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I. CONF./CFP- 19th Middle East History & Theory Conf., Apr 30-May 1, U.
of Chicago
Call for Papers
The Nineteenth Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference at the
University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies will be held on
Friday April 30th and Saturday May 1st, 2004.
The Middle East History and Theory Conference provides a forum for students
and faculty in the social sciences and humanities to present papers
treating
Middle Eastern and Central Asian art/architecture, literature, society,
history and politics from the 7th century to the present. Graduate students
are particularly urged to participate; both individual papers and
pre-arranged panels can be accommodated.
The deadline for the submission of a one-page abstract and curriculum vitae
is March 1st, 2004.
Papers may be submitted by email to either of the addresses below, or by
post to the University of Chicago CMES.
Working papers must be received by April 5th, 2004 to assure participation.
Please specify if audio/visual facilities are needed when submitting
papers to:
Middle East History and Theory Conference Co-ordinators,
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
The University of Chicago
5828 S. University Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60637
Tel: 1-773-702 8297
Fax: 1-773-702 2587
For further information, or to submit abstracts:
Kaveh Hemmat at kavehhemmat@uchicago.edu
Alidost Numan at numan@uchicago.edu
Visit the Conference website at:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/meht />
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
5828 S. University, Pick Hall 201
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: (773)702-8297
E-mail: cmes@uchicago.edu
II. CONF./CFP- Intl Council for Central & East European Studies, July
2004, Berlin
Dear colleages,
I want to direct your attention to the VII World Congress of the
International Council for Central and East European Studies which will take
in Berlin, Germany, from July 25th - 30th, 2005.
The focus of the congress is on European integration, but the conference is
not confined to Europe proper. Topics on the Caucasus and Central Asia are
also included and welcome.
You can find the Call for Papers under <http://www.iccees2005.de>.
The deadline for proposals is February 29, 2004.
Dr. Uwe Halbach
SWP-German Institute for International and Security Affairs
III. Please send
abstracts to
situationcritical2004@yahoo.com
Situation Critical: Subjects in Transformation
Graduate Student Colloquium
Concordia University
March 19, 2004
The graduate students of the English Department at Concordia University
invite you to their second annual graduate colloquium. We seek papers
that investigate the formation and transformation of subjects in social,
cultural, and historically specific settings, and uncover possibilities
of critique, resistance, and subversion in these contexts. We understand
“subjects” not only to refer to individuals, but also to refer to
disciplines such as History and Literary Studies. To this end, we are
interested in papers that address the formation and transformation of
these categories, and the manner in which individual subjects relate to,
are formed by, and intervene in traditional understandings of these
disciplines.
Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to:
-interpellation and resistance
-deconstructing gender / sex / sexuality
-national identity
-trauma
-belonging / exile
-interventions in history
-intersections between the popular and the canonical, “high” and “low” art
Our one day event will culminate with a presentation by our key note
speaker, Glenn Hendler, Associate Professor in English and Gender Studies
at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Public Sentiments:
Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth Century American Literature, and the
co-editor of Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in
American Culture
Please send a 250 word abstract to situationcritical2004@yahoo.com by
February 13,
or to:
Situation Critical 2004
c/o Katia Grubisic
Concordia University
Department of English
1400 de Maissoneuve Blvd.
Montréal, Quebéc
H3G 1M8
IV. CALL FOR PAPERS
“Ludologica. Videogames d’Autore” is pleased to announce its call for
papers for a book on first-person shooter games that will be published
in Summer 2004.
Provisionally titled “Doom. The First Person Reader”, this
interdisciplinary volume edited by Sue Morris and Matteo Bittanti will
explore a range of topics regarding the aesthetics, politics and logics
of the first person shooter, and, in particular of id Software’s Doom
and Quake games, which have had a great impact on the form and culture
of computer gaming. The editors are looking for original contributions
from a variety of fields, including game studies, new media studies,
cultural studies, sociology, and anthropology. Papers are sought that
take new and innovative approaches to examine the FPS as spectacular
form of gaming, as a genre, as cultural artefact, as a social practice.
