies of resistance.
SUBMISSION FORMAT/DEADLINES
As an expanded event, this year EMERGING SPACES will include the
following formats for disseminating and discussing ideas.
1) Paper presentations
- 15 min. presentation of an academic paper with time for discussion
to follow
2) Creative work with artist's talk
- Artwork/media for exhibition, accompanied by artist talk during
conference
3) Poster session (with possible roundtable discussion)
- Presentation of materials in a poster and/or table display with
discussant. If enough interest, these displays may be followed by a
roundtable discussion.
Although these formats are tailored to accommodate academic papers,
artwork and activist contributions respectively, all participants are
encouraged to apply for whatever format is most interesting or
appropriate for your submission.
All interested participants are asked to submit a textual abstract or
artist's statement explaining the proposed presentation in light of
the conference themes, and indicate which of the above three formats
the presentation would take.
Abstract or statement should be no more than 250 words (approx. 1
typewritten page, double spaced) and submitted via email as an
attachment in .TXT, .RTF, or Microsoft Word format.
Name and contact information should not appear on this page. Please
include a separate page with the following information:
1. Title of presentation as it appears on the abstract or statement
2. Name
3. Affiliation (program and university)
4. Level and year of study (ex. Master's, 2nd year)
5. Phone number
6. E-mail address
7. Mailing address
8. A/V requirements (computer/projector, film projector, VCR, stereo,
turntables, etc.)
9. Other requirements (table, easel, hooks, display materials). If
you have exceptional requirements for your work, please contact us to
discuss feasibility.
Artists are also asked to submit a small sample of their work for
adjudication, by either email or post.
If sending creative works by email, please submit up to 10 jpegs sized
to display onscreen or a multimedia clip with cumulative attachment
size of 5mb or less. You may also direct us to an URL. Please number
the pieces and put viewing instructions, comments and titles in your
email if applicable.
If submitting creative works by post, please mail the proposal well
before the deadline with a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return
to the following address:
Intersections, c/o Graduate Communication and Culture
3068 TEL Building, York University
4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3
You may send a CD, DVD, cued video or other multimedia, the duration
of which does not exceed 10 minutes. Alternatively, you may send up to
10 slides or printouts of work, illustrations or diagrams. Please
include a slide or media list with title, size, media, and date, and
viewing instructions for your work if applicable. Please do not send
original work.
Deadline: FRIDAY, JANUARY 20th, 2006.
Please e-mail inquiries and submissions to: intersec_at_ryerson.ca
CFP available online: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference.html
Presented by the Communication and Culture Graduate Students
Association (GSA): http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa
For more information about the Joint Programme in Communication and
Culture: http://www.yorku.ca/comcult/
Heide Jäger - 11. Dec, 11:38
In the city and on the road
Saturday, March 25 - Sunday, March 26, 2006
Department of English
University of South Carolina, Columbia (USA)
ATTENTION
If you used the Submit Abstracts page prior to November 30 and received an error message, then we did not receive it. Please send your abstract again to ensure that we have your submission.
Call for Papers:
The Twentieth century witnessed enormous shifts in patterns of mobility and the meanings bound up with “moving”–shifts that went hand in hand with new definitions and associations for “stasis.” These changes were bound up with a range of social factors: the massive expansion of industrial capitalism, the growth of the modern city, new communication systems, etc. The changes gave rise to intense artistic debates about the value of a new, highly mechanized, and often urban, mobility on one hand, and an older, rural conception of organic communities and stasis on the other.
Working within the modern city, therefore, Walter Benjamin divides street walkers into two categories: the “flâneur” who meanders aimlessly and the “pilgrim” who seeks a destination. These same ideas, in a broader sense, have dominated the works of writers, poets, essayists, sociologists, filmmakers, musicians, politicians, and others as they sought to represent the city and the road as a means of answering questions about human identity. Artists, such as Joyce, Cela, and DeLillo, to name a few, have explored ideas of mobility within cities while Steinbeck, Dennis Hopper, and Baudrillard have similarly created an aesthetic of travel. Meanwhile, this mobile century saw widespread migrations, such as rural African Americans to Northern cities, rural Spaniards to Madrid, and other movements towards wartime and post-war industrial opportunity. Contrarily, artists, such as Kerouac and Picasso see the city as that which dwarfs and thwarts autonomy as it reflects, in the words of Alfred Kazin, the “trauma of modern man.”