Doom. The First Person Reader will initially be published in Italian;
English language rights are currently in negotiation. For more
information on the "Ludologica" book series, please check:
www.ludologica.com.
For consideration, please submit a 1000 word abstract (including 6
keywords) no later than February 29, 2004 to Matteo Bittanti and to Sue
Morris at editors@ludologica.com. A one-page curriculum vitae or short
biography will also be appreciated.
The selected authors will be notified by mid-April 2004 and asked to
submit a complete draft of their papers no later than May 25, 2004. All
textual contributions must be written in English or Italian. Manuscripts
should be 3,000-5,000 words, double-spaced. The submission should be
fully referenced using MLA style and may contain endnotes. All
contributions to Ludologica will be promptly reviewed. Contributors will
be kept up to date on the status of their contributions via regular
email correspondence. Please submit your proposals and papers
electronically as a rich text format document.
Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):
Aesthetics/narrative in FPS games
The FPS genre – conventions and formulas, semantic/syntactic approaches,
evolution/transformations, etc.
Gaming culture – online and offline, participatory and creative
cultures, clan culture, professional gaming
Gameplay, the phenomenology of playing
Social interaction in the FPS genre
FPS development – mod scene, open-source development
Forms of identification and gaming subjectivities
Mythical, ideological and political aspects
Politics in games, games as a political tool, political economy of game
development and gaming culture
Cross-media interplay/Convergence between FPS and other
media/intertextuality in FPS games/games’ influence on popular culture
gender/class/ethnicity in video games
Deadlines
03.29.04: Proposals submissions
04.20.04: Notification of acceptance
05.25.04: Complete papers submissions
If you have any questions, please email Matteo Bittanti and Sue Morris
at editors@ludologica.com
Matteo Bittanti (mbittanti@libero.it)
School of New Media & Communication
Libera Università di Lingue & Comunicazioni (IULM)
Via Carlo Bo, 8 20143
Milano, Italy
Sue Morris (sue.morris@uq.edu.au)
School of English, Media Studies and Art History
University of Queensland
St Lucia 4072
Queensland, Australia
Ludologica
Launched in 2003, “Ludologica. Videogames d’autore” is a new series of
books that honor the most significant video games ever produced. These
books discuss video games from a broad academic and critical
perspective, setting characteristics, themes and techniques in context
and exploring the game's significance. Distinguished game critics,
scholars, and avid gamers explore the production and reception of their
chosen video games in the context of an argument about the games social,
cultural, and aesthetic importance. Each book presents the author’s
insights into a game and its creator selected from a list of the most
enduring and influential titles of the last 40 years. These innovative
readings are not conventional game reviews or game guides. Rather, they
situate the games in terms of the broader cultural debate that they
informed. Finely written, these books represent a new wave in gaming
criticism and are intended for scholars, researchers, and educators in
game studies, media studies, audiovisual communication, and cultural
studies. Ludologica will also appeal to readers in gender studies,
race/ethnic studies, sociology, sociology and other disciplines with an
emphasis on or interest in popular communication.
"Ludologica. Videogames d'Autore" is part of a larger project on video
game and new media research funded by Libera Università di Lingue e
Comunicazione (www.iulm.it), Milan, Italy.
For more information on the Ludologica series, please check:
www.ludologica.com.
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"Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic."
(Bruce Sterling's Corollary to Clarke's Law)
V. “Belonging: Community, Commonality, and the Politics of the Singular.”
Department of Comparative Literature
New York University
April 9th and 10th, 2004
In The Coming Community, Giorgio Agamben asks “What could be the
politics of whatever singularity, that is, of a being whose community is
mediated not by any condition of belonging (being red, being Italian,
being Communist) nor by the simple absence of conditions…but by
belonging itself?” The Graduate Students of the New York University
Department of Comparative Literature invite graduate students from
across the humanities to submit papers for their 2004 spring conference,
“Belonging: Community, Commonality, and the Politics of the Singular,”
April 9th and 10th.
Possible panel topics include but are not limited to: Aesthetic
Communities, Collectivity, Cosmopolitanism, Exiled Communities,
Friendship, Global Struggles, Hegemony, Hospitality, Imagined
communities, Isolationism, Kinship, Mass Production, Masses,
Media/Popular Culture, Nation/State, Nationalisms, Occupied Territories,
Parties, Peoples, Private languages/Social Languages, Race,
Refugees/Statelessness, Schools, Sex, Shared Spaces, Sociability,
Solidarity, Sovereignty, Translation/Monolinguism, Tribes, and Universalism.
We are especially excited to announce that our keynote speaker this year
will be Dr. Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy at New School
University. Also, in memory of Professor Edward Said, we will also be
hosting a special faculty roundtable discussion on the question of
belonging in his work. Students of his thought are especially encouraged
to submit.
One page, single-spaced abstracts are due to Michael Tan
(mkt209@nyu.edu), Alejandra Uslenghi (auslenghi@yahoo.com), Sabrina
Waldron (sabrina_213hotmail.com) by February 15, 2004. Please send
copies to all members of the organizing committee. Contact Michael Tan
with any queries.
VI. CALL FOR PAPERS
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
Other Voices, Other Cultures: Rereading Orientalism
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
August 12, 13 and 14, 2004
Papers are invited for a multidisciplinary international seminar to be
held for three days at the department of English, Jadavpur University,
to pay tribute to the late Professor Edward Said, the
Palestinian-American scholar and activist renowned for his revaluation
of Orientalism as a relation between culture and power. The organisers
are particularly interested in reappraisals of Said’s work and
discussions of contentious issues and debates concerning Orientalism,
classified under the following (and other) themes:
· Edward Said in retrospect
· Differentiating Orientalisms
· Orientalism and history re-oriented
· Orientalism and other discourses of imperialism
· Orientalism and continuing debates on postcoloniality/the "postcolonial"
· Orientalism and Culture Studies
· Orientalism and Global Studies
· Orientalism and Visual Culture
· Gender and Orientalism
· Enlightenment and Orientalism
· Orientalism and Romanticism
· Occidentalism and Orientalisms in reverse
The title and abstract of the paper (not more than 500 words) should
reach us either by post or in the form of an e-mail attachment to
chandreyeen@vsnl.net by March 15, 2004. The duration of the entire paper
should ideally be 30 minutes. Local hospitality will be provided, but
participants are expected to arrange for their own travel funds.
Seminar Committee: 1) Dr. Paromita Chakravarti
Lecturer in English
2) Ms. Nilanjana Deb
Lecturer in English
3) Dr. Chandreyee Niyogi
Reader in English
4) Dr. Nilanjana Gupta
Reader in English
5) Dr. Abhijit Gupta
Lecturer in English
VII. ANNOUNCEMENT
1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISCOURSE AND INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS
University of Murcia (Spain)
23rd to 25th September 2004.
The Organising Committee and the English Department of the University of
Murcia invite linguists, language professionals and students to attend
and participate in the 1ST
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISCOURSE AND INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS to be
held at the University of Murcia (Spain) from 23rd to 25th September 2004.
I. CALL FOR PAPERS:
We welcome proposals on any aspect of the following disciplines:
Discourse Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis,
Cross-cultural Studies, Intercultural Communication, Intercultural
Relations, Discursive Psychology, Pragmatics, Stylistics, Cognitive
Science etc.
Of particular interest are proposals related to:
· Discourse and society, the representation of social and cultural
entities through discourse etc.
· Language, power and ideology; worldview, perception, attitudes etc.
· The construction of ‘otherness’ through discourse, ethnic groups,
migration, racism, intergroup conflicts etc.
· Gender relationships, sexual identities/politics etc.
· Culture and education, intercultural communication and training etc.
· Cultural and intercultural aspects of language and literature;
· The Mass media and the construction of (inter)cultural relations.