Following the success of the previous two years’ conferences, we invite papers that not only examine and build upon these issues, but encourage the analysis and exploration of multiple types of literature such as hypertext, film, art, and music, in addition to poetry and fiction. We strongly encourage cross-genre discussions.
Topics may include, but certainly are not limited to: environmental literature
migration, miscegenation, hybridity
the postcolonial, or “imagined” city
community versus individuality/alienation
the romanticization of the American West
communities in exile
the road-buddy film or song
mapping the postmodern city
the hobo or vagabond as hero
urban and rural responses to war, terrorism and dictatorship
the city or the road as sexual landscape
travel literature
flâneurship
Blues music and mobility, Jazz music and the city
the city as destroyer
religious and spiritual journeys
existential ideas of the city and the road
wilderness versus civilization
Joyce’s Dublin, Cela’s Madrid, Dos Passos’ Manhattan
immigration and assimilation
historicizing the modernist city
the loss of rural space
racial/ethnic and environment
relationship of gender to travel and/or stasis
urban vs. rural communities
Information on our Keynote addresses:
Professor Gordon Ball – Virginia Military Institute
Gordon Ball, Professor of English and Fine Arts at the Virginia Military Institute, is a renowned independent film maker, photographer, and scholar on the Beat Generation and film. Ball was a close friend of Allen Ginsberg, about whom he has written extensively, and has edited two volumes of Ginsberg’s journals, including Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties (1977). His book Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness (1974) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Ball has also published a memoir titled 66 Frames (1999) and a book of prose poetry. Ball earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Professor Priscilla Wald – Duke University
An internationally respected critic and scholar, Priscilla Wald is Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Duke University. In addition to her notable work on Theodore Dreiser, Wald employs an interdisciplinary approach to analyze popular media as a site for a socially constructed vision of science. The author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form (1995), Wald is also the Associate Editor of American Literature, and serves on the editorial board of Literature and Medicine. She is a member of PMLA’s advisory board. Wald earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University.
The deadline for submission is Friday, January 6, 2006.
Department of English
University of South Carolina, Columbia (USA)
ATTENTION
If you used the Submit Abstracts page prior to November 30 and received an error message, then we did not receive it. Please send your abstract again to ensure that we have your submission.
Call for Papers:
The Twentieth century witnessed enormous shifts in patterns of mobility and the meanings bound up with “moving”–shifts that went hand in hand with new definitions and associations for “stasis.” These changes were bound up with a range of social factors: the massive expansion of industrial capitalism, the growth of the modern city, new communication systems, etc. The changes gave rise to intense artistic debates about the value of a new, highly mechanized, and often urban, mobility on one hand, and an older, rural conception of organic communities and stasis on the other.
Working within the modern city, therefore, Walter Benjamin divides street walkers into two categories: the “flâneur” who meanders aimlessly and the “pilgrim” who seeks a destination. These same ideas, in a broader sense, have dominated the works of writers, poets, essayists, sociologists, filmmakers, musicians, politicians, and others as they sought to represent the city and the road as a means of answering questions about human identity. Artists, such as Joyce, Cela, and DeLillo, to name a few, have explored ideas of mobility within cities while Steinbeck, Dennis Hopper, and Baudrillard have similarly created an aesthetic of travel. Meanwhile, this mobile century saw widespread migrations, such as rural African Americans to Northern cities, rural Spaniards to Madrid, and other movements towards wartime and post-war industrial opportunity. Contrarily, artists, such as Kerouac and Picasso see the city as that which dwarfs and thwarts autonomy as it reflects, in the words of Alfred Kazin, the “trauma of modern man.”
Following the success of the previous two years’ conferences, we invite papers that not only examine and build upon these issues, but encourage the analysis and exploration of multiple types of literature such as hypertext, film, art, and music, in addition to poetry and fiction. We strongly encourage cross-genre discussions.