II. PLENARY SPEAKERS
· Alvino Fantini (International School of Intercultural Relations,
Vermont USA)
· Teun A. van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
· Ruth Wodak (University of Vienna)
· Gregory Lee (University of Lyon3)
III. TYPE OF PRESENTATION
· Papers: 20-minute sessions, plus 10 minutes for discussion.
· Workshops: 60-minute sessions.
· Poster presentations: Posters will be on display during the conference.
IV. SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
Abstracts should be sent via e-mail (preferably using Microsoft Word or
RTF) to the following e-mail addresses:
· dagmar@um.es
· lmaestre@um.es
V. GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACTS /WORKSHOPS
Abstracts may include up to four keywords and should be submitted using
the following format:
1. Title
2. Abstract (maximum 250 words, including references)
3. Keywords
4. Author(s) name(s)
5. Author(s) affiliation
6. Name of author to contact
7. Full postal address
8. E-mail address
9. Phone number (including country and area code)
10. Subject area
11. Preferred form of presentation
12. Please indicate if any equipment is needed for your presentation
(overhead projector, slide projector etc).
VI. DEADLINES FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
· PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS: 16th April 2004.
· POSTERS: 30th April 2004.
VII. ACCEPTANCE OF PROPOSALS
Acceptance of proposals (papers, posters and workshops) will be
confirmed by 17th
May 2004.
VIII. REGISTRATION FEES (in Euros)
Before 31st May 2004 Conference participants € 90
Before 31st May 2004 Students € 50
After 31st May 2004 Conference participants € 120
After 31st May 2004 Students € 80
PAYMENT METHODS
There will be information about methods of payment on the conference
webpage in March 2004.
IX. LANGUAGES OF THE CONFERENCE
The languages of the Conference will be English and Spanish. However,
the Commitee will consider papers in other European languages.
X. ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Dagmar Scheu (University of Murcia)
María Dolores López Maestre (University of Murcia)
Rafael Monroy Casas (University of Murcia)
José Saura (University of Murcia)
XI. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Beatriz Penas (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Rebecca Clift (Universidad de Essex)
Mª José Coperías Aguilar (Universidad de Valencia)
Patricia Bou (Universidad de Valencia)
Gregory Lee (Universidad de Lyon3)
Dagmar Scheu (Universidad de Murcia)
Juan Manual Hernández Campoy (Universidad de Murcia)
María D. López Maestre (Universidad de Murcia)
Angel Rodríguez (Universidad de Murcia)
XII. CONFERENCE VENUE
The Conference will be held in Aulario de la Merced and the Faculty of
Arts of the University of Murcia.
There are sufficient parking facilities (underground parking) situated
behind the Faculty of Arts’ Main building.
For further information click on CONFERENCE VENUE on the main page.
XIII. CONTACT ADDRESS:
For further information, please don’t hesitate to contact:
Dr. Dagmar Scheu
968363166
dagmar@um.es
Dr. María D. López Maestre
968363145
lmaestre@um.es
Dr. Rafael Monroy Casas
monroy@um.es
Departamento de Filología Inglesa
Facultad de Letras
Campusde la Merced
Universidad de Murcia
30071 Murcia
España/Spain
Tel. 968 364366
Fax: 968 363185
VIII. The deadline for paper abstracts for the CRAFT CRITIQUE CULTURE
Conference has
been extended until March 1st. We welcome full panel submissions.
The University of Iowa's 4th Annual Craft, Critique, Culture Conference
April 2-4, 2004 Iowa City, IA
Keynote Speakers:
JOHANNA DRUCKER
BRAD FREEMAN
MARTA WERNER and NICHOLAS LAWRENCE
COLE SWENSEN
CHRISTINE PAWLEY
CRAFT, CRITIQUE, CULTURE is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the
intersections between critical and creative approaches to writing both
within
and outside the academy. This year’s conference will have a special focus on
textual interactions—the relationship(s) among all aspects of a text’s
creation and consumption. The book is a center of a network of authors,
suppliers, producers, distributors, and readers. It exists in a context of
social, economic, historical, and cultural factors that inevitably influence
its production, distribution, and reception. By looking at the various
interactions between these factors, this conference will seek to include a
variety of issues, including materiality, experimental textual forms,
border-
crossing, intermedia, hybridity, and the avant-garde. We encourage the
submission of literary criticism, border studies, theoretical and cultural
studies approaches, and original creative work in a variety of media
(including film, video, music, writing, visual art, artists books, etc.).