Topics may include, but certainly are not limited to: environmental literature
migration, miscegenation, hybridity
the postcolonial, or “imagined” city
community versus individuality/alienation
the romanticization of the American West
communities in exile
the road-buddy film or song
mapping the postmodern city
the hobo or vagabond as hero
urban and rural responses to war, terrorism and dictatorship
the city or the road as sexual landscape
travel literature
flâneurship
Blues music and mobility, Jazz music and the city
the city as destroyer
religious and spiritual journeys
existential ideas of the city and the road
wilderness versus civilization
Joyce’s Dublin, Cela’s Madrid, Dos Passos’ Manhattan
immigration and assimilation
historicizing the modernist city
the loss of rural space
racial/ethnic and environment
relationship of gender to travel and/or stasis
urban vs. rural communities
Information on our Keynote addresses:
Professor Gordon Ball – Virginia Military Institute
Gordon Ball, Professor of English and Fine Arts at the Virginia Military Institute, is a renowned independent film maker, photographer, and scholar on the Beat Generation and film. Ball was a close friend of Allen Ginsberg, about whom he has written extensively, and has edited two volumes of Ginsberg’s journals, including Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties (1977). His book Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness (1974) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Ball has also published a memoir titled 66 Frames (1999) and a book of prose poetry. Ball earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Professor Priscilla Wald – Duke University
An internationally respected critic and scholar, Priscilla Wald is Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Duke University. In addition to her notable work on Theodore Dreiser, Wald employs an interdisciplinary approach to analyze popular media as a site for a socially constructed vision of science. The author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form (1995), Wald is also the Associate Editor of American Literature, and serves on the editorial board of Literature and Medicine. She is a member of PMLA’s advisory board. Wald earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University.
The deadline for submission is Friday, January 6, 2006.
Heide Jäger - 11. Dec, 11:26
Global Cities - An Interdisciplinary Conference
Hosted by the Deanery of Humanities and organised by the Narrated Spaces Research Group
Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool, 29th-30th June 2006
Plenary speakers to be confirmed.
Is the 'global' city an age-old historical phenomenon associated with economic, cultural, and imperial power (Rome, Athens, Beijing, Istanbul), or a consequence of the industrial revolution? Is it a product of the media age or a continuation of the power and influence of the imperial metropolis? In the nineteenth and for much of the twentieth century it would have been claimed as a Western imperialist phenomenon (London, Paris, New York) or cities and countries that consciously emulated western imperialism (Tokyo). This conception -- if ever actually true -- certainly cannot be supported today. The European and north American cities now vie with the booming cities of Asian Tigers (Mumbai, Shanghia, Seoul), and the great developing cities (Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Bah?Blanca, Lagos), as well as regional expressions like the 'Pacific Rim' cities.
What is the essence of the 'global' city and how has it been represented? Is it a modern phenomenon or an ancient practice? How do we define global -- is globalism a consequence of mass urbanisation or does globalisation create the conditions for the emergence of the global city. How do the global cities of the twentieth century resemble or differ in form and function those of the past and, based on present trends, the future? In the 21st century more people than even will be living in urban environments: 'Over the next thirty years, the world's urban population could double from 2.6 billion in 1995 to 5.2 billion in 2025. Most of this growth will take place in developing countries, where some 4 billion people (over half of the total) could be living in cities by 2025, compared with 1.5 billion (37%) in the early 1990s' (Andrieu 1999). How will this impact on how we imagine the city and issues of migration, diaspora, and existing geopolitical inequalities -- not all global c!
ities are equal in these terms. What have been and will be the consequence of such global economic and technological inequalities?
This conference is intended to encourage interdisciplinary exchange on the representation, cultures, histories, experience, planning, and articulation of global cities. By interrogating the vocabularies that have arisen in several disciplines which might include in addition to the term 'global city', 'global village', 'megacities', 'cosmopolis', imperial metropolis', 'world cities', 'sprawl', 'postmetropolis', etc., the conference will bring together debates over images, narratives, economics, planning and, above all, experience, of the 'global' city. Papers are sought from any relevant discipline in the humanities, social sciences, architecture, urban planning, and beyond.
We will be actively pursuing various publishing outputs related to the conference.
Abstracts of 200 words for 20-minute papers by 28th February 2006 to: phillil_at_hope.ac.uk or the postal address below.
Proposals for panels of three speakers are also welcome.
Dr Lawrence Phillips,
Global Cities Conference
Humanities Deanery
Liverpool Hope University
Hope Park
Liverpool
L16 9JD
Telephone: +44 0151 291 3560
FAX +44 0151 291 3160
E-mail: phillil_at_hope.ac.uk
Dr Lawrence Phillips,
Award Director MA Humanities,
Programme Leader BA English,
Editor, Literary London Journal,
Secretary UK Network For Modern Fiction Studies,
Department of English,
Liverpool Hope University,
Hope Park,
Liverpool,
L16 9JD
UK
Tel. 0151 2913560
Web. http://www.literarylondon.org
http://www.uk-fiction-network.org/
Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool, 29th-30th June 2006
Plenary speakers to be confirmed.