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
The creation, diffusion, or reception of the written or printed word in any
historical period.
Interactions between author and audience, form and content
Orality and literacy in a computer age
The fate of the book
Migration from text to image, from print to digital, and from bricks-and-
mortar to virtual
Literary migrations into other disciplines
The relationship between print culture and urban life (periodicals,
newspapers, advertisements, flyers, books, broadsheets, zines, calendars,
posters, maps, etc.)
Reading and literacy
Theories of the material production of texts
Information/media studies
The culture industry
Translation and translation theory
Sociologies of the text and communities of readers
The cultures of collecting
Popular culture and reader revisions/transformation/rewriting (slash,
fanfic)
Imperial, colonial, and postcolonial histories of the book—the role of
imperial structures of book production, distribution, and reception
Please submit papers, abstracts, or panel proposals by February 15, 2004 to:
Jeffrey Butler, English Department, 308 English Philosophy Building,
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1492.
or by email to jeffrey-butler@uiowa.edu. Electronic submissions are strongly
encouraged.
IX. SOCIAL TEXT
The Social Text Collective is pleased to accept papers for a forthcoming
special dossier on the work of Edward Said.=20
Deadline: September 30, 2004
The editors of Social Text invite contributors to pay tribute to Edward
Said, an admired colleague and friend. In its first issue Social Text
published Edward Said=92s essay, =93Zionism from the Standpoint of Its
Victims=94 (1979), a chapter in the then forthcoming book, The Question of
Palestine, and, almost a decade later, the journal dedicated a special
issue to =93Colonial Discourse,=94 featuring an interview with Said, along
with essays dialoguing with his work.=20
As a way of remembering Edward Said, Social Text announces a special
issue edited by Gyan Prakash and Ella Shohat. This issue hopes to
reflect on themes central to Said=92s work, highlighting his interventions
in the politics of knowledge, and his impact on a number of fields. In
the spirit of Said=92s writings, we invite contributions that cross
geographical and disciplinary boundaries, while also reflecting on his
life and work in relation to the major transformations, shifts and
contradictions in our intellectual and political landscape.=20
Papers should be submitted by e-mail if possible, as an attachment saved
in Microsoft Word. The text should be double-spaced, no more than 8,000
words, with numbered endnotes. For style, please follow the Chicago
Manual of Style, 15th edition. The author=92s name, affiliation, address
and telephone number should be listed on the front page of each copy.
For further information, please contact the managing editor at
misharon@rci.rutgers.edu. Hard copies may be sent to:=20
Managing Editor
Social Text=20
8 Bishop Place=20
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
******
Thank you for your consideration and attention. =20
Best wishes,=20
Michele=20
--
Michele Sharon
Social Text
(325) 949-8195
On the web:
www.dukeupress.edu
muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_text
X. From: Ian Peddie <tallywhackerus@yahoo.com
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=tallywhackerus@yahoo.com>>
A contributor is sought for the forthcoming collection
The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest.
A space has arisen for an essay on folk music.
Broadly speaking, I am willing to consider a wide
variety of approaches/themes as long as the essay
addresses a main post 1975 focus and that the issue of
social protest (in whatever guise) is also addressed.
The collection is under contract with Ashgate Press,
and a good line up of contributors has been assembled.
Interested parties should contact Ian Peddie
(ipeddie@mail.wtamu.edu
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=ipeddie@mail.wtamu.edu>).
Please include a brief
proposal as well as a very brief CV.
Thank you
Ian Peddie
<tallywhackerus@yahoo.com
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=tallywhackerus@yahoo.com>>