Is the 'global' city an age-old historical phenomenon associated with economic, cultural, and imperial power (Rome, Athens, Beijing, Istanbul), or a consequence of the industrial revolution? Is it a product of the media age or a continuation of the power and influence of the imperial metropolis? In the nineteenth and for much of the twentieth century it would have been claimed as a Western imperialist phenomenon (London, Paris, New York) or cities and countries that consciously emulated western imperialism (Tokyo). This conception -- if ever actually true -- certainly cannot be supported today. The European and north American cities now vie with the booming cities of Asian Tigers (Mumbai, Shanghia, Seoul), and the great developing cities (Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Bah?Blanca, Lagos), as well as regional expressions like the 'Pacific Rim' cities.
What is the essence of the 'global' city and how has it been represented? Is it a modern phenomenon or an ancient practice? How do we define global -- is globalism a consequence of mass urbanisation or does globalisation create the conditions for the emergence of the global city. How do the global cities of the twentieth century resemble or differ in form and function those of the past and, based on present trends, the future? In the 21st century more people than even will be living in urban environments: 'Over the next thirty years, the world's urban population could double from 2.6 billion in 1995 to 5.2 billion in 2025. Most of this growth will take place in developing countries, where some 4 billion people (over half of the total) could be living in cities by 2025, compared with 1.5 billion (37%) in the early 1990s' (Andrieu 1999). How will this impact on how we imagine the city and issues of migration, diaspora, and existing geopolitical inequalities -- not all global c!
ities are equal in these terms. What have been and will be the consequence of such global economic and technological inequalities?
This conference is intended to encourage interdisciplinary exchange on the representation, cultures, histories, experience, planning, and articulation of global cities. By interrogating the vocabularies that have arisen in several disciplines which might include in addition to the term 'global city', 'global village', 'megacities', 'cosmopolis', imperial metropolis', 'world cities', 'sprawl', 'postmetropolis', etc., the conference will bring together debates over images, narratives, economics, planning and, above all, experience, of the 'global' city. Papers are sought from any relevant discipline in the humanities, social sciences, architecture, urban planning, and beyond.
We will be actively pursuing various publishing outputs related to the conference.
Abstracts of 200 words for 20-minute papers by 28th February 2006 to: phillil_at_hope.ac.uk or the postal address below.
Proposals for panels of three speakers are also welcome.
Dr Lawrence Phillips,
Global Cities Conference
Humanities Deanery
Liverpool Hope University
Hope Park
Liverpool
L16 9JD
Telephone: +44 0151 291 3560
FAX +44 0151 291 3160
E-mail: phillil_at_hope.ac.uk
Dr Lawrence Phillips,
Award Director MA Humanities,
Programme Leader BA English,
Editor, Literary London Journal,
Secretary UK Network For Modern Fiction Studies,
Department of English,
Liverpool Hope University,
Hope Park,
Liverpool,
L16 9JD
UK
Tel. 0151 2913560
Web. http://www.literarylondon.org
http://www.uk-fiction-network.org/
Heide Jäger - 11. Dec, 11:13
Tuesday, 6. December 2005
Wednesday, 30. November 2005
Monday, 28. November 2005
Conference: Space as a Category of Analysis: New Perspectives
Call for Papers
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at Brown University
Keynote address by Dr. David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, Dept.
of Anthropology, City University of New York
Date: Friday April 7 and Saturday April 8, 2006
Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2006
The Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at Brown University
is calling for papers for its second annual conference entitled
"Space as a Category of Analysis: New Perspectives" on April 7-8,
2006. This conference seeks to bring together graduate students from
diverse fields by discussing a common research theme from multiple
disciplinary angles. We welcome scholarship from history, sociology,
anthropology, geography, urban studies, environmental studies, area
studies, gender studies, media studies, and others.
Some of the critical questions conference papers may consider are:
How are spatial categories historically constituted, and how do
historical projects reify and challenge spatial categories?
How do spatial relationships guide the growth and development of
individual communities, informing human understandings of
nationality, ethnicity, gender, race, class, and the environment?
How are categories such as urban, rural and wilderness constituted,
and how are they informed by technology and their inhabitants?
How does space shape decision-making processes of individuals and
institutions, and in what ways has space been used to assert power?
Under what conditions has space been transnational?
The conference features a keynote address by internationally renowned
scholar David Harvey. Widely considered to be the founder of modern
critical geography, Dr. Harvey's wide-ranging explorations of the
ways in which space and time have underpinned capitalism,
post-modernity, and imperialism speak directly to the spirit of
intellectual breadth and inclusion to which the conference is
committed.
Please submit a 250-word abstract, curriculum vitae, and pertinent
contact information via email by January 15, 2006 to:
Graduate Student Conference committee
Department of History
Box N, Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Email:
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at Brown University
Keynote address by Dr. David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, Dept.
of Anthropology, City University of New York
Date: Friday April 7 and Saturday April 8, 2006
Location: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2006
The Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at Brown University
is calling for papers for its second annual conference entitled
"Space as a Category of Analysis: New Perspectives" on April 7-8,
2006. This conference seeks to bring together graduate students from
diverse fields by discussing a common research theme from multiple
disciplinary angles. We welcome scholarship from history, sociology,
anthropology, geography, urban studies, environmental studies, area
studies, gender studies, media studies, and others.
Some of the critical questions conference papers may consider are:
How are spatial categories historically constituted, and how do
historical projects reify and challenge spatial categories?
How do spatial relationships guide the growth and development of
individual communities, informing human understandings of
nationality, ethnicity, gender, race, class, and the environment?
How are categories such as urban, rural and wilderness constituted,
and how are they informed by technology and their inhabitants?
How does space shape decision-making processes of individuals and
institutions, and in what ways has space been used to assert power?
Under what conditions has space been transnational?
The conference features a keynote address by internationally renowned
scholar David Harvey. Widely considered to be the founder of modern
critical geography, Dr. Harvey's wide-ranging explorations of the
ways in which space and time have underpinned capitalism,
post-modernity, and imperialism speak directly to the spirit of
intellectual breadth and inclusion to which the conference is
committed.
Please submit a 250-word abstract, curriculum vitae, and pertinent
contact information via email by January 15, 2006 to:
Graduate Student Conference committee
Department of History
Box N, Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Email:
Heide Jäger - 28. Nov, 13:14
Conference: Disorderly Spaces and Derelict Places
Session of the Social Sciences History Association Location: Minnesota, United States
Call for Papers Deadline: 2006-01-15
Date Submitted: 2005-11-14
Announcement ID: 148608
"Disorderly Spaces and Derelict Places" will be the topic of a session for the annual meeting of the Social Sciences History Association in Minneapolis, November 2006. This session will explore the literal and metaphorical alleyways and dumping grounds of the urban environment, 18th-20th century. Other examples of such marginalized environments include sewers, parking lots, houses of prostitution, crack houses, waste processing plants, and other sites that are culturally coded as being socially dangerous and aesthetically offensive. Please submit 250 word abstracts along with a CV by January 15, 2006: Paula Lee, Department of Art History, University of South Florida, parispaula_2000@yahoo.com.
Paula Lee
Art History
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave., FAH 110
Tampa, FL 33620
Email: parispaula_2000@yahoo.com
Call for Papers Deadline: 2006-01-15
Date Submitted: 2005-11-14
Announcement ID: 148608
"Disorderly Spaces and Derelict Places" will be the topic of a session for the annual meeting of the Social Sciences History Association in Minneapolis, November 2006. This session will explore the literal and metaphorical alleyways and dumping grounds of the urban environment, 18th-20th century. Other examples of such marginalized environments include sewers, parking lots, houses of prostitution, crack houses, waste processing plants, and other sites that are culturally coded as being socially dangerous and aesthetically offensive. Please submit 250 word abstracts along with a CV by January 15, 2006: Paula Lee, Department of Art History, University of South Florida, parispaula_2000@yahoo.com.
Paula Lee
Art History
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave., FAH 110
Tampa, FL 33620
Email: parispaula_2000@yahoo.com
Heide Jäger - 28. Nov, 12:59
Friday, 25. November 2005
Abstract: ASCJ Conference 2006
"Tokyo - City of Breathing Gaps" - Narratives on dynamic human movement in small urban spaces of everyday
The city is the built expression of our cultural values and is seen as a complex patterning of activity. Small urban places are a dynamic, rapidly alterable milieu of people, information, and composition, indispensably related to time. Furthermore, the city is used by people: everyday routines, urban rituals, sociospatial movements and pattern of interaction give meaning to the city. We make the city by living (in) the city. Gap spaces between buildings exists in all cities, but especially in Tokyo where the city is rebuild continously. The scale of such spaces varies from (1) narrow back street (roji),(2) leftover land strips ‘in-between’ existing areas and behind new urban projects and (3) cracks and gaps in between building . In order to understand how the small-scale gap spaces affect the urban pattern of the city, the paper examine different characteristics of spaces of in-between: episodic, wandering, individual and traditional rooted structures. This paper will focus on the small urban places which remain between the cyclical changing city scape, between low and high rise and as a product of spontaneous, unplanned urban restructuring. Walking these small urban places one can get engaged with local urban cultures and their everyday life. The socio-spatial transformations add to the vitality of a place by constantly unfolding, changing and modifying the existing urban fabric of the ‘global’ city. We can say that the ephemeral quality of the gap is influenced by the diversity of place and time which is just one of many partnerships in the city.
The city is the built expression of our cultural values and is seen as a complex patterning of activity. Small urban places are a dynamic, rapidly alterable milieu of people, information, and composition, indispensably related to time. Furthermore, the city is used by people: everyday routines, urban rituals, sociospatial movements and pattern of interaction give meaning to the city. We make the city by living (in) the city. Gap spaces between buildings exists in all cities, but especially in Tokyo where the city is rebuild continously. The scale of such spaces varies from (1) narrow back street (roji),(2) leftover land strips ‘in-between’ existing areas and behind new urban projects and (3) cracks and gaps in between building . In order to understand how the small-scale gap spaces affect the urban pattern of the city, the paper examine different characteristics of spaces of in-between: episodic, wandering, individual and traditional rooted structures. This paper will focus on the small urban places which remain between the cyclical changing city scape, between low and high rise and as a product of spontaneous, unplanned urban restructuring. Walking these small urban places one can get engaged with local urban cultures and their everyday life. The socio-spatial transformations add to the vitality of a place by constantly unfolding, changing and modifying the existing urban fabric of the ‘global’ city. We can say that the ephemeral quality of the gap is influenced by the diversity of place and time which is just one of many partnerships in the city.
Heide Jäger - 25. Nov, 09:03
Wednesday, 23. November 2005
Monday, 21. November 2005
Sunday, 20. November 2005
Conference:Urban Spaces in Japan 17th - 20th november 2005
Report about the conference
Heide Jäger - 20. Nov, 19:57
Tuesday, 15. November 2005
Networks:
The Japan Society, UK
European Association for Japanese Studies EAJS
British Association of Japanese Studies, BAJS
German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF)
International Association for People-Environment Studies, IAPS
European Association for Japanese Studies EAJS
British Association of Japanese Studies, BAJS
German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF)
International Association for People-Environment Studies, IAPS
Heide Jäger - 15. Nov, 15:14
Teaching: Cities and Bodies
Next to my work as a PhD student I start to meet different kind of people and it is interesting to see how much changed in such a short time: I make new contacts and can so hopefully build up new kind of friendships. I meet people twice a week at the Dojo, during my lectures and seminars at university and through teaching some German in exchange to get some Japanese lessons (also 2x a week)...this is so much fun and at the moment I am quite involved in the things.
But I think my day today was also really useful because I met a new professor of the faculty of architecture and we talked about the possibilities of teaching the Undergraduates in Architecture which I really want to do to gain some more experience and confidence in this. A few weeks ago I proposed some ideas for a workshop session and finally she told me today that she would be happy to invite me to a workshop week in february. And so I have to organise now the 3 workshops and some lectures ...I really like to teach and it is so much fun to think about different things I can engage the student with ...so lets see how this will develop, I am somehow really nervous about this but also excited to get this new chance and to see how I can get involved in new projects ... until soon, Heide ...PS find later on the proposal for the workshops here!
But I think my day today was also really useful because I met a new professor of the faculty of architecture and we talked about the possibilities of teaching the Undergraduates in Architecture which I really want to do to gain some more experience and confidence in this. A few weeks ago I proposed some ideas for a workshop session and finally she told me today that she would be happy to invite me to a workshop week in february. And so I have to organise now the 3 workshops and some lectures ...I really like to teach and it is so much fun to think about different things I can engage the student with ...so lets see how this will develop, I am somehow really nervous about this but also excited to get this new chance and to see how I can get involved in new projects ... until soon, Heide ...PS find later on the proposal for the workshops here!
Heide Jäger - 15. Nov, 14:49
